Letter: WAGOP sues Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey over messy voter rolls

La Center resident Darlene Kulla shares her insight into what she said resulted unfair election of Adrian Cortes in 18th District Senate race

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I have personally been working on the voter roll clean-up effort and have seen clear cases of voter fraud, as well as negligence on the part of the Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey. Our voter rolls are dirty and dirty voter rolls mean dirty elections. We have tried to work with Greg Kimsey, but he refuses to work with us, forcing us to settle this dispute in court. This is the only way to hold our elected officials accountable. Below is a message from WAGOP:

“Democrats currently hold a supermajority in the Washington State Legislature and can operate without any checks or balances whatsoever. This is the first time this has occurred in over a decade. And it only happened by 173 votes out of almost 90,000 cast in the 18th Legislative District, located in Southwest Washington.
Washington is an all vote-by-mail State. So, the question is, what happens to someone’s voter registration when they move? County auditors are supposed to regularly obtain National Change of Address (NCOA) information given to the United State Postal Service (USPS) by voters when they move and change their mailing address. Subsequently, they are supposed to use this information to clean the voter rolls. In practice, many do not – and in particular Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey does not and has not, to the extent that he counted hundreds of ballots in the 18th Legislative District cast by voters who had previously reported moving out of the district.

The number of votes cast by voters who had previously reported moving out of the 18th Senate race far exceeded the 173 votes that decided the race. Despite this, the election was certified. The Washington State Republican Party has filed a lawsuit to decertify this election and hold a new one, with clean voter rolls, so we can be confident in the election outcome and the decisions our legislators make on our behalf. Go to “wagop.org/support-election-integrity/” to learn more and how you can help.”

During our time canvassing and curing ballots, we encountered several individuals who reported not receiving a ballot and stated they did not vote, yet records indicated they had voted. This raises the question: “Who voted on their behalf?” Without the ability to identify who cast these votes, we could not report potential fraud. We also submitted several voter challenges (affidavits) to the elections office, but Greg Kimsey still did not remove these individuals from the voter rolls despite the evidence. Kimsey stated that “clear and convincing evidence” of a move is required. He cited the possibility of family disputes leading to false claims as a concern. Really? Now are we more concerned about taking people off from the voting rolls because of some hypothetical family argument when they clearly moved several years ago than we are having non-residents on the voting rolls?

It is my opinion that Greg Kimsey does not want to serve the people of Clark County any longer and will need to be replaced very soon. He does not have the peoples’ best interest in mind.

It is critical that we clean up the dirty voter rolls in Clark County as well as in all of Washington State. We need to be able to trust that our elections are fair and who “We the people” have voted for.
Please join us for the court hearing, Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m.

Clark County Superior Court
1200 Franklin Street
Vancouver, WA 98660

Darlene Kulla
La Center