Dear Bar Bulletin:
New Editor Gene Barton’s scholarly and detailed analysis of federal judge Zilly’s decision invalidating Washington’s “top two primary Init. 872” doesn’t make this decision any less of a “crock” to what is probably a lot of already disillusioned Washington voters.
What happened to those of us who thought freedom meant being able to vote for whatever idiot we liked? Many of us have friends or opinions and evaluations that have caused us in the past to vote for or donate to, candidates in both parties’ primaries.
Since when is that a “violation of free association?”
Well Alice, small wonder. If Washing-ton Secretary of State Reed tells us repeatedly that machine ballot counts are more accurate, as he repeatedly did a few months ago, and a manual recount overturns two machine counts, little wonder that a lot of disenfranchised Washington voters think they have gotten the proverbial shaft, and that the Mad Hatter is firmly at the helm.
Sincerely,
Don M. Gulliford
