This Letter Is Being Sent to Notify You That Your Voter Registration Has Been Challenged

(CountyAuditor letterhead)

(date)

(Challenged voter)

(mailing address)

Dear (Challenged voter):

Your voter registration has been challenged by (name of challenger), (another registered voter, the Prosecuting Attorney, or a poll worker), based on the belief that you do not live at the address where you are registered to vote. Copies of thedocuments filed by the challenger are enclosed. Voter registration records indicate that your residential address is:

(residential address)

If your registration information is not correct, you may update your registration by contacting our office at (phone number).

A hearing regarding the challenge to your voter registration has been scheduled for (date) at(time) at (location). The (CountyAuditor or County Canvassing Board) will preside over the hearing. A voter registration challenge hearing is an administrative hearing, not a court proceeding. The hearing is open to the public. The challenger must prove by clear and convincing evidence that your registration is invalid. You can respond by either participating in person, or submittingwritten testimony by declaration. A sampledeclarationis attached. If you decide to respond by declaration, it must be received in our office prior to the hearing. If you do not participate in the hearing, a decision will be made based on all available information.

You may provide evidence that you live at the address where you are registered to vote, or that you meet one of the exceptions allowed in law. You are not required to live at the address you list as your residence if you are absent due to state or federal employment, military service, school attendance, confinement in a public prison, out of state business, or navigation at sea. If you lack a traditional residential address, state law allows you to list theaddress of a shelter, park, motor home, marina, or other identifiable location that you consider to be your residence.

(If an election will occur prior to the hearing:) You may vote in the (date) election, and your ballot will be treated as a challenged ballot. The outcome of the hearing will determine whether your ballot is counted. If your registration information is not correct, you may update your registration through Monday, (date), the day before the election.

If you have any questions, please contact our office at (phone number).

Sincerely,

(name, title)

cc: (Challenger)

Enclosures

Declaration

I, am over the age of eighteen years

(print name)

and I am competent to make this declaration. I have actual knowledge of the following:

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of Washington that the

foregoing is true and correct and that I executed this declaration at:

, on the day of , 20.

(city) (state) (month)

signed

6/06