OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE PO Box 40220 SAM REED Olympia, WA 98504 SECRETARY OF STATE November 2012 A DOZEN YEARS OF SERVICE & CIVILITY “In many ways, Reed is a throwback. He entered public service to serve the public, not to further a specific point of view or accumulate power.

He is unfailingly gracious, civil and dignified. In the rough and tumble of today’s politics, he stands apart.”

- The Spokesman-Review, June 30, 2011

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SAM REED 2 Foreword by Dan Evans, former Washington Governor 4 Milestones 6 People over Politics 8 Achievements 10 Reed’s Rules WASHINGTON VOTES 12 Battle for the Top 2 14 Energizing the Youth Vote 16 Voting at Home 18 MyVote 20 Elections for the Ages 22 Taking Initiative MEMORY BANK 24 Resurrecting History 26 Washington’s Digital Legacy 28 Historical Records Project 29 Centennial Corporations REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION 30 Reed’s Rescue 32 Letters About Literature 33 Washington Reads 34 Washington Talking Book & Braille Library 35 Washington Rural Heritage FINDING WASHINGTON’S ROOTS 36 Washington State Heritage Center 38 The Legacy Project BUSINESS CENTS 40 Corporations 42 Domestic Partnerships & Apostilles 43 International Trade 44 Productivity Board INSPIRING GENEROSITY 45 Washington Gives 46 Combined Fund Drive 48 Corporations for Community 49 Find Your One Thing 50 Heroes and High Honors • Sam Reed, Secretary of State January 10, 2001 - January 16, 2013 • 51 Address Confidentiality Program Established with the adoption of the Washington State Constitution, the Office WASHINGTON FORWARD of the Secretary of State administers elections, incorporates businesses and 52 In his own words preserves and makes accessible Washington history. The Secretary of State is Secretary of State of the Laura Mott/Office frequently called upon to greet and confer with dignitaries around the world. 1 foreword by Dan Evans

first met Sam Reed during my race for Governor in 1964. The entire Reed family volunteered This was a new venture and the group we chose were from widely divergent backgrounds I and played an active role in our success in Spokane County. I was impressed with Sam’s skill with equally divergent views. I needed a Director who had the ability to listen and to lead, and dedication and also his love of politics. When he graduated from Washington State University who had political moxie, and who was unafraid to tackle big and intractable problems. Even with a master’s degree in political science, I urged him to come to Olympia and join our team. though Sam Reed was graduate student, I was impressed by his work during the campaign and his political science studies at WSU so I took a chance and put a brand-new graduate The 1960s were a troubling time in America. The “war in charge of a brand-new enterprise. babies” were growing up and were distressed by the country they saw. Protests erupted constantly in urban The Urban Affairs Council worked for several years and produced over 100 centers and on college campuses across the country. recommendations for executive or legislative action. Their work, under Sam’s leadership, These were protests against the war in Vietnam, on opened doors of opportunity for many and helped create a greatly improved urban environmental protection, on civil rights, and particularly environment for many Washington communities. on the problems of the urban centers of America. I de- cided to form an Urban Affairs Council composed of a broad A few years later I asked Sam to head our Constitutional Revision Commission. Our bulky spectrum of citizen leaders and asked them to recommend State Constitution was six times as long as the U.S. Constitution and required amendments actions that could help resolve the challenges in our frequently. It desperately needed modernization and the Commission reported back with a Washington communities. rational way of approaching constitutional revision. Unfortunately, the legislature was not in the mood to tackle such a large effort and in spite of Sam’s leadership, the Constitution remains awkward and obsolete for the 21st century.

After leaving office as Governor, I have watched Sam Reed with growing admiration. He succumbed to the lure of public office and served admirably as Thurston County Auditor and as Secretary of State. During his 35 years in public office he has represented all of the people of our state rather than one political party. He is a proud Republican but fully recognizes that in public office you represent all of the people. He was tested with a vengeance during the 2004 gubernatorial race in Washington. As chief elections officer of the state he presided over the closest election for governor in the history of our state. After two recounts, multiple lawsuits, and intense pressure from both political parties, the winner was declared by 133 votes. Sam never wavered in his dedication to a fair and complete count in spite of the clamor of partisans and political operatives. It was a stunningly successful tour de force of political leadership and recognized nationally as such.

This book, which details Sam Reed’s extraordinarily successful 12 years as Secretary of State, should be a textbook on how to serve in public office. Sam modernized our election procedures, saved the State Library, digitized our State Archives, preserved our history, and showed us how to lead in public service. Thank you Sam, for work well done.

SAM REED SAM REED 2 Foreword by Dan Evans Sam Reed scrapbook Foreword by Dan Evans 3 attorney general, he took the people’s case for Reed served as Assistant Secretary of State a wide-open primary to the nation’s highest under Lud Kramer and Bruce Chapman. In court and won. He encouraged citizens to 1968, Reed was first appointed Thurston cast an informed vote and tirelessly toured County Auditor and then elected five times college campuses to boost turnout in elections by county voters. He served three terms as among young people. The most experienced Secretary of State. Reed’s career in public secretary in the nation in the field of elections, service spanned more than four decades. In Reed was named president of the National all that time, Washington survived the Boeing Association of Secretaries of State in 2005. He Bust and elected its first woman governor. encouraged a business-friendly Washington American politics witnessed Watergate, the by carrying his office into the Digital Age. Reagan Revolution and the election of the first Reed saved millions of tax dollars by leading African-American president. the state’s Productivity Board. He breathed life into oral history, retooling storytelling into compelling accounts of Washington’s most Portrait of the14th fascinating figures. With his own family dating A true leader is MILESTONES: back to territorial days, Reed led the charge someone who inspires Secretary of State for a new heritage center to protect the state’s and unites. We made vital documents and its own history. When the history by bringing project stalled in the down economy, Reed launched a series of free and informative together talented Robert Hubner/Washington State Magazine exhibits on Washington’s continuing story, people who believed hailed by visitors. in something greater History will remember Sam Weeks into Reed’s first term, a 6.8 earthquake than themselves. Reed’s love of politics was born during Reed. Caught in the crossfire of the nation’s shook Puget Sound, wreaking havoc on the [ [ Sunday dinners when his grandfather, Sam closest governor’s race and subsequent recounts, Capitol Building where Reed and statewide – Sam Reed Sumner, inspired his thirst for public service Reed became a household name in 2004. officeholders are based. A planned renovation at as the highest calling. (Sumner himself Strangers stopped him at grocery stores. National the Capitol was moved ahead three years. The served as prosecuting attorney, legislator The 14th Secretary of State commentators offered their take on his character. timing couldn’t have been worse. At the height and chairman of the state Republican Party.) will likely be remembered as Political insiders and old friends made him a target. of the historic governor’s race in 2004, Reed prepared to move back into the Capitol. He waded The middle child of three, Reed grew up in a progressive innovator who From his first day on the job, controversy neared. through moving boxes at his temporary office to Wenatchee and Spokane before earning his advocated for citizens first. His America continued to recover from the Florida address reporters covering the political story of the undergraduate and master’s degree from handling of the 2004 governor’s debacle and a Secretary of State under fire for year. Washington State University. He got his feet race, without question his most her handling of the 2000 presidential race. Reed wet in politics when Dan Evans, a Republican controversial role, earned him the had barely warmed his office chair when the first To his credit, Reed oversaw 105 elections, icon and three-term governor, trusted Reed people’s respect, the Gonzaga Law lawsuit arrived, suing him over the constitutionality incorporated more than 500,000 businesses, to direct commissions on Urban Affairs and Medal and the honor of receiving of the state’s popular blanket primary. The method rescued the Washington State Library, gave new Constitutional Reform. From Evans, Reed Governing magazine’s Public Official stirred the ire of the major political parties because life to the Combined Fund Drive, built the nation’s learned to trust and value staff as his greatest of the Year award. it allowed voters to crisscross the ballot between first government digital archives and protected resource, a philosophy that’s proven a candidates, regardless of their political affiliation. consumers against charities fraud. With the state hallmark of his career. The young Secretary at age 6. Sam Reed scrapbook

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Outstanding Service Award, Washington State Address Confidentiality Program, Susan Laurence Association of County Auditors Memorial Award for Professional Innovation in 1986 Victim Services, U.S. Dept. of Justice Governors Distinguished Volunteer 2002 1986 Award, State of Washington Best of the Web, 3rd place, Center for Digital 2003 Governement 2005 School of Law Medal, Gonzaga University Certificate of Appreciation, Washington Best of the Web, Honorable Mention, State Coalition for the Homeless Center for Digital Government 2005 2006 Seattle’s Most Influential People, Seattle Digital Archives, Excellence in Using Magazine Technology, National Electronic Commerce 2005 2007 Coordinating Council Warren G. Magnuson Memorial Award, Municipal League of King County Elections Division, Election Center 2006 Professional Practices Robert F. Utter Award, Washington 2007 2009 State YMCA Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, Public Official of the Year, Governing magazine Library of the Year, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped 2009 2009 James Madison Award, Washington Coalition Digital Archives, Top spot among wired 2011 for Open Government states, Ancestry Magazine 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award,Thurston County Republican Party Digital Archives, 101 Best Websites, 2011 2004-5 Family Tree Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award, Washington 2007-12 2012 State Association of County Auditors Washington Talking Book and Braille For dedication to military and overseas voters, Federal 2012 Library, Seattle Mayor’s Award 2012 Voting Assistance Program, U.S. Dept. of Defense Lifetime Achievement Award for International 2012 Trade and Friendship, World Trade Center Tacoma Office of the Secretary of State of the Office

