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No one should expect a government agency to act in “bad faith.” That’s why it should concern us when a U.S. District Court judge uses those words in connection with the N.C. State Board of Elections. The headline emerging from Judge James Dever’s courtroom Friday evening was his decision to guarantee Green Party candidates a spot on the N.C. election ballot. But another piece of Dever’s order deserves attention. The judge offered a harsh assessment of the state elections board. Specifically, Dever wrote that the board “completely changed course” in its stance about federal jurisdiction over the Green Party case. The board’s shifting position “is astonishing and reflects bad faith.” The legal dispute between Greens and the elections board started after a 3-2 vote on June 30. The board’s Democrats voted to keep the Green Party off the state ballot. Republican board members supported the Greens. The dispute involved challenged petition signatures. The party filed a federal lawsuit on July 14. It asked a federal judge to declare that the Greens had met legal requirements to become an officially recognized party. The suit also called for a waiver of a July 1 candidate filing deadline. That deadline would have blocked Green Party candidates from the ballot, even if the party had official state recognition. “Before the Board certified the Green Party on August 1, 2022, defendants argued that the Board certifying the Green Party would moot ‘all of [the] claims, except for the relief related to the candidate filing deadline,’” Dever wrote in his court order. In other words, elections board defendants recognized that Greens would continue to have a legal claim even if they gained official party recognition. That recognition arrived on Aug. 1. With a 4-0 vote, the elections board certified Greens as a party. As a legal matter, the Greens’ pursuit of party recognition became moot. But the fate of individual candidates remained a live legal dispute. In a new twist, the elections board argued that a federal court did not have jurisdiction over that dispute. Dever disagreed. “[T]he question of whether the court should enjoin the candidate-filing deadline in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-98 as to the Green Party is not a state-law issue,” the judge responded. “Instead, it is a federal constitutional issue concerning whether applying the July 1 candidate-filing deadline in light of the timing of the Board’s investigation and certification violates plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” The state elections board had appeared to accept Dever’s reasoning earlier in the case. “Defendants implicitly recognized this reality … when they expressly told the court that they ‘do not dispute that if certification were to occur … relief from the Court allowing for the extension or temporarily enjoining of the candidate deadline would be appropriate to ensure access to the November general election ballot,’” he wrote. The Green Party’s original suit sought two actions from the court. First, declare the Greens a recognized N.C. political party. Second, block the July 1 candidate filing deadline. “Defendants … oppose plaintiffs’ first request for relief but have taken completely contradictory positions on plaintiffs’ second request for relief,” Dever wrote. “On July 29, 2022, before the Board convened on August 1, 2022, and certified the Green Party as a new political party, defendants told this court … that they ‘ha[d] no objection to the [plaintiffs’] second [request for relief] should the Green Party be certified when the State Board takes up that issue on August 1, 2022.’” “They had no objection because they ‘d[id] not dispute that if certification were to occur on August 1, relief from the Court allowing for the extension or temporarily enjoining of the candidate deadline would be appropriate to ensure access to the November general election ballot,’” the judge added. “Nevertheless, in its August 3, 2022, status report to the court, defendants completely reversed course and stated: ‘The State Board opposes any order that concludes that this federal court has jurisdiction over this purely state law claim.’” Dever noted the 180-degree reversal in the span of five days. “Following their representations to this court on July 29, 2022, and the Board’s unanimous decision to certify the Green Party as a political party on August 1, 2022, defendants’ position in their August 3, 2022, status report to the court concerning jurisdiction is astonishing and reflects bad faith.” For the Green Party, the story ends well. Its candidates can appear on the November ballot. The result is mixed for those of us interested in good government. We should be concerned about “astonishing” legal arguments from the N.C. State Board of Elections. None of us needs a board whose actions “reflect bad faith.” Mitch Kokai is senior political analyst for the John Locke Foundation. https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/judge-chides-n-c-elections-board-for-astonishing-reversal-that-reflects-bad-faith/?utm_source=John+Locke+Foundation&utm_campaign=000b1bd199-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_05_10_04_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7a6c958a22-000b1bd199-428844801&mc_cid=000b1bd199&mc_eid=aac85a2fc8

