File #: 2012-0089    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/27/2012 In control: Government Accountability, Oversight and Financial Performance Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/5/2012
Enactment date: 3/15/2012 Enactment #: 17273
Title: AN ORDINANCE related to membership and representation on the citizens' elections oversight committee; and amending Ordinance 15453, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.53.021.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Jane Hague, Kathy Lambert, Larry Gossett, Pete von Reichbauer
Indexes: Elections
Code sections: 2.53.031 -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17273.pdf, 2. Staff Report 2012-0089 CEOC Membership.doc, 3. Attachment 2 CEOC Membership Roster 08-30-11.xls, 4. Revised Staff Report 2012-0089 CEOC Membership.doc
Drafter
Clerk 02/29/2012
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to membership and representation on the citizens' elections oversight committee; and amending Ordinance 15453, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.53.021.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The citizens' elections oversight committee has served as a significant resource and asset to King County voters and to King County in its role of providing oversight and advice on King County elections.
2. The committee was created by the council in May 2006. Since that time, an additional language requirement has been placed on King County by Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which requires that political subdivisions provide alternate language ballots and voter education materials if they have more than ten thousand or over five percent of the total voting age citizens who are members of a single minority language group and have limited English language proficiency. Following the results of the 2010 Census, the county must now print ballots and voter education materials in Vietnamese as well as Chinese.
3. It is appropriate that the Vietnamese-speaking community be represented on the committee.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 15453, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.53.021 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. ((The chair of the council and the council vice chair shall solicit nominations for membership from all council members. The chair of the council and the council vice chair shall jointly appoint oversight committee members who are confirmed by motion to the committee.
B.)) Committee membership shall include:
1. One representative from a nonpartisan organization active in King County that evaluates candidates and ballot measures, such as the Municipal League;
2. One representative from a nonpartisan organization active in King County that provides elections information to the public, such as the League of Women Voters;
3. One representativ...

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