KUOW news editor Gil Aegerter was poking around on the Washington state elections website when he noticed something strange: You can print out a ballot for anyone, as long as you know their birthday.
Voter records in Washington are public, so it's incredibly easy to access birth dates.
But what's not mentioned in this article is that if you choose the option to print a ballot online, it cancels the previously mailed ballot.
So presumably, the real person will receive their ballot and mail it in none the wiser, but that ballot wouldn't be counted if someone else had previously accessed their online portal and selected the option to print a ballot.
This seems like an insanely stupid way to manage ballots????
https://www.kuow.org/stories/it-s-easy-to-commit-election-fraud-in-washington-state
Voter records in Washington are public, so it's incredibly easy to access birth dates.
But what's not mentioned in this article is that if you choose the option to print a ballot online, it cancels the previously mailed ballot.
So presumably, the real person will receive their ballot and mail it in none the wiser, but that ballot wouldn't be counted if someone else had previously accessed their online portal and selected the option to print a ballot.
This seems like an insanely stupid way to manage ballots????