March 9, 2021 Cody Hart for Government Accountability by Cody Hart
I have talked to a lot of people about the evidence I reported and partially disclosed to the public of the Skagit County Election officials being caught deleting video surveillance of the November 2020 election that is suspected of showing them tampering with election ballots. During these conversations, there has been a lot of discussion about the federal investigation process and thought I would share something many are overlooking or choosing to ignore.
Yes, the evidence shows that there were multiple election officials including the Skagit County auditor who knowingly participated in the destruction of federal election records but what seems to be talked very little about is that the videos were also local and state records and that makes what I have reported, also a crime here in Washington state.
As I encourage everyone to look up for themselves, there are a couple very applicable state laws that apply to what has been reported that I recently found in an on-line article that sums it very nicely as follows;
RCW 40.16.020, prohibits municipal and other public officers from mutilating, destroying, concealing, or falsifying any record or paper relating to the officer’s office. Violation of the statute is a felony and can result in extremely serious penalties: imprisonment for not more than ten years, a fine of not more than $5,000, or both a fine and imprisonment. In addition, if the person is an elected official, conviction of a felony vacates his or her office. RCW 42.12.01.0(5). But wait, there’s even more: RCW 9.92.120 provides:
The conviction of a public officer of any felony or malfeasance in office shall entail, in addition to such other penalty as may be imposed, the forfeiture of his or her office, and shall disqualify him or her from ever afterward holding any public office in this state.
(Emphasis added.) This section disqualifies the person from any governmental office - elective and appointive - forever.
Another statute, RCW 40.16.010, makes it a felony for any person, not just officers, to “willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal, or obliterate a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing filed or deposited in a public office, or with any public officer.”
Again, for those who think what I have reported is something that our local Sheriff or Attorney General does not have jurisdiction over, from what the law says, you are wrong.
And for any local law enforcement agencies to say they can do nothing, is an outright lie, betrayal of the powers we have given them, and my gut tells me an strong indicator they are part of the corruption that has allowed the other election crimes I have reported to occur.
Frankly, a felony arrest is getting off easy for what this is all about and those responsible should feel lucky if this is all that happens to them.
Cody Hart for Government Accountability
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