OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A second initiative to privatize state liquor sales will be on the ballot in November.
Initiative 1105 would allow for private liquor sales, ending the current state monopoly. Wholesalers would distribute liquor, like they do with beer and wine under the current system.
The state Elections Division said Friday that it checked a 3 percent random sample of the nearly 360,000 petition signatures submitted for I-1105. The error rate was about 18.5 percent.
The other liquor initiative, I-1100, would privatize liquor sales and dump the state rules requiring separate wholesale and retail systems for alcohol.