SAM REED SAM REED 8 Achievements Achievements 9 sory groups made up of local officeholders, lead- service. He led a series of forums and breakfasts ers and activists. Advisers weighed in on Reed’s on civility, reaching across the political aisle and Reed’s Rules: handling of the office and kept him apprised of out to minorities, voters with disabilities, students local issues. Reed visited every county several and other underrepresented voting blocs. Reed times and kept in steady contact by email. hired elections specialists, conducted mock elec- tions for students and personally toured Wash- Refusing to abandon goals in tough economies, ington colleges every spring to draw prospective Reed depended on long-term volunteers to reach voters into politics. Reed championed “Corpora- agency milestones. For example, since 2002 tions for Community,” a recognition program for some 565 volunteers for the businesses that gave back agency’s Historical Records We are the keeper of to their surrounding neigh- Project entered 3.4 million borhoods and communi- State Representative Sam original documents into the Washington’s history, ties. He hosted community Hunt (D) and Secretary of Culture, Civility Digital Archives, an online promoter of a literate events that promoted gene- State Sam Reed (R) meet in collection warehouse that alogy. the middle. Robert Hubner/ provides free access to Wash- “ Washington State Magazine & CHARACTER electorate, the gateway ington history. They charted a Over time, Reed’s rules for to a healthy economy, the workplace made his Pledging to motivate, educate and congratulate, primary reform committee. Many of Reed’s direc- path to historic Washington. political career and earned Reed invested in people, a philosophy that car- tors also served in national positions: For nonhistory buffs, the proj- and the standard bear- him widespread respect. ried him through 45 years in Washington politics ect saved roughly a half-mil- Declared The Columbian and withstood chaos of the 2004 governor’s race • Elections Director Gary McIntosh, National lion dollars. The Legacy Proj- er for an accountable of Vancouver, “Reed has recounts and budget battles. Reed retired with Association of State Election Directors Presi- ect, a Reed-revived program and transparent de- become a poster boy (if you historic achievement. For holding a so-called dent that published oral histories can be a boy at 70) for non- down-ballot office some talked about abolishing, and biographies, relied often mocracy. What we do • Corporations Director Mike Ricchio, Inter- partisan public service. So Reed’s reputation with voters was extraordinary. on volunteers for research, national Association of Commercial Adminis- interviews, transcription and matters. To everyone. revered is he by his fellow trators President Washingtonians, Reed in To thrive in challenging conditions, Reed hired digitization. Reed’s Corpora- – Sam Reed • Charities Manager Rebecca Sherrell, Na- his last election (2008) re- and supported a cohesive team and depended tions and Charities Division tional Association of State Charity Officials ceived a high- on volunteers to make ends meet. He promoted used volunteers Board er percent- good behavior—civility and bipartisanship in to scan old chari- “ age of votes government—that earned him plaudits from the • State Librarian Jan Walsh, Western Council ties documents than Barack public. of State Libraries President that predate the electronic imaging Obama (58.3 • Elections Director Nick Handy, National system. percent com- Reed considered the hiring decision most impor- Association of Election Directors Executive pared with tant. He believed the only way to retain extraor- Board, U.S. Election Assistance Commission 57.6 percent) dinary people is “to fashion an environment that During his third • Elections Director Shane Hamlin, U.S. even though allowed them to shine.” He urged staff to perform term, Reed cham- Election Assistance Commission, Electronic he was run- at the top of their respective professions. Reed pioned community Registration Information Center Chair ning as a set the example, serving as president of the involvement and civility in govern- Republican National Association of Secretaries of State and Reed did not limit his team to the agency. He ment, encouraging in heavily as adviser to the U.S. Election Assistance Com- consulted advisers statewide to provide a real- bi-partisan prob- Democratic- mission. He chaired multiple NASS committees, ity check of his own performance. He continually lem-solving at ev- leaning state.” including the Heritage panel and a presidential reached out to 39 counties by establishing advi- ery level of public Office of the Secretary of State SAM REED SAM REED 10 Reed’s Rules Reed’s Rules 11 ATTLE for THE OUTCRY OVER B spots featured political party symbols—an PICK-A-PARTY PRIMARY elephant, a donkey and Lady Liberty—voting in “Dear Mr. Reed, a pick-a-party-primary. Voters got the message op Who in the HELL thought up this and expressed their total disgust to the T 2 format for the new primary? I would messenger in record numbers. no more dream of participating in Among the most enduring legacies of Sam “The governor bungles a big one,” this than going the wrong way on the Unfazed by the uproars, Reed worked tirelessly with the Washington State Grange to champion Reed is the hard-fought battle to save a editorialized the Yakima Herald-Republic freeway.” wide-open Primary. The unique system, a in 2004. “Reed, a Republican, has been a the Top 2 Primary again— this time by initiative. rarity in the nation, allowed voters to choose graceful warrior for independent voters,” the In November 2004, Initiative 872 passed in a the most qualified candidates for the job. paper declared. “As the state’s chief election landslide vote of the people. “Mr. Reed, The primary was popular with voters but pro, he will work diligently to implement the disdained by political party insiders, who new primary, scheduled in just over five My husband and I are public servants. Reed continuously defended the system after made perpetual attempts to throw the system months.” We work diligently every day to the historic vote, as the major political parties out. protect the rights of citizens. . . . challenged its constitutionality. In a rare feat, The veto left a pick-a-party primary in place “good” citizens and “bad” citizens. I Reed and Attorney General Rob McKenna For Reed, the first case related to the state that, for the first time, required voters to smell profiling and discrimination.” defended the Top 2 at the U.S. Supreme primary arrived as he was sworn into office choose one political party’s ballot. Reed Court—and won. Washington conducted its first in 2001, when Washingtonians still voted in a launched an aggressive education campaign Top 2 in 2008. blanket primary that sent the top Republican across multi-media platforms. Memorable Wrote another: and top Democrat to the November election. While the parties advanced more attacks in As Democratic Party et al v. Sam Reed “This new primary is an lower courts over the years, Reed refused to let progressed through the courts, Reed absolute farce. If the up on a primary defended by the U.S. Supreme defended voter choice on the ballot. parties are so concerned Court and widely supported by the people. about voters crossing over “Voters in Washington have had no greater advocate, nor a firmer voice for fairness, In 2003, Washington lost its blanket primary. they should abandon the The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck the transparency and civility, primary and nominate their system down on grounds it violated political than Secretary candidates by caucus or parties’ rights to freely associate (or exclude of State Sam convention.” non-members from the nomination process). Reed,” praised The Herald of Reed and the Undaunted, Reed pushed for a modified Everett. attorney general system supported by the people and the Top successfully 2 Primary was born. The Top 2 allowed the Reed launched a comprehensive education two top vote-getters to face off in November, campaign to explain defended the Top regardless of party preference. Reed’s Top 2 Washington’s new primary to 2 at the nation’s voters. TV ads and mailers highest court. passed the Legislature, but was tossed out starred political party symbols to by gubernatorial veto. illustrate changes on the ballot. Office of the Secretary of State

WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 12 Battle for the Top 2 Battle for the Top 2 13 “It empowers voters to interact with their Energizing the government and with each other. I have long said, ‘Your vote is your voice.’ Thanks vote to new technology and the leadership of this office, people from all over the state yOUTH have their voices heard. From Bellingham to Vancouver and across the Election with nearly 18,000 K-12 students Cascade Range, Reed stumped for the youth casting ballots in 2008. Additionally, Reed “Throughout my long career, I’ve worked vote, encouraging young people to use their supported educators with Teaching Elections in hard to engage younger voters. I’ve collective voice in democracy. He recruited Washington State curriculum to help students aspired to stay on the cutting edge of bright college interns and fostered their political at all grade levels become more informed and technology,” Reed said at the 2008 launch interest. He pounded pavement at university prepared to vote when they turn 18. of I WILL VOTE. “I’m proud to say that this campuses urging students to exercise their campaign does both.” rights and become more civically engaged. Reed’s team developed an enterprising campaign in 2008 to reach the tech-savvy Four years later, Reed launched I WILL As Secretary of State, Reed upgraded the generation in cyberspace. I WILL VOTE VOTE 2012, again targeting college Secretary of State of the Office award-winning Voting Is Cool program he captured growing fascination with new media campuses to encourage participation in developed as Thurston County Auditor to to deliver essential election news on Facebook, the 2012 election. The campaign marked include more civic education at all grade levels Myspace and YouTube, and to encourage Reed’s seventh and final college civics and a high school tour led by Reed and staff. online pledges to vote. Participants posted tour. He set a record, visiting 42 college The Secretary’s elections team launched pictures of themselves holding I WILL VOTE campuses across Washington. the College Civics program, featuring an signs at home, at work and all over town. aggressive annual college civics tour that took Reed to more than 40 campuses. Reed’s office “I WILL VOTE takes advantage of the forums sponsored the online student Mock many people use to communicate,” Reed said. Youth voter outreach was Office of the Secretary of State of the Office more important than ever. Voters aged 18-24 comprised less than 10% of the state’s registered voters in 2012 Hoping to engage young people in the political process, Reed tirelessly toured college campuses across the state. Lindsay Pryor/Office of the Secretary of State Office of the Secretary of State of the Office WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 14 Energizing the Youth Vote Energizing the Youth Vote 15 VOTING AT HOME

