Hundreds of unopened ballots found near Renton dumpster by private citizen

SEATTLE, WA – King County Elections and the Washington Secretary of State say they have no record of a private citizen making contact with their offices after finding a large box of ballots recently near a dumpster in Renton.

Washington GOP Chairman Jim Walsh was contacted by the man who found the box after that person said he tried to get the attention of King County Elections and the Washington Secretary of State. According to the man, he received no response from either.

“He got in touch with me a week or maybe two weeks ago saying he found this box on the ground next to a dumpster behind a strip mall in Renton,” said Walsh Friday in an interview with The Center Square. “He brought it into the Republican office in Bellevue, and there were about 500 ballots. They’re unopened ballots, not processed. They were delivered to people, it looks like, primarily who had mailboxes at a private mailbox shop, where you can rent a mailbox, use the street address as your mailing address, but then have the mailbox.”…

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