Sam Reed
Sam Reed
Sam Reed was the Secretary of State of Washington and a Republican. Reed was Washington's fourteenth Secretary of State. He opted not to run for a fourth term, and retired in January 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSaxophonist
Date of Birth18 October 1935
CountryUnited States of America
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
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We get a lot of calls to the Hannibal/Quincy exchange. It seems like there are a lot of accidents there, especially for traffic leaving Hannibal and going north to Quincy.
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But those states that are not going to comply by Jan. 1 have been in touch with the Department of Justice. The agency has taken the practical position it is going to work with us, and we are making good-faith efforts to comply by the next federal election. I know of no state that is going to be sued for noncompliance.
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But frankly, if there were any real problems, we would have seen them yesterday,
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One of the biggest problems we have is people not following instructions properly when they're voting,
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When you are in Hull and have to wait for a Pittsfield ambulance, it's at least 25 minutes. We'll respond and evaluate and provide what assistance and care that we can. The paramedic on board the ALS unit will give us instructions.
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We've been checking around the state and everybody says things are going great,
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It's got fewer miles than any of the other ambulances.
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It seems like our calls run in spurts. There was a three-month period where we didn't pull the trucks out of the building and then we had nine calls in two weeks that were either EMS or fire calls.
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It's hard to believe that unscrupulous people would take advantage of the public's generosity at times like these, but it does happen,
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We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.