Believing in an informed electorate, Reed led the way leading as a groundswell for voting at home took hold. For HISTORY OF Northwesterners, mail voting offered more than relief from VOTING BY MAIL Washington rains. It brought an end to dodging in and the out of church halls and schools to cast ballots in minutes. • Nearly 15 years before Voters could spread their ballots across the kitchen table A standout Washington voted entirely nation in education, at their convenience. They could flip through the Secretary by mail, a survey found more of State Voters’ Pamphlet. They could access the Internet than 65 percent of respondents and watch campaign ads. Even for Reed, who’d spent Washington published preferred voting at home. voters’ pamphlets, Online candidate years voting alongside his neighbors at local polling filing stations, benefits of mail voting carried the day. • By 2004, citizens in our state online and in print, 2002 could vote permanently by and partnered with The history of voting by mail dates back decades in mail and 70 percent chose TVW to provide a video Personalized Washington, and rumblings of a groundswell began in to vote at home in all future voters’ guide. the 1980s. An up-and-coming Reed led a committee of elections. Reed joined with voting information the Washington State Association of County Auditors Oregon Secretary of State 2007 online (WSACA) that in 1983 won legislative authority to use Bill Bradbury to push all-mail ballots in special elections. In 1997, Reed, WSACA mail voting across the Northwest and the president, persuaded most auditors to vote by mail on Paperless motor nation, participating a referendum to build a new football stadium in Seattle. in forums, authoring voter The referendum yielded telling results. Only 39 percent of 2008 editorials and working Pacific County voters turned out at polling stations, yet in closely with counties adjacent Wahkiakum County, where all-mail voting took and legislators. Online voter place, 62 percent of voters cast mail ballots. registration • In 2005, Secretary 2008 As contested elections led to calls for federal election of State-request standards that could have limited vote-by-mail, Reed legislation gave fought to protect the rights of Washing- counties authority Statewide vote- tonians to cast their ballots at to replace poll sites by-mail home. with mail balloting. 2011 Most promptly made the switch. Pioneer in emailing blank ballots to • In 2011, Washington military and overseas citizens became the second state in the country to vote entirely by mail.

WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 16 Voting at Home Voting at Home 17 features of My myvote

For decades, Reed strived Voters could review and update their to enfranchise voters “Washington’s elections team has registration information and view their consistently remained on the cutting edge voting history. and help them make of technology and used innovation to the informed choices on the benefit of all voters. I take great pride in ballot. His elections team these accomplishments that increase broke new ground when turnout and create a more informed Citizens with a valid state driver’s electorate,” Reed said. license or ID could submit a new voter Washington voters tapped registration application through a into elections information The Office of the Secretary of State also secure online process. and registered to vote made available election results in real time from desktops and mobile for people using mobile phones or tablets. devices worldwide. Election applications were developed for Voters could access critical iPhone and iPad in 2011, and Android in information about individual The development of MyVote made 2012. officeholders and candidates, and participating in Washington elections more read ballot measures. convenient than ever before. The secure MyVote evolved into a hallmark of Reed’s online service provided personalized and tenure—a symbol of his agency-wide They could retrieve replacement general elections information. The online mandate to keep pace with the digital registration system vetted ID information world. When Reed took office in 2001, ballots, identify convenient ballot in real time, providing a convenient way not a single transaction with the Office of drop-box locations, and check to to register while protecting the integrity of the Secretary of State could be carried see if their ballots were received. voter rolls. out online. At his departure, the Web had evolved into a go-to resource for Secretary Prior to the 2012 Primary, Washington of State customers, and in the field of To accommodate Washington’s made national news with the release of elections, a trusted resource for voters. diverse communities, MyVote a Facebook application that delivered “MyVote is simply a boon for everyone,” appeared in English, Spanish, MyVote to users of the world’s most Reed said. “We’ve created a buzz across Vietnamese and Chinese. popular social media website. Developed the country.” without public expense by Microsoft, and with input from Facebook, the new MyVote Several states followed Washington’s lead, application provided one-click access from developing similar online personalized Facebook to online registration and other voter information services. services.

WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 18 My Vote My Vote 19 Elections for the Ages hen two of the most contentious races in With a superior elections team and a solid part- Wrecent political history undermined voter nership with County Auditors statewide, Wash- confidence, Reed played a key role in restoring ington’s Secretary of State’s Office successfully public trust. In 2000, the open presidential race implemented all aspects of the Help America between George W. Bush and Al Gore ended in Vote Act. In addition, the state pioneered a a Florida cliffhanger mocked on late-night televi- multi-state project to check voter registrations sion. Bush v. Gore, a landmark U.S. Supreme across state lines. Photo Top: Media from across the country clamored to cover the biggest political story of Court decision, handed Bush the presidency. the year. Office of the Secretary of State. Below: Cartoon courtesy The Seattle Times. Subsequently, every Secretary of State received he agonizingly close governor’s race in a share of a $4 billion election reform package TWashington four years later again com- known as the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). promised public trust. Reed stood between of elections and executive staff stayed in continu- whose signatures are not ac- enraged political parties he angered in turns, ous contact with each other and the outside world. cepted; The sweeping federal legislation called on and the voting public whose confidence in the From Reed’s perspective, the need for transparency • A requirement that counties states to clearly define what constitutes a vote, elections process sank. Rossi v. Gregoire split matched the agency’s mandate to follow the law. release public reports recon- to invest more in voter education and to improve the electorate with such precision the con- Interviews and live press conferences dominated his ciling the number of ballots equipment, allowing people with disabilities to test ranked as the closest governor’s race, calendar. The firestorm highlighted misconceptions received with the number of vote a secret ballot for the first time. HAVA also percentage-wise, in American history. Nearly 3 about the authority of the Secretary of State. It could ballots counted and re- required every state million people cast have easily cost an inexperienced secretary his repu- jected, and the number of to build a centralized their ballots and in tation or even his job. But Reed persevered through ballots received with the He was far less partisan than I voter registration the final conclusion two recounts, five contentious court cases, a trial and number of voters credited database (VRDB) by expected him to be. He’ll probably a mere 133 votes the unrelenting glare of news cameras. The secretary’s with returning a ballot. 2006. go down in history as the secretary separated the top fair handling of Rossi v. Gregoire, while still controver- of state who oversaw the stickiest two candidates— sial with party faithful, earned him widespread public Lessons of 2004 are captured in An Election for the In Washington, wicket that we went through. Republican Dino respect. Reed’s fairness throughout the process and Ages, published by the WSU Press in 2010. Reed had already [ [ Rossi, former in court earned him plaudits from coast to coast. The Reflecting on the race, Reed said he learned to find - Paul Berendt, former chairman, WA State Democrats cleared the way state senator, and Gonzaga Law School awarded him its highest honor, courage in controversy through actions of his men- for the centralized Democrat Christine noting: “Reed has shown exemplary character and tor, Washington’s three-term database. Recognizing a registration upgrade Gregoire, attorney general. After winning the legal judgment during the ongoing political mael- governor, Dan Evans. could combat mistakes and fraud, Reed per- initial count and an automatic machine recount, strom involving the state’s gubernatorial election.” suaded legislators to replace 39 county voter Rossi lost the manual recount to Gregoire by a lists with a single database before President record-setting 129 votes. (The margin of victory In the aftermath of the 2004 controversy, Reed and Bush signed HAVA in 2002. Registrations were increased by four votes after the case went to Washington Governor Christine Gregoire established easily screened for duplicates, deceased vot- trial.) Widespread mistrust—the result of lost a bipartisan election reform task force and held ers and felons who’d lost their voting rights. ballots, angry political parties and election mis- forums statewide to gather public input, improve how Washington’s database was unique. Unlike takes— made political fodder for media, from we vote and restore confidence. Hundreds of rec- most places in the country that partnered with the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune to Time ommendations were adopted as a result, including: vendors, Washington maintained its own VRDB. magazine. The state was among a handful to implement • Local-government option to conduct all the VRDB on time. In Washington, the VRDB Candidates, political parties and the state elections by mail; cost roughly $2 per voter, less than comparable staked their claims in dueling sound bites. At • A requirement that counties contact voters who projects elsewhere. the Office of the Secretary of State, a team fail to sign their ballot declarations; • A requirement that counties contact voters WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 20 Elections for the Ages Election for the Ages 21 Taking Initiative

