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Hundreds of unopened ballots found near dumpster sparking concerns over Washington's mail-in voting system
thepostmillenial.com ^ | April 20, 2026 | Ari Hoffman

Posted on 04/21/2026 7:39:49 AM PDT by lowbridge

A box containing hundreds of unopened Washington state ballots was reportedly discovered on the ground next to a dumpster behind a strip mall in Renton, raising serious questions about ballot handling and election security. 

Washington State Republican Party Chairman Jim Walsh said a concerned citizen brought the ballots to the GOP’s Bellevue headquarters after finding them discarded. “Earlier today, a concerned citizen contacted me and came and dropped off at the Bellevue headquarters a large box of ballots, Washington State ballots, specifically King County elections ballots, that were mailed to people and never received,” Walsh said in a video posted to Facebook.

According to Walsh, who made the video while sitting behind the stacks of ballots in the state GOP office in Bellevue, the individual discovered the ballots after noticing a suspicious box near a dumpster. “The concerned individual… found these ballots in a box on the ground next to a dumpster behind a strip mall in Renton,” he said.

Walsh described the contents as “hundreds of ballots,” spanning multiple election cycles. “He looked in the box, saw it was ballots—hundreds of ballots, many from the 2024 general election, but others from 2025, 2023, 2022, basically multiple Washington elections between 2022 and 2025,” Walsh said.

The ballots were reportedly addressed to voters who use private mailbox services, meaning they may not have been delivered directly to individuals. “When a ballot is mailed to a voter in this state… that ballot is supposed to either be delivered to the voter or returned… to King County elections. That didn’t happen here,” Walsh said.

He suggested the ballots may have been stored somewhere before being discarded. “These ballots must have ended up in a room somewhere, or a warehouse, or a back room somewhere… and then put in a box and thrown away

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: electionfraud; voterfraud; washington

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1 posted on 04/21/2026 7:39:49 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge; All

How were intended recipients REGISTERED?


2 posted on 04/21/2026 7:43:01 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: lowbridge

“Chain of Custody” is supposed to mean something. But in the US, the ballots come and go and you never know where they’ll end up.


3 posted on 04/21/2026 7:43:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: lowbridge

Obviously the postal system should never be relied upon for anything but a tiny fraction of ballots under special circumstances.


4 posted on 04/21/2026 7:44:04 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: lowbridge

What percentage marked Democrat?


5 posted on 04/21/2026 7:44:52 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Call my personal secretary, Jennie, at 867-5309.)
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To: SMARTY

What a headline. Hundreds of unopened ballots found near a dumpster merely SPARKED concerns?

Should have been alarm bells.

Makes me sick.


6 posted on 04/21/2026 7:46:15 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: lowbridge

People should read the postal union news paper. It sounds like a raving Karl Marx.


7 posted on 04/21/2026 7:47:10 AM PDT by Dennis M.
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To: lowbridge

The only way this type of voter fraud will stop is if Republicans do it better than the Democrats. Somebody in Washington needs to buy a photocopy machine and start stuffing ballot boxes.


8 posted on 04/21/2026 7:54:36 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: lowbridge

What are you talking about? That dumpster is a legal residence for homeless and illegal immigrant voters.


9 posted on 04/21/2026 7:58:39 AM PDT by mfish13 ( )
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To: lowbridge

Right..........


10 posted on 04/21/2026 8:04:12 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: lowbridge

The person who found the ballots should have filmed a video, and call the police. Not pick them up and bring them to the local GOP office.

“Chain of custody” failure.


11 posted on 04/21/2026 8:06:59 AM PDT by Oneder
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To: lowbridge
"The ballots were reportedly addressed to voters who use private mailbox services"

Seems pretty obvious that there is or was a private mailbox service in the strip mall that stored uncollected mail from customers that quit paying their box rent instead of returning it to the post office.

Then some employee cleaned out a storage room by dumping the box of uncollected mail out by the dumpster.

This is a failure of both the post office and the mail service to pay attention. Maybe there aren't any rules regarding unclaimed mail. But for dang sure, this is just more proof that vote by mail is not secure in any way, shape or form.

12 posted on 04/21/2026 8:09:45 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Yes, I did vote for this!)
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To: lowbridge

That’s the major problem with mail in ballots and fraud. Getting rid of evidence isn’t so easy once the election is over. The fraud consists of hundreds of thousands of produced ballots kept in reserve in order to sway counts when needed. The people behind it want the margins tight, just enough to seem plausible and not cause too much outrage.So what does one do with such ballots? Pennsylvania and New York spent months with the USPS sending tractor trailer loads on an endless journey, never stopping. Eventually the trailers disappeared, never to be seen again.


13 posted on 04/21/2026 8:09:46 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Williams

In 2020 many postal mail carrier was forced to retire in August before the election. My mail carrier of 20 years told me something was strange because his wife also a carrier was being pushed out too.


14 posted on 04/21/2026 8:09:51 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: lowbridge

If anyone was actually serious about solving the problems, the FBI would have custody of these ballots within minutes of them being discovered. Arrests would happen within days.

Nobody is serious about fixing anything for us so nothing will happen.


15 posted on 04/21/2026 8:09:58 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: Williams

Absentee ballots only. USPS has handled those successfully for decades.

Mailin ballots need to simply be outlawed. There is no chance of an honest election of any sort so long as they are in use.


16 posted on 04/21/2026 8:16:57 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: lowbridge

“Concerns”? Sounds like outright fraud.


17 posted on 04/21/2026 8:26:02 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: lowbridge

This is how the Virginia Commie RATS steal elections. Damn communist skunks and skanks.


18 posted on 04/21/2026 8:28:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I May be Old but I'm Glad I Got to See America Before It Went To Sh**!)
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To: lowbridge

I wondeer if it’s the dumpster where “Da View” piggies live.


19 posted on 04/21/2026 8:33:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I May be Old but I'm Glad I Got to See America Before It Went To Sh**!)
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To: lowbridge

I wonder if they can be ID’d as either Republican or Democrat ballots?


20 posted on 04/21/2026 8:42:22 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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