Unofficial results suggest four races headed for an uncontested general election will now have a choice on them. No one at the county can recall it happening before.
← News & Press · Unofficial results · August 4, 2026 primary
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Four write-in candidates appear to have qualified for the November general election in Skagit County, according to unofficial returns from the August 4 primary.
They are Derrill Fussell, write-in for Coroner; Cody Hart, write-in for Sheriff; Timothy Garrison, write-in for Treasurer; and Amanda Toscano, write-in for Clerk.
| County office | Write-in candidate | Status (unofficial) |
|---|---|---|
| Coroner | Derrill Fussell | Appears to have qualified |
| Sheriff | Cody Hart | Appears to have qualified |
| Treasurer | Timothy Garrison | Appears to have qualified |
| Clerk | Amanda Toscano | Appears to have qualified |
The count is not over. Skagit County will not certify the primary until August 18, and the numbers can still move. The League of Constitutional Voters is reporting these results as unofficial and incomplete.
If they hold, the practical effect is this: four county offices that were on their way to a November ballot with one name on them will arrive with two.
That outcome is rare by design. Under Washington law, in a race with a single candidate on the ballot, the auditor does not count write-in votes by name at all unless the write-ins together exceed one percent of the total votes cast for that office (RCW 29A.60.021). Clearing that threshold is the hard part. In a race with one other candidate, finishing second is what follows.
No one at the county can recall it happening before — not four in a single election. The League has been unable to identify a prior Skagit County primary in which four write-in candidates advanced to a general election, and is requesting the county’s historical records to establish whether this is in fact unprecedented.
The League of Constitutional Voters was founded on a single count: in 2025, 68 percent of the 38,606 elections it analyzed were uncontested — 78 percent of local judicial races and 61 percent of school board races had exactly one name on the ballot. Offices like coroner, sheriff, treasurer, and clerk are among the most likely in the country to go unopposed.
This is what it looks like when the machinery works. Voters did this — not an organization. The point is not who wins in November, but that Skagit County voters will now get to decide.— League of Constitutional Voters
The League takes no position on any of these candidates, and no position on any office they seek. Its interest is in whether voters are given a choice, not in which choice they make. Nonpartisanship is written into Article I of the League’s bylaws and can be amended only by supermajority vote of the membership.
Confirmed totals will be published as the county releases them. Official results are available from the Washington Secretary of State at results.votewa.gov, and certification is scheduled for August 18.
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Source: Unofficial Skagit County returns from the August 4, 2026 primary, published by the Washington Secretary of State — results.votewa.gov/results/public/skagit-county-wa/elections/20260804.
This release is published by the League of Constitutional Voters as a matter of public record. The League is nonpartisan and does not endorse candidates. All results described here are unofficial until certification on August 18, 2026.