Reed consistently fought for the people’s constitutional “Harsh criticism, short of unlawful action, is a price our people have traditionally been willing right to legislate and to access to pay for self-governance,” wrote Justice their own government records. Scalia in Doe v. Reed. “Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters In a triumph for open government, he won a civic courage, without which democracy is landmark case at the nation’s highest court in doomed.” 2010. Reed, the state’s chief elections officer, Above, Reed and Attorney General Rob McKenna addressed reporters at the United States was represented by the attorney general in “This is another huge victory for the American Supreme Court in the nationally watched Doe v. Reed case. Evan Vucci/Associated Press

the nationally watched Doe v. Reed court public and for democracy,” said Frank Blethen, case. “We believe in open and accountable publisher of The Seattle Times. “If they had government in Washington and today’s taken it and if they had overturned it, this

remarkable 8-1 Supreme Court ruling makes it would unleash the next great wave of media clear that we are on firm constitutional footing,” consolidation.” Reed said. We have a long history of debating In 2012, Doe v. Reed continued in lower courts “ The High Court strongly upheld the and voting on some very difficult where judges would debate whether certain Secretary’s position that the state’s voter- cases demand anonymity protection. and personal issues in a civil way, approved Public Records Act secures access to all public documents that have not been For his work on defending the Public and I believe we will continue to specifically exempted. Foes of the state’s Records Act and the creation of the nation’s “do so. We do not want to ever chill “everything but marriage” expansion of first state Digital Archives, Reed won the domestic partnership rights brought the James Madison Award, the most prestigious voters’ right to take part in what case. As sponsors of Referendum 71, which honor of the Washington Coalition for Open forced a 2009 public vote on the issue, they we value as ‘direct democracy.’ Government. feared that releasing the signatures of more – Sam Reed than 130,000 people would result in “threats, harassment and reprisal.”

WASHINGTON VOTES WASHINGTON VOTES 22 Taking Initiative Taking Initiative 23 Resurrecting History

Reed fiercely guarded lauded State Archives and State Library on the Capitol cards soaked in mud and mold. Archivists Archivists rescued records from water damage Campus. The project, placed on hold in the holdings in Washington history, began meticulously extracting moisture. They in the Green River flood plain and from flood down economy, remained Reed’s paramount secured in the State Archives and its Regional freeze-dried material at minus 35 degrees and threats across Washington. In hazmat suits vision in 2012. Branches. Enduring legal and historical used acid-free buffer board and paper for long- and respirators, archivists assisted in saving records—2.5 billion in total—captured term preservation. The contents were eventu- Clallam County records that were stored at the More than stewards of valuable local and Washington’s past and documented the ally returned to Aberdeen. “We are so grateful Salt Creek Artillery Coastal Defense Bunker. In state repositories, archivists under Reed’s rights of citizens. Collections dated from 1847 that archivists could preserve the time capsule 2005, the Eastern Regional Branch helped the charge trained thousands of employees and offered a trove of gems—governors’ and we can bring a little piece of Weatherwax Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture re- every year and recovered historic documents papers, the State Constitution, the decisions to our new campus building,” said Superinten- cover after a pipe burst. The Central Branch led when disaster struck. For example, in of the Supreme Court and even evidence in dent of Aberdeen Schools Marty Kay. several multiple recov- 2002, teenagers reduced Aberdeen’s J.M. unsolved murder cases. The archives held vital ery efforts in the Weatherwax High School to charred rubble documents and served as a trusted resource The time capsule marked one example of state wake of a broken in a failed attempt to burn counseling for lawyers, genealogists and researchers. archivists at work during the Reed years. In sewer line, floods records. After state archivists were consulted, But the State Archives, located in an Olympia the wake of a string of fires and arson attempts and attempted construction crews carefully removed the nuclear bomb shelter, overflowed with records. at public buildings in 2002, archivists assisted arson. time capsule from the 1910 landmark and At maximum capacity, it shipped records sites in Roy, Okanogan, Bellevue and Arlington. transferred it to an Aberdeen museum freezer across the state to regional shelters and the for temporary storage. State Records Center, a warehouse that failed to offer the necessary conditions for long-term Photo opposite left: Under Reed’s charge, state archivists storage of rare material. Reed’s answer took Reed made the first incision with a dremel helped rescue a turn-of-the-century time capsule from the tool when the capsule was moved to the State historic J.M. Weatherwax High School in Aberdeen. When shape in a proposed Heritage Center that the capsule was buried, the local paper called the event Archives. Experts painstakingly removed overwhelmingly passed the State Legislature an epoch in history. The Daily World in 2007. The Heritage Center would house the contents from the capsule shell to discover a large, soggy brick of newspapers and post- Photo right: Secretary of State Sam Reed pried open a 1904 time capsule recovered from the J.M Weatherwax High School. Washington State Archives

Photo left: Water entered a one-inch hole in the capsule and destroyed 30 percent of its contents including silver-based photographs of Quinault Princess Taholah and Duwamish Princess Angeline. However, nearly 600 pages of content were spared, like 10 newspapers, 13 publications and 4 rare coins. Washington State Archives

Photo bottom: Among the treasures housed in the archives are Asahel Curtis slides depicting life in Washington State. Washington State Archives

MEMORY BANK MEMORY BANK 24 Resurrecting History Resurrecting History 25 Photo left: Wash- ington’s new digital archives, a first for Digital the nation, could hold mind boggling ^ amounts of data in Washington’s Legacy an area the size of 24 upright freezers. Washington State The Digital Age ushered in a tsunami of information and a daunting dilemma. Digital Archives As each day passed, Washington moved closer to functioning as a paperless state Photo right: A server and more of our history slipped away. State legacies, once safely secured on paper, rack can hold up to 580 Terabytes of us- evolved instead on PCs and laptops—with no means to preserve them. Reed, a able storage. That’s passionate history buff and a steward of the State Archives, knew the stakes. enough storage space to hold 58 billion typical docu- Filed away in temperature-controlled rooms, the just gone,” he told reporters in 2004. “We’d have no ments. State Archives held the government’s most prized explanation for how things were done, no way to Washington State paper documents. Vital records included the state get the answers we needed.” Digital Archives of our environment, laws and judicial decisions, territorial military assignments, and the State To recover disappearing electronic history, Reed, planning. “We’ve been on a four-year crusade to There’s good reason why other states looked to Constitution. Preservation of these records was Assistant Secretary of State Steve Excell, State rescue modern history,” Reed said. “This mission Washington for assistance. Unlike fragile paper expensive and required tremendous space. It Archivist Jerry Handfield, Network and Desktop takes notice of our place in time and helps us records vulnerable to fire and floods, a digital left our heritage vulnerable to disaster and made Services Manager Mike Huntley and a crew from prepare for the future.” lock protected electronic records and allowed for public access difficult, while ignoring advances of the agency designed an online data repository. redundant copies and offsite back-ups. the technological revolution. This new archive could store mind-boggling No project existed like Washington’s new amounts of data in an area the size of 24 upright Digital Archives. In October 2004, a $14 million As Reed prepared to retire, he initiated a records “If Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg freezers. The project demanded continuous facility opened its doors on the Eastern management, digital archives partnership with Address on a laptop, we may not have it today,” collaboration with stakeholders, Washington University campus and made the Oregon Secretary of State. The award- the secretary observed. Reed saw the problem authorization from the news worldwide. winning Digital Archives continued to make with electronic recordkeeping firsthand. “We’d go State Legislature and history, ingesting information from 10 state back and look for some information, and it was years of methodical Several archives in China, the United agencies and 68 local government entities. Of its Kingdom’s West Yorkshire Archive 111 million records, half are digitized —including Service, the Providential Archives 22,000 images, 6,000 maps and 14,000 audio of Alberta, the University College records. From anywhere in the world you London, the National Archives of could find archived websites of governors, the Australia, the Singapore National childhood home of President Barack Obama, Archives and the American Council and trace your family roots through vital records. of Young Political Leaders from Japan sent delegations to Cheney The outside world took note. Each year, some 2012 as they considered digital archives 560,000 researchers depended on the Digital of their own. U.S teams arrived from Archives for more than 5.6 million searches. In the National Archives, the JFK Presidential its eight-year lifespan, the archives received 10 Library and Museum, and from many states awards for its powerful search engine and its including Arizona, Arkansas and Indiana. open access to Washington records and history. Additionally, in 2007 the Digital Archives It contributed to Washington’s billing as one of received a groundbreaking, million-dollar grant the most “Wired States of America” and became from the Library of Congress to create a multi- a hallmark of the Reed legacy.

