Steve Hammond

29. 9:45 AM Presentation By Steve Hammond, Sacramento Convention And Visitor's Bureau, And Norb Bartosik, California State Fair

County Council members Jane Hague, Steve Hammond, David Irons Jr., Kathy Lambert and Rob McKenna issued a statement Friday clarifying their position on the lockout.

Steve Johnson and former County Council member Steve Hammond, is running for the Legislature.

* County Council member Steve Hammond, 9th District: Ukrainian Community Center of Washington in Kent and the Latino Friendship Center of Auburn.

If mistakes were made in last fall's elections, then County Council member Steve Hammond of Enumclaw wants some names.
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Logan told Hammond that he "would love it if I could pick just one head to roll."But fixing problems goes beyond simply firing someone, he said.

The council will schedule additional meetings with Logan to discuss the election problems and his suggestions to fix them.
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Hammond told Logan he voted to confirm him as director of the elections division, expecting to see reforms in the way elections are run.

Hammond, a Republican, asked Logan whether voter confidence had improved under his tenure.Logan said he would like to say yes, but instead he said there hasn't been improvement because of the governor's race.

To that, Hammond said he's doubtful that reforms will ever happen.
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Hammond said he loves grandmothers and he was pointing to county election workers and not the election volunteers in asking who was responsible for the mistakes.

Newly appointed Republican council member, Reagan Dunn of Bellevue, agreed that voters still lack confidence in the county's election process.A former federal prosecutor, he questions why the county only removed 600 felons from the voting rolls last year, when there are many more felony convictions in the county each year.

Dean Radford covers King County.He can be reached at dean.radford@kingcountyjournal .com or 253-872-6719.