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Submitted by Wall of Honor HAFA Sentinel Royal A. Brown III President, Winter Haven 912 LTC-(USA-Ret) Ultra MAGA and Proud of It "Tyranny Hates to Be Questioned" RINO Traitors in the US Senate I know this bad gun control law, the “Safer Communities Act of 2022” signed by Biden in July is “old business” to some but we should be reminded that 14 RINOs in the Senate helped all 50 Democrats make it possible for this Bill to get past the required 60 vote filibuster and become a new gun control law. Some of the provisions of this 80 page law, The Safer Communities Act of 2022, include: · Providing $11 billion for mental health services, including increased funding for the Medicaid Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic program, increased funding for school-based mental health programs, and investments in pediatric mental healthcare services. · Expanded background checks for individuals under the age of 21 purchasing firearms. · Preventing individuals who have been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor or felony in dating relationships from purchasing firearms for five years. · Providing $750 million for state grants to implement crisis intervention order programs, also referred to as red-flag laws, that would allow authorities to confiscate firearms from individuals who have been determined by a court to be a significant danger to themselves or others. The grants could also be used to support mental health courts, drug courts, veterans courts, and extreme risk protection orders-this wrongly incentivizes states by offering $ to pass Red Flag Laws. · Providing $2 billion for community-based violence prevention initiatives. · For the majority of purchases on long guns, the legislation mandated a waiting period of three days and upped the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 years old, previously from 18 years old, among other measures. · The full text can be read here. The 14 RINO traitor Senators who voted to advance the bill were: The bill’s co-sponsor, Sen. John Cornyn of Texas – Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky – he needs to GO Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri - Retiring Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina – Retiring Sen. Shelley Capito of West Virginia -70% Freedom Index Score Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana – Voted to Impeach Trump Sen. Susan Collins of Maine – Voted to Impeach Trump Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa – she has turned Rogue voting w Dems on many bills Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina – a Globalist of 1st Order Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska – Voted to Impeach Trump Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio - Retiring Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah – Voted to Impeach Trump Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina – 70% Freedom Index Score Sen. Todd Young of Indiana - It is easy to see why McConnell picked this crew to negotiate this bill along with 10 Democrats. You’ll also note that Sens Scott and Rubio did not vote Yay on this bill but in Scott’s case for the wrong reasons – Scott was quoted as follows. “Over the last two weeks, I’ve seen many people compare the bill being considered in the Senate to what we did in Florida. These bills are not the same at all,” Scott said in his statement first obtained and reported by Politico. “One was the product of a collaborative, well-defined and transparent process. (This is total BS – the FL Red Flag law which codified the Risk Protection Order (RPO) process of seizure without a hearing was almost a direct lift from a bad Oregon law and was written in only 2 weeks by RINOs Wilton Simpson and others – it does not provide Due Process. It was a knee jerk rection to a total failure of LE in Broward County and pressure from the left to Do Something - RABIII.) “The other was the result of secret backroom dealings that did not include input from the majority of Republican members, committee hearings, nor opportunities for amendments, giving members barely an hour to read the bill before we were asked to vote on it,” he added. “I was hopeful the Senate would follow an open and thorough process like we did in Florida. That is unfortunately not the case with the current bill and why I will vote no,” Scott said. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) stated they will not support the bill but Senate Majority Leader McConnell released a statement in support for the bill, saying: “Our colleagues have put together a commonsense package of popular steps that will help make these horrifying incidents less likely while fully upholding the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.” This statement is total, unmitigated Bovine Excrement !!! Royal Royal A. Brown III President, Winter Haven 912 LTC-(USA-Ret) Ultra MAGA and Proud of It "Tyranny Hates to Be Questioned"

The Case For Organizing the Eight Systems of Election Integrity in Your County How The Left Plans To Seize Control of Our Local Election Offices The Federalist: Yes. Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig the 2022 Mid Term Election Wake County Election Director and State Board of Election Sued for Unconstitutional Retaliation Against Election Observer NC Board of Elections Launches Attack on Poll Observers NC State Board of Elections Blocks Use of Signature Verification on Absentee Ballots Judge Orders on Voter Assistance for Disabled Voters Felons Can Now Vote! Who the Hell is ERIC (and Why Is He In My NC State Budget?) Limiting the Damage to House Bill 103 from ERIC (Every legislator, R & D - in Raleigh voted for this monstrosity. The 4 Senators that didn't were absent. Action Alert issued before the Passage of NC Budget: Tyrannical Overreach in Session that Republicans Vote For. Don't Remain Silent! These are the Eight Systems that the Left has successfully infiltrated. WE have remained absent until now. A deafening silence. Virginia turned their state around in 2021 by organizing each county with eyes on every one of these systems. Will you answer the call for NC or remain silent? THIS IS HOW WE'RE FIGHTING BACK! •See what else is happening. Take Action! NCEIT Team Commentary on NCSBE Proposal for Temporary Rulemaking T Election Heroes Are Stopping Fraudulent Voting – Right Now! •Election Heroes Are Stopping Fraudulent Voting – The Postal Service Was In On It •Molly Hemingway from The Federalist and Cleta Mitchell talk about having free and fair election again and how it’s going to happen. Help Prevent Absentee Ballot Voter Abuse in Care Facilities •New Organization Trains Volunteers to Make Elections More Secure – NCEIT! •WhosCounting.us: Top Activists Across the Nation fighting back •NCEIT Director, Jim Womack, Tells What NC is doing to duplicate the 2021 VA Election Success. On WhosCounting.us

This is How The Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Elections. The Left only has a 2-5% radicalized army of robot activist puppets run by an even smaller Marxist Democratic Socialist Cabal at the top. Their greatest weakness is the 95% of Americans who wake up and decide to start representing themselves and take back the nation! Are you one of the 95%? Learn how to take back our country. Join us at the The North Carolina Election Integrity Team Regional Summit in Asheville Date Saturday, August 20, 2022 Time 9:15AM – 3PM Location Woodfin Community Center 23 Community Rd. Woodfin, NC Buy Tickets Here $15 Deadline for ticket sales is Saturday, August 13th so you have lunch. Registration includes materials and lunch. Agenda: Poll Watcher Training. Task Forces/Work Groups. Our Reporting System. List Maintenance. Absentee Ballots, and more. We are building a permanent electoral infrastructure and duplicating the election success in Virginia in 2021. This is how we fix election fraud. See Citizens Guide to Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure: www.whoscounting.us Election Integrity Network – Who’s Counting with Cleta Mitchell Paid for by NCEIT.org and not any candidate or candidate's committee.

By Jay Delancey, Voter Integrity Project https://voterintegrityproject.com/sbe-tries-new-attack-on-poll-observer-rights/ July 18, 2022 (Raleigh) While many were enjoying extended early-July vacations, the NC State Board of Elections (NCSBE) was busily scheming, once again, to restrict the movement of poll observers and to make it easier for said observers to be kicked out of the voting location. The plan was announced by agency General Counsel, Katelyn Love (beginning at the 1:03:06 time stamp of this recorded meeting), whereby the agency would circumvent the normal approval process by making “temporary” rule changes (under NCGS §150B-21.1). Love freely admitted they were pushing the changes through the temporary rule making process because “the permanent rule making process is a fairly lengthy one… [that’s] too lengthy for the rules to be in place for the November election.” One rule change, affecting 08 NCAC 10B .0101, codifies agency policy to prohibit Election Day precinct officials from serving as volunteer poll observers during early voting. Love said the 10B changes are “to clarify and simplify” the observer-list submission process and she spent several minutes explaining the changes to the Board. The more onerous and capricious rule changes affect the poll observer conduct, as elaborated upon in 08 NCAC 20. 0101. For example, one revision would prohibit poll observers from “using doors designated for precinct officials or one-stop workers.” This burdensome change would require observers to enter and depart the voting enclosure by using the same entry point as the voters. Besides creating more opportunities to be deemed “disruptive” to the voting process, the rule would force observers through a lengthy maze of people standing in line and prevent the observer from documenting the relatively quick curbside voting procedure. The more egregious rule change involves a backhanded establishment of an illegal “area designated for observers,” which has been the holy grail for the more left-leaning election Directors for as long as I’ve been involved in election integrity, Wake Director, Gary Sims, chief among them. The “designated area” would be allowed, “provided the area designated allows the observer to observe each past of the voting process except for the marking of ballots.” The proposed rule makes no mention about whether or not the observer would be able to hear the conversations around the voting process. An example of this type abuse happened in Sanford, where Election Director Jane Rae Fawcett unsuccessfully designated a seat that would allow observers to “see” the entire early voting location without being able to hear any guidance a voter might be getting at the Help Desk or the Check-In Table. Both proposed rule changes are blatantly illegal because they fly in the face of the broad allowances NCGS §163-45(c) affords poll observers which even orders election officials to “permit the observer to make such observation and take such notes as the observer may desire.” (Click image to access the full poll observer statute.) https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/BySection/Chapter_163/GS_163-45.pdf Another aspect of the SBE’s stealth law changes involves their possibly violating “the Purcell Rule,” which generally bars courts from changing election laws once the election cycle has begun. Central to this issue would be whether or not the Regulatory Rules Commission is considered a “court” proceeding. The public comment hearing on the rules will be at 10 a.m., July 28, in a virtual meeting. Details will follow as they become available. ###