Washington State Digital Archives State Digital Washington state partnership and host digital archives from

MEMORY BANK nine states. MEMORY BANK 26 Washington’s Digital Legacy Washington’s Digital Legacy 27 Historical Records CENTENNIAL Project Corporations

Reed’s team inspired exceptional In 2009, the Digital Archives created the One award at a time, Reed acknowledged While exact circumstances of the founders’ volunteers to open Washington history web indexing portal that allowed volunteers longstanding businesses that built corporate travel were unknown, Reed suspected they and records to the world. Washington’s to index selected records online. The oldest Washington and contributed to its entrepre- commuted by train from Wenatchee to Seattle Historical Records Project indexed and document transcribed by volunteers was neurial spirit. Reed’s Century Corporation and hopped on a paddle wheeler to down- transcribed roughly 3.4 million records now the 1847 Lewis County Heads of Family Award publicly recognized businesses for town Olympia, where the old State Capitol still accessible worldwide, an endeavor that with 53 names. reaching the coveted centennial milestone. stands. Only 600 cars were registered in Wash- could have cost taxpayers a ington State at the time. A passable roadway half-million dollars. Reed, who called the Bartell Drugs, founded in 1890 by George H. between Wenatchee and Olympia did not exist agency’s volunteer Bartell, made history as the oldest drugstore for another 15 years. Some 550 volunteers program one of the best chain in America and the first discount phar- —from Washington, in state government, macy in Seattle. The company endured two Of nearly 3,000 incorporations filed in 1910, Australia, Canada and held a debt of gratitude World Wars, the Great Depression, multiple a mere 60 existed in 2012. The majority were the Netherlands—worked to the generous citizens recessions and ever-increasing competition. churches and service organizations like YMCA. feverishly from home who made it happen. During its milestone birthday in 2004, Bartell over the course of a The program’s first Drug Company received the Washington State decade to index family volunteer, the late Century Corporation Award. It was one of 43 history documents for the Roger Easton, assisted remaining businesses that also began after the turn of the century, in 1904. Historical Records Project Photo above: A history buff, Reed’s own not only the Historical and the state’s pioneering interest in Washington’s past bolstered Records Project, but Digital Archives. These his leadership of all heritage-related the State Archives, The When the Wenatchee Valley Young Men’s programs supported by the agency. crucial records included Legacy Project and Christian Association celebrated its 100th birth- Photo below: Especially in difficult budget day, the occasion marked a personal milestone YMCA Valley Wenatchee birth, death, marriage, times many programs could not have multiple causes in the naturalization, cemeteries, survived without dedicated volunteers, Olympia community and for Reed who attended Y Camp as a kid. “As a census, military, directories shown here at an annual recognition across Washington. child who skipped a grade in school and had event. Photos Office of the Secretary of an older brother, I always viewed myself as a and donation land claims. State follower. Camp director Larry Handy changed that. Seeing me with my own age group, he saw leadership traits that never occurred to me. He recognized this in a ceremonial way as I became a ‘Brown Ragger’. He put me in leader- ship roles.”

Reed spoke at the 100th birthday of the Wenatchee Valley YMCA and related its begin- nings. In the fall of 1910, Rowland Ludington, of the Wenatchee Law firm of Ludington and Kemp, paid a visit to the Office of the Secretary of State in the old Capitol and formally incorpo-

rated the YMCA. & Stevens Collection, Museum of History Industry Webster PEMCO MEMORY BANK MEMORY BANK 28 Historical Records Project Centennial Corporations 29 The official keeper of Washington history found The governor not only agreed to save the State REED’S itself fighting to survive in 2001. Grappling with Library, but approved the budget to keep it alive. a $1.6 billion shortfall, then Governor Gary “This fine institution is a fundamental resource Locke proposed its elimination, noting that for state government, communities across the state government could conduct its research state and the public at large,” Reed said. RESCUE online. The vast majority of library holdings were not digitized, however. Of 365,000 state The State Library persevered despite steady Saving the State Library publications, 19,000 were electronic in 2012. Of budget cuts. Its total budget was cut in half In 2002, Reed rescued Washington’s oldest cultural institution. The roughly 1.5 million federal documents, 125,000 during the Reed years. The library lost 57 premier organization held the most comprehensive collections of ter- could be accessed online. Digitizing all holdings percent of its staff positions, including its ritorial and state history in the world. It provided training, grants and would require a monumental effort and much reception desk on the ground floor. Yet doors material, rare and fragile, would suffer in the remained open in 2012 at its Tumwater location. consulting to develop and strengthen local libraries across the state. process. With its future home in the Heritage Center on hold, the library continued to offer outstanding Reed stepped up and successfully fought services, linking patrons of every kind to the Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens carefully the governor’s proposal. Consequently, the most authoritative holdings of Washington handpicked books for the library’s first collection Legislature trusted Reed to take over the history and heritage anywhere. in 1853. Sent from the East Coast by steamer institution and breathe life into its core mission. and around South America’s Cape Horn, the cargo made its way through San Francisco and onward to Olympia. The volumes, 500 of which remained at the State Library in 2012, cut a broad swath. Collection topics included history, science, literature and foreign languages.

With statehood in 1889, the Washington Territorial Library was crowned the State Library. Since that landmark year, the library held a record of every bill ever introduced into the Legislature in its extensive collections of state publications. It held rare published editions of early expeditions, such as the 1814 first edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark, papers of renowned activist Emma Smith Devoe, details of Pacific Northwest science explorations of the 19th century and medical books dating back to the 1600s. For more than a century, the State Library supported community and public libraries with services and access to federal grants. It served as the primary research institution for state government and an authoritative resource for the general public. In both Washington and Alaska, the State Library functioned as the official repository for federal Photo above: The original collection, handpicked by Stevens himself in 1853.Washington State Library. Photo left: Territorial REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION publications. REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION 30 Reed’s Rescue Governor Isaac Stevens. Library of Congress Reed’s Rescue 31 Letters About Literature A voracious reader, Secretary Reed strongly the feeling of advocated Letters About Literature (LAL). The Jas so vividly.” state and national contest encouraged young The bestselling readers to write authors, living or dead, about “Solider Mom” an inspiring work. Competitors ranged in age follows Jasmyn from 4th grade to 12th grade. Genres included Williams when fiction, nonfiction and poetry. her mother, a member More than 15,000 Washington students from of the Army 150 schools and Boys & Girls Clubs competed Reserve, is in LAL during the Reed years. Among them called to duty in was McKenzie Dent, a 6th grader at Zieger the Persian Gulf War. Elementary School in Puyallup grappling with Washington her father’s deployment to Iraq. “It hurts me to Dent’s letter struck a chord with state and watch the news and see all of the bad things national judges who chose her letter as a 2007- that are happening where my dad is right 2008 award winner. Dent’s father returned from now,” Dent told Alice Mead, author of “Soldier service and joined his daughter at the awards READS Mom.” “When I read your book I kept asking ceremony. Dent wasn’t alone. On Reed’s watch, myself the same questions: Did you have a seven Washington students received national Concerned with falling literacy rates among publication dedicated to young people with similar experience? You wrote in such a way honors. young people nationwide, Reed’s office touted disabilities. The program also released two that I wondered that because you described great reads from the Evergreen State to inspire themed posters; one for Summer Reading and Washingtonians to crack a book. Washington one to celebrate the popularity of the Twilight Reads began in the fall of 2003. Then State series by Stephenie Meyer. Skiing sensations Librarian Jan Walsh selected books based Phil, Andy and Steve Mahre partnered with on a particular theme and, with the help the program, along with treaty fishing rights of celebrities and authors, promoted titles activist Billy Frank Jr. and Seattle Sounders statewide. Topics ran the gamut, from natural forward Fredy Montero. catastrophes that shook the state to snapshots of a forgotten life in Washington Territory. Washington Reads continued to thrive in 2012 despite crippling budget cuts at the State A series of posters featured Washingtonians Library. The program expanded to include like NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne; Team material from the entire Pacific Northwest and USA volleyball setter Courtney Thompson; it left a mark. Visits to the library blog rose Seattle Seahawk cornerback Marcus Trufant more than 20 percent in the first quarter of the and his daughter; former NASA Astronaut 2012 calendar year; Washington Reads was Bonnie Dunbar; and Logan Olson, founder the third most-viewed component. and creative director of Logan Magazine, a

REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION Photo above: Letters About Literature event, 2009. REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION 32 Letters About Literature Ben Helle/Office of the Secretary of State Washington Reads 33 WASHINGTON Washington TALKING BOOK & BRAILLE LIBRARY Rural Heritage Washington Talking Book & Braille Library From far-flung corners of the state, a trove more of Washington’s past. Through of fascinating images and records told the initiative, federal grants were Loads of audio books, novels in braille and other library Washington’s story. Oral histories from funneled to rural public and tribal libraries materials—all told as heavy as a Boeing 757—were shipped Lummi Island salmon fishermen revealed the to digitize images, documents and audio out of downtown Seattle each year to thousands of subscribers value of the fish to Native culture. Oversized recordings. Washington State librarians across the state. The Washington Talking Book & Braille Library maps detailed coal mines that spread traveled to remote areas with scanners, (WTBBL) connected people who couldn’t read traditional print beneath the small town of Roslyn. Snapshots laptops and a high-resolution digital camera to the outside world. It began operations under the Seattle offered a glimpse into farming life in Whitman in tow. On location, they digitized material Public Library in 1906 and merged into Reed’s office more than County. These records held in rural public and trained rural librarians in cataloguing a century later, in 2008. libraries, small heritage organizations and and copyrighting. While original holdings private collections were made accessible remained at rural libraries, the Washington Its volunteer effort shined, noted by The Seattle Times in worldwide for the first time. State Library maintained digitized copies 2011 to be among the most sought-after places to work in the in a central repository to ensure long-term industry. WTBBL boasted 400 volunteers and just 19 staff to Washington Rural Heritage, a State Library preservation. serve 10,000 subscribers. Patrons included people like Mary initiative, began in 2007 with pilot projects at Tift, a war veteran and world-renowned printmaker who lost public libraries in Ritzville and Enumclaw. By her eyesight in 1995. Su Park, a library patron of just 15, 2012, it assisted some 30 different libraries said WTBBL helped her survive. “Braille is the key to WTBBL was the first statewide to save rural heritage and unlock unlock the doors of the world to every blind individual,” library for the blind Park said. “WTBBL is the provider of that key. WTBBL and physically dis- has helped me with school by giving me books in a abled in the U.S. to timely manner. Sure, there is always the Internet, but have locally produced they often have mistakes that make reading the book a books available for chore and a half. When technology fails and the essay is download. due tomorrow...well, the braille copy is the next bet.”

