Referendum 71 Signature Count Tops 100K in Washington

Elections officials say they've now checked more than 100,000 signatures for Referendum 71, an attempt to overturn Washington's new "everything but marriage" same-sex domestic partner law. The totals as of Monday evening are: 103,898 checked, 91,716 accepted and 12,182 rejected. R-71 sponsors need 120,577 valid Washington voter signatures for the measure to be placed on the November ballot. "The overall error rate is 11.72 percent, barely up from 11.68 percent, which we reported Friday," Brian Zylstra of the secretary of state's office said in a blog post. "In order to make the November statewide ballot, the referendum's overall rejection rate must not go over 12.4 percent." Full Story from Seattle PI

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