{"id":1595147,"date":"2022-08-08T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595147"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:18:55","slug":"joe-kent-has-his-own-ballot-rejected-after-delayed-election-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-kent-has-his-own-ballot-rejected-after-delayed-election-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kent Has His Own Ballot Rejected After Delayed Election Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-kent-has-his-own-ballot-rejected-after-delayed-election-count%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1595147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Joe Kent, candidate for Washington\u2019s 3rd Congressional district, has had his own ballot rejected by the state, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Kent, who is endorsed by President Trump, submitted his ballot to the county auditor\u2019s office himself, on August 2nd 2022. It was originally sent to him on July 17th.<\/p>\n<p>The National Pulse has obtained an image of the notification of Kent\u2019s rejected ballot:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kent\u2019s rejected ballot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Kent told The National Pulse that he had to go into the offices of the election administrators on Monday, August 8th, in order to verify his own signature \u2013 a process that many older voters may be unable to attend to so easily \u2013 so that his vote would count.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a mess of a system,\u201d Kent told The National Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>The primary election in WA-3 is curious enough by itself, using a non-partisan, top-two <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Washington&#039;s_3rd_Congressional_District_election,_2022_(August_2_top-two_primary)\">system<\/a>, \u201cin which all candidates appear on the same ballot, for congressional and state-level elections. The top two vote-getters move on to the general election, regardless of their party affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Kent\u2019s primary appears to have had especially strange problems, with the count still not concluded almost a week since election day. At the time of writing, around 81 percent of ballots (183,000) have been counted. Another twenty-odd thousand remain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-4.59.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-4.59.55-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-4.59.55-PM-800x254-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-4.59.55-PM-1160x369-1.png 1160w, https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2022-08-08-at-4.59.55-PM-480x153.png 480w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vote totals as on Monday afternoon, EST.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kent is currently running 0.1 percent behind establishment Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach President Trump. Critics wrote off Kent\u2019s chances on election day, but the former Green Beret who served 11 combat tours and won six bronze stars has clawed his way back as the votes have trickled in.<\/p>\n<p>Now, critics suspect there could be foul play in certain counties, where votes for Kent are being rejected, including his own.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20211111-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"Fund Real News\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kent, candidate for Washington\u2019s 3rd Congressional district, has had his own ballot rejected by the state, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal. 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