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https://www.carolinajournal.com/jimmy-carters-charity-sponsoring-nc-trusted-elections-tour-across-state/ It seems that the NCSBE has figured out the citizens of NC don't trust their elections or the people that run them. Those who have already attended this 'tour,' are not impressed. •It’s a propaganda tour. The very fact that Jimmy Carter's charity is sponsoring it, tells it all. There are three sessions: Operational/Legal/Technical. You submit questions and they re-write them. Designed to make them look wonderful. It may not be worth the time to go. You’re call. It’s probably in response to all of the negative press. (However, there may be a new development where our presence would be a positive. I will keep you posted.) •https://www.nctrustedelections.com/ In our area: •Tuesday, September 20th from 6:30 – 8:00PM at A B Technical College, Ferguson Auditorium, in Asheville •Link to register for event https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=283eFqwo6kuPyVhEqt6maUCdt4K53aZBudkRZ5OzetNURjBQTkFWVTFPTjdKMlIwVkswUVkxTERPOS4u "Former Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat; and former Judge Bob Orr, a one-time Republican whose recent political efforts have been largely in opposition to his former party, are leading an initiative to increase trust in North Carolina’s elections infrastructure. The initiative kicks off this week and is sponsored by the Carter Center, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s 501(c)3, which focuses on promoting peace and democracy (we are a Republic. Democracy breeds Marxism) across the world." Read the rest of the propaganda here.

On September 16, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a first-of-its-kind cybersecurity grant program specifically for state, local, and territorial (SLT) governments across the country. The NCEIT Tuesday call announced that this grant can be written to address cybersecurity at polling sites. Have you not been concerned about machines hooked into the Internet? This is a chance to find out! Your commissioners would have to initiate it. NCEIT can help write the grant. Interested for your county? Contact Jim Womack, james.k.womack@gmail.com. Please check it out CISA Cybersecurity Grant Period Open- see weblink at: https://www.cisa.gov/cybergrants

Join us for a regional election integrity training workshop in Kernersville, NC on October 15th from 9AM to 4:30PM with Jesse Burger who designed SEIRS, and Jim Womack. Training is designed to prepare you for Poll Working, Poll Observing, and War Room Operations during the October-November 2022 election cycle. Cost is just $15.00 which includes a lunch meal and refreshments. Registration and your ticket: $15.00. Click on https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/ Then click the DONATE button on the right. PLEASE RSVP to Joan Fleming with your name, phone and email, county and precinct so we can get you registered on SEIRS - Statewide Election Integrity Reporting System - to submit your Incident Reports. Thank you. Joan Fleming. volunteer@forsythgop.org Location The Church Crossing 1650 Pecan Lane (Exit 201 off I 40) Kernersville, NC 27824

While you do have the legal right to see and observe the machine tapes before the polls open and after they close, the BOE director in your county may not allow you to. This is a problem. We have received reports that some counties are okay with observers viewing the tape while other do not. Example: Henderson county violates state law with a policy change. Buncombe is ok. There are others. Go figure! In either case, you ask. Be polite. Don't lose your temper. Follow the instructions of the chief judge. You should download the NC State Statutes below and hand them to the judge/BOE director if the answer is NO. Write up an Incident Report even if the answer is Yes. Be sure to include details: judge/witnesses/where you stood in relation to the machine. Remember, This is our evidence. We want you to be on the right side and don't give them an excuse to remove you. Thanks. JB 08 NCAC 04 .0304 OPERATION AND MATTER OF VOTING ON VOTING SYSTEMS (a) Prior to the opening of the polls, the precinct officials shall open the voting system and examine the ballot for accuracy and examine the counters or other method to determine there is a zero balance. Any persons interested in viewing this procedure may observe but shall not interfere or impede the process. If the system prints a zero tape or other paper document, the document shall be maintained and secured in the manner prescribed by the manufacturer and the county board of elections. (b) The voter shall follow the instructions contained on the voting system. Only official ballots shall be introduced into the voting system. Spoiled or damaged ballots shall not be introduced into the voting system. If a voter improperly marks or damages a ballot, it shall be returned to the precinct official, marked as spoiled and maintained as specified by the county board of elections. The voter may not receive a replacement ballot until the spoiled or damaged ballot is returned to the precinct official. The voter shall not be given more than three replacement ballots. (c) Except as provided for curbside voting in G.S. 163-166.9, official ballots shall not leave the voting enclosure during the time that voting is being conducted there. History Note: Authority G.S. 163-22; 163-165.7; Temporary Adoption Eff. April 15, 2002; Eff. August 1, 2004; Readopted Eff. June 1, 2019 08 N.C. Admin. Code 10B .0105 - PROCEDURES AT THE CLOSE OF VOTING https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/north-carolina/08-NCAC-10B-0105#:~:text=08%20N.C.%20Admin.%20Code%2010B.0105%20-%20PROCEDURES%20AT,the%20chairman%20of%20the%20county%20board%20of%20elections See paragraph (h) The counting of the ballots shall be made in the presence of the precinct election officials and witnesses and observers who are present ad desire to observe the count. Observers shall not interfere with the counting of the ballots.

