The commissioners did not respond to questions about the possibility that human trafficking is occurring in unsanctioned homeless camps here, as was recently discovered in Olympia. Here is today's email sent to all three county commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
The Board of County Commissioners chose to impose the Conservation District parcel fee without a vote of the people, requiring Clallam County property owners to fund the district through approximately $2 million in new revenue.
A recent release of public documents has raised serious questions about the Conservation District's election process and the changing explanations surrounding it. Taxpayers who are now required to fund the district deserve confidence that its elections are fair and transparent.
Do you intend to engage with Conservation District leadership on behalf of the taxpayers you required to fund this agency? If so, what actions will you take to ensure future Conservation District elections are conducted fairly and restore public confidence?
Jeff this blatant act of fraud is a clear example of the lefts win at all cost. Power is addictive to the people currently running our county. The premise of once the socialists win you CANT go back to throw them out because they make the new rules to eliminate competition is shown here. Corruption seems to run rampant in CC. I hope we can stop this machine of dems from the permanent structure they are building. Thanks Jeff for making clear our road ahead and what we have to overcome.
There’s a lot of folks and we’re gaining momentum that we are sick and tired of being hosed and robbed and taxed out of our homes. We can do this if we all stick together to do whatever we possibly can. Even if it’s just something small it all counts.
I guess both sides have their issues. So if you support the socialistic propaganda that the left believes I have a word for you. It hasn’t worked in any government ever in the history of mankind so how do you think the path looks? Very bleak is my point. America has survived 250 years without the commies way of governing. So what is so bad the way it was? Path forward for USA is in jeopardy
with the WOKE idiotic left. Hope I didn’t hurt your feelings if you think commies are good.
Haven’t voted for a communist yet so… ball 1. Everyone likes the socialism that benefits them. Lots of republican boomers enjoying their social security that I pay into every other week but may never see a return on. Let’s talk about the White House’s Freedom Fuel stations, the ones that my taxes are being used to subsidize lower gas prices for people across the country. Republicans are eating that socialist propaganda right up. It’s bad when it’s theirs, but it’s good when it’s yours? How do I think the path looks? I have faith in the resilience of our nation. I’m not afraid of the future, regardless of how hard the r’s try to scare us. So what is so bad the way it was? Well I might agree with you there. I didn’t vote for Obama either time, but I concede that it was better then than it is now.
Biden let 20m illegals into our country and you blame who? You need to open your eyes and look at the fraud your side has allowed and you blame who? The financial mess the libs created and you worry about gas. Biden had the $5 gas with no war.Do you want a nuclear bomb coming our way. Your side always blame everyone but themselves.
The covid was another Fauci lie than the dems screwed up and you blame who? You need to getyour facts straight before you vote for the next socialist. Harris is one and she can’t even talk but you voted for her.
Thank god she didn’t win. I suppose you even support the mayor of NY. You voted for the commies you just won’t admit it
Since the Hart-Cellar Act the composition of our country has been altered dramatically. Our country is still paying a handsome price for the evils of slavery and now we face a new form of servitude and once again future generations will pay a heavy fee. In a welfare state cheap labor is subsidized by tax middle class tax payers. If these migrants offer such a valuable economic asset why are their countries poor? She didn't win but eventually somebody sharing her values will. IMO the Republican party needs reform because it supports amnesty and birthright citizenship.
You’re getting emotional. Contrary to what you’ve been told, democrats are not communists, and neither is Mamdani. Just because you say it doesn’t make it true. Look it up. There are no elected communists in the federal government, any state level position, or any high profile position including NYC. It’s boogeyman talk from your leader.
You are not in my mind person that is very smart. Mamdani is as anti American as they come. If you like him you should move there and watch NYC go broke and taken over by Muslims. Look at England and you are heading there buddy. I am not going to be around I am 72 when you lose your freedoms. That said I enjoy my $3500 a month you are helping pay me in SS. Don’t quit your day job. I think you need to watch how much anyone in CCWD likes your idiotic values. Emotional no just dumbfounded at how people like u watch America be taken over by the foreigners you also pay for. Read Animal Farm you might learn something. I am now going to dinner and enjoy you helping to pay for it though I also cancel your vote!
Btw, I started voting for democrats in 2018 when I realized that the “little r” republicans had lost their minds. I voted for the Libertarian in 2016 because Trump never fooled me.
Oh by the way Obama was not a good president. Thank you for paying my SS money. By the way that was a dem president that did that too. I think you should worry about what the communist left is looking to do to your wages if they get in. How much did you make? Send it all to the government we will take care of you. Haha!
When I was 18 I collected food stamps for a lark but they could not replicate the lifestyle I desired. I wanted a Panasonic receiver and leather jackets from Jean's West. I was sick of driving a Volkswagon when I appeared for dates. The government reduces status.
I request the Clallam County Board of Commissioners (CCBOC) revoke the $5.00 parcel fee granted to the Clallam Conservation District (CCD) and return the fee collected thus far to the parcel owners immediately. The CCBOC has not shown good governance over the CCD and has apparently turned a blind eye to the CCD’s possible fraudulent handling of its last election.
In Washington State, Conservation Districts (CDs) operate under a unique legal framework. Unlike standard city or county elections, CD elections are explicitly exempted from regular state election laws (Title 29A RCW). Instead, their procedures are governed by Chapter 89.08 RCW and rules established by the Washington State Conservation Commission (SCC) under Chapter 135-110 WAC.
Because CDs have the authority to establish localized "time, place, and manner" rules via local board resolutions, altering those rules mid-cycle—specifically expanding a ballot list to non-requestors right before an election—presents a serious procedural violation of both their local resolution and the state administrative code requiring fairness and strict compliance.
