Here in Mason County,
volunteers went on the hunt for
vote fraud using addresses they got
from voter registration records.
At Coulter Creek Rd in Belfair,
they turned left onto a street
lined with trees and vacant lots.
A property on this street is
exhibit #1 in a report of confirmed
voter anomalies from the Mason
County Voter Research project.
The report says this is vacant land,
yet 4 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 4 registered voters here?
There should be, yeah.
Tabitha lives at this home on
Coulter Creek Rd, where there
are four registered voters,
her family members, me
and my husband, and
then my father-in-law and mother-in-law
voter research projects.
Own records list her correct address,
but it appears the group's canvassers
turned left onto Coulter Creek Rd.
When they should have gone
right on Coulter Creek Rd.
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 it really didn't
seem that difficult to find
us. Hello? Anybody home?
The canvassers also missed this
Coulter 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's
Chris Ingalls. I'm a reporter from KING5.
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.
Four different registered
voters at one address.
I'm researching a potential
story on voter registration,
visiting about a dozen and 1/2 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? Yeah.
They said you were a ghost voter.
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 cast her
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 here, right?
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 Ave oh, 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
rolls. I've been doing
elections work since 2000.
The county auditor says 80%
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 Mason County.
One is too many, but 67.
Is a pretty small number.
I'm happy to introduce you
to Steve Dunkle, 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 Auditors Office
on an election fraud platform.
There's a lot of questions out
there about our voting machines,
a lot of uncertainty, and
Dunkel 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 PO Box? No.
Auditor Patty McGuire says he
significantly reduced post office box
registrations three years ago using
new software that identified about
100 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?
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 answer, my questions.
Yeah. Thank you. OK.
Sorry, couldn't be more help.
No, you were helpful. Thank you.
Citizens can challenge a voters registration
and the auditor will investigate.
But auditor Patti 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 at 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 the 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 I think you clarified
it really well with like,
some of these are just a lot of
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.
Still lot of process them, right?
Yeah. Right. They'll keep looking.
Thanks.