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Washington Remove Inactive Voters from Statewide Voter Database Initiative (2025)
| Washington Remove Inactive Voters from Statewide Voter Database Initiative | |
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| Election date November 4, 2025 | |
| Topic Suffrage | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Washington Remove Inactive Voters from Statewide Voter Database Initiative is not on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, a type of initiated state statute, on November 4, 2025.
This initiative would have required the state to screen its voter database, remove inactive voters and cancel their voter registrations. It also would have required voter signature updates every two years.[1]
Text of measure
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Washington, the number of signatures required to qualify a directly initiated state statute—called an Initiative to the People in Washington—for the ballot is equal to 8 percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last regular gubernatorial election. Initial filings for direct initiatives cannot be made more than 10 months before the general election at which their proposal would be presented to voters. Signatures must be submitted at least four months prior to the general election.
The requirements to get an Initiative to the People certified for the 2025 ballot:
The secretary of state verifies the signatures using a random sample method. If the sample indicates that the measure has sufficient signatures, the measure is certified for the ballot. However, if the sample indicates that the measure has insufficient signatures, every signature is checked. Under Washington law, a random sample result may not invalidate a petition.
Details about this initiative
- Peter Himmel filed the initiative on February 18, 2025. The ballot language was issued on March 10, 2025.[1]
- No signatures were submitted by July 3, 2025, which was the submission deadline. As such, the initiative was not placed on the November 2025 ballot.
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