Experienced with systems.
Grounded in family.
Damon Townsend has spent his career working where public trust, technical systems, and practical service meet.
Family
Damon and his wife, Dawn, have been married since 2000. Their son, Keyland, serves as a Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force and is married to Reva. Their daughters, Abigail and Allison, both work in the banking industry.
That family experience shapes how Damon thinks about public service: county government should be steady, understandable, and useful to the people building lives here.
Career
Damon’s background combines field work, infrastructure management, elections administration, and technology operations.
- Technical foundation. Before moving into management, Damon spent a decade as a hands-on telecommunications technician, maintaining field systems, solving service problems, and learning critical infrastructure from the ground up.
- CenturyLink area plant management. Damon managed telecommunications field operations, crews, service reliability, and infrastructure response across a large service area.
- Pierce County Elections supervisor. Damon worked directly inside election operations, including ballot processing, tabulation, logistics, technology, procedures, and public-service delivery.
- Independent elections and technology consulting. Damon helped public agencies and election teams improve practical systems, documentation, and operational readiness.
- Lightcurve technical leadership. Damon continues to work in technology operations, supporting networks, systems, and the kind of reliability people expect from essential services.
Elections Work
- Helped improve ballot processing and tabulation procedures with an emphasis on accuracy, repeatability, and auditability.
- Worked on practical transparency tools, including ballot tracking and operational reporting that help voters understand what is happening.
- Helped solve field problems such as drop box connectivity and secure routing for election infrastructure.
- Supported election teams through high-pressure cycles where reliable procedures and calm execution mattered.
Why Auditor
The Auditor’s Office touches elections, licensing, recording, and public records. Damon is running because those services should be easier to use, easier to measure, and easier for the public to trust.
His approach is simple: build systems that work, publish numbers people can understand, and treat every resident like the office exists for them.