Most research into election fraud began in the six battleground or swing states, yet after numerous other states reported integrity issues the research has widened. We’re hoping to expand our coverage to every state in the US. The sections below outline what we know so far about Washington.
Election Integrity Scorecard
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard is an assessment of each state’s voting laws, written regulations and procedures. Washington was ranked equal 45th out of 51.
| Washington's Total Score | 42% |
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| Voter ID Implementation | 35% |
| Accuracy of Voter Registration Lists | 87% |
| Absentee Ballot Management | 19% |
| Vote Harvesting/Trafficking Restrictions | 0% |
| Access of Election Observers | 100% |
| Verification of Citizenship | 0% |
| Identification for Voter Assistance | 0% |
| Vote Counting Practices | 67% |
| Election Litigation Procedures | 0% |
| Restriction of Same-day Registration | 0% |
| Restriction of Automatic Registration | 0% |
| Restriction of Private Funding of Election Officials or Government Agencies | 0% |
View the full Scorecard for Washington
It’s important to note that the scores above reflect the laws, regulations, and processes that exist within the state, but not whether they were actually followed. In the 2020 election, some states with highly-rated election integrity measures did not uphold them. 1 As The Heritage Foundation reminds us, even the best laws are not worth much unless responsible officials enforce them rigorously. It is up to the citizens of each state to make sure that their elected and appointed public officials do just that.
Seth Keshel’s Trend Analysis
Former US military intelligence officer and statistical analyst Seth Keshel analyzed the trends of voter registrations versus actual votes and discovered alarming anomalies in a number of counties, ones that defy typical historical trends. He has published a report for every state, indicating which counties’ vote counts align with the trend in voter registrations and which have small or large divergences.
| Trump votes | Biden votes | Other votes | |
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| Officially reported results | 1584651 (38.77%) | 2369612 (57.97%) | 133257 (3.26%) |
| Estimate of potential fraud | 333000 (8.1%) | ||
| Estimate of actual result
(with fraud removed) |
1584651 (42.2%) | 2036612 (54.2%) | 133257 (3.5%) |
Seth estimates that there may be approximately 333,000 votes for Biden in excess of what Washington registration trends would indicate — a possible indicator of fraud. Counties with the greatest number of excess votes deserve closer inspection.
Seth has listed Washington’s Clark, Pierce, and Spokane counties as being among the Nation’s Top 100 Worst Counties in terms of abnormal trends during the 2020 election.
View Seth’s National Summary View Seth’s Washington Report
Dr. Doug Frank’s Analysis
Dr. Douglas Frank discovered a strange algorithmic pattern that enabled him to accurately predict voter registration by age and voter turnout by age with a very high degree of accuracy.
The same, exact algorithm (or “key” as Frank calls the mathematical formula) used in one county could be applied to many other counties in Washington to predict their voter registration and turnout by age, too.
Dr. Frank has performed his analysis on at least 17 other states and has found the same disturbing pattern where he is able to predict the voter turnout rate for every age bracket in many counties based only on US Census Bureau data.
Having registration and turnout rates that repeatedly reflect a common mathematical formula across numerous demographically-unique counties is an indication that voter rolls and votes themselves may have been illegally manipulated via a computer algorithm. In all cases where this has occurred, we believe a forensic audit of the ballots, software logs, election records, and voter rolls is highly necessary.
Learn More About Dr. Frank’s Analysis View Dr. Frank’s Report on Washington
Dominion Voting Machines
Washington used Dominion Voting Machines in at least some counties. Numerous integrity issues have been uncovered with Dominion.
The polling and tabulation equipment used for each county in the US is listed at Verified Voting, although see our disclaimer 2. They also have a detailed database including photographs of the various models of voting equipment. Note that the polling and ballot marking equipment is different to the scanning and tabulation equipment — both need to be highly secure, and in most cases are not.
Voting machines and computerized tabulation equipment have introduced many vulnerabilities and avenues for manipulation in elections. Cybersecurity experts tell us that there is no such thing as a fully secure computer system, and the more complex our voting systems and election systems get, with more moving parts and connections, the more impossible it will be for any state or county to defend against a nation-state-level threat. Local counties running elections can no longer defend against these motivated and well-funded foreign nations. The efficiency gains brought by machines are not reason enough to tolerate the loss of security, accountability, and transparency.
Elections need to return to paper ballots and mechanical or hand counting to minimize the threat of cyber attacks and manipulation by fraud. Let your state representative, county clerk, county commissioners, and Secretary of State know your opinion about this.
The Arizona Ballot Integrity Project is one such initiative promoting new, ultra-secure paper ballots with state-of-the-art security features to prevent fraud and help restore faith in elections. Learn more about the initiative.
