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Resident raises security concerns over Clear Ballot voting system; urges county to terminate contract
Summary
A resident urged Clallam County to terminate its Clear Ballot voting system contract, presenting sworn affidavits that allege vulnerabilities in the vendor’s software.
At the Oct. 7 public comment period, resident Virginia Schugrin urged the county to terminate its 2018 Clear Ballot software license and services agreement, citing two sworn declarations from alleged whistleblowers who claim voting-system vulnerabilities and the potential for remote manipulation of electronic vote tabulation.
Schugrin said the county has retained the Clear Ballot contract despite an affidavit first submitted to the county in January 2024 and a more recent deposition from a former Venezuelan official dated Sept. 18, 2025, who allegedly described intentional software features that permitted manipulation of vote counts. She described those materials as grounds for returning to “constitutional elections” and called termination of the Clear Ballot contract a “prudent first step.”
Commissioners did not take action on the Clear Ballot contract during the meeting. County staff and commissioners did not confirm contract termination; the county’s clerk/auditor staff previously noted the contract (signed in 2018) remains in effect. Commissioners did not accept or reject the legal claims at the lectern but did not authorize any immediate change to election operations.
Provenance: The Clear Ballot concerns were raised during public comment beginning at 00:31:00 (Virginia Schugrin).
