Washington Democrats voted 93-0 to fix a voter fraud loophole they claimed didn’t exist
Washington Democrats accidentally admitted our elections aren’t as secure as they claimed. They hope you won’t connect the dots.
Every time a conservative raises concerns about election integrity, Democrats reach for the same worn script. You’re an election denier. You’re spreading disinformation. You’re a threat to democracy itself. Funny how that script gets quietly shelved the moment Democrats pass laws to fix the very problems they insist don’t exist.
Governor Bob Ferguson just signed Senate Bill 6084 into law, a measure that explicitly makes double voting illegal in Washington state. The bill sailed through the legislature 93-0 in the House and 47-1 in the Senate.
The law closes a loophole exposed by a 2022 case in Lewis County, where a man was convicted of voting in both Washington and Oregon in the same election. A state appeals court overturned that conviction on a 2-1 decision because Washington law didn’t clearly define what constitutes an election, leaving enough ambiguity for the court to decide the two ballots covered different races. Two separate elections, technically. A loophole that never should have existed
The legislative fix was straightforward. Lawmakers clarified the definition, made double voting unambiguously a Class C felony carrying up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, and Ferguson signed it. Credit where it is due.
“If you live here, you vote here,” Sen. Adrian Cortes, who sponsored the bill, said, according to the Washington State Standard. “You don’t get to vote anywhere else.”
It’s hard to argue with that. Gov. Ferguson added that voting more than once “is an affront to everyone who participates in our democracy,” noting the law makes clear that “those who try it will be held accountable.”
But let’s not pretend this happened in a vacuum. For years, Democrats have dismissed ballot integrity concerns as paranoid right-wing fantasy. Say the words “voter fraud” in polite Democratic company and watch the room react as if you’ve accused the Easter Bunny of money laundering. Anyone expressing even good-faith concern has been branded an extremist and election denier. The message has always been that the system is airtight.
Then a unanimous bipartisan legislature passes a law specifically to stop people from voting twice. What exactly does that tell you?
The SAVE America Act and the fraud Democrats won’t acknowledge
It tells you that voter fraud is real enough to legislate against. Which makes Democrats’ ongoing war against the SAVE America Act look even more cynical.
The federal legislation would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It carries overwhelming public support. And yet Democrats like Washington’s own Senator Patty Murray have spent this week running a disinformation campaign against it, claiming without factual basis that it will harm married women, seniors, and students. None of those claims survive even a cursory view of the actual bill’s text.
What does survive scrutiny? Concerns over election fraud that while not rampant, does exist. Washington’s case is one of them.
More recently? The DOJ just convicted a Colombian national who voted illegally in the 2024 presidential election using a stolen identity while collecting over $400,000 in federal benefits. U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley called it a case where the defendant “repeatedly made false statements, stole, committed fraud and even voted illegally.”
The honesty nobody asked for
The double voting fix is welcome. But it also gives the game away.
The same Democrats who just voted 93-0 to close an election loophole will look you in the eye and say voter fraud isn’t worth worrying about. Both cannot be true at the same time. Too bad left-wing media isn’t all that enthusiastic to call this out.
Washington lawmakers answered the question over whether or not there’s fraud themselves with this bill. I don’t know if the double voter intended to commit fraud or did this in good faith. But it doesn’t matter. He double voted. If you expressed concern that a double vote could happen prior to this case, Washington Democrats would have called you names.