Skagit County
Public Hearing
Over 500 people showed up on Sunday, Aug 29, 2021 to witness a Washington State Public Hearing on Election Integrity at Heritage Ranch, Bow, Skagit County, WA. Presenters included:
| Dr. Douglas Frank on manipulated voter rolls and statistical anomalies | 📹 watch video |
| Draza Smith on vote count statistical anomalies | 📹 watch video |
| Government Watchdog Cody Hart | 📹 watch video |
| San Juan whistleblower, a former county elections official who witnessed 400 completely pristine envelopes and ballots in one shift that had no marks or folds, as well as other anomalies | 📹 watch video |
| A former Department of Licensing employee with a powerful testimonial about the severe lack of verification that allowed non-citizens and felons to illegally register to vote, and that department supervisors actively and knowingly encouraged it | 📹 watch video |
| Numerous other presentations | 📄 see here |
The event was livestreamed. After garnering over 2,700 views, many videos were censored by YouTube and Facebook, but the videos are now available at the links below.
Watch the hearing videos at WAElectionIntegrity.com, or on Rumble here. Or read an overview from the Skagit County Republican Party.
Skagit Voter Integrity Project Summary Report
A month later, on Sep 30, 2021, the Skagit Voter Integrity Project released a summary report. It highlights some major concerns about the 2020 election, in the county and beyond:
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More than half of state county voting machines had not been properly certified for the 2020 elections 3
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The number of county registered voters skyrocketed from 75,699 in 2018 to 85,682 in 2020 (during years of minimal county population increases and building moratoriums), yet 90,590 mail-out ballots were issued county-wide — 5,000 more than there were registered voters! 4
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An alarming 21% increase in voter turnout compared with 2 and 4 years earlier 5
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Over 300 suspected forged ballot signatures during the 2020 general election 6
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Over 1,000 Skagit voters had their ballot credited to Anacortes drop box locations, despite voters not voting in Anacortes and not placing their ballots in Anacortes drop boxes 7
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Destruction of critical video surveillance records of the 2020 Federal election 8
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Using data from the state voter registration database, SVIP volunteers knocked on over 3,000 Skagit County registered voters’ doors, detecting over 1,530 voter anomalies, and collecting over 1,750 written and signed affidavits. Many of these anomalies are potential or real phantom voters (voters who do not exist), including 830 cases where a listed registered voter of the address voted in the November 2020 election, but the voter does not live at the address. 9
From the door-to-door canvass they discovered that 27.6% of ballots cast in 2020 came from voters who did not exist at their registered address. Many other anomalies were also uncovered.
Similar grassroots canvass efforts are underway in at least eleven states. Learn more about the thousands of irregularities being uncovered in our article on Door-to-Door Canvassing Results.
Bloated Voter Rolls
In Oct 2020, a month before the election, Judicial Watch released a study that found 353 US counties in 29 states had voter registration rates exceeding 100% of the eligible voting-age citizens.
In Washington the following counties exceeded 100%:
Garfield County (119%); Pend Oreille County (112%); Jefferson County (111%); San Juan County (108%); Wahkiakum County (108%); Stevens County (103%); Pacific County (103%); Clark County (102%); Island County (102%); Klickitat County (102%); Thurston County (102%); Lincoln County (101%); Whatcom County (100%); Asotin County (100%)
While this could be a symptom of poor clean-up of voter rolls — where voters that have died or moved interstate are left on the rolls for extended periods of time — it creates significant opportunity for fraudulent ballots to be submitted under the names of expired voters, making them appear legitimate. This was made even easier with the prevalence of mail-in ballots and widespread abandonment of voter ID rules which occurred in many states during the 2020 election.
The door-to-door canvassing across numerous states is proving that “phantom votes” were indeed counted for certain voters who were registered but did not themselves submit a ballot.
Research is also underway to explore disconcerting cases in some states whereby voter rolls appear to have been deliberately padded with false, duplicated, or expired records, possibly for the purpose of providing cover for fraudulent ballots. This is evidenced by graphing the changes to voter rolls over time and observing patterns which appear algorithmically-generated rather than organic, and then drilling down to identify specific anomalous records. We hope to release more findings on these anomalies in the coming weeks.
Voting Trend Anomalies
In our series of articles on election trend analysis, we identified the following statistical outliers for Washington which deserve further investigation. Visit the linked articles to learn more.
| ⚠️ | Voting Rate Increase | The turnout, or percentage of registered voters who voted, was significantly higher in 2020 than in previous elections, increasing from a range of 62-67.6% up to 71.5%. |
| ⚠️ | Biden’s Vote Gains Far Surpassing Obama’s | The increase in Democrat votes Washington displayed in 2020 far surpassed the increase achieved in Obama’s successful campaign in 2008. This seems unusual. |
Other Reports & Updates
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A team of scientists from Election-Integrity.info produced the report “2020 Presidential Election Contrast Analysis” which lists Washington as the state with the 6th highest number of unexpected Biden votes
- Vicki Craft, Washington State Representative spoke at the Cyber Symposium, saying:
- She has seen a lot of challenges
- She received no reply from Secretary of State to her emailed questions
- Mail-in ballots, early voting, harvesting… these have been done for years
- Governor still has single authority (using their emergency powers)
- As an elected official, she was kicked out of her own Capitol!