If you are dealing with a situation where a district changed its mail-in rules and merged voter lists at the last minute, citizens have several specific avenues for legal and administrative recourse.
1. File a Formal Election Complaint with the SCC
The Washington State Conservation Commission is the primary oversight body. They have explicit rules for handling election irregularities and determining "significant noncompliance"—defined as a failure to follow procedures that may affect the outcome of an election or deny voters their rights.
* Action: File a formal administrative complaint directly with the SCC Elections Officer.
* The Standard: The SCC will review whether the district "substantially followed" the rules. If they find significant noncompliance (e.g., expanding the voting pool via unauthorized lists in violation of the original board resolution), the Commission has the authority to refuse to certify the election.
* Contact: Complaints are typically directed to the SCC's policy or election coordination team (such as the Special Projects/Elections Coordinator in Olympia).
2. Judicial Review via Superior Court
Because CD elections sit outside the normal county auditor canvassing process, the ultimate check on a rogue election process is the court system.
* Filing a Lawsuit: Citizens and disenfranchised candidates can file a lawsuit in the local County Superior Court seeking a writ of mandamus (forcing the district to follow its original rules) or an injunction to stop the certification of the election.
* Precedent: There is direct legal precedent for this in Washington. For example, when a Conservation District previously handed out unrequested ballots or violated its own election resolutions, the superior court stepped in and entirely threw out the election results, forcing a reset.
* Legal Basis: A suit would argue that the sudden change violated the "due notice" requirements of RCW 89.08.190, breached the binding nature of the local board's adopted election resolution, and resulted in unlawful vote dilution.
3. Demanding an Explicit Local Canvassing Challenge
Before the local district board can submit the results to the state for final approval, they must review the election report.
* Action: Citizens can submit formal written challenges to the local CD board and the appointed Election Supervisor demanding that any ballots sent to individuals who did not legally request them by the established deadline be separated and challenged.
* Public Comment: Use the district’s next open public meeting to place the specific facts—such as dates of list merges and the exact number of excess ballots mailed—directly into the official public record.
4. Report to State Oversight Agencies
If there is evidence that the rule change was done intentionally to benefit an incumbent or a specific political faction (and kept hidden from the general public while being shared with select groups), it crosses from a procedural mistake into a violation of public trust.
* State Auditor’s Office (SAO): You can file a report through the SAO Whistleblower Program or citizen hotline regarding the misuse of public funds (taxpayer money used to print and mail unauthorized ballots outside the scope of the legally approved election resolution).
* Public Records Requests (PRA): Immediately submit a Chapter 42.56 RCW request to the Conservation District for all communications (emails, text messages, meeting minutes) regarding the "merging" of the voter lists, the decision to mail extra ballots, and any communications with outside political groups. This evidence is critical for both an SCC complaint and a court case.
Summary of Best Strategy
The most effective path is a dual track: file an immediate, detailed administrative complaint with the Washington State Conservation Commission to stall certification, while simultaneously consulting with an election attorney to prepare a challenge in Superior Court, using the Public Records Act to force the district to hand over the data behind the list merge.
They chet, they lie....rinse and repeat. Time for a change and if Shoona Riggs was smart she would have called them out on this... it's exactly her job.
Let's vote her out in force please... The more crooks we can remove the brighter our future will be.
See you at lairds on Saturday I've made more brittle for Jake Seegers 😋
The only optic that matters is that the CCD has broken trust with the people it's supposed to serve. Trust is the backbone to how society functions. Without it chaos leads.
Intentional acts by publicly elected officials deserve the highest level of scrutiny. More so than baseless aspersions because you don't like someone. Are the reasons not obvious?
The BOCC supported the CCD's per parcel fee increase.
What does the BOCC have to say now?
A letter? A public proclamation? A call for an investigation?
This is what happens when the incestuous network can't remove itself from the hard decisions that it should make, if it cares about everyone in the county.
I'm voting for Jake because he's not a part of this network. He's the best example of the diversity the citizens need to represent everyone.
The CCD is a mess. I strongly oppose any fees collected from me on behalf of it. I did not want this tax on my property tax bill, and now I am made to endure another questionable election. The BoCC is the cause of this mess. If those three Commissioners had had any backbone, they would have stood up for the constituency instead of the special interest group.
The integrity of the latest CCD election was in question right from the beginning.Savvy people could sniff out problems as soon as it was announced that the LWV was going to be in charge.And then there was illegal shenanigans orchestrated at the end of election to make sure outcome was in favor of radical liberals.Just shows the integrity of the liberal party that is willing to disgrace itself in order to win.
In my opinion, the fish stinks from the head down! It’s Blatantly obvious that our election and or elections have been rigged for quite some time. I noticed yesterday that there was someone who gave us information to possibly be watchers when the votes are being counted. I’m going to check it out.
I even wonder if they pay taxes on the electricity they consume? and what happens when or warnings of brown and blackouts come will JKS turn out there colored lites?
When we got news of this election, my husband reminded me TWICE to be sure to request my ballot so we could vote on this important position. I was of course miffed I had to request a ballot at all- shouldn't they be sent out automatically for all registered voters to whom this effects?
Anyway, guess who procrastinated long enough to forget right up until my husband recieved his ballot in the mail? Yours truly.
The ballot itself was nothing special. I could have made a photo copy and returned submitted it. In fact, I offered to do that exact thing when I submitted a request for a ballot on February 21. I sent this verbiage to info@clallamcd.org:
"I forgot to submit a request for a ballot. Can I make a copy of my husband's blank ballot and mail in my vote with a business envelope featuring my attestation and signature on the back of the envelope, with the same verbiage as you have provided?