Poll Observer Training: In Person and Zoom Calls Please RSVP with your first and last name, your county, and date to attend to Jane@NCEIT.org Did you miss an NCEIT workshop or summit? Or, need a review? There are four more opportunities before early voting which starts October 20th. PLEASE REMEMBER, Sign-up with your local political party NOW to get on the Poll Observer list. It’s not too early. Poll Observer names need to be submitted to your local Board of Elections 10 days before you are permitted to show up and only a political party can submit names. Thanks. Before you arrive in person or get on a Zoom call, if you have not done so already, please sign up as a member of NCEIT.org/Join Us https://www.nceit.org/ to become a member. As a member, you will have access to the many resources we have for you including the NC State Statutes, Poll Observer videos, machine demonstration, and much, much more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zoom with Jane: Join Zoom Meeting Monday, October 17th, 2022 at 7PM Eastern Time Please log in a few minutes early so we can get started on time. Thanks. Join Zoom Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82927849798?pwd=d3JjUlZaeVY2dDNmMkRQd2EwU3Zadz09 Meeting ID: 829 2784 9798 Passcode: 910134 One tap mobile Dial by your location +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zoom With Sue: Mondays: 10/24: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88629542826?pwd=dExKbFM2S1FCbmF4eXZkTHJmK1NOZz09 Meeting ID: 886 2954 2826 Passcode: 043480

Submitted by Lynn Bernstein: https://www.transparentelectionsnc.org/ Questions for County Coordinators To BOE NC General Statutes § 163-182.2. Initial counting of official ballots. (a) The initial counting of official ballots shall be conducted according to the following principles: (1) Vote counting at the precinct shall occur immediately after the polls close and shall be continuous until completed. (2) Vote counting at the precinct shall be conducted with the participation of precinct officials of all political parties then present. Vote counting at the county board of elections shall be conducted in the presence or under the supervision of board members of all political parties then present. (3) Any member of the public wishing to witness the vote count at any level shall be allowed to do so. No witness shall interfere with the orderly counting of the official ballots. Witnesses shall not participate in the official counting of official ballots. OPENING OF THE PRECINCT POLLING LOCATION: NC Administrative Code 08 NCAC 04 .0304 Prior to the opening of the polls, the precinct officials shall open the voting system and examine the ballot for accuracy and examine the counters or other method to determine there is a zero balance. Any persons interested in viewing this procedure may observe but shall not interfere or impede the process. NC Administrative Code 08 NCAC 10B .0105 (h) The counting of the ballots shall be made in the presence of the precinct election officials and witnesses and observers who are present and desire to observe the count. (i) As soon as the votes have been counted and the precinct returns certified, the chief judge, or one of the judges selected by the chief judge, shall do the following: (1) report the total precinct vote for each ballot item to the witnesses and observers who are present. 08 NCAC 06B .0105 (d) When the counting is completed the chief judge or his or her designee shall verbally announce the results at the precinct. STEPPS Manual: Ballot Counting 7. Any member of the public wishing to witness the vote count at any level shall be allowed to do so. No witness shall interfere with the orderly counting of the official ballots. Witnesses shall not participate in the official counting of official ballots. The precinct facility should not be locked so as to prevent public access to the count. Questions for County Coordinators: Since no voters are present in the voting enclosure before the polls open and no voted ballots would be in open sight, I do not believe that there are NC legal restrictions on photography/videography during these publicly observable processes. Please confirm this. Will members of the public be allowed to enter the voting enclosure prior to the bootup of the scanners/tabulators in order to witness that there are no ballots in the bin or emergency bin. Will members of the public be allowed to view and video-record the zero tape. [using an app made specifically for that purpose] Since no voters are present in the voting enclosure after the polls open and after the chief judge securely stores the voted ballots, I do not believe that there are NC legal restrictions on photography/videography during these publicly observable processes. Please confirm this. Will members of the public be allowed to enter the voting enclosure after the polls close on election night to witness the shut-down (tabulation) of the scanner/tabulator. Will members of the public be allowed to enter the voting enclosure after the polls close on election night to witness the shut-down (tabulation) of the scanner/tabulator. Will members of the public be allowed to enter the voting enclosure after the polls close on election night to take video-recording of the poll tapes with zero tapes attached. The public may enter after the last voter has placed their ballot into the scanner/tabulator and the chief judge announces that the polls are closed. Since no voters are present in the voting enclosure at either time and no voted ballots would be in open sight at either time, I do not believe that there are NC legal restrictions on photography/videography during these publicly observable processes.

