Voter registration group, clerk at odds

Pat Raffee intended to sum up the dispute in two simple sentences.

“They (the Voter Participation Center) sent out a mailing that wasn’t done well and upset a lot of people here,” Raffee, Kootenai County’s deputy clerk, said Tuesday. “We asked them not to send a second mailing and they agreed.

“We’re happy, they’re happy, and that’s the end of it.”

But Raffee was half right.

Even if the county is pleased that VPC — a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that attempts to raise voter registration throughout the United States — may not mail any registration forms to local residents, the Washington, D.C., group took issue with the county’s view of the situation/ Steve Cameron , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .