The 2024 Election in Washington State: The story of my arrest

Tracy Abuhl

My name is Tracy Abuhl and I live on Camano Island in Washington State. I have lived here in Island County for 33 years. As you know Washington State is one of or is the bluest states in America. So about the time the COVID ‘pandemic’ hit in 2019 I was convinced that the Conservative island community I love was being inundated with the woke/LGBT agenda. Up until that time I had led an idealist and simple life of being a housewife, car pool mom and doting grandmother. My children, grandchildren and the children in my neighborhood were in danger and I knew I needed to make a commitment to get involved in politics.

To date I have served as President of the Camano Island Women’s Republican Club (beginning in 2022 and have been reelected to serve as President for 2025).

In 2022 I was elected as Vice Chair of the Island County Republican Party and served for two years 2023-2024. I have stayed active, fully engaged at every level of conservative politics including:

ballot observation where I became the Official Republican Observer for the Republican Party of Island County.

official Observer for the Candidates in the Statewide recount in 2024 and as the General election candidates.

One of my priorities in the 2024 election was to be especially assertive to keep Island County voters aware that in the 2020 Presidential election Mark Zuckerberg spent millions of dollars to squeeze the presidential election results toward Joe Biden. I used my voice on social media and the political platforms I was involved with to say, “We must make the conservative turnout in Washington State too big to rig!” I was determined not to let voters be complacent about the purpose of election integrity in 2024.

On October 25th I arrived at the Election Office to observe and was told we had to wear a mask.

It was late afternoon when I was told (our Island County is made up of two separate islands connected by a bridge. It takes me two hours to get to the bridge and drive south to get to the County Seat from my house. Thoroughly frustrated I decided to decompress and ponder just how I was going to respond to this ‘new mask mandate’ so I drove north, over the bridge again which is another two hours to get back home.

I was frustrated and felt humiliated that I just went back home that Friday night so I could figure out how to deal with the mask mandate on Monday.

I had already dealt with this in our August Primary when they tried to make me agree to wear a mask during the Statewide recount but the WSRP Lawyer called and they reversed the mandate but not before the sheriff told me he would remove me. 

It was the weekend and jail didn't look good. The health department had no idea about this order but someone had tried to use the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) as justification instead of the law (RCW).

On October 28th I drove two hours back to Coupeville (our county seat). As an official observer they wouldn’t let me in so I tried to observe from the hallway (again they were mandating the mask rule). My view was limited to say the least as I was trying to peak through a doorway to observe the count. It was impossible and inappropriate for my (official) assigned Election Observation duties. According to my understanding the masks had been deemed to be unconstitutional.

Not to be deterred I went in the observation room and was there for a half hour before anyone noticed but in the end, the Police were called and asked me to leave- which I did without incident as you will see in the video. There was NO TICKET issued and no struggle or physical resistance (which the video*1.) clearly shows. 

I am a constitutional conservative and I agree with President Elect Trump who has flatly stated his recommendation: Do Not Comply. On October 29th James Peterson served a Cease-and-Desist letter to the Auditor at the Election Office. Komo TV 4 did an interview with Michelle Reagan who is the Election Official and the interview captured a worker in the same room I was removed from the day before – note he is not wearing a mask*2.) and is not being harassed or asked to leave.

On October 31st I went back with my friend to see if they had removed the Mask Mandate and videotaped the encounter *3).

November 5th James Peterson, Tim Hazelo and I filed a restraining order/stay to stop the mask mandate however only James Patterson could be part of that because he couldn't represent Tim and I. Tim Hazelo is the other person who was removed and issued a ticket.

We requested several court documents but were told that the Washington State Computers were down across the state, we (Tim and I) just received the Written Order on January 2nd, 2025 for the November 5th court filing.

On December 24th (Christmas Eve) Island County filed a disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing charge on me which I received December 31st (New Year’s Eve) with a court date of January 8th.

Court Dates- Case # C24-109

January 8th - No probable Cause per Police Report

Feb- 5th - Probable Cause per an unelected official affidavit. 

Next Court date is Feb 19th- Hired Lawyer to get the charges dropped! 

The prosecutor dropped Tim's charges only to file FELONY Charges! We are in the fight of our life please pray and donate!

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*1.) I am including the video link: with Give send and go link that I had no choice but to set up: https://givesendgo.com/HelpTracyObserveMaskFree?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_lin k&utm_campaign=HelpTracyObserveMaskFree

2.) *3.) https://rumble.com/v5kzm2q-island-county-elections-office-mandating-masks-to-observers.html

*3.) The KOMO TV video is available at:

https://komonews.com/news/local/island-county-elections-officials-representative-jim-walsh-covid-19-mask-mandate-auditor-2024-elections-staffing-observers-gop-state-rep-discretion-amendment

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