WTBBL collections, totaling 400,000 items, included roughly 14,000 large-print publications in multiple genres, a wide selection of audio books focused on the Pacific Northwest or written by local authors and recorded by volunteers, as well as Northwest-focused braille books available for circulation, download and interlibrary loan.

The exceptional services at WTBBL during Reed’s tenure were steadily recognized. WTBBL was honored by the Library of Congress for creativity and innovation in 2009, and by the mayor of Seattle in 2012. Photo right: Mary Tift, the first female veteran in Washington to receive a digital talking book machine, revels in the new technology— Photo above: Wilbur Lockhart, the bearded man on the far right, poses with his REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION especially the superior sound quality and easy REVIVAL OF OUR OLDEST CULTURAL INSTITUTION 34 Washington Talking Book & Braille Library navigation. John Pai/WTBBL farm crew in Whitman County. Whitman County Library, Washington Rural Heritage Washington Rural Heritage 35 THE WASHINGTON STATE When Washington women won the right to vote in 1910, the milestone took place 10 years ahead of the national amendment and triggered a wave of HERITAGE CENTER political firsts that spanned eight decades. Fourteen pathfinders soared to some of the most coveted DIGGING FOR WASHINGTON’S ROOTS offices in Washington politics never before held by women. “Moving Forward, Looking Back,” a To secure the priceless artifacts of the comprehensive collections of Washington year-long exhibit inside Reed’s office in the Capitol archives and return the State Library to the history around the globe. Cutting-edge museum Building, celebrated their stories. “It’s a powerful seat of government, Reed and State Senator galleries and a learning center would take a no- reminder of what women have gone through to Karen Fraser championed a world-class holds-barred approach to the Washington story. make major contributions in this state and country,” Heritage Center, the first addition slated for Citizens paying a visit to the Capitol would, for Reed said. “It is an inspiration as women continue to the Capitol Campus in 50 years. The cultural the first time, gain insight into the extraordinary blaze new trails.”

landmark would serve a practical purpose. At people and events that made the state an Secretary of State of the Christina Siderius/Office the underground State Archives in Olympia, independent, global leader. The ambition of Isaac Stevens—his love of a treasury of rare material and documents country and sharp intellect—filled a 2011 exhibit overflowed—forcing shipment to local and The Heritage Center and its revenue stream on Washington’s fascinating territorial governor. regional warehouses that were never intended passed the 2007 Legislature, but lawmakers Stevens brokered treaties with Indian tribes in for long-term preservation. The Heritage Center placed the project on hold when the economy the19th century and died on the Civil War battlefield would also house the state’s oldest cultural collapsed. The setback never dampened Reed’s in 1862. Stevens’s definitive roles in the Northwest institution. The State Library, charged with spirits. Under the secretary’s leadership, the cast him as one of the most studied and contested serving legislators and staff, was forced to move Heritage Center marched on without a building. figures of Washington’s past. “Young man in a hurry,” from the Capitol Campus into a nondescript Staff organized popular heritage events around chronicled the life of Washington’s founding father office building in Tumwater after the Nisqually the state and programs at the State Library and and the 150th anniversary of the civil war that earthquake struck in 2001. State Archives. They installed well-received claimed his life. “Isaac Stevens is a very prominent exhibits marking Reed’s final three years in and polarizing figure in Washington’s history, and Additionally, the Heritage Center promised office. this exhibit will educate visitors on his incredible Capitol visitors open access to the most impact. I strongly encourage people to stop by our office and see the Stevens exhibit for themselves

Ben Helle/Office of the Secretary of State of the Ben Helle/Office and form their own judgments.”

In 2012, the Heritage Center developed the first exhibit on Native Americans ever displayed in the Capitol Building. “We’re still here.” recognized the long history of the original Washingtonians, Indian tribes. The exhibit followed four major themes: the battle over land, the fight for identity, the crusade for treaty fishing rights and the revival of Native culture in our modern world.

The need for the Heritage Center, a future home for the State Library and State Archives, only increased with time. “The hope lives on; the Heritage Center would be an amazing resource for the people of our state,” Reed said. FINDING WASHINGTON’S ROOTS FINDING WASHINGTON’S ROOTS 36 Washington State Heritage Center The original rendering of the Heritage Center building. Washington State Heritage Center 37 Laura Mott/Office of the Secretary of State of the Laura Mott/Office LEGACY PROJECT

Contributions of fascinating newsmakers The global prominence of Billy Frank Jr. were captured by The Legacy Project, defied his humble start on the Nisqually an increasingly popular Reed-created River and limited formal education. Frank oral history program that received strong began his activist career at 14 to protect the endorsements and praise from book only life he knew. Roughed up and belittled reviewers. Civil rights activist Lillian Walker, on the riverbank for fishing, the Nisqually an African-American woman who arrived Indian fought for rights secured by Indian Slade Gorton scrapbook Slade Gorton Christina Siderius/Office of the Secretary of State of the Christina Siderius/Office in Bremerton just before World War II, treaties the outside world often disregarded. Indian Fisheries Commission Northwest Jr., Billy Frank organized an NAACP chapter, led sit-ins “Decades ago, in a far different America, a and spent more than 65 years challenging federal Indian movement swept the country,” society to treat all humans with equal value. wrote author Trova Heffernan. most people, I can say there is a guy who decided ethnic minority on the Washington Supreme Court. “You don’t have the authority to mistreat that he could change the world by changing Embracing the Digital Age, the Legacy Project anybody, because that’s why we are here, to “Unknown fishermen held up their treaties himself.’” Frank continues his fight for indigenous additionally made accessible a free and popular help each other. If you can help somebody, and took a stand. One was a Nisqually Indian people across the world and for the survival of the database of politicians and activists online. help them,” Mrs. Walker said in one of her named Billy Frank. ‘I wasn’t the Billy Frank Pacific salmon. Historymakers offered biographical profiles of last public interviews. Mrs. Walker’s words that I am now,’ the Nisqually tribal leader told Washington public servants, activists and little- rang so true to seasoned journalist John reporters in 1984. ‘I was a bitter person.’ Says Slade Gorton, a politician for a half-century, was known citizens who made history. Hughes. He called her story the most friend Tom Keefe, ‘When I look at Billy Frank, best known for his eventful U.S. senatorial career important project of his 46-year career. and I guess I know more about him than and his sharp intellect. “I first met Slade Gorton Understanding that the Washington story is a in 1966 when I was a young reporter covering library for the future, Secretary Reed breathed life the Legislature,” said Hughes, former editor and into The Legacy Project in 2008. Reed worked with publisher of The Daily World. “Over the years, the Legislature to create a new program and, in especially during the battle over Indian fishing times of inadequate funding, relied on volunteers rights and the controversy over the Northern to assist with research and private donors to Spotted Owl, I talked with him often. Still, when I pay publishing costs. In some cases, university started doing the research for his biography, I was presses published books in association with The stunned to discover the breadth and depth of his Legacy Project. The revived program published political influence. Nor could any biographer ask oral histories and biographies of statewide for more from his subject. He was an open book, officeholders and civic newsmakers whose lives warts and all, and never once attempted to steer and contributions influenced the state. Published or interfere.” books, written by former journalists, followed a readable and lively format. “Although treasures In 2012, The Legacy Project was primed to in their own right, historic records cannot replace release its seventh printed book in five years. Its the human perspective of our challenges and 13-volume e-series cut a wide swath of Northwest successes,” Reed said. “The Legacy Project is history. Profiles included grunge-rocker-turned- humanizing history in a way that will guide future political-activist Krist Novoselic, five-time space generations—one story at a time.” hero Bonnie Dunbar, and Charles Z. Smith, first

