Last Updated: September 10, 2010 at 1:39 PM
White v. Reed
Case Information
Date Filed / Ended: July 14, 2009 / November 6, 2009
State: Washington
Issues: Ballot Design, Voting Technology
Courts that Heard this Case: Washington Supreme Court (Case 833427)
Issue:
Whether requirings voters to vote on ballots containing unique bar code identifiers that can be used to identify the voters violates the State Constitution’s guarantee of "absolute secrecy" of the ballot and other state laws.
Status:
Petition for mandamus filed on 7/14/09. Decision terminating Supreme Court review, 11/6/09.
Supreme Court Documents
- Petition
(filed 7/14/09) - Answer to Motion (filed 8/19/09)
- Answer to Motion (filed 8/20/09)
- Reply to Response (filed 8/25/09)
- Response (filed 9/25/09)
- Supplemental Pleadings (filed 9/28/09)
- Response (filed 9/28/09)
- Motion to Strike (filed 9/28/09)
- Answer to Motion (filed 10/5/09)
- Response (filed 10/5/09)
- Reply (filed 10/9/09)
- Decision Terminating Supreme Court Review (entered 11/6/09)
Commentary
Silence of the Lambs
Dale A. Oesterle
With the election of 2012 now well over and past the second inauguration of the incumbent President, the historical analysis of the events has begun and will last as long as written human history lasts. An interesting tidbit may already be lost to the majesty of the moment.
The voters of three very different states, Alaska, New Hampshire, and Ohio, all had an opportunity to call state constitutional conventions. In each state the voters turned the opportunity down by very similar votes, 68%, 64% and 68% respectively against.
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