Candidate for Washington Secretary of State in 2024 Washington Primary Election.
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Get StartedI plan to implement an equipment backup program at the SOS where vendors seeking certification of new equipment would be required to provide, at no cost, a backup of that equipment that will be retained by the SOS office as an emergency backup for any county that purchases that system. Learn more
Second, I will work to improve our emergency preparedness for election administration. We currently have three counties in the State that do not have the legally required number of certified election administrators, and many others that have the bare minimum. Learn more
I will eliminate or change the current Presidential Primary system used in our state. We have always been an independent minded people here in Washington State, and we do not want to have to swear an oath of loyalty to a private organization in order to vote. Learn more
We need to use testing methods that provide confidence to the observers and users that their systems are performing correctly. I will evaluate current audit procedures for tabulation, as well as the methodologies used to clean up our voter registration roles. Learn more
I will work to increase the transparency of our elections. In Colorado all ballot images are published and available for review after elections are certified. If any citizen wants to do their own manual recount, they can do so. Increased transparency like this will help remove many of the concerns about elections accuracy and tabulation errors. Learn more
First, I will clean up contradictory and irrelevant parts of the Washington Administrative Code. We have rules in place for logic and accuracy tests that were written for mechanical lever action voting machines, and not the modern digital scan systems. Learn more
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