{"id":9116,"date":"2015-10-28T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-school-board-candidate-maintains-she-lives-in-district-despite-challenge\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T02:20:35","slug":"kent-school-board-candidate-maintains-she-lives-in-district-despite-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-school-board-candidate-maintains-she-lives-in-district-despite-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent School Board candidate maintains she lives in district despite challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent<\/span> School<\/span> Board<\/span> candidate<\/span> Trisha<\/span> Sanders<\/span> told<\/span> King<\/span> County<\/span> Elections<\/span> officials<\/span> at<\/span> a<\/span> hearing<\/span> on<\/span> Wednesday<\/span> morning<\/span> that<\/span> she<\/span> does<\/span> live<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> district<\/span> despite<\/span> her<\/span> opponent\u2019s<\/span> claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Kent<\/span> School<\/span> Board<\/span> member<\/span> Russ<\/span> Hanscom,<\/span> Sanders\u2019<\/span> opponent<\/span> for<\/span> the<\/span> District<\/span> 1<\/span> seat,<\/span> filed<\/span> a<\/span> voter<\/span> registration<\/span> challenge<\/span> alleging<\/span> Sanders<\/span> did<\/span> not<\/span> live<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> Kent<\/span> address<\/span> she<\/span> used<\/span> to<\/span> file.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sanders<\/span> decided<\/span> in<\/span> July<\/span> not<\/span> to<\/span> actively<\/span> seek<\/span> the<\/span> board<\/span> seat.<\/span> Her<\/span> name<\/span> appears<\/span> on<\/span> the<\/span> Nov.<\/span> 3<\/span> ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sanders<\/span> attended<\/span> the<\/span> hearing<\/span> on<\/span> Wednesday,<\/span> which<\/span> lasted<\/span> less<\/span> than<\/span> 10<\/span> minutes.<\/span> Neither<\/span> Hanscom<\/span> nor<\/span> former<\/span> Kent<\/span> City<\/span> Council<\/span> candidate<\/span> Bailey<\/span> Stober,<\/span> who<\/span> submitted<\/span> the<\/span> voter<\/span> registration<\/span> challenge<\/span> with<\/span> Hanscom,<\/span> were<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sanders<\/span> presented<\/span> several<\/span> documents<\/span> to<\/span> show<\/span> her<\/span> residency,<\/span> including<\/span> an<\/span> affidavit<\/span> stating<\/span> when<\/span> she<\/span> moved<\/span> in,<\/span> her<\/span> driver\u2019s<\/span> license,<\/span> voter<\/span> registration<\/span> card,<\/span> copies<\/span> of<\/span> several<\/span> utility<\/span> bills<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> address<\/span> under<\/span> her<\/span> name<\/span> and<\/span> the<\/span> certified<\/span> letter<\/span> sent<\/span> to<\/span> her<\/span> address<\/span> informing<\/span> her<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> hearing<\/span>,<\/span> which<\/span> her<\/span> husband<\/span> signed<\/span> for.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In<\/span> the<\/span> challenge,<\/span> Hanscom<\/span> said<\/span> he<\/span> made<\/span> multiple<\/span> attempts<\/span> to<\/span> contact<\/span> Sanders<\/span> at<\/span> the<\/span> address,<\/span> including<\/span> sending<\/span> a<\/span> certified<\/span> letter<\/span> and<\/span> visiting<\/span> the<\/span> residence,<\/span> to<\/span> no<\/span> avail.<\/span> He<\/span> said<\/span> her<\/span> Facebook<\/span> account<\/span> says<\/span> she<\/span> lives<\/span> in<\/span> Federal<\/span> Way.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Sanders<\/span> said<\/span> she<\/span> and<\/span> her<\/span> husband<\/span> work<\/span> alternating<\/span> schedules<\/span> so<\/span> someone<\/span> is<\/span> usually<\/span> home.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOur<\/span> house<\/span> is<\/span> rarely<\/span> empty,\u201d<\/span> she<\/span> said<\/span> during<\/span> the<\/span> hearing.<\/span> \u201cI\u2019m<\/span> kind<\/span> of<\/span> amazed<\/span> we<\/span> missed<\/span> them<\/span> (Hanscom<\/span> and<\/span> Stober)<\/span> four<\/span> or<\/span> five<\/span> times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Elections<\/span> director<\/span> Sherril<\/span> Huff<\/span> said<\/span> she<\/span> would<\/span> make<\/span> a<\/span> decision<\/span> within<\/span> 10<\/span> days<\/span> of<\/span> the<\/span> hearing<\/span> based<\/span> on<\/span> evidence<\/span> presented<\/span> by<\/span> Sanders<\/span> and<\/span> documentation<\/span> provided<\/span> by<\/span> Hanscom<\/span> and<\/span> Stober<\/span> in<\/span> the<\/span> challenge<\/span> they<\/span> submitted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If<\/span> the<\/span> challenge<\/span> is<\/span> upheld,<\/span> Sanders\u2019<\/span> voter<\/span> registration<\/span> will<\/span> be<\/span> cancelled.<\/span> Since the<\/span> challenge<\/span> was<\/span> received<\/span> on<\/span> Oct.<\/span> 2,<\/span> less<\/span> than<\/span> 45<\/span> days<\/span> before<\/span> the<\/span> election,<\/span> a<\/span> decision<\/span> will<\/span> not<\/span> affect<\/span> the<\/span> Nov.<\/span> 3<\/span> election.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Kent School Board candidate Trisha Sanders told King County Elections officials at a hearing on Wednesday morning that she does live in the district despite her opponent\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}