Rantz: Auditor’s office censors online political speech, calls voting on Election Day ‘misinformation’

Thurston County Auditor Mary Hall’s office coordinated with local and federal officials to remove constitutionally protected speech from social media sites and YouTube. It believes telling voters to submit ballots on election day is “dangerous” and is even proactively seeking content to report and censor.

In an Oct. 6 Facebook post, the office’s account deemed election disinformation “the biggest problem facing free and fair elections.” The post asked voters to “protect our republic” by emailing the so-called disinformation posts to the office. It says the auditor will “work with our state and federal partners to respond.”

Emails obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH show Hall’s staff attempted

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