Clean Elections

Stefan Sharkansky, the writer of Sound Politics, and the best source of news on the Washington Governor's election has written an interesting op-ed in the Seattle Times:

Whether or not the judges allow a revote and no matter who is our governor at mid-year, the lessons of the botched 2004 election have inspired a movement for serious election reform. We can all see that our elections process, the core of our democracy, has broken down. I dare call this movement for clean elections and legitimate government a citizens' revolution. No, this revolution is not of the scale of the American Revolution of 1776, or of the current democratic revolution unfolding in Ukraine. But it is a movement for a sweeping change in an established order. The established order of our elections system is broken and so is our confidence in our elections officials and Legislature to fix the system. The changes will come from the citizens.

As I said before, I don't really think an second election is needed in this case, but I am very supportive of using the mistakes in this past election as a means to reform the system and make needed improvements.