Elizabeth Rose Batson"
They wrote back on February 23rd with the following:
"Hello Elizabeth,
I will mail you a ballot to the address you listed below.
Thank you,
Heather Ginn
Office Administrator"
For what it's worth, I voted for Judy Larson, because I believe private property owners / tax payers should not shoulder the economic burden of superfluous feel-good projects, nor should they be restricted the use of their property by egregious wetland or habitat claims.
On March 10, 2026, as a result of the unusual rules surrounding the Conservation District's election, I emailed the County office an explanation. I got this back from Ian Hillway, Elections manager. By law they have different rules, rules which have to be changed at the state level:
Thanks for reaching out. Put simply, the law requires that they follow a different process than we do.
If the Conservation District wanted to change their elections, it would require the State Legislature to change the law to allow them to do so. The Clallam County Election Office also don’t run elections for HOAs, diking districts, or draining districts, these legal entities all have different types of laws that cover them.
If you are interested in learning more about how different types of special purpose districts work in relation to taxation, the MRSC website looks like it has a decent breakdown of different types of taxation available to different types of districts here: https://mrsc.org/explore-topics/finance/revenues/special-purpose-district-revenues If you search for “Conservation District” on that page, it may have some useful information. Since I am not involved in Conservation District elections, I don’t have more detailed information on their processes for you.
Hopefully, this answers your questions as they pertain to the County. If you have questions about how the Conservation District operates beyond what is covered by the links above, you may need to reach out to them directly for further clarification.
The Conservation District says it can't afford to send out ballots to all the registered voters in the county. How much does it cost to print and bulk-mail ballots? A lot less I would imagine than the $5/parcel tax being levied every year for the benefit of the Conservation District. Spending part of that $200,000 a year would go a long way to ensuring election integrity that the voters could trust. That is, assuming the District was interested in election integrity to begin with.
Great question... the size of the electorate in Clallam County is roughly 60,000 registered voters. The cost of an All-Mail Election, according to state election cost data, running a dedicated, hyper-local mail-in election typically costs between $2.00 and $4.00 per registered voter (and sometimes higher for standalone special elections). Even at a conservative $3.00 per voter to cover ballot printing, outgoing postage, return postage, processing, and signature verification, a single countywide mail-in election would cost roughly $180,000.
If the Conservation District spent $180,000 of its assessment just to mail out ballots every time an election came up, it would wipe out nearly 75% to 90% of its entire budget. The district would essentially exist solely to fund its own elections, leaving zero dollars to actually do the conservation work it was funded to perform.
You would think...and it is what I thought at first... that the common-sense solution would be to then maybe just move it to the general ballot, right? Wrong--because it turns out moving to the general ballot would force them to pay massive, proportional administrative fees to the County Auditor, once again draining the very funding meant for local conservation projects just to pay for the ballot space.
We are trapped in a classic bureaucratic catch-22. The system is too small to run cheap, efficient elections, but too legally and financially tied to the county's survival to ever be dissolved.
So instead of a clean solution, we get exactly what you see: a clunky, frustrating, slightly stupid system that everyone just has to live with. Oh and that is prone to conspiracy-driven paranoia.
I do not know about the costs of elections per ballot so I will accept your numbers at face value. How, then, did the District pay for elections in the past, before receiving the annual parcel fee?
"Clallam Conservation District is committed to pursuing election reform with the Washington State Legislature and making future elections on the fall general ballot.
If you would like this election on the regular fall ballot Please contact your legislator at 1-800-562-6000."
It does require the state legislature to change the law, so let's make it happen. Call.
How many voters didn't even know there was election coming up? I didn't until I read about it on CCWD. I think the Conservation District wants to keep it a secret so only the "correct" people vote.
Good article, thank you CCWD. Didn't the CCD already get sued for election fraud the last time? Apparently the court didn't make it painful enough. This really shouldn't surprise anyone, look who observed ballot counting, how they advertised the election and how it was run. The general public had no clue the election was taking place. It is sad that not every voter in Clallam County did not get to vote, especially those that own property and are paying for the $2 million in extra taxes for the next 10 years? They can't manage their money, and run a secret election with only partisan groups organizing it. The whole thing stunk from the beginning, now it should have an investigation done on it.
You are right, they had their last election thrown out and the supervisor was removed from office. But that just meant that the CCD got to a point a member without a vote of the people. You think they would learn their lesson after that.
The court system barely gave them a slap on the wrist. The only thing these people respond to is true (metaphorically) PAIN!! Hefty fines and jail time. If it wasn't such a PROGRESSIVE State that scenario would play out. Komissar's should really be scrutinizing this whole process, but they will protect their own. This whole State needs a change. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”- Lord Acton
Since every property owner is paying 5 dollars to the ccd we should All have a vote in any and all elections, and they can use a portion of that fee to pay for the ballots!