- “We’re in trouble, and we need the people. The people will turn it around and take it back.”
- She wants to see a forensic audit checklist, and model legislation
- She talked with Wendy Rogers, and attempting to work together with her
View video (legislators began sharing around 2hr 55min mark)
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Vicki Craft later sent a letter (view PDF) to Secretary of State Kim Wyman requesting that forensic images be taken of all election machines before they are modified with any future updates. Aug 17, 2021. This followed Kraft seeing firsthand, proof of Dominion destroying logs in Mesa, Colorado, a violation of federal law.
- Robert Sutherland, Washington State Representative, also spoke at the Cyber Symposium, saying:
- He has called for public hearings regarding 2020 elections
- This Sunday (August 15, 2021), will listen to public testimony
- Affidavits are coming in now
- If testimony is compelling, will be asking the public if they have faith in the election
- Will call for full forensic audit
- The evidence is becoming overwhelming
- WEiCU (We See You) Director Tamborine Borrelli announced a lawsuit for a full forensic audit in WA, Sept 3, 2021. See YouTube announcement. They are also collecting affidavits from anyone who personally witnessed election issues.
State Representatives Supporting Election Integrity & Audits
Following the results of the Maricopa Arizona Forensic Audit, 188 state representatives from 39 states signed a letter asking for forensic audits in all 50 states. The signatories for Washington include:
- Representative Brad Klippert
- Representative Rob Sutherland
- Representative Vicki Kraft
The US Congress Election Integrity Caucus — a group of 55 federal members working together on issues of election integrity — has no members from Washington.
Election Audit Groups on Telegram
To join the grassroots efforts in pursuing election integrity and audits of the 2020 election in Washington, you can join the following groups on Telegram:
For other states, see our Full List of Telegram Channels.
ElectionFraud20.org has no affiliation with nor any responsibility for these channels. Discern carefully, as some users and even admins of channels have shown obstruction to transparent audits of our elections.
Raw Data
We aim to publish links to both the raw election data and voter registration data for Washington so that citizens and researchers can analyze this information for themselves.
Further Leads
Footnotes & References
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Looking at the nationwide trends over the 2020 election, it became commonplace to stretch or completely ignore the laws for absentee/mail-in ballot eligibility, bulk ballot collection, independent observation, voter ID, signature verification, citizenship verification, removal of inactive/ineligible voters from rolls, voting machine accreditation, retention of election records, transparency of operations, and numerous other laws. Most breaches have not yet been prosecuted. ↩
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Verified Voting has some useful information on their website, however we feel the need to caution visitors about the partisan ties and Democrat influence within the organization. According to The Gateway Pundit: 10
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Barbara Simons, Board Chair of Verified Voting, was appointed by top-ranking Democrats (Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and later Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer) to the seemingly-corrupt and powerful U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
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Mark Lindeman, Co-Director of Verified Voting, openly opposed the Maricopa Forensic Audit, yet was chosen to perform the criticized Windham NH Audit.
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Verified Voting also appear to have hidden the fact that cybersecurity consultant and New Hampshire election auditor Harri Hursti was previously a member of the organization, with all mention of him removed from their website two days after being selected for the audit, without explanation.
Utilize the VV website with these questionable issues in mind. ↩
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This happened because voting machine testing laboratory’s U.S. Election Assistance Commission two-year accreditation certifications expired on February 25, 2017 and was not renewed until February 1, 2021 violating RCW 29A.12.080 and WAC 434-335-040. ↩
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US Representative-Candidate Cody Hart: “Audit Of Skagit County Records Finds Serious Election Concerns!”, Jan 2, 2021. ↩
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Skagit Voter Integrity Project Summary Report, Sep 30, 2021 ↩
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US Representative-Candidate Cody Hart: “Nearly 500 Forged Ballot Signatures Reported to Sheriff McDermott”, Sep 30, 2021. ↩
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See full list (PDF) of suspected tampered ballots ↩
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US Representative-Candidate Cody Hart: “Investigation Finds 2020 Skagit County Election Video’s Destroyed”, Mar 2, 2021. This potentially breaches Federal Law 52 USD 2071. ↩
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Skagit Voter Integrity Project Summary Report, Sep 30, 2021 ↩
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The Gateway Pundit: “BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Windham, New Hampshire 2020 Election Audit Was Over Before It Started – Two of Three Auditors Have Conflicts with Pelosi and Schumer”, May 26, 2021. ↩
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