Registered for years, 336,256 active Washington registrations have never voted.
Washington needs voter roll maintenance, not voter roll theater.
Damon Townsend is capable and will be a great Pierce County Auditor.
Competence Over Politics ⎢ Modern Systems ⎢ Better Service
The Pierce County Auditor runs elections, recording, and licensing for the second-largest county in Washington, nearly a million residents and roughly 600,000 registered voters. The job is operations, and it deserves an operations professional. Damon Townsend served as Pierce County's Elections Supervisor for five years, and was Interim Elections Manager in Clallam and Cowlitz counties during the 2020 presidential election. Townsend spent two decades managing telecommunications networks and twenty-four-hour critical systems; built and modernized the systems the Auditor's office runs on. Damon Townsend is ready to expand that work to recording and licensing.
Read Damon Townsend's views on election administration:
Election Integrity Deserves More Than Speculation
"We should make it easy for every eligible citizen to vote, extremely difficult for ineligible people to participate, and nearly impossible to manipulate results."
The SAVE Act: Real Integrity or Paper Parade?
The SAVE Act adds complexity without building a stronger verification infrastructure.
Why ERIC Exists and Why Abandoning It Leaves States With Fewer Tools, Not More.
An overview of the Electronic Registration Information Center.