This issue with the already notorious criminally corrupt "Clallam Conservation District" that was rammed down all of our throats without our vote or our permission is really simple to understand and FAR bigger than it would seem. If everyone who lived in Clallam County was eligible to participate in a special closed "lottery" to win a million dollars and "we" purchased a lottery ticked based upon that rule and those "defined statistical odds", then at basically the last minute (after we had followed the established rules and relied upon them), the lottery was opened up to everyone in Jefferson County to participate in, we would have been CRIMINALLY DEFRAUDED~! That would be a classic textbook case of "Detrimental Reliance" where the so-called "established rules" were, at the last minute, changed, and the anticipated statistical odds had in fact been dramatically contaminated to our detriment~! What I am not reading in this fine article of Jeff Tozzer's, is any real explanation as to WHY, after the election rules were SO well established and communicated, the pool of voters was suddenly expanded? This is the key question, and in fact the root of the very issue here. Those of us in America who are actually following the astounding proof of exactly how all of our national elections have been rigged over the past decades, know that the Democrat party has been caught "red handed" countless times waiting until the last minute to discover how many votes that they needed to rig elections, and then they "suddenly" (magically) find just enough "fake votes" to secure victories for their candidates~! This has been done by the criminal Democrat (communist) cabal MANY times over the decades and often AFTER the election deadline has well passed so that they can't lose these seriously corrupted & rigged elections~! Our national elections have been SO seriously corrupted over the decades, that even good and decent Americans constantly fall for the outrageous lie that "Americans are "divided" 50/50 (Democrat/Republican) when very obviously that has NEVER been the case. It is a simple Brainwashing illusion of these criminals of humanity! This is also why we sometimes see the small, emboldened clown freak shows on our street corners, because these completely brainless lunatics actually believe that they have FAR more support than they really ever have in fact had... Anyone who doubts that this "packing" of ballots that I have described here has not been the standard operating procedure of the criminals in the Democrat party, need only remember the absolutely atrocious blatant election rigging in our Washington State election many years ago where Maria Cantwell got her infamous nickname of "Count em until you win Cantwell"~! This very clearly rigged Clallam Conservation District election is simply just another way that the communist Democrats are packing the ballot box with just enough votes to make sure that they defraud the good folks of Clallam County, and by extension ALL Americans across the US~! The treasonous criminals in the Democrat communist party have been making absolute fools out of ALL Americans, without exception and on BOTH sides of the isle for decades, because they know that even if they are caught it will be too late for us to do anything about their criminal acts while they are in office via their rigged system of a VERY old and long crime spree~! NONE of these Democrats in our community are legitimately in office, they are ALL highly coordinated in their brutal communist attack against us, and that is exactly why they NEVER listen to anything that "we" want or have to say~! I have no idea what it will take, or how much more obvious proof will be needed, before the good folks of Clallam County find the backbone to remove these treasonous criminals from office and prosecute them ALL for their blatantly criminal behavior~! How much more will our community have to decline and become even more unsafe, how much economic loss will we have to suffer, and how many more will have to be harmed and even killed, before it will be enough to get folks to do their American duty here~! No one is coming to save us, so we are all on our own to make sure that our community gets on track to work towards its true potential free from this evil criminal communist assault~!
Comm. Randy Johnson gave his thumbs up to the parcel fee and rate change to proprty owners before any public disclosure was presented. Even 1,032 signatures protesting this fee couldn't sway his vote. I really never thought Randy would make such a decision against the people of Clallam County. From that point on I never trusted him again.
Yes, Patriot Denise Lapio, Randy Johnson simply played the "good cop" role to trick good folks into believing that he was going to be a good & obedient servant of the people, but he never was there to do that. That is exactly how these communists play their dirty underhanded game. I believe that the criminals in the Clallam Conservation District were already caught red handed rigging a previous election if my memory serves, to the point where a judge found "improprieties" and voided that election result? You would probably know more than I do about that, because my main focus is on National and to some degree International issues... These local issues are quite easy to analyze when you spend most of your life monitoring and analyzing the "Big Show" because these local clowns are a mere shadow of the most notorious criminals of humanity... They are pathetic Wannabees ;-) As far as I can tell Jake Seegers is a real deal Patriot who honestly cares about this community and has the Intelligence and common-sense reasoning that we need in our local government. Ha! Anyone who is not acting honestly and honorably, under the state & federal Constitutions, at this time in history, is playing with fire and will very likely get burned in the coming years because America has already rejected the old criminal "corporate government" matrix of the past 150 years or so... You see, that is why I am here and what I have been doing all along... I have been setting these local criminals up by documenting and constantly warning them of the "storm" that is already here that will destroy their evil games! It is actually quite humorous that I write these truths and warnings in plain view of these criminals, and they are of course reading them because they are very much concerned, as well they should be, but they are just too stupid to be able to see what is coming! Ha! I find that hysterically funny because these local criminals get off on scamming the average decent folks of our community, so they are absolutely blind to the fact that they themselves are being set up for a HUGE fall~! Ah, what good sport ;-)) So, hang in there my friend, because these criminals have already been caught and it will just be a matter of time before they find themselves in the trap of their own making~!
The commissioners did not respond to questions about the possibility that human trafficking is occurring in unsanctioned homeless camps here, as was recently discovered in Olympia. Here is today's email sent to all three county commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
The Board of County Commissioners chose to impose the Conservation District parcel fee without a vote of the people, requiring Clallam County property owners to fund the district through approximately $2 million in new revenue.
A recent release of public documents has raised serious questions about the Conservation District's election process and the changing explanations surrounding it. Taxpayers who are now required to fund the district deserve confidence that its elections are fair and transparent.
Do you intend to engage with Conservation District leadership on behalf of the taxpayers you required to fund this agency? If so, what actions will you take to ensure future Conservation District elections are conducted fairly and restore public confidence?
Thank you for your time.
Jeff Tozzer
I'm sure those stickers and posters in the county urinals takes care of this concern.
Jeff this blatant act of fraud is a clear example of the lefts win at all cost. Power is addictive to the people currently running our county. The premise of once the socialists win you CANT go back to throw them out because they make the new rules to eliminate competition is shown here. Corruption seems to run rampant in CC. I hope we can stop this machine of dems from the permanent structure they are building. Thanks Jeff for making clear our road ahead and what we have to overcome.
