60% of likely 2025 Washington voters want State GOP Chair Jim Walsh to abandon his voter cancellation initiative
The vast majority of Washington State’s 5,059,897 registered voters are tired of the incessant election conspiracy theories being peddled by the state’s Republican Party and want its chairman Jim Walsh to abandon a mean-spirited, discriminatory initiative that would require voters to prove their citizenship if they don’t have an enhanced driver’s license, the Northwest Progressive Institute’s latest statewide survey finds.
60% of 737 likely November 2025 voters surveyed last month by Civiqs for NPI said they wanted State Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh to abandon IL26-126, an initiative he filed on May 20th, 2025, which he explicitly says is the beginning of an effort to end vote-at-home, also known as vote-by-mail. Only 37% said they wanted the party to proceed with a signature drive for the measure. 3% were not sure.
Walsh’s IL26-126 says that the voter registrations of everyone in Washington without a chipped state identification card would be canceled — yes, canceled — by the time the November 2027 general election rolls around, unless they went in-person to their county elections office to “prove” their citizenship with an original, embossed birth certificate which cannot be “wallet-sized” or a very short list of alternative forms of documentation, like a passport issued by the United States Department of State.
Since most Washingtonians do not have a chipped identification card and since there is no way that Washington’s thirty-nine county elections departments could scrutinize the documentation of millions of in-person voters in the span of a few months, the measure would have the effect of disenfranchising most of the state’s electorate, including much of the Republican Party’s own heavily rural, increasingly low income electoral coalition.
https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/07/60-of-likely-2025-washington-voters-want-state-republican-party-chair-jim-walsh-to-abandon-his-voter-cancellation-initiative.html
These idiots wonder why they don't do well in state-wide ballots.
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