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I don't know statistics from other elections, but is it strange that over 10% of last year's ballots were disqualified?

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Stalin was right and the question is who were the "...the people who count the votes" ?

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Shoona Riggs or Mike French should be able to provide some statistics. For such a small election, 10% does seem high.

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It will be interesting to see if the Cox supporters call for a re-count should the outcome be in favor of Judy Larson... or vise-versa. I have noted that there has been little to nothing, publicly, from the Cox faction, unless posted on Facebook, or other platforms, which I do not frequent, nor subscribe to.

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Interesting. When I picked up ballots last week, no one took my name or the name of my partner. I did ask that we be mailed ballots in the future and at that time I wrote our names and address in a notebook.

Short story long, no way are these ballots being tracked.

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My experience, asked if she needed to see my ID. No. The rep also offered that I could take one ballot for each registered voter at my address. She did not mention there was a way for me to be mailed future ballots.

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Just like the county, state, and federal elections-- they just create as many ballots, ad hoc, as they need to win their cause. Does anyone follow United Sovereign Americans? They just published this for California: https://x.com/UnitedSAmerican/status/1900969361977852362/photo/1

and

https://rumble.com/v6q73mi-ceo-marly-hornik-securing-the-2026-election-constitutionally-3-5-2025.html

I urge everyone to follow and support both. USA was founded by Marly Hornik and she has been exposing voter fraud nationally, and currently has filed 11 lawsuits to CRIMINALLY charge Secretaries of State for certifying provably uncertifiable elections. There will be crooks and cheats going to prison.

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Tracking our ballots needs to be brought to light and rectified if not currently available.

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Great article. At the last conservation district meeting, I raised the issue of inconsistent river management yet again. I showed the Jimmycomelately project and stated the Conservation District actually hired the engineer for the project and argued all 6 corners including Jamestown S'Klallam signed off on the science. I also argued there was nothing else left for them to do except install the Jimmycomelately process on the Dungeness.

Hansi Hals spoke last and falsely stated they were implementing the Jimmycomelately science on the Dungeness.

The Dungeness has added a tributary, while the Jimmycomelately permanently blocked two tributaries and built a brand new main channel, where it was never located historically, and that was designed never to re-channel and be permanent. The Jimmycomelately has not moved in 20 years. Most rivers would have rechanneled by now. During the Dungeness center summer event, the lady from League of Women Voters stated all rivers re-channel and argued Jimmycomelately re-channels. When I showed her a picture of Jimmycomelately before and after, she took off her apron and huffed off while the park rangers and fish and wildlife officers gathered to point over to the League of Women voters booth.

We have such a bad relationship with the tribes all we can rely on them to do is be dishonest during policy development and debate. Same goes for the other non native interest groups. They hate pictures that tell the truth.

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Thank you John, your dedication to Clallam County is immeasurable!

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Yes thank you !

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Do you think they want the salmon to fail on the Dungeness so that salmon on the Jimmycomelately will do better at spawning? With them messing with the Dungeness so much in the last 8 years, I know of, it seems like they keep messing with the native spawning, it’s something every year & less water in the channel because of the tributaries is not the answer! The main channel has less water so they are now creating log ripples….didn’t need those before the addition of tributaries? I see it as a specific way to make swimming up stream harder for the salmon, that is my common sense science that I can determine!

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One theory I heard was that it has nothing to do with the salmon, and everything to do with causing the river to retake an old channel on the east side to claw back land. Homes in the Riverview Dr and McComb Rd. area would be affected. Homes would then be deemed unliveable. Look at Google maps, you can see the channel on the regular map (not satellite) indicated with blue

Drive the area and look at the terrain. The old channel can clearly be seen in some areas.

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I have laid irrigation pipe and walked ditches over most of the Dungeness drainage from Taylor Cut-Off all the way to Jamestown, to Washington Harbor/Port Williams to the east, in the late 1970s and mid-1980s. The entire flood plain is impressive, as far west as Siebert Creek, encompassing the "MRA".

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What's your assessment of the possibility I laid out?

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The MRA, as such concerns me, being a pre-requisite to the scenario you present. Plausibility is another, in the presentations by JST, not only to local entities and residents, but Congress as well, via any of their 343 on-site lobbyists in DC. My assessment: very likely; based on current and previously laid foundations, including the proposed, deceptive off-channel 41 million acre/ft reservoir. This all goes well beyond local. If I weren't "retired", attempting to stay abreast would be futile.

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There's a part of me that wanted you to debunk what I'd heard so that I could dismiss it, but frankly after seeing some of the happenings it sounds like a legitimate concern.

