Journal pudge's Journal: Jason Osgood, Dem for Secretary of State, Epic Fails 5
Democratic candidate for Washington Secretary of State graciously came on to Sound Politics to explain his plan for universal voter registration.
Unfortunately for him, his audience was educated.
We challenged his claims, we refuted them, and we exposed him as favoring legalizing voting for noncitizens. Yes, literally.
His plan is to create a massive new database of all information about residents -- and damn the privacy concerns -- that would mark every resident as "eligible" or "noneligible." But there's no data that necessarily tells us whether someone is noneligible, so it would have to assume, given no contrary evidence, that someone is eligible. Which wouuld include thousands and thousands of noncitizens.
Osgood demonstrated many problems, including either not understanding the technology, or deceptively exaggerating what it can do, such as his claim that data errors in his database could be "eliminated" and that it would lead to "utterly eliminating voter fraud." That is, of course, impossible.
And he had no answer to the concerns of recognized security experts that this was dangerous: it would give a false sense of correctness, while creating a giant privacy threat to all residents, by creating this massive new database of all kinds of documents in one place.
I don't think he has a chance to beat Sam Reed, so I am not worried about it. I find it distressing that the Democrats backed him though. Then again, they backed Fred Walser, and on the scale of terribleness, even Osgood pales compared to Walser.
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I don't think he has a chance to beat Sam Reed, so I am not worried about it. I find it distressing that the Democrats backed him though. Then again, they backed Fred Walser, and on the scale of terribleness, even Osgood pales compared to Walser.
More of a problem that there wasn't anyone better running. Sort of like the problem the Republicans have with the 7th CD or 43rd LD. No good candidate wants to waste their time so you end up with a bunch of gadflys.
You'll know the democrats are taking the Secretary of State race seriously when you see a county auditor, someone with prior experience running elections, or at least a history as an elected official running for Secretary of State.
FWIW I've been telling people to vote for Reed for SoS as I see Os
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More of a problem that there wasn't anyone better running.
I hear that, but the Dems DID give him over $13,000. (Though this pales to the $75,000+ they give to that criminal Fred Walser.)
FWIW I've been telling people to vote for Reed for SoS as I see Osgood as a crank who doesn't know WTF he is talking about.
No joke there.
I have a few Republicans who are voting for Osgood; one says I am "blinded by partisanship" for voting for Reed. He hates Reed a lot. But no, I am voting for the by-far superior candidate. I have my problems with Reed (though not as many as he does), but Osgood would really screw us up, while Reed is making continued improvements.
Reed successfully fought ACORN's i
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I hear that, but the Dems DID give him over $13,000.
Well Osgood isn't without his support in the party and I don't think they wanted to look like they were entirely giving up on the race. Also there are not a few with similar tinfoil hats within the state Democratic party power structure.
Mind you I am concerned about the problems with various vote recording/counting/tallying software and equipment. However I'm not about to concoct elaborate conspiracy theories around it. The issues are more of a case of stupidity rather than malice.
I have a few Republicans who are voting for Osgood; one says I am "blinded by partisanship" for voting for Reed. He hates Reed a lot. But no, I am voting for the by-far superior candidate. I have my problems with Reed (though not as many as he does), but Osgood would really screw us up, while Reed is making continued improvements.
Yea, I've gotten shit for
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Lt. Gov. Owen is a douchebag and uses his office to crusade on issues the Lt. Gov. has no responsibility for. Indeed he was fined $7000 by the ethics commission for illegally using taxpayer money on his pet causes.
Yeah, I saw that, and what startled me is that he basically said "oh, I didn't even think about the abuse of funds."
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Yeah, I saw that, and what startled me is that he basically said "oh, I didn't even think about the abuse of funds."
Completely unacceptable. Especially when it has nothing to do with the office you hold. I might be more forgiving were he a sheriff, county prosecutor or AG. But even then one would hope they would know better (not to mention that those positions actually have funds allocated for things like drug education).