The never-voted file has 336,256 records. A small share look like data problems, or need context before anyone treats them as people to contact. Each one is explained below. The exceptions column in the data download marks which records each item covers.
These records show a registration date from before the person could legally sign up. Washington lets people pre-register at 16, so anything earlier can’t be right. 14 of them show a registration in the very year the person was born. The worst case, in Thurston County, shows a registration in 1924 for someone born in 2001.
Ask the county to check the original registration. There are too few to change any count on the dashboard, but they inflate "years on the rolls," which is why they’re left out of the 50-year figure.
| King | 15 | |
| Yakima | 9 | |
| Thurston | 2 | |
| Kitsap | 2 | |
| Franklin | 2 | |
| Stevens | 1 | |
| Spokane | 1 | |
| Snohomish | 1 |
Plus 5 more counties.
These people would be at least 100 years old today and have never voted. Most were born in the 1920s and registered between the 1990s and 2023.
Check names against obituaries or death indexes before any outreach, and send likely deaths to the county elections office.
| King | 26 | |
| Pierce | 5 | |
| Spokane | 4 | |
| Snohomish | 3 | |
| Clark | 3 | |
| Whatcom | 2 | |
| Yakima | 1 | |
| Thurston | 1 |
Plus 6 more counties.
A larger group, with the same question as above but less likely to be an error. Many will be real people, some living in care facilities.
Low priority for outreach. Spot-check a sample against death records to see how many are still on the roll after death.
| King | 231 | |
| Pierce | 70 | |
| Snohomish | 62 | |
| Clark | 44 | |
| Yakima | 29 | |
| Spokane | 26 | |
| Benton | 16 | |
| Thurston | 13 |
Plus 21 more counties.
Half a century on the rolls without a single recorded ballot is very unlikely to be real. These counts leave out the impossible dates above.
Ask the county if paper history exists. Treat these as a record-keeping question, not a voter-contact list.
| Pierce | 5 | |
| Spokane | 3 | |
| Yakima | 1 | |
| King | 1 |
These people are 21 or younger but have been registered about three years or more. That’s not an error. Washington lets 16- and 17-year-olds pre-register, and their "years registered" starts counting from that sign-up.
Don’t treat them like people who have ignored decades of elections. They are first-time voters and better suited to first-time voter outreach. This is also why the turnout calculation counts people born in 2007 only for the part of 2025 after they turned 18.
| King | 8,276 | |
| Pierce | 4,230 | |
| Snohomish | 3,958 | |
| Spokane | 3,105 | |
| Clark | 2,582 | |
| Benton | 1,969 | |
| Thurston | 1,663 | |
| Yakima | 1,589 |
Plus 31 more counties.
6 records have no precinct code, and 1 person appears twice: the same name, birth year and address under two different voter IDs.
Report both to the county. Neither changes any figure in a meaningful way.
The auditor's office keeps the voter rolls. Clean, accurate rolls give a truer picture of who is voting. Learn more about Damon and how to help.