The law says there isn’t supposed to be a primary for nonpartisan positions with only two candidates. Though a quick glance through your candidate’s website displays just how nonpartisan he plans on being. I didn’t see “Stop the Steal” merchandise for sale, but I wouldn’t have been surprised based on the rest of the website.
My question is this: is a primary occurring when you mail out ballots with people’s names on them ~OR~ does the primary occur when the votes are tabulated? Seems to me it would be quite simple to not tabulate the votes for that position and let the two square off in November.
This isn’t like pretending to live somewhere you don’t really live in an effort to subvert candidacy rules, this seems pretty innocuous. In fact, one might wonder if the lawsuit is about righting a wrong or about getting some publicity in the uphill fight against an incumbent. Either way, let’s hope we get an auditor that puts county over party.

We deserve better.

https://www.simpson4auditor.com/post/brett-simpson-files-lawsuit-against-clark-county-auditor-greg-kimsey

“As Kimsey stated, his ruling only addresses whether or not Ley was residing at the Battle Ground address on May 26, the day he received Crain’s complaint.” 
Upon what basis do you claim that John Ley now lives in Camas?

“A reasonable observer would conclude from this that instead of physically residing at the Battle Ground home he had listed on his voter registration form that Mr. Ley’s residence was the home in Camas that he owns at which he was previously registered to vote,’’ Kimsey wrote in his conclusion.”

John Ley, lives in Camas. It is dishonest of him to represent otherwise. The inability of the  Auditor’s office to remove his name from the ballot has no bearing on the truth of the matter. 

According to this article, Ley does live in the 18th district. He lived in the former 18th district for many years. The district boundaries were recently modified.
Moving to another district is legal.
An example of that in Clark County is Don Orange in 2017, who owned a house in Clark County, did not sell it, and moved to an apartment in another district. Then he ran for Vancouver Port Commissioner in that new district. He too was challenged by Crain, yet prevailed in the challenge and went on to win the election.

Whether he was qualified or not he no longer is. Regardless the peculiarities of the election laws which bar his name from being removed from the primary ballot the plain view of it is that he has violated the spirit of the law in falsifying his place of residency at the time he filed.

The plain truth is that John Ley lives in the 17th Legislative District and has no righteous claim to run for an office within the 18th.  His playing fast and loose with loop-holes in the law and signing election filing documents that are not based on truth severely damages his credibility and renders him less of a people’s champion in his advocacy against the IBR. 

A  previous fan of Ley, I am disappointed by this behavior.  How can he not know that the end does justify the means and that honesty is always the best policy.  

Hello Jesse …

The editor’s note has been updated to address your question.

Ken Vance, editor

Does this liar work for Clark County Today or not? Or do you just publish dishonest politicians “opinion” peices as a favor?