No need for a Public Records Request (FOIA) to see absentee ballot containers/envelopes. You can search NCSBE data base for absentee ballot voters to verify their addresses on your Watch List. Go to https://www.ncsbe.gov/results-data/absentee-and-provisional-data Scroll down. Click on 2022 November 8 Election - Absentee by County (ZIP) Find your county and click on the file. The spread sheet data contains the names and addresses of absentee voters who have been tabulated through the machine. (Remember, every ballot is retrievable.) Check the names and addresses against your Watch List. Each week you need to re-check this file for new absentee ballots that have been delivered to your local BOE and tabulated. Not sure if your county has a Watch List? Join the List Maintenance team at Member Resources/Local Task Forces/List Maintenance https://www.nceit.org/group/list-maintenance-team/about Contact Herschel Johnson at herschel.johnson@protonmail.com Each Tuesday between now and election day, your local county Board of Elections meets. Check your local BOE for time and location. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ATTEND. This is #1 on our Election Integrity Task Forces. They need to know we are monitoring.

The NCSBE illegal rule changes to restrict poll observers and officials, were quashed by the NC RRC. However, that has not stopped them from instituting them anyway. Please read carefully. They need to be legally challenged. From: Cox, Paul Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 10:43 AM To: SBOE_Grp - Legal Subject: Numbered Memo 2022-12: Maintaining Order at the Polls Directors (via BCC): Please find attached and linked here Numbered Memo 2022-12: Maintaining Order at the Polls, from Executive Director Brinson Bell. This memo draws on and adds to prior “Conduct at the Polls” numbered memos that have been sent before previous statewide general elections. Please read the memo carefully and share guidance with your poll workers, as instructed in the memo. Key items that are new in this memo: More detailed guidance on the authority in the law for county boards and poll worker site leads to maintain order at the polls. Information on crimes and prohibitions involving interference with election officials, not just voters. Additional discussion on working with law enforcement during voting, along with a link to the new Elections Reference Guide for North Carolina Law Enforcement. That guide is also attached. The State Board partnered with the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association and the North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police to produce the reference guide. Additional examples of prohibited activities at the polls. Additional guidance about observers, including discussion of the authority to reject appointed observers for good cause, which could include prior disruptive activity at the polls. The two-page observer guide is also linked in the memo. This is the same observer guide that was distributed for the May primary. Instructions on documenting all polling place incidents on Incident Report forms, and the requirement to upload those forms after the election to the Secure FTP/Filezilla. And as a reminder, if you want to access any of our August conference materials—which dealt with addressing disruptions at the polls, working with law enforcement, and de-escalation techniques—those are available on the Secure FTP/Filezilla at \Election_Administration\Training & Outreach\Conferences\2022 Summer Conference. Best regards, Paul Cox | General Counsel North Carolina State Board of Elections 430 N Salisbury street Raleigh, NC 27611 919.814.0700 www.ncsbe.gov

One more piece of good news. We keep fighting back and we will win this. https://www.theepochtimes.com/election-software-ceo-arrested-over-data-theft-storing-data-on-servers-in-china_4775971.html?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-10-05-2&src_cmp=breaking-2022-10-05-2&utm_medium=email&est=pSWIcku2Y89AfdG3EL9PFqLYYzfr5%2B3JVqsJJ9%2B7jsFOIMO1cnu5ErJjfNnDH370j5g%3D

