{"id":2382089,"date":"2024-12-19T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/or-elections-director-resigns-after-noncitizens-found-on-voter-rolls\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:39:16","slug":"or-elections-director-resigns-after-noncitizens-found-on-voter-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/or-elections-director-resigns-after-noncitizens-found-on-voter-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"OR Elections Director Resigns After Noncitizens Found On Voter Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2For-elections-director-resigns-after-noncitizens-found-on-voter-rolls%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=2382089&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--><p>oregon&#8217;s elections director, Molly Woon, has\u200b resigned ahead\u200d of potential removal by the incoming Secretary of State, Tobias Read, after\u200b a controversial period marked by the registration of \u2063noncitizens to vote. Woon, who has served in her role since january\u2063 2023 and\u200c previously held a position with the Democratic Party of\u200b Oregon, submitted her\u200b resignation in \u200dlight of \u200dRead&#8217;s recent election victory. Alongside Woon, other key officials in the secretary&#8217;s office\u2062 have\u200b also announced their resignations. \u200cWoon\u2019s \u200btenure has \u2064been marred by scandals, including her refusal to recuse herself \u2062from an examination involving a notable donation from \u200ba fraudulent cryptocurrency executive to the state Democrat Party.Additionally, audits revealed that over 1,600 \u2062potentially ineligible voters had been registered due \u2064to issues with the state&#8217;s motor \u2063voter system, with more than 54,600 voter\u2062 registrations for individuals\u2064 with &#8220;unknown citizenship&#8221; processed since June 2021.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oregon&rsquo;s elections director has resigned &ldquo;in lieu of removal&rdquo; by the next secretary of state, months after it was revealed that state officials registered noncitizens to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Tobias Read, the current state treasurer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-elections\/oregon-secretary-of-state-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won<\/a> November&rsquo;s election to replace current Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, also a Democrat. Earlier this week, Oregon Public Broadcasting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/12\/17\/top-staffers-at-oregon-secretary-of-states-office-resign\/\">reported<\/a>, Elections Director Molly Woon told the current secretary of her plans to resign, signaling Read might remove her from office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In lieu of removal by the incoming administration, I submit my resignation from the position of Elections Director at the Secretary of State, effective 1\/14\/2025,&rdquo; Woon wrote to Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade on Monday, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Other top officials in the secretary&rsquo;s office, including Deputy Secretary of State Cheryl Myers, Chief of Staff Ben Morris, Legislative Director Kathy Wai, and Audits Director Kip Memmott also announced resignations recently, both OPB and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/5ODOj\">The Oregonian\/OregonLive<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Woon was deputy director of the Democrat Party of Oregon between 2018 and 2020, and she has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/molly-woon-284a6332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elections director<\/a> in the secretary&rsquo;s office since January 2023, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was embroiled in multiple scandals during her time with the secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>An executive at fraudulent cryptocurrency company FTX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2024\/07\/17\/no-criminal-charges-democratic-party-of-oregon-donation-connected-to-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gave<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/oregon\/article_0c76b044-fa7b-11ed-ba15-33394aae37b3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$500,000<\/a> to the state Democrat Party in 2022. In 2023, Woon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/oregon-elections-director-who-worked-for-democratic-party-will-not-recuse-herself-from-investigation-into-partys-crypto-donor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/the-story\/oregon-democratic-party-ftx-campaign-donation-investigation\/283-fe6c07f1-dce5-4d6c-b027-18f71a8a2fe3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recuse<\/a> herself from the investigation into the matter, despite her former position in the party.<\/p>\n<p>Woon was also elections director when state officials discovered in September more than 300 noncitizens had been registered to vote since 2021.<strong> <\/strong>Following audits found more than <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/oregon-dmv-busted-allowing-people-of-unknown-citizenship-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1,600 potentially ineligible<\/a> voters on the rolls, allegedly due to glitches and oversights in the &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; system at the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon DMV also processed more than 54,600 voter registrations for individuals of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/oregon-dmv-busted-allowing-people-of-unknown-citizenship-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unknown citizenship<\/a>&rdquo; between June 2021 and October 2024, as The Federalist previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>The DMV initially discovered it helped put more than 300 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/oregon-secretary-of-state-defends-law-automatically-registering-hundreds-of-noncitizens-to-vote\/\">noncitizens<\/a> on the voter rolls because the leftist group Institute for Responsive Government (IRG) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/oregon-dmv-only-learned-it-helped-register-300-non-citizens-to-vote-after-a-national-think-tank-raised-questions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inquired<\/a> about the motor voter system, The Oregonian\/OregonLive previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>IRG &mdash; a project of The New Venture Fund under leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/organization\/institute-for-responsive-government-irg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark money giant<\/a> Arabella Advisors, according to InfluenceWatch &mdash; doled out <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/zuckbucks-org-promotes-6-million-election-grant-from-left-wing-dark-money-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Zuckbucks&rdquo;-style<\/a> grants to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-joins-states-banning-zuckbucks-but-will-that-be-enough-to-stop-dems-private-election-takeover\/\" title=\"Louisiana bans &#039;Zuckbucks&#039; to halt Dems&#039; private election control. Will it suffice?\">local election offices ahead<\/a> of November. IRG Executive Director Sam Oliker-Friedland is chief counsel for the left-wing Center for Secure and Modern Elections, which similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-secure-and-modern-elections\/\">falls<\/a> under the Arabella Advisors umbrella and advocates for automatic voter registration laws, according to InfluenceWatch.<\/p>\n<p>After revelations Oregon&rsquo;s system had registered noncitizens to vote in September, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">top state officials &#038;mdash<\/a>; including Woon &mdash; worked to plan a briefing <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonroundup.substack.com\/p\/koteks-office-sought-emergency-noncitizen\">call<\/a><strong> <\/strong>with CSME, Oregon journalist Jeff Eager reported, citing emails obtained by public records request.<\/p>\n<p>Woon and Oliker-Friedland both appeared in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wk01EAN4pvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> this summer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/skoll-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Skoll Foundation<\/a> which claimed that &ldquo;registering to vote is unnecessarily complicated&rdquo; and proposed &ldquo;secure automatic voter registration&rdquo; as a &ldquo;simple solution.&rdquo; Woon gushed about Oregon&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerberg-used-a-tax-exempt-foundation-to-help-biden-fix-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg Used a Tax-Exempt Foundation to Help Biden Fix the 2020 Election\">automatic voter registration system<\/a>, which placed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/oregon-dmv-busted-allowing-people-of-unknown-citizenship-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noncitizens<\/a> on the rolls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wk01EAN4pvw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> when Oregon voters have a &ldquo;qualifying interaction&rdquo; with the DMV, they receive a &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; card with three options: &ldquo;Do nothing,&rdquo; and be registered as an unaffiliated voter; return the card to register with a political party; or opt out of registering to vote. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[T]he first [option on the card] is &lsquo;Do Nothing&rsquo; &mdash; just do nothing, and you&rsquo;ll become automatically registered to vote,&rdquo; Woon said in the video. &ldquo;[T]o me, it is really unfortunate if someone is prevented from getting a ballot for any reason whatsoever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist contacted Woon regarding her resignation but did not receive a response by publication.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-clark-county-keeps-commercial-addresses-on-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Clark County Keeps Commercial Addresses On Voter Rolls\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon&#8217;s elections director resigned amid noncitizen voting issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2382090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Oregon_State_Capitol_1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6571,6642,6522,35823],"class_list":["post-2382089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elections","tag-oregon","tag-resignation","tag-voter-integrity"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Oregon_State_Capitol_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382093,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382089\/revisions\/2382093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}