PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: November 2, 1999.
Purpose: To place into rule the unaffiliated oath required for the presidential primary to be held on February 29, 2000.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 434-219-140.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 29.19.070.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-18-076 on August 31, 1999.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
November 2, 1999
Tracy Guerin
Deputy Secretary of State
OTS-3534.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 96-03-141, filed 1/24/96,
effective 2/24/96)
WAC 434-219-140
((Party)) Declaration by voter.
(1) Each
registered voter desiring to participate in the presidential
primary shall((, prior to being issued either an absentee or a
regular ballot,)) be given the opportunity to subscribe to any
declaration provided under the national or state political party
rules of a major political party for participation in the
presidential nominating process of that party.
(2) ((For the 1996 presidential nominating process, the
state democratic party has adopted the following declaration:
"I declare that I consider myself to be a Democrat and I have not participated in the nominating process of any other political party for the 1996 presidential election."
(3) For the 1996 presidential nominating process, the republican state party has adopted the following declaration:
"I declare that I consider myself a Republican and I have not participated in the 1996 precinct caucus system of any other party.")) No later than August 15 in the calendar year preceding the year in which the presidential preference primary is to be held, each major party shall submit in writing to the secretary of state the exact wording of the party declaration.
(3) The secretary of state shall certify the language of each major party's declaration to the county auditors no later than August 30 in the calendar year preceding the year in which the presidential preference primary is to be held.
(4) A voter may subscribe to a declaration stating that he or she wants his or her vote to be counted in the unaffiliated results, provided that failure to subscribe to this declaration does not prevent any person's vote from being counted in the unaffiliated results. The unaffiliated declaration shall be printed in substantially the following form: "I do not want to sign a party declaration. I understand that party rules may not allow my vote to be used to select delegates to the nominating conventions."
[Statutory Authority: RCW 29.19.070. 96-03-141, recodified as § 434-219-140, filed 1/24/96, effective 2/24/96; 91-18-012, § 434-75-140, filed 8/26/91, effective 9/26/91.]