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Yesterday, WAGOP State Chairman and State Rep. Jim Walsh reported that a concerned citizen from Othello made a troubling discovery: hundreds of undelivered WA State King County 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 ballots sitting in a large box on the ground, next to a dumpster behind a strip mall in Renton. Rather than ignoring the find, this ordinary Washingtonian did what responsible citizens should do—he contacted King County Elections, the Washington Secretary of State’s office (SoS), and even his congressional representative.
According to the concerned citizen, every official he contacted showed no interest and had no response. Only then did the citizen turn to Walsh and deliver the ballots directly to him at the WAGOP Bellevue office. Walsh shared the story in a video update, saying, “This is very troubling; this is not supposed to happen, it is a symptom of a system that is not secure. When you have ballots sitting around, it is an invitation to fraud and evidence of WA’s election integrity and security issues. This is a mess. At least a few of these ballots showed up in the state election history web page as having been cast in the November 2024 election. THIS is why we need the Voter ID initiative (IP26-500). It will help clean up the state’s registered voter database.”
This is another example that exposes deep vulnerabilities in our vote-by-mail system. In the November 2024 general election, a Bellevue woman reported receiving 16 ballots. Also in that same election, a Pasco woman is… Read More