Because the twice-daily updated signature validation numbers are of ongoing and intense interest for some of us, I will bump this updated diary to the top of the page each afternoon (Pacific time) after the previous morning's results have been released. All the action will remain below the fold so as to keep the diary profile slender. The Washington Secretary of State is now posting all the results of the Referendum 71 signature validation effort to-date here. Starting August 6th, they added a 2nd shift of signature checkers to accelerate the process. The day shift works from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the swing shift will work from 3:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Day shift numbers will be posted that same afternoon, while swing shift numbers will be posted the following morning. The SoS anticipates wrapping up the process by August 17th. However, we could reach a mathematical point of no return days before then.
Summary of the Daily Tallies:
| Date | Checked | Accepted | Invalid | Duplicates | No Match | Not Found | Missing | % Invalid |
| 31-Jul | 5,646 | 4,991 | 655 | 7 | 41 | 592 | 15 | 11.34 |
| 3-Aug | 5,856 | 5,096 | 760 | 16 | 40 | 682 | 22 | 12.98 |
| 4-Aug | 5,815 | 4,980 | 835 | 22<t;22 | 69 | 732 | 12 | 14.36 |
| 5-Aug | 6,140 | 5,268 | 872 | 23 | 71 | 758 | 20 | 14.20 |
| 6-Aug (a.m.) | 3,831 | 3,258 | 573 | 22 | 74 | 462 | 15 | 14.96 |
| Totals: | 27,288 | 23,593 | 3,695 | 90 | 295 | 3,226 | 84 | |
| Average: | 13.54 |
My humble barometer of Petition's Progress. Numbers valid on 8/6/2009 only.
| Approved | Invalid | |
| Break point | 120,577 | 17,113 |
| Category total to date | 23,593 | 3,695 |
| % towards break point | 19.57 | 21.59 |
| % towards break point if all Missing sigs are accepted | 19.64 | 21.10 |
For people fascinated by duplicates, they seem to be increasing linearly as of August 6th. y = 0.1002x + 0.0443; R2 = 0.9248
| Date | %dupes |
| 31-jul | 0.12 |
| 3-aug | 0.27 |
| 4-aug | 0.38 |
| 5-aug | 0.37 |
| 6-aug(shift 1) | 0.57 |
Remember, WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS YET. There may still be batches of very clean signatures yet awaiting the validation process.
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Related:
r />* Referendum 71 signature validation update: Day 3 & 4
* Random Numbers
* The Skinny on DP Dissolution Rates in Washington State
Referendum 71 voters will be asked to approve or reject the domestic partnership law.
REFERENDUM 71
Ballot Title
Statement of Subject: The legislature passed Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 5688 concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners [and voters have filed a sufficient referendum petition on this bill].Concise Description: This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.
Should this bill be:
Approved ___
Rejected ___Ballot Measure Summary
Same-sex couples, or any couple that includes one person age sixty-two or older, may register as a domestic partnership with the state. Registered domestic partnerships are not marriages, and marriage is prohibited except between one man and one woman. This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of registered domestic partners and their families to include all rights, responsibilities, and obligations granted by or imposed by state law on married couples and their families.
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It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore, and link-share in the comment thread...
So below is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob & I have been looking at so far this week.
• New York Times' For Puerto Ricans, Sotomayor's Succe ss Stirs Pride:
In the summer of 1959, Edwin Torres landed a $60-a-week job and wound up on the front page of El Diario. He had just been hired as the first Puerto Rican assistant district attorney in New York - and probably, he thinks, the entire United States.He still recalls the headline: "Exemplary Son of El Barrio Becomes Prosecutor."
"You would've thought I had been named attorney general," he said. "That's how big it was."
Half a century later, the long and sometimes bittersweet history of Puerto Ricans in New York is expected to add a celebratory chapter today as the Senate confirms Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Her personal journey - from a single-parent home in the Bronx projects to the Ivy League and an impressive legal career - has provoked a fierce pride in many other Puerto Ricans who glimpse reflections of their own struggles...
Really interesting articarticle that I'd highly recommend reading the entirety of.
• KPVI's Idaho settles lawsuits from transgender inmates:
The Idaho Department of Correction has reached settlements in lawsuits with two transgender inmates who castrated themselves after they were denied feminizing hormone therapy.The department has also changed its policy for identifying and treating transgender inmates, limiting the time inmates must wait for treatment, specifying how they may be diagnosed and clarifying when they qualify for hormone therapy...
Just because one is in jail doesn't mean that one shouldn't receive adequate treatment related to being trans.
• Los Angeles Times' Director John Hughes dies of heart attack:
John Hughes, the screenwriter, producer and director whose films captured the teenage zeitgeist of the 1980s, died suddenly of a heart attack today in New York City. He was 59.Hughes, best known for 1980s movies such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," was taking a morning walk in Manhattan where he was visiting family, according to a statement from his representatives.