Reed with civil rights activist Lillian Walker and award-winning journalist John Hughes FINDING WASHINGTON’S ROOTS who joined The Legacy Project in 2008. Laura Mott/Office of the Secretary of State FINDING WASHINGTON’S ROOTS 38 The Legacy Project The Legacy Project 39 WASHINGTON STATE CORPORATIONS Reed continuously strove to make required documents with the Office of the Washington a business-friendly state. Secretary of State seven days a week from anywhere in the world. He incorporated more than a half-million Innovations Reed greatly enhanced office culture. In 2001, companies over three terms. Reed lifted office many longtime employees described their work In 2005, the public began filing Articles of Incorporation online. morale and advanced technology, ramping as “stagnant, stale and tedious.” Workers lacked up customer service for business and charity motivation and morale steadily sank. But with the clients. Aspiring to enhance the entrepreneurial In 2009, staff replaced paper renewal forms with postcard reminders, new secretary, diversity, ethics and innovation spirit that built the state of Washington, Reed linking nonprofit corporations to an online renewal process. came to the forefront. Reed encouraged recognized businesses that employees to reach milestones made meaningful changes in In 2010, the Charities Program added its first online feature called and participate in events that their local communities and Optional Registration. Washington is the promoted a positive work made historic corporate records birthplace of some of environment and workforce In 2011, staff began using electronic renewal notices for corporate more accessible. the most important diversity. and charitable entities. companies in the Reed dramatically improved Finally, Reed made historic Running on dedicated funding sources, Corporations began staffing turnaround times for world. One of our business records more according to need rather than depending on state budget cycles. corporations and charities. top responsibilities accessible. In 2008, staff An online services and new is incorporating and began scanning business New phone systems allowed a “virtual hold” for some of the 12,000 imaging database launched in serving businesses documents that dated back calls received each month. Customers entered phone numbers and 2003 that enabled staff to scan across the state. to the 1800s. By the fall, received return phone calls without losing their place in line. and manage digital images, [ - Sam Reed [ 2.2 million pages had been provide workflow enhancements uploaded to the Digital Agencies banded together to share information that impacted other and access corporate and Archives and made publicly available. The agencies or customers. In 2006, business.wa.gov was established to charities records more easily. The improvements documents—original articles of incorporation, serve as a business guide for Washington companies. made week-long transactions instantaneous and amendments, mergers, annual renewals and allowed individuals, law firms and professional more—spanned from the territorial era to 2003. service companies to conveniently file legally

From Amazon.com in Seattle to Cowles Publishing Company in Spokane and Snokist Growers BUSINESS CENTS in Yakima, global giants and diverse businesses make their home in Washington. BUSINESS CENTS 40 Corporations Corporations 41 Domestic Partnerships International Trade

& Apostilles Reed led privately funded trade and cultural mis- leaders on substantive issues, was a privilege im- DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS APOSTILLES sions to keep Washington competitive in foreign possible for the visiting tourist—or individual Ameri- markets. New business relationships, interactions can business person to duplicate,” said another. When the Washington State Legislature When Sam Reed first took office, the with dignitaries and cultural awareness brought created the high-profile domestic Digital Age had yet to reach the Apostille real results. Because of the importance of protocol A survey of travelers on trade and cultural missions partnership registry, lawmakers counted program—a vital government service abroad, government played a major role in foreign in the Reed years revealed impressive results: a on Reed to administer a straightforward, for anyone doing overseas business or business development. The trade industry generat- quarter of respondents reported tangible sales and/ respectful program. Domestic partnership adopting internationally. Staff tracked ed billions of dollars annually for the state of Wash- or contracts. A delegate on the 2003 India trade registration began in July 2007, when same- adoption and corporate records on legal ington, long considered a “Gateway to East Asia.” mission inked a deal with an Indian corporation sex and qualifying heterosexual couples pads. Apostilles were signed by hand. Gold to provide exclusive sales rights on a new global registered with the Office of the Secretary of seals had to be crimped. By 2001, the first In 2001, Reed led a delegation to China and product line worth $2.5 million. A second traveler State to receive some benefits of traditional semi-automated Apostille program was quickly discovered the influence of Washington reported new business relationships valued at marriage. After July 2007, the Legislature firmly in place. State—from the Beijing Starbucks to students on $125,000. A delegate to Vietnam in 2007 secured expanded rights and responsibilities to Chinese television learning Microsoft Excel. In partnerships to train maintenance personnel in match those of heterosexuals participating Apostilles authenticated signatures on 2001, China ranked as America’s fourth largest Vietnam Airlines Aviation. in traditional marriage. In the 2007-2008 records used in participating countries of trading partner and Reed noted new areas ripe fiscal year, more than 4,200 couples the 1961 Hague Convention. The service for growth. The city of Baotou, roughly the size of All told, roughly 20 percent of respondents re- registered for domestic partnerships. By was offered to U.S. citizens and foreign Spokane, held 2 million people in northern China. It ported Memorandums of Agreement or Letters 2012, the number exceeded 9,700. nationals. Business dealings included was rich in resources like natural gas, coal and rare of Intent that resulted from trade missions. Forty corporate documents, such as company earth. The people of Baotou were eager to trade percent cited new sources or vendor relationships bylaws and articles of incorporation, with Washington. Several additional trips to China and 10 percent reported new partnerships or joint power of attorney, diplomas, transcripts, followed, generating sales and partnerships, sister ventures. Travelers noted invaluable government letters relating to degrees, marital city relationships and improving foreign relations. contacts, a cultural education and personal growth status, references and job certifications, from their experiences abroad. home studies, deeds of assignments, “No one in a position of business leadership should distributorship agreements and adoption miss an opportunity to witness and see firsthand Throughout his tenure, missions took Reed to records.

Washington State Corporations Washington the dynamics of China,” one delegate said. “To en- China, Vietnam, Thailand and India. At home, gage with local and provincial officials and business Reed hosted 120 delegations from 45 countries.

Couples in Washington State began registering for domestic partnerships in July 2007.

Photo above:Reed visits the Chinese province of Sichuan in 2009, one year after a devastating earthquake struck, destroying an elementary school. Above, surviving BUSINESS CENTS BUSINESS CENTS 42 Domestic Partnerships & Apostilles children at their new school. Office of the Secretary of State International Trade 43 Washington

Since he campaigned for the office, Secretary of and-file and to managers who suggested money- GIVES State Sam Reed had been an ardent supporter saving improvements. “With our state government of the Productivity Board. Banking on the facing a terrible multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Reed, longtime advocate of the American Cancer He warned donors to give to registered charities brains and innovation of every state worker, the we need our state employees more than ever to Society and many charities, used the bully pulpit and to be weary of solicitors who refused to Washington Productivity Board formed during help find ways to save the state money,” Reed to hail Washingtonians for their benevolence, disclose details about their organizations. the 1982 economic slump—the worst since said. while encouraging them to make smart donations. “Individuals who are able to contribute must be the Great Depression—to ease the drain on Too often, Christmas-time scrooges took well informed about where their money is going,” the state pocketbook. Over the course of three In 2005, Reed enhanced the Productivity Board advantage of good will and used pressure tactics Reed said. “We want donors to know which decades, nearly 30,000 employees suggested with the addition of the Circle of Excellence, an to force people, particularly seniors, into giving. In commercial fundraising groups have a bad track tips that saved a whopping $62,014,443. And honor system for employees who consistently times of tragedy, scam artists played off legitimate record when it comes to passing on donated the impressive statistic only reflected savings pitched money-saving ideas. After 10 ideas were relief efforts to lure donors into sponsoring bogus money to the intended charities.” Reed made collected during the first year the ideas were submitted, employees entered the circle and were charities. keeping tabs on charities easier with steady implemented. Summed up another way, taxpayers recognized and treated as VIPs at Productivity improvements in technology, like an iPhone app hung onto $10 for every one dollar the program Board events. Each year, Reed warned consumers in a special that in seconds connected consumers directly with spent. report on fundraisers soliciting money in our state. vital information about charitable organizations. The Productivity Board also administered Public The report exposed the percentage paid solicitors Ideas were proven. An employee with the Service Recognition Week, when agencies and returned to the charitable cause. In a handful of Over Reed’s tenure, the Charities Program Department of Social and Health Services vendors came together to honor the achievements cases, fundraisers returned just pennies of every strengthened customer service with online devised a system to clearly identify kids who of state workers. The board further recognized dollar. “I’ve long admired the generous people in Optional Registration and electronic renewal received Social Security benefits, saving $3.3 public employees for exemplary service with the Washington who give to people across our state notices. The Charities Program and Combined million in its first year. A Washington State trooper Extra Mile, Leadership and Longevity awards. and around the world,” Reed said. “Education will Fund Drive, a giving program for state saved lives by posting highway signs reminding help those in need get the most of every dollar workers, consolidated registration processes. tired drivers to pull over and rest. Due to the 2011-13 operating budget recently and prevent donors from getting burned.” Organizations registering for the first time or filing passed by the State Legislature, the Productivity an annual renewal with the Charities Program The board administered the Employee Suggestion Board was suspended for two years. Reed made In a special education campaign could register with the Combined Fund Program and the Teamwork Incentive Program. it a top priority to position the Board for immediate that urged donors to do Drive using the same application. Both offered cash incentives to the rank- reinstatement in 2013. their homework, Reed Reed also educated the nonprofit produced public service sector by holding events announcements, issued for charities and nonprofit news releases and organizations to ensure introduced reporters to an compliance with state law. elderly woman who’d been targeted by aggressive solicitors.

