Lars Larson: Supreme Ct. should strike down tardy ballots

By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

If you think it’s bad that California won’t know its primary election results for weeks, Washington State is even worse.

The Golden State honors citizen ballots that come in a week after election day.

The Evergreen state counts votes that arrive 3 weeks late.

Sometime this month, maybe in the next few days, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a decision that could end tardy voting.

Based on the skeptical questions Justices asked back in March when they heard the oral arguments, the Supreme Court seems likely to strike down the grace period allowed by 14 of America’s states.

75 percent of the states ONLY count votes that arrive on time. I hope the Supremes knock Washington state back to that standard.

The Justices recognize that the longer we wait after an election to get the result, the more citizens rightly question if the results are even legit.

Remember when Dino Rossi ran for Governor in Washington…and he won the first two ballot counts…but on the third count, miraculously, Democrat Party candidate Christine Gregoire won by 130 out of 2-point-9 million votes.

That election still stinks…but imagine the stench if you told voters that ballots arriving weeks AFTER the election made all the difference.

That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson