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Actually, it isn't good news at all. The 'left' is expediting this case before they lose control over the NC Supreme Court in November. The hearing is slated for October and the ruling will likely emerge after the election. It will be a 4-3 leftist majority opinion that concludes voter ID is invalid as a constitutional amendment. The high court likely will rule that Voter ID and one other amendment must be removed from our constitution because it was never supposed to be on the ballot for public approval years ago. (Their logic was that the NCGA was illegally elected from improperly drawn districts). If this happens, Voter ID could be in jeopardy for our 2024 election cycle. Jim https://conservativebrief.com/court-id-66848/ The U.S. Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win back in June in a fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law. In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ended the three-year-plus dispute over the voter ID law and held that legislative leaders in North Carolina can intervene in the federal case to defend the law. Now, the North Carolina state Supreme Court has voted 4-3 along party lines to hear oral arguments in October in a lawsuit challenging the state’s photo voter ID law. “In light of the great public interest in the subject matter of this case, the importance of the issues to the constitutional jurisprudence of this State, and the need to reach a final resolution on the merits at the earliest possible opportunity, … [t]his case shall be scheduled for oral argument as soon as practicable, on a date to be determined during arguments scheduled the week of 3 October 2022, or by special setting no later than 18 October 2022,” Justice Robin Hudson, a Democrat, wrote in the order. Writing for the Court’s three Republicans, Chief Justice Paul Newby wrote: “Once more, the majority expedites the hearing of a case where no jurisprudential reason supports doing so. Given the impending November elections, expedited hearing in October on this voter ID matter will likely cause voter confusion, … especially when this Court recently entered a decision in another case involving voter ID, N.C. NAACP v. Moore.” “Additionally, the trial court’s permanent injunction in favor of plaintiffs remains intact,” Newby added. “Expedited consideration, therefore, will not provide plaintiffs any new relief that they do not already enjoy. Accordingly, nothing suggests that expedited hearing is necessary ‘[t]o prevent manifest injustice’ or to protect ‘the public interest.’” “The state Supreme Court ruled in August that a trial judge should take another look at N.C. NAACP v. Moore, the case challenging the 2018 voter-approved referendum that enshrined voter ID as an amendment to the state constitution. The high court suggested that the trial court could nullify the voter ID amendment and another amendment that lowers the state’s income tax cap,” The Carolina Journal reported.

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Information for Buncombe County Your Political Party needs to sign you up for Poll Observing. Contact Bobbi Shiplett at the Buncombe GOP Office. 801 455 0780 bobbishiplett@gmail.com You need to be a member of NCEIT to gain access to the many Member Resources available to Poll Observers including training videos and state statutes. Log on to NCEIT.org/Join Us https://www.nceit.org/ fill out the form. It's free. Then, contact Jane@NCEIT.org. You need to sign up for the State Election Integrity Reporting System - SEIRS - to report your poll obserrver experience on the Incident Reports. Send Jane@NCEIT.org your name, phone, email, county, and precinct so I can get you in the system. You will get a welcome email. Change your password and you're good to go! Very Important!! If you have had no training or want a refresher, there will be 4 opportunities in our area. In person in Henderson and Buncombe and 2 Zoom calls. See link below. Poll Observer Training In-Person and Zoom Calls. Click here for dates, time, and locations. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/in-case-you-missed-it-poll-observer-training-live-and-zoom. Thanks so much for caring. Our nation needs us NOW. Only you can make a difference. Hope to see all of you soon! Jane Bilello 209 986 3845.

By Gary Bai September 21, 2022 Updated: September 21, 2022 At ten past five in the morning on Election Day in 2021, retired construction company owner Warren Jenkins slid into his business-casual attire in a panic, knowing he had to get to the polling station in 20 minutes. He was the only Republican poll watcher at an important precinct. Jenkin’s wife, prescient, pre-made lunch for her husband, who then arrived at the polls to begin his 15-hour shift—from 5:30 a.m. to about 9 p.m.—just in time. As a volunteer poll watcher in Virginia, Jenkins would run back and forth between the outdoor ballot box and the in-door voting place, observe the conduct of the election, and report irregularities and violations of the Election Code, if any, to election officials. For his entire life, Jenkins has been somewhat of a model American man: he served in the army, built houses, and loves spending his weekends at church and with family and friends—and wasn’t into politics, at all. But as the battleground blaze simmered at the conclusion of the 2020 election lawsuits, Jenkins still had in his mind the lingering silhouette of Zuckerbucks (private funding in election administration that was allowed in 2020 and now banned in some states), whispers of faulty mail-in ballots, and alleged—later court-confirmed—election law-flaunting. He then thought he could do more for the country as an American. “With the Trump-Biden election, there was so much press on the dishonesty in the election. I thought I would see for myself,” Jenkins told The Epoch Times. “I’m retired now—and I thought, it was time to roll up my sleeves and to go out and to help out.” “I felt like being a poll watcher—even though we didn’t get paid—was an important role,” Jenkins said. “I didn’t really care about the money.” A poll watcher monitors the counting of ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Nov. 6, 2020. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)Jenkins is one of many who saw themselves as a part of a movement to defend the integrity of America’s elections, concerned that the 2020 election was not conducted well. Some offered explanations for what went wrong in 2020—some had substantial proof—but none seemed to be able to convince the courts to rule in favor of what they were proposing, which often consisted of flipping the election results for a district, or the Biden presidency altogether. Many realized this, so they pivoted forward. They formed a movement, driven by the belief that citizens should participate in the election process to give rise to transparency, and that accompanying the right to vote is the right to have every legal vote counted—and faulty vote trashed. Ground-up Movement Jenkin’s resolve to act proved fortuitous, because just as Republicans like him across the country decided to become more involved in elections, roads were built to help them do exactly that. Cleta Mitchell, who fought alongside former President Donald Trump in one of the 2020 election lawsuits disputing the election results in Georgia, was getting a lot of calls—and a lot of ideas—following the 2020 election. “What has happened in 2020 was that many people across the country realized that things were not right, and that the election was not conducted according to law in many cases,” Mitchell told The Epoch Times. “And so A lot of people have said, ‘What can I do to help? What can we do to make sure this doesn’t ever happen again?’” “As somebody who spent a lot of time in a lot of different aspects of the election, I’ve tried to say, here are things you can do: You can go to rallies and have somebody get yelled at,” Mitchell said. “Or, we can train you. We can tell you what you need to do to make sure it never happens again. And there’s plenty to do.” Mitchell, a seasoned lawyer with a swath of experience in all corners of election issues (and a Democrat-turned-Republican), leads the Election Integrity Network, a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a Washington-based non-profit. Since its launch, the network developed into a nationwide mobilization base and knowledge-sharing platform that operates at national, state, and local levels to work on election integrity initiatives, such as pushing legislation for voting security, hiring more poll watchers and election officials, and examining potential loopholes in election administration processes. Through training and discussion “summits,” the network has kicked off state-level “coalitions” across the country, and these state coalitions would then become the headquarters of mobilizing precinct-level task forces in that state to work on election integrity projects. “Ultimately, all elections take place at the local level,” Mitchell said when asked about her vision for launching the network. “We are asking people to become involved in apparatus at their local level, because that’s where the elections take place. And that’s where many of the problems occur, because that’s where the voting takes place.” Getting to Work The Election Integrity Network started humbly with weekly telephone calls, during which state coalition leaders in various battleground states would bounce ideas off of each other on how to improve election security and share the issues they spot. But things quickly picked up speed when Lynn Taylor, a regular on these calls who leads Virginia Fair Elections, a state-level coalition in Virginia, saw that time is cutting short for her state. “Virginia is one of two states that have statewide elections every year, Virginia and New Jersey,” Taylor said in an interview with The Epoch Times, sharing how she was concerned about the way the 2020 election was run and wanted to help improve the security of the 2021 election—the question now is how. “The idea came from Cleta when she and I were on the phone together, and she said, ‘you really need a summit,’” Taylor said, recounting her conversation with Mitchell. “I said, ‘I don’t have the budget for that,’ and she said, ‘I do.’ Two and a half weeks later, we had a summit.” “This was very different from the way that things had been done,” Taylor said. “You know, people have been having summits for ages, but this is the first one in my years that we actually use it for training purposes.” With the help of Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network, Taylor organized the network’s first “Election Integrity Summit” in August 2021 in Virginia. The two-day event featured election integrity training and information for grassroots who wanted to help improve election security. These included poll observers’ recruitment, scheduling, training, and administration; a project to document potential illegal voter registrations; and a discussion on the alleged influence of private funding in the 2020 election. A panel discussion on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s alleged influence during the 2020 election at the “Election Integrity Summit” in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which took place on Aug. 20–21, 2021. (Courtesy of Cleta Mitchell)During the summit, people who had already been working on related initiatives—improving security around the ballot box, analyzing election data for potential anomalies, or pushing for election integrity legislation, for example—found others scattered across Virginia working on similar things, and quickly fused into local work groups called “Election Integrity Task Forces” and began collaborating on projects on a county basis. “The coalition was how you get involved. You work on a county basis. Then you come up to the state coalition to bring your questions … to see if other counties are running into the same things,” Taylor said, recounting how there were a little more than a dozen task forces in the state during the time of the summit, a number that quadrupled to more than 50 in a few months. “I’ve been doing this for 26 years, and I’ve never seen people come together where they all left their logos at the door,” Taylor said. “They are more interested in the election integrity issue—and making sure that there are free and fair elections—than they are in promoting their own agenda. It is the first time I have ever seen this—in the 26 years that I’ve been working in the nonprofit arena.” Shelley Oberlander, a Republican Precinct Captain for ten years, was leading a local election integrity task force in the Virginia coalition. After learning from the summit about the election integrity projects that she could start in her county, Oberlander started to expand her team. After the summit, Oberlander connected with other county-level task forces and had weekly conference calls to share their experiences. Within a year, Oberlander’s team grew from a few members to six work groups, each specializing in areas of election integrity including legislation, education, data analysis, election technology, and voter administration. “We brought it home, we put it in practice, and we got it going,” Oberlander said in an interview with The Epoch Times. A Helpful Hand The backstory to Oberlander’s involvement in this grassroots election integrity movement is illustrative of the other driving force behind the movement: the Republican National Committee (RNC). As a member of a county-level GOP, Oberlander started the local election integrity team in the Loudoun County GOP at the calling of the state-level GOP, the Virginia GOP, which operates joined forces with the RNC earlier this year and started an election integrity program. Earlier this year, the Virginia GOP sent out a marching order earlier this year to county-level Republican units in the state asking them to start election integrity teams. “The RNC and Virginia GOP are encouraging unit chairs to hone in on local election integrity efforts,” Emma Vaughn, an RNC spokesperson, told The Epoch Times in a statement. In other words, Oberlander, as a part of the Republican Party, was able to utilize resources within the GOP establishment, as well as the Election Integrity Network to expand her task force and knowledge base. But the RNC wasn’t always able to do this, as its hands were only recently freed. The RNC, the powerhouse and teller machine of Republican initiatives, was legally barred from organizing and sponsoring ballot security operations like poll watching from 1982 to 2018, due to a 1982 consent decree (pdf) issued by Dickinson R. Debevoise, a judge appointed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. This has been consequential. The consent decree meant that for nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a structural advantage over the RNC in strategizing and developing election administration infrastructure in accordance with its vision of how voting should be done. “Because of the DNC v. RNC Consent Decree, the RNC had been shut out of most election integrity efforts for nearly four decades, which led to a lack of institutional knowledge to conduct election integrity operations,” the RNC’s 2021 election integrity report reads (pdf). After the consent decree expired in 2018, the RNC began building infrastructure around election integrity projects. This includes spending more than 30 million on election protection efforts in battleground states across the country during the 2021 cycle, and continued building election security infrastructure for the 2022 cycle, Vaughn told The Epoch Times. “The RNC has made a multi-million-dollar investment for the 2022 cycle, including 17 state Election Integrity directors, 35 in-state election integrity counsels, and in recruiting over 43,000 poll workers and poll watchers in battleground states across the country,” Vaughn wrote in a statement. “The RNC works with other groups who have an interest in promoting election integrity but the party’s efforts are independent from any outside organization,” Vaughn wrote. The Movement Ripples The Election Integrity Network’s success in Virginia, which Mitchell calls the “Virginia model,” was promptly republicated in other states. By mid-2022, the Election Integrity Network held summits in eight battleground states—Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina—and mobilized thousands to start election integrity projects at the local level, according to Mitchell. “What we are focused on is building out the infrastructure—creating state coalitions and local election integrity task forces,” Mitchell said. “We really are measuring our success by the number of states who are up and running with statewide election integrity coalitions. “We measure that by helping them bring together the various groups to have weekly calls, then getting their local task forces going and then getting a framework for recruiting and training poll workers, election officials and starting the working groups within each state,” Mitchell said. According to Marshall Yates, Executive Director of the network, the network’s state-level conference calls in North Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia had over 75 in attendance, and Arizona and Pennsylvania had about 40 in attendance. The attendees are like Oberlander: they mostly consist of task force leaders who would put what they learned in the calls into practice at their local counties. Even Congress hopped on. “She’s a lawyer and has a lot of experience and knowledge, and she’s dogged on this,” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), who heads the Election Integrity Caucus with more than 70 Republican members, said of Mitchell in an interview with The Epoch Times. Tenney participates in the Election Integrity Network’s conference calls when she has time and has passed around some of the network’s materials around Congress. “We go through with a very methodical legal analysis, and that’s what she does, which I really appreciate,” Tenney said. “We’re trying to set the record straight, and come up with solutions. We just want to make sure that people feel confident and trust their vote.” The Bigger Picture: Uneven Playing Field An important pretext for the project, according to Mitchell, is that the left has been building infrastructure around election administration and attempting to influence election outcomes with more effort and conviction than those of the right. “We need conservatives to become involved and engage in the process—because the left has been systematically building their own infrastructure,” Mitchell told The Epoch Times. Underlying this infrastructure-building Mitchell was referring to are two competing ideologies, one held by the right and another by the left, on how voting rights should be protected in a democratic society. As articulated by J. Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth A. Klukowski in a paper (pdf) in the Yale Law & Policy Review, improving access to voting (making voting more convenient) and improving ballot security (placing more burden on the individual voter but prioritizing the integrity of the voting process) often come into tension. The left leans toward the access approach, and the right leans toward the security approach. “The voting system, by necessity, requires a balancing of these somewhat countervailing interests,” the paper reads. As evidence that this balance is tilted disproportionately towards the left’s agenda, Mitchell pointed to reports by Capital Research Center (CRC), which allege a “coordinated effort” by the left to influence elections via private donations and dark money networks, such as the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s left-leaning non-profit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). The Epoch Times has reached out to the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Center for Tech and Civic Life for comments. Notably, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, funneled via the CTCL $400 million to a network of nonprofits that sent advisers to local election offices across the country to become directly involved in election administration in 2020. Critics of the CTCL like Mitchell say its maneuvers are outright election manipulation. The CRC wrote in an analysis that CTCL “consistently gave bigger grants and more money per capita to counties that voted for Biden.” The CTCL’s advisory services to local election offices were often provided in conjunction with left-leaning organizations, such as the Brennan Center for Justice. The CRC reported in August that this kind of private funding in election administration had been banned in 24 states. But the tilted balance goes beyond Zuckerbucks. Open Secrets, a non-profit research group tracking political financing, estimated in a March 2021 report that $447 million of “dark money”—political donations with undisclosed sources—supported liberal groups at the federal level during the 2020 election cycle, while only $190 million supported conservative groups. ‘Something They Will Never Have’ According to Mitchell, however, notwithstanding the uneven playing field in favor of the left, conservatives have “something they will never have.” “Conservatives and patriots who believe in election integrity and the rule of law—the many volunteers who form the Election Integrity Network—will never have the money the left-wing billionaires have dedicated to building their sprawling election disruption enterprise,” Mitchell said. “We will never have the sheer number of entities as the left has built over the past decade.” “But we have something they will never have: an army of citizen patriots who love America, and are tirelessly dedicated to becoming an integral part of the election process at every local election office in the nation—who are intent upon saving and preserving our Constitutional Republic—that is the mission of the Election Integrity Network and the thousands of volunteers across the country who are part of this mission,” Mitchell added. “That’s why Conservative Partnership Institute is proud to have launched the Election Integrity Network and why we continue to support and grow it.”

