Washington's Referendum 71 Already Creating Headaches, Lawsuits

The first thing you notice in the basement of the Secretary of State’s Office is the silence. It is an uneasy quiet, a deceptive calm, for this is and has been for weeks the eye of the political hurricane known as Referendum 71. Hour after hour, election workers are examining each of 137,689 signatures collected on referendum petitions to determine which belong to registered voters. Peering over their shoulders, tracking every twitch and tally, are observers from opposing camps of those behind the measure and those set on keeping it off the ballot. Tuesday, state election officials think they’ll know if Referendum 71 is ready to go before voters in November. At stake is whether here in Washington same-sex couples registered with the state as domestic partners will become legally indistinguishable from married heterosexual couples. Full Story from Herald.net

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