They didn’t find that but they did find that a percentage of ballots that should have been rejected for failed signature match were counted. They ran a representative sample of the ballots through signature matching software which rejected about 7% of the sample. They then went through using teams and finally got the number of ballots that were counted that should have been rejected to about 2%.

They also noted that some counties counted ballots received after the election deadline.

Niketas C. is right, that the state has become so liberal that there is no need to go to extraordinary lengths to cheat, but there is at best sloppy handling of the ballots, and in a close race could tip any election to the leftists.

But 5% of 3.8 million ballots cast is around 180,000 votes. This audit was only done in counties that scan and create images of the envelope signatures– which are only the larger counties, which are also the more liberal.

The election was stolen in 2004.

Very likely, but car trunk ballots and homeless people aren’t 10% of the statewide vote, and that’s how lopsided they typically are. Ferguson won in 2024 by ten times as many votes (440,000) as there are homeless in Washington (about 32,000).

Seattle lets the homeless vote. How are those voter rolls remotely verifiable?

I’m sure it happens, but in statewide races they don’t need it, they’re just padding the total. Last Republican Senator elected in 1994, last Republican governor in 1980, last Republican for President in 1984. Only the 2004 governor election and the 2000 Senate election were close. They usually go at least +10% for the Dem.

But even if fraud was so entrenched that every election was decided by it, that would be another reason they didn’t need to gerrymander.

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