A few Washingtonians are apparently so angry or apprehensive about a federal commission’s request for information from the state’s voter database that they are thinking about canceling their registration.
Tempting as it may be, it won’t really do them any good.
The request — some see it as a demand — from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity resulted in many states’ election officials telling the commission to pound sand, or something more colorful that can’t be printed in this newspaper. Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, generally too polite for such a response, said the commission can go check the internet and grab any information already available to any member of the public.
And not a byte more.
Under Washington law, that’s basically name, address, date of birth. It’s not Social Security number or any portion thereof, driver’s license number, phone number or email address.
The commission would also like party affiliation, but the joke’s on them. We don’t register by party, so it can just put an N/A for not applicable in that column for everybody. Or a nyah, nyah.