Election watchdog Glen Morgan of We the Governed says Washington’s Secretary of State’s office has, for the first time, admitted to significant errors in the state’s voter rolls, but is still ignoring the most alarming finding: hundreds of thousands of registered voters lack a Social Security number (SSN) in their file.
Speaking on The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI, Morgan recapped the events of the past week. His recent viral video revealed that roughly one in seven registered voters in Washington, more than 700,000 people, have no SSN listed. This missing data undermines the state’s ability to verify voter eligibility through the Social Security Administration, a process election officials have long claimed they perform.
Washington Secretary of State Admits Voter Roll Issues After Viral Report But Sidesteps Core Problem
“It’s not a defense to say, ‘It’s not 25,000, it’s only 13,000.’ That’s still unacceptable & it ignores the real story: 700,000 without Social Security numbers" @wethegoverned pic.twitter.com/sK2FKs3zIJ
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“How can you verify someone’s citizenship if you don’t have their Social Security number? You can’t,” Morgan said. “This is exactly what they’ve been telling us they do, and the numbers prove they don’t.”
After days of silence, Washington’s Office of the Secretary of State (OSOS) issued a response via spokesperson Stewart Holmes, sort of. The statement, which Morgan says is the first public acknowledgment of the problem, disputed some of his figures but confirmed the issue exists.
Holmes’ internal email to election officials downplayed Morgan’s estimate of 25,000 voters without any form of identification (no SSN, no driver’s license) and claimed the number was closer to 13,000. But as Morgan noted, that still represents thousands of unverifiable voters, far from a trivial problem.
Holmes wrote that “in the vast majority of these cases, the voter record contains other identifying information, and in many instances these voters registered before certain requirements were in place.” He argued that Washington’s vote-by-mail system and other safeguards protect election integrity.
Morgan was unmoved. “It’s not a defense to say, ‘It’s not 25,000, it’s only 13,000.’ That’s still unacceptable, and it ignores the real story: 700,000 without Social Security numbers,” he said.
Morgan criticized OSOS for creating multiple “work groups” on topics like voter access and ballot translations, while never forming a committee dedicated to voter roll maintenance. “There isn’t a single work group in Washington for voter integrity or voter roll cleanup,” he said. “It’s the lowest priority they have.”
He also stressed that the problem often begins at the Department of Licensing (DOL), which he says routinely registers non-citizens to vote during licensing transactions, a practice backed by whistleblower testimony.
“This is a policy problem. The DOL registers non-U.S. citizens every day, and if employees don’t do it, they risk being fired,” Morgan claimed.
Morgan’s findings raise questions about compliance with federal election laws, including President Trump’s March 2025 Executive Order on election integrity and the pending Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Both measures require states to maintain accurate rolls and verify citizenship using federal databases.
He called on the Department of Homeland Security to publish its list of non-citizens in Washington so election officials can begin cleaning up the rolls.
“Not all non-citizens are here illegally; some are on visas or green cards, but none should be voting. This list would make fixing the problem much easier,” Morgan said.
Morgan said public comments on his video revealed stories of jury summons sent to non-citizens and even to foreign exchange students years after they returned home. “These anecdotes line up perfectly with what the data shows,” he said.
While OSOS has now publicly acknowledged gaps in the voter rolls, Morgan argues the state is still evading the central question: how it can verify citizenship without Social Security numbers on file.
“The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one,” Morgan said. “Now they’ve admitted it. The next step is to actually fix it.”