Good morning Patriot Jed,
There’s a lot of folks and we’re gaining momentum that we are sick and tired of being hosed and robbed and taxed out of our homes. We can do this if we all stick together to do whatever we possibly can. Even if it’s just something small it all counts.
You are right on Evrita! I am even more determined to get more people on board.
Go Jake!
Vote for the wedges, VOTE JAKE AND Virginia!!!!!!!!!!
I requested a ballot and I voted, so I’ve done my part. I do hope that they investigate this and get to the bottom of it, regardless of the outcome. In the meantime, here’s an interesting story about the righties win at all cost. https://micahe.substack.com/p/breaking-florida-republicans-exposed?r=5i2u6q&utm_medium=ios
I guess both sides have their issues. So if you support the socialistic propaganda that the left believes I have a word for you. It hasn’t worked in any government ever in the history of mankind so how do you think the path looks? Very bleak is my point. America has survived 250 years without the commies way of governing. So what is so bad the way it was? Path forward for USA is in jeopardy
with the WOKE idiotic left. Hope I didn’t hurt your feelings if you think commies are good.
Haven’t voted for a communist yet so… ball 1. Everyone likes the socialism that benefits them. Lots of republican boomers enjoying their social security that I pay into every other week but may never see a return on. Let’s talk about the White House’s Freedom Fuel stations, the ones that my taxes are being used to subsidize lower gas prices for people across the country. Republicans are eating that socialist propaganda right up. It’s bad when it’s theirs, but it’s good when it’s yours? How do I think the path looks? I have faith in the resilience of our nation. I’m not afraid of the future, regardless of how hard the r’s try to scare us. So what is so bad the way it was? Well I might agree with you there. I didn’t vote for Obama either time, but I concede that it was better then than it is now.
Biden let 20m illegals into our country and you blame who? You need to open your eyes and look at the fraud your side has allowed and you blame who? The financial mess the libs created and you worry about gas. Biden had the $5 gas with no war.Do you want a nuclear bomb coming our way. Your side always blame everyone but themselves.
The covid was another Fauci lie than the dems screwed up and you blame who? You need to getyour facts straight before you vote for the next socialist. Harris is one and she can’t even talk but you voted for her.
Thank god she didn’t win. I suppose you even support the mayor of NY. You voted for the commies you just won’t admit it
Since the Hart-Cellar Act the composition of our country has been altered dramatically. Our country is still paying a handsome price for the evils of slavery and now we face a new form of servitude and once again future generations will pay a heavy fee. In a welfare state cheap labor is subsidized by tax middle class tax payers. If these migrants offer such a valuable economic asset why are their countries poor? She didn't win but eventually somebody sharing her values will. IMO the Republican party needs reform because it supports amnesty and birthright citizenship.
Read the Seattle Times article in today’s paper on how many WA cities are going bankrupt. It is scary.
You’re getting emotional. Contrary to what you’ve been told, democrats are not communists, and neither is Mamdani. Just because you say it doesn’t make it true. Look it up. There are no elected communists in the federal government, any state level position, or any high profile position including NYC. It’s boogeyman talk from your leader.
You are not in my mind person that is very smart. Mamdani is as anti American as they come. If you like him you should move there and watch NYC go broke and taken over by Muslims. Look at England and you are heading there buddy. I am not going to be around I am 72 when you lose your freedoms. That said I enjoy my $3500 a month you are helping pay me in SS. Don’t quit your day job. I think you need to watch how much anyone in CCWD likes your idiotic values. Emotional no just dumbfounded at how people like u watch America be taken over by the foreigners you also pay for. Read Animal Farm you might learn something. I am now going to dinner and enjoy you helping to pay for it though I also cancel your vote!
Btw, I started voting for democrats in 2018 when I realized that the “little r” republicans had lost their minds. I voted for the Libertarian in 2016 because Trump never fooled me.
Oh by the way Obama was not a good president. Thank you for paying my SS money. By the way that was a dem president that did that too. I think you should worry about what the communist left is looking to do to your wages if they get in. How much did you make? Send it all to the government we will take care of you. Haha!
When I was 18 I collected food stamps for a lark but they could not replicate the lifestyle I desired. I wanted a Panasonic receiver and leather jackets from Jean's West. I was sick of driving a Volkswagon when I appeared for dates. The government reduces status.
Sent today to CCBOC
I request the Clallam County Board of Commissioners (CCBOC) revoke the $5.00 parcel fee granted to the Clallam Conservation District (CCD) and return the fee collected thus far to the parcel owners immediately. The CCBOC has not shown good governance over the CCD and has apparently turned a blind eye to the CCD’s possible fraudulent handling of its last election.
Eric Fehrmann
*** AI **"
In Washington State, Conservation Districts (CDs) operate under a unique legal framework. Unlike standard city or county elections, CD elections are explicitly exempted from regular state election laws (Title 29A RCW). Instead, their procedures are governed by Chapter 89.08 RCW and rules established by the Washington State Conservation Commission (SCC) under Chapter 135-110 WAC.
Because CDs have the authority to establish localized "time, place, and manner" rules via local board resolutions, altering those rules mid-cycle—specifically expanding a ballot list to non-requestors right before an election—presents a serious procedural violation of both their local resolution and the state administrative code requiring fairness and strict compliance.
If you are dealing with a situation where a district changed its mail-in rules and merged voter lists at the last minute, citizens have several specific avenues for legal and administrative recourse.
1. File a Formal Election Complaint with the SCC
The Washington State Conservation Commission is the primary oversight body. They have explicit rules for handling election irregularities and determining "significant noncompliance"—defined as a failure to follow procedures that may affect the outcome of an election or deny voters their rights.