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Green Paper Salmon

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One doesn’t know weather to cry or light fires! My dad told me at an early age things about rivers and water. He said you see the river that flows but you don’t see the river that flows under ground. That the more men try to play with the movement and life in the river the more they hurt it and it can take a hundred years for it to right itself.

Rivers are not just the visible water flowing on the surface but a much larger and complex system that includes under ground flow, wetlands and surrounding ecosystems.

Everything that’s gone wrong with the Dungeness and the Jimmy is a result of people wanting to play let’s fix it cause it’s ours. Everything that’s been an attempt to control, reroute or improve these waterways has only made things worse. These quick solutions only end up making things worse. Excessive sediment buildup alluvials, bank collapse. Declining water tables. Sudden changes in their eco systems can wipe out species that took centuries to develop.

Meanwhile artificial modifications can cause unintended ( ? ) I.e. floods and droughts….. rivers are alive and living systems.

This arrogance this sideshow brought to us by the Tribe the Commissioners and their pet NGO’s needs to come to an end.

They’ve meddled, reworked and are re imagining the rivers creeks water as if it’s theirs to control. Nature doesn’t answer to politics or agendas. It has its own balance and laws.

It’s time we stop letting them pretend we have no power. Stop letting them sit in council with out speaking.

The other day it was mentioned to get flyers out…. Has there been a collection started… has anyone thought where we could meet and greet a bit to consolidate our thought meaningfully enough to present a front?????

Ideas?????

Sorry Jeff…. Talk about a long winded I can’t sleep rant … apologies Peeps🤷‍♀️😌

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The two great uniters: a desire for transparency and insomnia.

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Yes, it is arrogance that some humans believe they can control this planet, the sun, the solar system, and the universe. That's why I don't believe in climate change. I believe there is pollution and some things we can change for the better. Bill Gates needs to know he is not a god or God.

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And then, there is JST's agenda to persuade WA DNR, Fish and Wildlife, that their "science" supersedes, to support pen-farming Atlantic Salmon, in addition to their oyster farm on protected tidelands and "management"of Dungeness Bay. 'Better bring a lunch and a sleeping bag. I won't silenced by those who just arrived on this morning's Greyhound. Science, as presented is subjective, used to silence opposition, from self-asserted experts with 6 years of farming, touting "no-till" on a 4.7 acre plot, and a couple of "Farmer of the Year" awards over that span, asking us to vote for dictation of policy and allocation of resources. "I don't think-so, Tim."

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How can log ripples make it EASIER for the salmon??? Or are these the same STUPID SALMON that cannot negotiate fish ladders or bypass canals, and need dams removed to survive?

Sorry for my cynicism and vitriol, but you know that I am up to my eyeballs with all this bullshit that it affects my health!

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Paper salmon!

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We human biological organisms arrived here on earth in the nick of time to save Salmon, Orcas, Whales, Spotted Owls, and to manage rivers and Nature, in general. 'Close call.

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The river moves too fast because it shoots down grey wolf and then too slow and low, because of the new tributary. The hotel logs scour the beds during the fllods...They chose flooding and condemnation over the Jimmycomelately science they all signed off on. Not a single one of the 6 corners will respond. They also will not respond to the fish culvert over 4 percent grade scam. Washington State is a corrupt disgrace.

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I also picked up my household ballots and noticed how easy it would have been to have picked up more. No identification was required, no proof of address. The staff was helpful and polite. I second the question: who counts the ballots for this election?

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The Republican Party should be offering to confirm votes before they are cast to compare with ballot counts. I am tired of no confirmation or a confirmation with the voter removed from the vote.

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Mar 16Edited

I briefly read over the complaint, and the investigative findings.

I'm not amused by the blind-eye turned to Ben Smith's comments at the public meeting. He shows up as a representative of his official position, yet miraculously transforms himself as an individual at the end of the meeting where he supports a candidate? It's not as if he clearly stated that he was now morphing into citizen Smith and further comments were no longer associated with his official position. As such his influence cannot be measured.

The inter-related web of activists in this area is alarming. The infiltration and installation of single goal oriented officials runs deep.

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Why is this election run like a high school student body election. The CCD 2024 vote only had 256+62-42 total votes how is this an election in this county? 318 valid votes with 42 rejected. (13% rejected) I would think the voter threshold was not met, and there for no election. Given this small group has such a large input to our county elected board, we should have this election in conjunction with the formal county elections. this is the second "hidden" election in two months.

We need better turnout for better results. Being elected by less than 1% of the electorate is not good governance, or responsible.

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It appears that DeLorm is yet another tribal proxy vote. The tribe has morphed from environmental protection to tribal protection. My understanding of tribal fish harvesting rights is 50% of the "harvestable" fish. Not 50% of the fish. A very big difference. In the last roughly six years I have watched the non-tribal fishery curtailed because he tribal fisheries took too many fish; repeatedly. The tribes are no longer about the resource. They are about how much of the resource they can sell. We cannot let the treaty tribes buy or political representatives.

