Decades after it was revealed that state leaders registered noncitizens to vote, Oregon’s elections director resigned “in lieu of treatment” by the next secretary of state.
Democrat Tobias Read, the present state manager, won November’s vote to replace existing Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade, even a Democrat. Elections Director Molly Woon informed the latest secretary earlier this month, informing Read that she might step down.
” In lieu of elimination by the approaching management, I submit my departure from the place of Elections Director at the Secretary of State, successful 1/14/2025″, Woon wrote to Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade on Monday, according to the store.
Other top leaders in the senator’s business, including Deputy Secretary of State Cheryl Myers, Chief of Staff Ben Morris, Congressional Director Kathy Wai, and Audits Director Kip Memmott also announced defections just, both OPB and The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Woon served as deputy chairman of the Democratic Party of Oregon between 2018 and 2020. She has been the senator’s office’s elections director since January 2023. During her time with the secretary of state, she was involved in numerous controversies.
In 2022, a director of the phony cryptocurrency company FTX gave the state Democratic Party$ 500,000. Despite her past position in the group, Woon recuse-herself-from-investigation-into-partys-crypto-donor.html” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>refused to recuse herself from the investigation into the matter in 2023.
Woon served as votes producer when state authorities discovered in September that more than 300 noncitizens had registered to cast ballots since 2021. More than 1, 600 probably unsuitable voters were discovered following reviews, supposedly as a result of errors and mismanagement in the “motor voter” program at the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles.
The Oregon DMV even processed more than 54, 600 voter registrations for people of “unknown membership” between June 2021 and October 2024, as The Federalist originally reported.
The leftist group Institute for Responsive Government ( IRG ) contacted the DMV to find out about the motor voter system at first, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive.
According to InfluenceWatch, IRG, a task of The New Venture Fund and the work of communist dark money conglomerate Arabella Advisors, distributed” Zuckbucks”-style offers to local election offices prior to November. According to InfluenceWatch, IRG Executive Director Sam Oliker-Friedland is the lead counsel for the left-wing Center for Secure and Modern Elections, which also falls under the Arabella Advisors overcoat and supports automatic voter registration rules.
Best state officials, including Woon, worked together to plan a presentation contact with the CSME, according to Oregon columnist Jeff Eager, citing emails obtained through a public records request.
Woon and Oliker-Friedland both appeared in a movie this summer for the Skoll Foundation which claimed that “registering to vote is excessively difficult” and proposed” safe automatic voter register” as a” simple answer”. Woon gushed about Oregon’s automatic voter registration system, which placed noncitizens on the rolls.  ,
She said when Oregon voters have a “qualifying interaction” with the DMV, they receive a “motor voter” card with three options:” Do nothing”, and be registered as an unaffiliated voter, return the card to register with a political party, or opt out of registering to vote.
“]T] he first]option on the card ] is’ Do Nothing ‘ — just do nothing, and you’ll become automatically registered to vote”, Woon said in the video. It’s really unfortunate for someone to be prevented from casting a ballot for whatever reason, to be honest.
The Federalist reached out to Woon regarding her resignation, but the publication did not publish a response.
Logan Washburn is a staff writer who writes about election ethics. He is a The College Fix spring 2025 fellow. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon, but he now resides in rural Michigan.