* Action: File a formal administrative complaint directly with the SCC Elections Officer.
* The Standard: The SCC will review whether the district "substantially followed" the rules. If they find significant noncompliance (e.g., expanding the voting pool via unauthorized lists in violation of the original board resolution), the Commission has the authority to refuse to certify the election.
* Contact: Complaints are typically directed to the SCC's policy or election coordination team (such as the Special Projects/Elections Coordinator in Olympia).
2. Judicial Review via Superior Court
Because CD elections sit outside the normal county auditor canvassing process, the ultimate check on a rogue election process is the court system.
* Filing a Lawsuit: Citizens and disenfranchised candidates can file a lawsuit in the local County Superior Court seeking a writ of mandamus (forcing the district to follow its original rules) or an injunction to stop the certification of the election.
* Precedent: There is direct legal precedent for this in Washington. For example, when a Conservation District previously handed out unrequested ballots or violated its own election resolutions, the superior court stepped in and entirely threw out the election results, forcing a reset.
* Legal Basis: A suit would argue that the sudden change violated the "due notice" requirements of RCW 89.08.190, breached the binding nature of the local board's adopted election resolution, and resulted in unlawful vote dilution.
3. Demanding an Explicit Local Canvassing Challenge
Before the local district board can submit the results to the state for final approval, they must review the election report.
* Action: Citizens can submit formal written challenges to the local CD board and the appointed Election Supervisor demanding that any ballots sent to individuals who did not legally request them by the established deadline be separated and challenged.
* Public Comment: Use the district’s next open public meeting to place the specific facts—such as dates of list merges and the exact number of excess ballots mailed—directly into the official public record.
4. Report to State Oversight Agencies
If there is evidence that the rule change was done intentionally to benefit an incumbent or a specific political faction (and kept hidden from the general public while being shared with select groups), it crosses from a procedural mistake into a violation of public trust.
* State Auditor’s Office (SAO): You can file a report through the SAO Whistleblower Program or citizen hotline regarding the misuse of public funds (taxpayer money used to print and mail unauthorized ballots outside the scope of the legally approved election resolution).
* Public Records Requests (PRA): Immediately submit a Chapter 42.56 RCW request to the Conservation District for all communications (emails, text messages, meeting minutes) regarding the "merging" of the voter lists, the decision to mail extra ballots, and any communications with outside political groups. This evidence is critical for both an SCC complaint and a court case.
Summary of Best Strategy
The most effective path is a dual track: file an immediate, detailed administrative complaint with the Washington State Conservation Commission to stall certification, while simultaneously consulting with an election attorney to prepare a challenge in Superior Court, using the Public Records Act to force the district to hand over the data behind the list merge.
Nice find! Thanks for sharing!
That seems like a perfect defensive strategy.
Good morning Jeff and Doggers,
They chet, they lie....rinse and repeat. Time for a change and if Shoona Riggs was smart she would have called them out on this... it's exactly her job.
Let's vote her out in force please... The more crooks we can remove the brighter our future will be.
See you at lairds on Saturday I've made more brittle for Jake Seegers 😋
Thank you all and have a great one!
The only optic that matters is that the CCD has broken trust with the people it's supposed to serve. Trust is the backbone to how society functions. Without it chaos leads.
Intentional acts by publicly elected officials deserve the highest level of scrutiny. More so than baseless aspersions because you don't like someone. Are the reasons not obvious?
The BOCC supported the CCD's per parcel fee increase.
What does the BOCC have to say now?
A letter? A public proclamation? A call for an investigation?
This is what happens when the incestuous network can't remove itself from the hard decisions that it should make, if it cares about everyone in the county.
I'm voting for Jake because he's not a part of this network. He's the best example of the diversity the citizens need to represent everyone.
The CCD is a mess. I strongly oppose any fees collected from me on behalf of it. I did not want this tax on my property tax bill, and now I am made to endure another questionable election. The BoCC is the cause of this mess. If those three Commissioners had had any backbone, they would have stood up for the constituency instead of the special interest group.
Jake Seegers 2026!
Virginia Shogren 2026!
Jeff Wachdog Tozzer 2026, 2027, 2028....!
The integrity of the latest CCD election was in question right from the beginning.Savvy people could sniff out problems as soon as it was announced that the LWV was going to be in charge.And then there was illegal shenanigans orchestrated at the end of election to make sure outcome was in favor of radical liberals.Just shows the integrity of the liberal party that is willing to disgrace itself in order to win.
Good morning fellow Patriots,
In my opinion, the fish stinks from the head down! It’s Blatantly obvious that our election and or elections have been rigged for quite some time. I noticed yesterday that there was someone who gave us information to possibly be watchers when the votes are being counted. I’m going to check it out.
Please do, Evrita. I observe the ballots processed and counted at the Court House. It's interesting to see the wheels in motion.
Is SKJ requires to “pay $5 for each parcel” in Clallam County? I doubt it. The tribe has got the taxpayers fooled. Again.
No, the tribe is exempt.
Grrrrr….right!
Of course it is! 😡
I even wonder if they pay taxes on the electricity they consume? and what happens when or warnings of brown and blackouts come will JKS turn out there colored lites?
That's why the Tribe supported Wendy Rae Johnson.
So what happened was...
When we got news of this election, my husband reminded me TWICE to be sure to request my ballot so we could vote on this important position. I was of course miffed I had to request a ballot at all- shouldn't they be sent out automatically for all registered voters to whom this effects?
Anyway, guess who procrastinated long enough to forget right up until my husband recieved his ballot in the mail? Yours truly.