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We here voted in person at the Port Angeles office, and it was obvious that there is a high potential for election fraud in the system. It is disturbing that so many votes have been "disqualified" in the past and we wonder why and who exactly disqualified those votes? With all of the obvious corruption in our local government/s, what are the odds that the elections are honest? Sincerely concerned, Mike

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I wish I could post the picture of Delorm crapping on my lawn 💩 including toilet paper left on the lawn for someone else to deal with. I would like for everyone to see how concerned she is about conservation…..

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Looks and smells like a bad relationship.

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Send it to me directly, Pepai, please.

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I’d be happy to but don’t know who you are?

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VOTE Judy Larson!!!

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The CCD will need to throw out more than 10% of the ballots to throw this towards Cox. I mean does anyone not see the conflict of the activist consortium counting the ballots that keep them in power? Let's see if they have it in them.

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There is a multi-faceted push by activists who present themselves as "experts", following "the science", and disparaging those who actually have first-hand KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities) in the immediate area(s) these people claim to excel in. Most, if not all of the self-asserted "experts and scienctists" selling their wares are not from the Olympic Peninsula, with quite a number being encouraged to relocate, becoming involved in local politics and envorinmental activism. Like Jeff,Tozzer, et al. my roots run deep here on the Olympic Peninsula watching this scenario unfold, since Sunland, the Dungeness Golf Course, to Tribal Casinos, the Field Arts Center and multiple failed businesses courted and sponsored by Clallam County Commissioners through the years. Conflict of interest has become SOP in Clallam County, with the lastest doondoggle being DASH AIR, who received a couple of nice "birds" compliments of Taxpayers. I could present more examples, but we'll save those for another exchange.

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So we have our own Ilhan Omar. She didnt by chance marry her brother did she?

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Keeping it in the family!🤪

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Very disturbing ! Just makes me want to jump in my car and drive to Post Angeles to both pick up a ballot and drop it in the box, without any assurance it will be counted !!

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Do it! Jump in your car! But wait until Tuesday at 1 pm :)

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I dropped my ballot in the box outside the CCD office at Suite H in the Armory Square bldg. beause the office was not open on Wed. Feb. 19th. When I inserted the ballot into the slot, it did not drop, being partially visible when I manually closed the flap door. Being cognizant of the possiblity of tampering, I opened the flap and pushed my ballot down past what appeared to be the locking mechanism inside the box, which my ballot had hung up on. Tampering would easily be accomplished, being that the office/ballot box is at the west end of the building, close to the entrance/exit door, with very little traffic that day. I did note a man when I entered the bldg. picking up spent cigarettes on the sidewalk, straightening one out, placing it in a shirt pocket to be enjoyed later. 'Situational awareness, I presume, from my miltary experience and world travels.

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I think what bothers me the most is.....not all land/homeowners live in Clallam County. Not only do we not know about when, where or how to vote, but I personally would have a 2 hour round trip drive (in good weather) to vote IF I knew when, where, or how to vote. Thank god I found CCWD, otherwise I would have never known about this important vote.

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Just wondering out loud here: Do you have to be registered to vote in Clallam County or is simply being a landowner enough?

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Looks like a registered voter in Clallam County: "To vote in the 2025 Clallam Conservation District election, you must be a registered voter residing within the district's boundaries. The election is scheduled for March 18, 2025, with polls open from 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Election Day to be counted."

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A great point, Jennifer.

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Clallam Conservation District Election!

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 according to the CCD Resolution #24-016. The CCD Election resolution was passed at a regular board meeting on December 10, 2024. It is resolved that a poll site and mail in election for an open elected board of Supervisors position will be held. Election Day is March 18, 2025. Polls open at 1:00 PM and close at 6:00 PM. Ballot counting will be open for public viewing starting at 6:00p.m. and goes until all ballots are counted. Postmarked ballot counting is open to the public on March 27, 2025 from 1:00-until all ballots are counted.

228 W. First Street, Suite H, Port Angeles, on the upper level of Armory Square.”

Clallam Conservation District https://clallamcd.org/

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I guess the legal minds that created the survey have succeeded. As I ponder the available choices, I wonder how my selections will be interpreted. If I select Great Weakness over Great Strength, for a particular topic, will that lead to the CCD focusing on improvements on that topic? I also wonder how some topics might be improved, such as so called 'Climate Resiliency'?

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You mean the place the 7 priorities in order of importance so as to give the appearance that the social measures they're pushing are actually ones I care about? 😲

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Yep. 🤡

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The red "Security Tape Seal" is a nice touch; very comforting.

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