here in Mason County volunteers went on
the hunt for vote fraud using addresses
they got from voter registration records
Coulter Creek Road in Belfair they
turned left onto a street lined with
trees and vacant lots a property on this
street is exhibit number one in a report
of confirmed voter anomalies from the
Mason County voter research project the
report says this is vacant land yet four
voters are registered at this address
who voted in the 2020 general election
listing vacant land could be a violation
because voters are required to register
the address where they live is it really
voter fraud we came to Mason County to
find out and pretty quickly learned it
wasn't voters who did anything wrong are
there actually Four registered voters
here there should be yeah Tabitha lives
at this home on Coulter Creek Road where
there are four registered voters her
family members me and my husband and
then my father-in-law and my
mother-in-law voter research projects
own records list her correct address but
it appears the group's canvassers turned
left onto Coulter Creek Road
when they should have gone right on
Coulter Creek Road South where there are
several houses we tracked it down pretty
straightforward yeah what would you say
about their their methods yeah but they
need to do more research and it really
didn't seem that difficult to find us
hello anybody home the canvassers also
missed this culture Creek address again
visiting the wrong side of the road
another vacant lot highlighted in their
report so there's two registered voters
here yes yeah I really think it just
seems like an error in how it was
documented so that's two registered
voters at this address that are legit
there's four more down the street that
are legit so with this one stop alone
we've been able to strike six voter
anomalies on their list the voter
research report says volunteers found
239 voter anomalies in Mason County
after several months of canvassing
door-to-door this year and last my name
is Chris Ingles I'm a reporter from King
five we're just going to several
different addresses that they put in
their report we put their findings to
the test here's an address where they
supposedly have four different
registered voters that want to address
I'm researching a potential story on
voter registration visiting about a
dozen and a half addresses to
investigate their most striking claims
did a dead man vote from this Shelton
address the report says a voter who died
in the summer of 2019 cast a ballot in
2020. County elections got a post office
notice that the man moved to Arizona in
2021 where he died later info we
confirmed with two neighbors so a dead
man didn't vote at least not from this
address does that make any sense to you
they said you were a ghost boater
canvassers claim they talked to Mary who
said she didn't vote in the 2020
election although records show a ballot
cast in her name they wrote that a
mysterious ghost voter Castor ballot
when was the last time you think you
voted
I
don't know Mary didn't recall canvassers
coming to her door and couldn't confirm
the accuracy of what they reported about
her was registered Here Andrew was
registered yeah yeah right uh
about two years ago he moved do you get
ballots for anybody no no the report
says something about people being
registered here but they don't actually
live here I honestly don't remember them
asking anything sometimes the truth
could be found in the report itself this
voter in the Coast Guard like any
military member can legally stay
registered at their last Washington
address and have their ballot mailed
overseas this is 925 Thomas Avenue no no
it's not we made mistakes while
canvassing addresses so it is easy to do
but overall we found most of the voter
registrations we checked out were not
anomalies they could be explained or
verified as legitimate voters hi this is
Mason County elections calling at Mason
County elections where workers are
constantly updating voter registration
rules I've been doing elections work
since 2000. the county auditor says 80
percent of the reported anomalies were
either already known or just wrong they
have identified 67 voters that I would
describe as possible anomalies not
confirmed anomalies but possible we have
44 500 registered voters in multiple in
Mason County
one is too many but 67
is a pretty small number I'm happy to
introduce you to Steve Dunkel who's
running for Mason County Auditors the
report's author former Boeing manager
Steve Dunkel is an election denier who's
running for the Mason County Auditor's
office on an election fraud platform
there's a lot of questions out there
about our voting machines
a lot of uncertainty Dunkle did not
respond to our repeated requests for an
interview his report isn't entirely
wrong it lists 12 voters registered to
Post Office boxes inside this Belfair
store instead of their actual home
addresses are they allowed to register
at a P.O box no auditor Patty McGuire
says he significantly reduced post
office box registrations three years ago
using new software that identified about
a hundred voters registered to PO Boxes
what we have done in all of those cases
is mailed those voters a notice and said
please update your registration tell us
where you live isn't that enough to
cancel their registration not under law
no if you're the auditor and you know
people are improperly registered to vote
there and you can't do anything about it
that's a problem you know I think it's
important to recognize that small issues
don't mean fraud does that make any
sense to you uh no it doesn't and that's
what we found out on the streets they
might have got the wrong address small
issues some misunderstandings all part
of a democracy striving for full and
fair elections I appreciate your
answering my questions yeah thank you
okay sorry it's gonna need more help no
you were helpful thank you
citizens can challenge a voter's
registration and the auditor will
investigate but auditor Patty McGuire
says in Mason County no challenges have
been filed either before or after this
report so we'll be watching to see if
his opponent in Mason County or any
other candidate uses this report or one
like it to claim an election has been
stolen Joyce and Greg that's when things
get interesting if somebody makes that
claim here so you started in Mason
County are you going to be looking at
some other counties too yeah absolutely
these election Integrity groups as they
call themselves are active in other
counties as well so this isn't just
happening in a national swing States
it's here in Washington so in the coming
weeks we'll look at the fraud Crusades
that are unfolding in other counties as
well it just gets so muddy out there but
I think you clarified it really well
like some of these are just a lot of the
little things are misunderstandings yeah
and that's what we found I mean we never
we didn't find one evidence of a vote
being miscast or an illegal vote system
right yeah right they'll keep looking
thanks