The ballot itself was nothing special. I could have made a photo copy and returned submitted it. In fact, I offered to do that exact thing when I submitted a request for a ballot on February 21. I sent this verbiage to info@clallamcd.org:
"I forgot to submit a request for a ballot. Can I make a copy of my husband's blank ballot and mail in my vote with a business envelope featuring my attestation and signature on the back of the envelope, with the same verbiage as you have provided?
Elizabeth Rose Batson"
They wrote back on February 23rd with the following:
"Hello Elizabeth,
I will mail you a ballot to the address you listed below.
Thank you,
Heather Ginn
Office Administrator"
For what it's worth, I voted for Judy Larson, because I believe private property owners / tax payers should not shoulder the economic burden of superfluous feel-good projects, nor should they be restricted the use of their property by egregious wetland or habitat claims.
I have to wonder what guidance material the CD, local or state, has that governs how to manage/operate an election.
On March 10, 2026, as a result of the unusual rules surrounding the Conservation District's election, I emailed the County office an explanation. I got this back from Ian Hillway, Elections manager. By law they have different rules, rules which have to be changed at the state level:
Thanks for reaching out. Put simply, the law requires that they follow a different process than we do.
County government elections are dictated by RCW Title 29A: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=29A These are the “elections” that most people are used to.
Conservation Districts follow RCW Title 89.08: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=89.08&full=true These laws tell the Conservation District how they must operate, and dictate how their elections work.
If the Conservation District wanted to change their elections, it would require the State Legislature to change the law to allow them to do so. The Clallam County Election Office also don’t run elections for HOAs, diking districts, or draining districts, these legal entities all have different types of laws that cover them.
If you are interested in learning more about how different types of special purpose districts work in relation to taxation, the MRSC website looks like it has a decent breakdown of different types of taxation available to different types of districts here: https://mrsc.org/explore-topics/finance/revenues/special-purpose-district-revenues If you search for “Conservation District” on that page, it may have some useful information. Since I am not involved in Conservation District elections, I don’t have more detailed information on their processes for you.
Hopefully, this answers your questions as they pertain to the County. If you have questions about how the Conservation District operates beyond what is covered by the links above, you may need to reach out to them directly for further clarification.
Thank you,
This is not intended as legal advice.
Ian Hillway | pronouns: he/him/his
Election Confidence Team
Elections Manager
223 E. 4th Street, Room 42|Port Angeles, WA 98362
I'll stick my snoot in it when I get a moment. Thank you.
The Conservation District says it can't afford to send out ballots to all the registered voters in the county. How much does it cost to print and bulk-mail ballots? A lot less I would imagine than the $5/parcel tax being levied every year for the benefit of the Conservation District. Spending part of that $200,000 a year would go a long way to ensuring election integrity that the voters could trust. That is, assuming the District was interested in election integrity to begin with.
Great question... the size of the electorate in Clallam County is roughly 60,000 registered voters. The cost of an All-Mail Election, according to state election cost data, running a dedicated, hyper-local mail-in election typically costs between $2.00 and $4.00 per registered voter (and sometimes higher for standalone special elections). Even at a conservative $3.00 per voter to cover ballot printing, outgoing postage, return postage, processing, and signature verification, a single countywide mail-in election would cost roughly $180,000.
If the Conservation District spent $180,000 of its assessment just to mail out ballots every time an election came up, it would wipe out nearly 75% to 90% of its entire budget. The district would essentially exist solely to fund its own elections, leaving zero dollars to actually do the conservation work it was funded to perform.
You would think...and it is what I thought at first... that the common-sense solution would be to then maybe just move it to the general ballot, right? Wrong--because it turns out moving to the general ballot would force them to pay massive, proportional administrative fees to the County Auditor, once again draining the very funding meant for local conservation projects just to pay for the ballot space.
We are trapped in a classic bureaucratic catch-22. The system is too small to run cheap, efficient elections, but too legally and financially tied to the county's survival to ever be dissolved.
So instead of a clean solution, we get exactly what you see: a clunky, frustrating, slightly stupid system that everyone just has to live with. Oh and that is prone to conspiracy-driven paranoia.
I do not know about the costs of elections per ballot so I will accept your numbers at face value. How, then, did the District pay for elections in the past, before receiving the annual parcel fee?
From the Clallam County Conservation District Elections website https://www.clallamcd.org/elections-appointments :
"Clallam Conservation District is committed to pursuing election reform with the Washington State Legislature and making future elections on the fall general ballot.
If you would like this election on the regular fall ballot Please contact your legislator at 1-800-562-6000."
It does require the state legislature to change the law, so let's make it happen. Call.
The CCD vote was so rigged. Seeing how many legitimate voters never got ballots (me being one of many) is very disturbing.
How many voters didn't even know there was election coming up? I didn't until I read about it on CCWD. I think the Conservation District wants to keep it a secret so only the "correct" people vote.
Yep!
Good article, thank you CCWD. Didn't the CCD already get sued for election fraud the last time? Apparently the court didn't make it painful enough. This really shouldn't surprise anyone, look who observed ballot counting, how they advertised the election and how it was run. The general public had no clue the election was taking place. It is sad that not every voter in Clallam County did not get to vote, especially those that own property and are paying for the $2 million in extra taxes for the next 10 years? They can't manage their money, and run a secret election with only partisan groups organizing it. The whole thing stunk from the beginning, now it should have an investigation done on it.
You are right, they had their last election thrown out and the supervisor was removed from office. But that just meant that the CCD got to a point a member without a vote of the people. You think they would learn their lesson after that.