Please be warned. Plan to attend your local Board of Elections Meetings meetings. It is quite possible that each county may pull this as a policy change since the NCSBE was shut down on their illegal rule change stunt. You need to attend, take notes, ask questions after their meeting (if they do not run away). Write it up and submit it to us. Henderson County Board of Elections Meeting, Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 5PM. 75 E. Central Street, Hendersonville, NC 29792. 828 697 4970 Karen Hebb, Director of the Henderson County Board of Elections, asked the Board of Election members to approve a policy change in a letter to be mailed to party chairs regarding observers ‘access’ to machine tapes at the opening and closing of the early voting and election day precincts. (Please see attached PDF.) Both Republican Board members, Linda Rebuck and Debbie Dante, strenuously were opposed. They read, three times, the statute 08 NCAC 04.0304 that clearly states (my underline and bold): 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. Karen Hebb continued to argue that observers were not to be given ‘access’ to the machine at any time but they should trust the Democrat and Republican judges and paid staff to ‘tell’ the observer the count. The statute does not mention ‘access.’ The statute clearly says “viewing and observing.’ The Board voted 3 Democrats to 2 Republicans in favor of accepting Ms. Hebb’s letter to party chairs with the illegal policy change. After the meeting, the four of the eight witnesses approached the desk and plexiglass barrier to ask questions. The Chair Charlie Medd and Karen Hebb, refused to answer our questions regarding this policy change. This is a violation of the legal rights of observers and citizens - ‘persons interested’ – in viewing and observing the printed tape from the machine. The last item on the agenda was security at the polls. Linda Rebuck, Board Member, asked why three sheriff's deputies' cars showed up to the Board of Election office on the night of the primary. Karen Hebb responded that they had been called. Linda asked why they had been called and Karen Hebb answered that staff felt threatened. She stated that she saw a group of people standing outside of the office. Linda asked if there had been any actual threats made. KH said no threats had been made. KH stated that one of the judges had reported that she thought she had been followed on her way from the polling place to take the voting material back to the Board of Elections. Karen stated that she felt comfortable calling 911 any time she perceived a problem at one of the polling places. My concern is that KH will call 911 on the observers at the drop of a hat. Attachment: Evidence Letter to Party Chairs file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Observers%20(2).pdf Witnesses Kathy Maney Sharon Brooks, Henderson County GOP Chair Dorothy Calloway Paul Rebuck Beatrice Park Leigh Nunzio Gina Moffit David Shipp Submitted by Jane Bilello, 218 Vincent Place, Hendersonville, NC 28739. 209 986 3845

NCGOP, RNC file Lawsuit Against NC State Board of Elections September 12, 2022 For Immediate Release RALEIGH, N.C. – Late last week, the North Carolina Republican Party, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee and Clay County GOP Chair Barbara Deas, filed a lawsuit in Wake County against the North Carolina State Board of Elections over the Board’s unconstitutional efforts to restrict poll observers and extend the absentee by-mail deadline. See the full complaint here. Once again, the State Board of Elections has usurped the legislature’s authority to make laws that govern our elections, demonstrating the Board’s allegiance to their partisan agendas over the Rule of Law. Election integrity is consistently ranked by North Carolina voters as a top priority, and our electoral system and officials should always aim to provide and promote transparency. The N.C. The State Board of Elections, a body whose very existence is predicated on the goals of transparency and integrity, has instead gone rogue in an effort to restrict transparency. Much like they did in 2020, the State Board has attempted to unilaterally push back the absentee ballot deadline. That deadline is set by law as passed by the duly elected members of our state legislature. The Board has no authority to change it. Further, poll observers play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of elections, providing much needed oversight from the citizens. This State Board has continued to do everything in its power to restrict the rights of observers and to make it more difficult for the Republican Party to shift observers in every county. The Rules Review Commission shut down such an effort by the Board just a few of weeks ago and also shut down so-called “emergency rules” the Board attempted to pass in 2020. However, the State Board remains undeterred and is now explicitly directing county boards to violate the law by restricting at-large poll observers to 4-hour shifts, thereby cutting their flexibility and making it tremendously more difficult for the county parties to have eyes on all voting sites. “Voters in North Carolina deserve to have confidence in our elections, but when the State Board continues to bend, change, or otherwise flatly ignore the law that undermines the public trust,” said NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley. “Frankly, we’re not going to stand for it. That’s why we have partnered with the RNC to reign in this out of control Board.” This lawsuit is but one of the many actions the N.C. The Republican Party has taken action at the state and national level to protect election integrity. Republicans will not allow the hijacking of our elections by a group of unelected partisans who have proven more loyal to their political party than to the laws that govern them. The NCGOP will continue its efforts to ensure transparency, integrity, and accountability within our election systems on behalf of the voters of North Carolina. CONTACT: Jeff Moore Jeff.Moore@NCGOP.org (252)723-1540 North Carolina Republican Party 1506 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27605