These Department of Transportation workers suggested training employees to inspect bridges instead BUSINESS CENTS INSPIRING GENEROSITY 44 Productivity Board of hiring more expensive out-of-state consultants. Ben Helle/Office of the Secretary of State Washington Gives 45 WASHINGTON STATE

FUND DRIVE ife came full circle for Reed in 2010. He took on the very charitable resources and laying the groundwork for creative giving strategies. Lgiving program he helped create decades before. In 1984, Reed, “Public employees should take great pride in the global impact of their Thurston County Auditor and state fundraising chairman for the American contributions,” said Reed. “This program is a model and worked as well Cancer Society, was convinced automatic payroll deduction for state as we’d hoped decades ago.” workers would generate crucial dollars in the fight against cancer. He lobbied First Lady Lois Spellman and won the governor’s approval. In fact, over the years, public employees donated in challenging times. Despite cutbacks in nearly every single agency during 2010, state Governor John Spellman faced reluctance from state workers gave more than $5.5 million to charity. Most donations were workers, however, who knew other causes would request generated through the payroll contribution program and 1,500 their own payroll deduction options. The idea of a charities benefited. Employees of the Department of Social combined fund drive to benefit all participating charities and Health Services still generated more than $600,000 was born. Current and former state workers could through the Combined Fund Drive, the most of any choose their charitable causes and contribute to state agency, and the University of Washington again them automatically each month through payroll maintained the highest rate of giving, producing more deduction or by writing a check. Spellman than $2 million. created Washington’s Combined Fund Drive by executive order in 1984. Its But the economic downturn rendered Reed’s office popularity grew. Governor Gary Locke incapable of fully subsidizing the CFD. To combat a put the drive into law in 2003, further temporary rise in operating costs, Reed searched for simplifying giving for state workers. lower printing costs on marketing materials, lower Donations topped 5 million rent and facilities costs and corporate sponsorships. annually that year and in 2004 state workers created an online Difficult times were temporary giving station for CFD. and passion for CFD remained. Since its In 2012, Reed In June 2010, the program moved inception through 2012, from the Department of Personnel engaged state workers the Combined Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State. in philanthropy with Drive raised nearly Reed targeted every aspect of the program an “I Give” campaign. $108 million for for improvements, dedicating additional Employees made public Washington charities pledges to give to their and causes around favorite charities the world. through the Combined Fund Drive.

INSPIRING GENEROSITY INSPIRING GENEROSITY 46 Combined Fund Drive Office of the Secretary of State Combined Fund Drive 47 Corporations for Communities In the midst of an economic slump in Washington, ity and social consciousness have a powerful im- FIND Reed created Corporations for Communities and pact not only on the employees who work there, awarded the state’s highest civic honor to civic- but on the community members who experience minded businesses giving society a boost. “Par- the results,” said Reed. “I am pleased to offer a YOUR ticularly in these tough economic times, it’s impor- program dedicated to applauding exceptional thing tant to cheer on businesses that are going above Washington companies that are choosing com- and beyond to make a difference in Washington,” munity over corporate greed.” Reed said. The public nominated businesses of every size The reward was a National Association of Secre- for the award. Each year, Reed selected from the taries of State medallion, the highest civic honor nominees one large and one small corporation. presented by the organization in all 50 states. “We Recipients included KING 5 Television, Compos- know giving back has a ite Solutions, ABODA, Schweitzer Engineering At nearly two-dozen Washington colleges Obama’s national call to service. ripple effect, and Laboratories, Dissmore’s Foods, GLY Con- and universities in 2009, Reed called on Hoping to wake up youth to the benefits businesses struction, Sterling Savings young people. “Find your of volunteerism and that pro- Bank and Korsmo one thing and give back The majority of government action, Reed mote Construc- to your community,” the urged students to identify people get involved in generos- tion. secretary said. He carried a single area or a single his message to his annual civic activity because action that could benefit College Civics Week they were asked people in trying times. that April, announcing a by someone else. I

statewide call to service. myself have started The message resounded with students, who “Every young person on “many activities every college campus can organized service events

impact the community,” because someone and forums during Reed’s said Reed, who’d served as approached me visits. “This week I’m Executive Board Chair of the and suggested it. I partnering with young American Cancer Society encourage you to be “ people across Washington and a member of the YMCA bold and ask those as we start asking the Youth and Government question: What is one around you to get Board, among other causes. more thing I can do to involved. Make it your make a difference in Find Your One Thing ‘one thing’ to recruit my community?” Reed emerged in troubled another person to announced. state budget years with your cause. high unemployment, and accompanied President

INSPIRING GENEROSITY Thanks to the generosity and hard work of GLY Construction, kids at INSPIRING GENEROSITY 48 Corporations for Community YMCA Camp Colman connected with a touch tank. GLY Construction Find your one thing 49 Address HEROES and high HONORS Confidentiality

Good Samaritans earned a place of distinction water. He pulled into a lakeside restaurant and Program in 2006 when Reed awarded the Medal of Valor, grabbed a canoe that was on display. Using the the state’s highest honor, for the first time in borrowed canoe and a cookie sheet he took from history. Reed’s office managed the prestigious the kitchen to paddle, Meinhold saved both the Reed protected a landmark program that This small but fundamental program award, given to people who sacrifice their own owner and his dog. shielded crime victims from further abuse. continued despite the recession. safety to save lives. Too often, victims of domestic violence, Established in 1991, the ACP provided Swett and Meinhold joined two other esteemed sexual assault, trafficking and stalking a vital piece of overall protection for Ten days before Christmas in 2004, trucker Washingtonians—Travis Jackson and Dennis relocated to protect themselves and their crime victims. The program grew into a Jim Swett encountered the fiery aftermath of Kinsey—in winning the 2006 honor. Other heroes children, only to fear their perpetrators national model and one of the country’s a three-car collision on I-5 near Marysville. A include Timothy Bourasaw, Rick Bowers, Edward would track their whereabouts largest programs with 4,000 participants. Ford Explorer crossed the median and struck a Marsette and Alana Schutt, who received the through public records. The Address Throughout Reed’s tenure, 24 states Suburban and Toyota Tundra. The Explorer and medal in 2007. Confidentiality Program kept survivors established comparable programs. Many Tundra burst into flames. Swett, then 68 years safe by assigning a substitute address for used Washington State as a model. old, smashed the window of the Suburban. While Under state law, the Medal of Valor could not be mail and critical public records like public sustaining burns to himself, he freed a woman awarded to first responders like police officers assistance forms and driver licenses. trapped inside the vehicle. Her two children and firefighters. Selection committee members remained in the backseat. Swett next secured include the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, a rope to his truck and towed the Suburban Speaker of the House and Supreme Court Chief from the burning wreckage. Using a crowbar to Justice. Reed was an ex-officio member. open the car door, he rescued the woman’s two In 2002, children. The oldest, sadly, did not survive. The state granted the Medal of Merit to those who demonstrated exceptional conduct in Washington’s Driving by Silver Lake back in 2001, Greg providing outstanding services to citizens. ACP won the Meinhold of Everett spotted a canoe with a lone Recipients during Reed’s tenure included, among dog on board and its others, Tom Foley who served as Speaker of the Susan Laurence presumed owner in the U.S. House of Representatives under President Memorial Award Bill Clinton, Leland Hartwell for his Nobel Prize- for Professional winning research in genetics and Bonnie Dunbar, the small-town Washingtonian and five-time Innovation, a space hero. prestigious honor

Laura Mott/Office of the Secretary of State of the Laura Mott/Office presented to programs or people who expand the

The Medal of Merit is granted to those reach of victims’ who demonstrate exceptional conduct rights and services. in providing outstanding services to citizens. The Medal of Valor is awarded to those exemplifying “exceptionally

valorous service, given in the act of Secretary of State of the Laura Mott/Office saving the life of another.” INSPIRING GENEROSITY INSPIRING GENEROSITY 50 Heroes and High Honors Address Confidentiality Program 51 in his own words

“In all, it has been quite a ride—48 years in public life, including 35 in elective office. I have such love and respect for this office and for the opportunities to serve the people of Washington every single day. “Reed has much to be proud of in his tenure.

“I came to Olympia as a young man to answer a call for a new breed of leaders, But as an independent voter who believes the and was honored to work for Governor Dan Evans, my mentor, and to be appointed the assistant secretary of state by Secretary Lud Kramer at age 28. parties are little more than puppets of their Later, I thoroughly enjoyed being Thurston County Auditor for 23 years and now special interests, I am especially grateful for have had the distinct pleasure of being Secretary of State for three terms, including presiding over the nation’s secretaries of state. Reed’s commitment to voter choice and his

“It is true; there is ‘a time and a season.’ For Margie and me, willingness to fend off the parties, including it is time to move on at the end of the term. I am leaving elective office, but not public service. I am quite certain that his own friends. Another secretary of state I will continue my love of community and state and country with a more partisan view likely would have and serve as an enthusiastic volunteer in non-profits and charities, lecturing, writing and spending time on college given Washington a different result. campuses.

“I will continue to advocate for political moderation, both in my own party and wherever we Washingtonians can find Reed’s leadership mattered, and Washington opportunities to solve our challenges through bipartisanship will benefit for years to come.” and nonpartisanship. I will continue working for civility and conservation and other causes I strongly believe in. I will continue to champion civic engagement by all of us - The Seattle Times, July 7, 2011 and work to build stronger communities. Margie and I will enjoy travel, the arts, sports and spending time with our family, including our two grandsons.”

WASHINGTON FORWARD 52 In his own words Laura Mott/Office of the Secretary of State Inaugural Ball Committee “It is true; there is ‘a time and a season.’ For Margie and me, it is time to move on at the end of the term.”

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