The state Republican Party filed a lawsuit challenging King County’s use of an online tool to allow voters to fix their challenged ballots, mostly with signature issues.
The complaint is the latest development in a monthlong saga to determine who will compete with former Republican U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler to become the next state commissioner of public lands. The lawsuit was first reported by KUOW.
The primary election for lands commissioner came down to a hand recount after only 51 votes (of 1.9 million) separated King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove, a Democrat, and GOP-endorsed Sue Kuehl Pederson. The recount found Kuehl Pederson losing to Upthegrove by 49 votes.
In 2022, Herrera Beutler lost her seat as a representative in Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District after she voted the year before impeach former President Donald Trump over his role in inciting the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021….