I volunteered to work for the elections this year, which is under the State Auditor in Washington. Little did I know that this was a paid position until I started the application process. I wanted to see for myself how a mail in ballot process worked and how you can keep out fraud.
My job was as part of a group opening and counting ballots as they came in. Prior to us, the envelopes had been scanned, signatures verified and they were slit open by the machine. Without getting in to detail, the system did its best to ensure that while everyone got to vote, the voters were registered and their signature was compared to the one that is stored in the system. Our job wasn’t to worry about who voted for whom but that the envelopes that came in were properly accounted for.
One of the things I noticed was that there are a lot of angry Republicans in our county. While democrats and the left once again voted for politicians like Enslee, the Republicans came out to vote, sadly some of which threw away their vote simply to make a statement.
I saw ballots with write ins that said “any conservative “ or “anyone else.” I also saw ballots with multiple votes for some or all of the Republican candidates. That’s throwing your vote away. Who chose “the Trump Republican Party” as a platform? There is only the Republican Party for now. Anything else is throwing a vote away. Write in candidates are not going to win, period.
Now that we have clear winners in our primaries we all need to step in and support them. They won the majority of the votes. It isn’t time to say whether they are or aren’t conservative enough. Anything is better than a leftist!