by Frank Holmes, reporter
Democrats continually deny that voting fraud takes place at all, but the evidence is so undeniable that the top election official in one of the country’s bluest states just owned up to the massive extent of voting irregularities in his state.
A new federal report showed that about 20 percent of the entire population had an irregular voting status.
The state of Oregon has 800,000 “inactive” voters: voters who have not voted in the last two elections, or whose mail-in ballots got returned to the state.
The numbers boggle the mind: Oregon has 800,000 irregularly registered voters out of an estimated population of 4,272,371 as of July 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau statistics.
That’s one out of every five residents in Oregon — men, women, children, visa-holders, and illegal aliens — irregularly registered to vote.
“Hold on. Oregon’s population is only 4.25M…. 20% of their registered voters were fake?” asked one online commentator.
The state’s Democratic leadership are running for cover and taking just enough action to fend off a full-scale federal investigation.
Hold on. Oregon's population is only 4.25M…. 20% of their registered voters were fake? https://t.co/rnCFEcI41P
— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) January 12, 2026
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read is only ordering one out of every five inactive voters removed from the rolls: 160,000 out of 800,000 inactive voters. To make the cut, they had to be declared inactive before July, 20, 2017—about the time President Trump’s officials got confirmed and took office during his first administration.
“After the initial 160,000 inactive records are processed for cancellation, there will be approximately 64,000 inactive voter records left on file,” said Read’s office.
Even that begrudging action came only following a report from the Trump administration’s Election Assistance Commission Election Administration and Voting Survey which pointed out Oregon’s status as a voter registration swamp on par with Chicago. Oregon removed about a third as many voters from its rolls as the national average: 3.6 percent of voters over two years, compared to a standard of 9.1 percent.
The Trump administration noted the 4,417 people Oregon removed from the voting rolls for failing to respond to an election board request that they confirm their present address is “by far” the lowest in the country.
The effect is easy to see. Republicans make up fewer than one out of every four registered voters. Oregon has not a single Republican elected to statewide office. In the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris beat President Donald Trump by 14 percentage points.
That sounds huge, but in real numbers, it means President Trump “lost” Oregon by just 317,708 votes—about a third as many ballots as the number of people registered inaccurately in the state. Coincidence?
The Trump administration has put Democrat-run states on notice that it will not allow voting irregularities in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sent out notices last summer to multiple states, including Gavin Newsom’s California, and Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News, “Unlike the previous administration, at President Trump’s DOJ, we will fight to have fair and secure elections – and that begins with making our voter rolls accurate.”
Read blamed the big ballot build-up on his Republican predecessor, Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, who died seven years ago.
Read said his action is just “about cleaning up old data that’s no longer in use,” and the enormous number of “inactive” votres does not affect election results in any way. “From day one, our goal was clear: run elections that are secure, fair, and accurate. This move will strengthen our voter rolls and reinforce public trust in our elections,” claimed the left-wing, blue-state official.
But the press release admits that voters are moved from “active” to “inactive” based on criteria that should raise lots of questions, “for example: their election mail is returned as undeliverable.”
The post office usually returns people’s mail when they move or die.
The press release—sent out as part of the Friday night news dump—also confessed that regularly puring inactive voters from the rolls is legally required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) and Oregon law (ORS 247.563)…which raises the question of why it wasn’t already happening.
Oregon’s latest voting scandal follows revelations from Oregon State Rep. Ed Diehl, a Republican, that just before the 2024 election, the Secretary of State’s office registered 1,257 voters with no proof of eligibility — and that nine of them voted.
Of course, this blue state voter fraud isn’t restricted to Oregon. Not by a long shot.
OREGON: DMV "ACCIDENTALLY" REGISTERS 1257 VOTERS WITH NO PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP. Rep. @Real_EdDiehl says there is an investigation underway, but they know at least 9 of those voters DID vote. #voterrollfailures pic.twitter.com/aqw1VU3IGH
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 2, 2024
In neighboring Washington, a landlord voted illegally multiple times in the names of her former tenants.
Officials arrested Esperanza Contreras, 52, in the city of Pasco after receiving four questionable ballots from her apartment building in the 2024 presidential election. Law enforcement said after they moved away, Contreras—who had access to all the mail as the building manager—opened their mail and cast ballots on their behalf.
It’s not enough that she took their money; she also stole their vote.
It took a full year for the Franklin County (Washington) Sheriff’s office to get involved. By then, Kamala Harris had already won the state of Washington by an even larger margin: 18 points.
The tipping point came when they got a ballot from a former voter who had relocated… to Oregon.
Why have Democrats taken so long to implement common-sense policies like removing absent, or dead, voters from the voting rolls?
Why do they continue to deny blue states have an election integrity problem?
Why do they always insist their sloppy practices haven’t really changed any election results?
Do you believe them?