The court system barely gave them a slap on the wrist. The only thing these people respond to is true (metaphorically) PAIN!! Hefty fines and jail time. If it wasn't such a PROGRESSIVE State that scenario would play out. Komissar's should really be scrutinizing this whole process, but they will protect their own. This whole State needs a change. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”- Lord Acton
Since every property owner is paying 5 dollars to the ccd we should All have a vote in any and all elections, and they can use a portion of that fee to pay for the ballots!
This issue with the already notorious criminally corrupt "Clallam Conservation District" that was rammed down all of our throats without our vote or our permission is really simple to understand and FAR bigger than it would seem. If everyone who lived in Clallam County was eligible to participate in a special closed "lottery" to win a million dollars and "we" purchased a lottery ticked based upon that rule and those "defined statistical odds", then at basically the last minute (after we had followed the established rules and relied upon them), the lottery was opened up to everyone in Jefferson County to participate in, we would have been CRIMINALLY DEFRAUDED~! That would be a classic textbook case of "Detrimental Reliance" where the so-called "established rules" were, at the last minute, changed, and the anticipated statistical odds had in fact been dramatically contaminated to our detriment~! What I am not reading in this fine article of Jeff Tozzer's, is any real explanation as to WHY, after the election rules were SO well established and communicated, the pool of voters was suddenly expanded? This is the key question, and in fact the root of the very issue here. Those of us in America who are actually following the astounding proof of exactly how all of our national elections have been rigged over the past decades, know that the Democrat party has been caught "red handed" countless times waiting until the last minute to discover how many votes that they needed to rig elections, and then they "suddenly" (magically) find just enough "fake votes" to secure victories for their candidates~! This has been done by the criminal Democrat (communist) cabal MANY times over the decades and often AFTER the election deadline has well passed so that they can't lose these seriously corrupted & rigged elections~! Our national elections have been SO seriously corrupted over the decades, that even good and decent Americans constantly fall for the outrageous lie that "Americans are "divided" 50/50 (Democrat/Republican) when very obviously that has NEVER been the case. It is a simple Brainwashing illusion of these criminals of humanity! This is also why we sometimes see the small, emboldened clown freak shows on our street corners, because these completely brainless lunatics actually believe that they have FAR more support than they really ever have in fact had... Anyone who doubts that this "packing" of ballots that I have described here has not been the standard operating procedure of the criminals in the Democrat party, need only remember the absolutely atrocious blatant election rigging in our Washington State election many years ago where Maria Cantwell got her infamous nickname of "Count em until you win Cantwell"~! This very clearly rigged Clallam Conservation District election is simply just another way that the communist Democrats are packing the ballot box with just enough votes to make sure that they defraud the good folks of Clallam County, and by extension ALL Americans across the US~! The treasonous criminals in the Democrat communist party have been making absolute fools out of ALL Americans, without exception and on BOTH sides of the isle for decades, because they know that even if they are caught it will be too late for us to do anything about their criminal acts while they are in office via their rigged system of a VERY old and long crime spree~! NONE of these Democrats in our community are legitimately in office, they are ALL highly coordinated in their brutal communist attack against us, and that is exactly why they NEVER listen to anything that "we" want or have to say~! I have no idea what it will take, or how much more obvious proof will be needed, before the good folks of Clallam County find the backbone to remove these treasonous criminals from office and prosecute them ALL for their blatantly criminal behavior~! How much more will our community have to decline and become even more unsafe, how much economic loss will we have to suffer, and how many more will have to be harmed and even killed, before it will be enough to get folks to do their American duty here~! No one is coming to save us, so we are all on our own to make sure that our community gets on track to work towards its true potential free from this evil criminal communist assault~!
Sincerely, Mike
Comm. Randy Johnson gave his thumbs up to the parcel fee and rate change to proprty owners before any public disclosure was presented. Even 1,032 signatures protesting this fee couldn't sway his vote. I really never thought Randy would make such a decision against the people of Clallam County. From that point on I never trusted him again.
Yes, Patriot Denise Lapio, Randy Johnson simply played the "good cop" role to trick good folks into believing that he was going to be a good & obedient servant of the people, but he never was there to do that. That is exactly how these communists play their dirty underhanded game. I believe that the criminals in the Clallam Conservation District were already caught red handed rigging a previous election if my memory serves, to the point where a judge found "improprieties" and voided that election result? You would probably know more than I do about that, because my main focus is on National and to some degree International issues... These local issues are quite easy to analyze when you spend most of your life monitoring and analyzing the "Big Show" because these local clowns are a mere shadow of the most notorious criminals of humanity... They are pathetic Wannabees ;-) As far as I can tell Jake Seegers is a real deal Patriot who honestly cares about this community and has the Intelligence and common-sense reasoning that we need in our local government. Ha! Anyone who is not acting honestly and honorably, under the state & federal Constitutions, at this time in history, is playing with fire and will very likely get burned in the coming years because America has already rejected the old criminal "corporate government" matrix of the past 150 years or so... You see, that is why I am here and what I have been doing all along... I have been setting these local criminals up by documenting and constantly warning them of the "storm" that is already here that will destroy their evil games! It is actually quite humorous that I write these truths and warnings in plain view of these criminals, and they are of course reading them because they are very much concerned, as well they should be, but they are just too stupid to be able to see what is coming! Ha! I find that hysterically funny because these local criminals get off on scamming the average decent folks of our community, so they are absolutely blind to the fact that they themselves are being set up for a HUGE fall~! Ah, what good sport ;-)) So, hang in there my friend, because these criminals have already been caught and it will just be a matter of time before they find themselves in the trap of their own making~!
Sincerely, Mike