From ERIC Member Agreement Exhibit A Within sixty (60) days of the Certification Date, and at least every sixty (60) days thereafter, the Member shall transmit: (1) all inactive and active voter files (excluding those records that are confidential or protected from disclosure by law), including those fields identified in Exhibit B, and (2) all licensing or identification records contained in the motor vehicles database (excluding those fields unrelated to voter eligibility, such as fields related to an individual’s driving record), including those fields identified in Exhibit B. Under no circumstances shall the Member transmit an individual’s record where the record contains documentation or other information indicating that the individual is a non-citizen of the United States. Should Member believe it has an alternative source of data that is equivalent to or better than the motor vehicle database (“Alternative Data Source”), Member may apply in writing to the Executive Director of ERIC to substitute the Alternative Data Source for motor vehicle data. Such written application shall explain the basis for Member’s assertion that the Alternative Data Source is equivalent or better and why using it will effectively serve the goals of ERIC. If, in the Executive Director’s assessment, the request is reasonable, the Executive Director shall submit the Member’s request to the ERIC Board of Directors (“ERIC Board” or “Board”) for approval. If membership in ERIC is contingent upon a jurisdiction’s ability to use an Alternative Data Source, the jurisdiction may seek approval of a data substitution request in advance of joining ERIC. c. If the Member fails to transmit the required Member Data as described above, ERIC shall not deliver, nor shall the Member receive, any Data or services from ERIC until ERIC receives the required Member Data from the Member. Should Member fail to transmit Member Data in any sixty (60) day period as provided in sub-section b, Member shall, upon written notice from ERIC, have a thirty (30) day grace period in which to provide such Member Data. Should this grace period expire without a transmission to ERIC of Member Data from the Member, the Member shall be automatically removed from membership in accordance with the Bylaws. Member may submit a written appeal to the Executive Director of ERIC for a reasonable extension of the grace period deadline if Member is unable to meet that deadline because of a technical issue or a problem accessing or receiving the Member Data. Whether or not to grant the extension or to proceed to automatic removal shall be in the sole discretion of ERIC’s Executive Director. 3. State Agency Records. The Member shall use its best efforts to transmit, on a regular basis, data relating to individuals that exists in the records of other agencies within its jurisdiction that perform any voter registration functions, including, but not limited to, those required to perform voter registration pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act, 43 U.S.C. 1973gg-5 (“Additional Member Data”). Notwithstanding this section, a state’s failure to transmit Additional Member Data under this section shall not affect the Member’s compliance with this Section or its standing as a member of ERIC. EXHIBIT B 22 Last updated on March 28, 2014; May 21, 2015; October 28, 2015; December 16, 2016; November 30, 2018; February 3, 2020; June 3, 2022 ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION INFORMATION CENTER, INC. Voter Registration and motor vehicles data fields to be submitted to ERIC by each participating jurisdiction, if collected by the Member State 1. All name fields 2. All address fields 3. Driver’s license or state ID number 4. Last four digits of Social Security number 5. Date of birth 6. Activity dates as defined by the Board of Directors 7. Current record status 8. Affirmative documentation of citizenship 9. The title/type of affirmative documentation of citizenship presented 10. Phone number 11. E-mail address or other electronic contact method

(Sept 11, 2022) Attorney Erick Kaardal laid out a compelling case that Wisconsin’s participation in ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, violates the federal Help America Vote Act, HAVA. (Go to video 22:00). In Kaardal's Sept. 8 testimony before the Wisconsin Assembly (state legislature) Committee on Campaigns, the special counsel to the Thomas More Society demonstrated that federal law unequivocally prohibits states from farming out access to their voter rolls, let alone to opaque, third-party nonprofits. “I don’t think ERIC was honest from the beginning. That’s the problem.” Kaardal pointed out that the argument that the state government needed ERIC to track people was absurd. “This is the Wisconsin state government. We’re going to say we can’t track people?” He pointed out the state’s proven track record in collecting taxes. “Some things are better done by oneself even if done badly,” he explained, like dressing and feeding oneself. Even so, he said ERIC is failing to clean the rolls. “They are not doing a good job.” Kaardal cited ERIC’s ties to George Soros and David Becker’s Center for Election Innovation Research (CEIR), which received $69 million in Zuckerbucks in the runup to the Nov. 2020 elecitons. Becker, a far left activist who has had ethics charges filed against him, founded ERIC while employed at PEW Research. He is reported to play an active role in ERIC. “Anything is better than sharing with ERIC,” Kaardal said to positive reception from the committee. https://wiseye.org/2022/09/08/assembly-committee-on-campaigns-and-elections-29/

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