When you attend your local Board of Elections meetings when they are opening and scanning absentee ballots, submit a Public Records Request (form Letter below) requesting copies of the absentee ballot containers. You need to fill in YOUR information. Suggest you hand deliver it. Ask for a receipt of delivery. (It's not going to make you popular with the BOE!) [Your Name] [Street Address] [City, ST ZIP Code] [Date] [Name of Custodian of Records] [Title] [Company Name] [Street Address] [City, ST ZIP Code] Director County Board of Elections County Board of Elections Director: Pursuant to Chapter 132 of the North Carolina General Statutes, I respectfully request the opportunity to inspect and obtain copies of the following public records: 1. The total listing of all names of all absentee by-mail ballots returned, board approved and scanned, including but not limited to the in-person return logs from One Stop locations and the main office as they become available. 2. Copies of the container-envelopes with redactions according to statute. I respectfully request that the production be made in electronic form, if possible. As records become available, please provide them on a rolling basis. If any record is withheld on any basis, please include that reason in your response. If you are not the custodian of any of the records described above, I respectfully ask that you promptly forward this request to the correct individual. If costs are going to be assessed against the requestor in excess of $25, please let me know before proceeding. The law requires that you respond to and fulfill this request “as promptly as possible.” Given the fact that the County Boards of Election will begin county canvasses on November 18, 2022, it is imperative that the public receive this information immediately. Please provide the requested records no later than 5:00 P.M. on November 8, 2022. You Name Your Phone

Come to the Henderson County BOE of Elections meeting on Tuesday, October 5th at 5PM. They need to follow NC State Election Statutes. Have your voice heard. Elections Board of Director, Karen Hebb Henderson County Board of Elections Members 75 E. Central Street Hendersonville, NC 28792 828 697 4970 October 2, 2022 Jane Bilello 218 Vincent Place Hendersonville, NC 28739 Dear Ms. Hebb and the Henderson County Board of Elections Members: On Tuesday, September 21, 2022 at a Henderson County Board of Elections meeting at 75 N. Central Street in Hendersonville, NC at 5PM, by a vote of 3 Democrats to 2 Republicans, you passed a policy to violate NC State Election Statutes and your own Administrative Code. Unfortunately, what you are attempting to do is to make policy instead of following state election law when it comes to allowing citizen Observers to view the tapes coming out of the machines so Observers can see the count. Opening of Polls: NC State Statute 08 NCAC 04.0304 OPERATIONS AND MATTER OF VOTING ON VOTING MACHINES. The law clearly says any person may view and may observe but shall not interfere with the process. After passing the illegal policy, The Henderson County BOE Directors, Karen Hebb, sent a letter directing the Republican and Democrat Party Chairs that Observers shall not have ‘access’ to the machines. (See attached.) The law does not mention ‘access.’ It says may view and may observe. This is not only a violation of state law, it is a breach of trust and transparency with the citizens of Henderson County whom you serve and are paid by. The BOE does not make law. The North Carolina General Assembly does. Closing of Polls: NC GS 10B.0105: PROCEDURES AT THE CLOSE OF VOTING Section (h) The counting of ballots shall be made in the presence of the precinct election officials and witnesses and observers who are present and desire to observe the count. Observers shall not interfere with the counting of ballots. (Observers do not need or want access to the machines. The law says ‘observe.’ Observers cannot observe if they are at the other end of the room.) I sincerely hope that you will revisit this illegal policy that not only breaks NC State Statutes, but harbors mistrust for lack of transparency. If you have nothing to hide, why try to circumvent NC State Election law and NC Administrative Code. Sincerely, Jane Bilello Sources: NC State Statute 08 NCAC 04.0304 OPERATIONS AND MATTER OF VOTING ON VOTING MACHINES NC GS 10B.0105: PROCEDURES AT THE CLOSE OF VOTING Section (h) HCBOE Letter to Party Chairs https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/henderson-boe-letter-violates-state-law-admin-code Cc: philip.thomas@ncgop.org Phil Thomas kevin@kevinclinelaw.com (GOP atty-Kevin Cline) Cindy Ellis cewmt123@gmail.com Democrat Party Chair Sharon L. Brooks sharon.lee.brooks@ioa.com Republican Party Chair Jim Womack james.k.womack@gmail.com NCEIT Director NC Senator Chuck Edwards Chuck.Edwards@ncleg.gov NC Representative Jake Johnson Jake.Johnson@ncleg.gov NC Representative Tim Moffitt Tim.Moffitt@ncleg.gov