In the 1990s, he wrote and produced the "Home Alone" series, creating a box-office phenomenon and turning Macaulay Culkin into a star...
Many of his movies were the favorites of mine in young adulthood, for sure. Rest in peace, sir -- I appreciated your work.
• The Advocate picked up on this Pam's House Blend/Bilerico story: The Advocate's Zapata Killer Pops Up on MySpace
With the convicted killer of transgender woman Angie Zapata serving life plus 60 years behind bars, his brother has taken to MySpace so that people can get to know the real Allen Andrade.Autumn Sandeen, a transgender activist living in San Diego who covered the Zapata murder trial for Pam's House Blend, stumbled upon the page and reported on its contents for the Bilerico Project...
...Where I gave permission to Bil Browning to repost the piece I posted on Pam's House Blend there. Interesting that this story traveled so far, but it shows how much Angie Zapata's life and bias motivated murder has touched the soul of our broader lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
• Weiner story of the day: San Francisco Chronicle's No shirt, no shoes, no service -- baby!:
Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy.And baby, do they enforce it.
Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn't wearing shoes.
Jennifer Frederich, her mother and Frederich's infant daughter, Kaylin, stopped at the Burger King in Sunset Hills on Sunday. The baby was shoeless - Frederich figured tiny baby feet were immune from the rule.
But workers told the family to leave because the shoeless baby was violating a health code...
Uh...yeah. By the way, the Burger King management is apologizing in person, and retraining staff. Good plan.
So anywho...It's an open thread! What are you reading or thinking about today?
The Senate voted to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court today, making her the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and just the third woman to sit on the court.The 55-year-old Sotomayor, who was confirmed by a vote of 68-31, will be sworn in on Saturday at the Court.
Despite strong and vocal opposition from some Senate Republicans, nine GOP senators voted for her confirmation, more than the number of Democrats who supported Justice Samuel Alito, but fewer than the number who crossed party lines to support Chief Justice John Roberts.
Among them were four Republican senators who will be retiring at the end of 2010, including Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Mel Martinez of Florida and George Voinovich of Ohio. Other GOP senators who cast an "aye" vote were Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
FoxNews was quick to criticize the news and the nomination.
In a rare step of assembling at their desks on the Senate floor for the historic occasion, senators voted to confirm Sotomayor as the 111th justice and third woman to serve on the high court.Democratic senators praised Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate while Republicans said she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench in a final day of debate over her nomination.
The GOP has decried Obama's call for "empathy" in a justice, painting Sotomayor as the embodiment of an inappropriate standard that would let a judge bring her personal whims and prejudices to the bench.
Her writings and speeches "reflect a beli a belief not just that impartiality is not possible, but that it's not even worth the effort," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader. "In Judge Sotomayor's court, groups that didn't make the cut of preferred groups often found that they ended up on the short end of the empathy standard."
McConnell was not the only disgruntled Republican to speak out, as the discussion became racially charged:
Democrats warned Republicans that they risk a backlash from Hispanic voters -- a growing part of the electorate -- if they oppose her.
"Judge Sotomayor should not be chosen to serve on the court because of her Hispanic heritage, but those who oppose her for fear of her unique life experience do no justice to her or our nation. Their names will be listed in our nation's annals of elected officials one step behind America's historic march forward," said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat.
Republicans bristled at the suggestion that they were not willing to confirm a qualified Hispanic, noting that Democrats used extraordinary measures several years ago to block the confirmation of GOP-nominated Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born attorney, to a federal appeals court.
GOP senators have said instead that their opposition to Sotomayor is based on her speeches and record, pointing to a few rulings in which they argue she showed disregard for gun rights, property rights and job discrimination claims by white employees. They also cited comments she's made about the role that a judge's background and perspective can play, especially a 2001 speech in which she said she hoped a "wise Latina" would usually make better decisions than a white man.
"I feel very badly that I have to vote negatively -- it's not what I wanted to do when this process started -- but I believe that I'm doing the honorable and right thing," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah prior to Thursday's vote.
What's extraordinary to me is that in light of the vicious massacre targetting women outside Pittsburgh this week, that the GOP would so quickly denounce Sotomayor's views on gun control.
Republicans have been particularly critical of Sotomayor's position on the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. She was part of a panel that ruled this year that the amendment doesn't limit state actions -- only federal ones -- in keeping with previous Supreme Court precedent.But gun rights supporters said her court shouldn't have called the issue "settled law," and they criticized her for refusing during her confirmation hearings to go beyond what the high court has said and declare that the Second Amendment applies to the states.
And so it goes...
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