Two Washington D.C. activists want Jackson investigated

The Washington Blade
June 26, 2009
Two local activists are asking the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics to investigate whether a voter referendum petition to overturn the city’s same-sex marriage recognition law should be disqualified because the minister behind it is not a legal D.C. resident. Attorney Cary Silverman, president of the Mount Vernon Square Neighborhood Association, and Martin Moulton, president of the D.C. Convention Center Community Association, said information they gathered from public records and submitted to the election board Wednesday shows that Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. appears to be a resident of Maryland, even though he affirmed in an affidavit that he lives in the District. “The available evidence suggests that Rev. Jackson does not fulfill the residence requirements of D.C. voter registration law,” the two men wrote in their request to the election board. “For these reasons, and based on the attached evidence, the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics should reject his voter registration and petition for referendum.” [Link]