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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
Why doesn't the Secretary of State use similar information along with the county to provide people who recently move information on updated voter registration information or simply registering to vote?
This proposal really should end up in court.
also you want to get "more meaningful" things done for renters? Getting them registered to vote is a great way to make that happen, durr
I mean, wasn't the Stranger staff recently up in arms over the paperwork required to set up an DADU? If the Stranger thinks important stuff like documenting code compliance and the like is overly burdensome for prospective landlords, then why isn't this proposal at least somewhat objectionable?
Better yet, make it a state law. Make every utility do it.
Pieces. Of. Paper. Another piece of paper. Piece-of-paper-gate. The piece of papercaust. Piece of papgergedden.
They know exactly what this is about. The easier it is to vote, the harder it is for oligarchs and plutocrats and fascists to win. Higher voter turnout means more public services, less inequality, less freedom for money to roll over the needs of the majority. They know.
For those of you against it, well, we know who wants to depress the vote and why. What it says about you as Americans ain't pretty.
To bad Sawant didn't spend more of last year grinding on local stuff like this - instead of the time she put into campaigning for Trump.
But requiring landlords to give voter registration to new tenants...will this even survive a court challenge...I doubt it. Are there sanctions agains landlords for not providing the documentation?
You can fucking register to vote online...this isn't the job of the landlord, this is your job, voter.
More American than you.
Oh, let's add this to the mix: mandatory voting! If you don't vote we can execute you right there in front of your family!
Damn, freedom is truly wonderful!!!! Glory to Socialism!!!
My only question is, if you have a valid ID, why do you need to register to vote at all? Why the need for a 2nd registration?
They know this will upset landlords, rightly or wrongly, so its kinda just trolling them. Not helpful.
People will register to vote or they will not. A voter registration form in a move-in packet will probably not make the needle jump any further than it wouldn't if it were absent. There is nothing about that this that actually substantiates its worth the time and waste of paper when you consider that there are 1) voter registration drives are a nice, feel-good thing that won't necessarily equate to people actually bothering to vote when its time to vote and 2) there's a short list of emergency issues around affordable and fair housing in the city and the entire process to get something on a ballot in any election takes time, which is not a luxury for a lot of people being actively driven out of Seattle by the cost of living can afford
While they are at it, why don't landlords give new tenants a little speech on the evils of drinking soda as well?
Well-put. I just add it goes triple for the pearl-clutchers in this thread.
Isn't it interfering with employers to make them require proof of citizenship when all they want to do is hire the best qualified candidate for their need?. Its a lot of paper work. It's anti-business and anti-capitalist and anti-American!! Hell, let the government keep track of its own frickin' borders instead of causing extra work for employers.