"Several voter integrity teams, using advanced artificial intelligence technology, can check every registrant, at silicon speed, against over 30 databases, with a billion records, ensuring that the registrant is not living in an R.V. park, a church, or a UPS store, and that his address meets current legal standards. Sorry, Beto, but registering every itinerant is no longer the key to the Texas Governor's Mansion. For the first time, phantom voters are being identified before their registrations take effect." July 20th, 2022: Read Election Heroes Are Stopping Fraudulent Voting - And The Postal Service Was In On It The soul of phantom voter fraud is the occasional, non-committed voter. They show up at the last minute, delivering winning margins. Actually, nobody shows up. Nor does anyone return an absentee ballot. That magic comes from a wonderful customer service innovation, the Phantom Voter Concierge, who casts the non-committed voters’ votes for them. Let’s go there. Voter rolls are crammed with millions of voters who seldom, occasionally, or never vote. Democrat-leaning organizations run voter registration drives in edge communities, collecting identities they expect will never vote. You remember ACORN registering drug addicts on city streets? You might have said, “Why, they will never vote!” They aren’t expected to vote. They are simply voter identity placeholders later used by vote-harvesters. State-funded groups like ERIC are paid by a dozen state governments, some with clueless Republican governors, to make sure almost nobody is ever taken off voter rolls. ERIC provides institutional cover to this national phantom voter scam. During early voting, our vote-harvester pals track those who never voted or have not voted yet and vote for them. In some states, like Wisconsin, leftist groups had access to the online voter rolls — something nobody else had. They could track every voter and vote for all of them if they did not show up in 2020. Remember the stories in 2020 of people coming out to vote, often for the first time in years, to be told, “Sorry, you already voted”? Your Voter Concierge voted for you! Saved you the gas money to drive to the polls! There are people voting from Salvation Army Food Banks who registered at that address twelve years ago. Those people are likely dead or living in a tent in Austin now — but still voting. There are people at the Alabama college dorm, registered since 1984, still active and voting. In Wisconsin, the Voter Concierges went to cognitive care facilities, where the patients did not recognize their own children. Their Voter Concierge voted them. Now part of a criminal investigation, this is how it’s done. So how bad is the problem? The Wisconsin voter integrity team did a deep dive, using U.S. government and state databases, and found 225,000 active, current voters who had “issues.” Those included addresses that did not exist; locations that could not be a true registration address, like a jail; and scores of others. Elections are often decided by 1% of the vote. The Wisconsin team identified potential phantom voters easily able to impact an election. The other half of the scam is sending out absentee ballots to addresses that don’t line up. For instance, there may be an apartment building at 145 Essex Street. The ballot-harvesting industry registers people there, deliberately skipping their apartment number. Their mail gets returned to — you guessed it, smarty-pants! Those absentee ballots accumulate at the local Post Office. The Wisconsin voter integrity team, one of the best in the country, found evidence that the Post Office collected those ballots and gave them to the Voter Concierges — to vote. Pretty good USPS customer service! You might think this would be caught with signature matching. Right! That is why so many states or counties eliminated the signature match — like Maricopa County in Arizona. If your blood is boiling right now, you just don’t get it. This is customer service on a whole new level. The Voter Concierge gets votes counted – even if the voter never casts that vote. Voter integrity teams are now applying advanced computer technology to thwart the Voter Concierge by deep-cleaning the rolls. In 2022, the vote-harvesting industry will again flood the zone in swing counties with over 250,000 new registrants from September to November. Several voter integrity teams, using advanced artificial intelligence technology, can check every registrant, at silicon speed, against over 30 databases, with a billion records, ensuring that the registrant is not living in an R.V. park, a church, or a UPS store, and that his address meets current legal standards. Sorry, Beto, but registering every itinerant is no longer the key to the Texas Governor’s Mansion. For the first time, phantom voters are being identified before their registrations take effect. Living in an apartment where you do not designate the apartment number? Sorry, pal — you aren’t voting this year. Registering from a church? There had better be enough bathrooms to meet the certificate of occupancy requirements for that county. More voters showing up in a county than there are eligible citizens? Flagged hourly! Alert issued before the ballots are counted! As ballots arrive during early voting, artificial intelligence snapshots aggregate voter identities. That guy who voted on day 2 in person, disappeared on snapshot 8, reappeared on snapshot 11 with his ballot changed to absentee…is identified. Before that ballot is tabulated, it is red-flagged, and the voter integrity team files a protest. Thirty-five thousand inactive voters, changed to active — then voted, then changed to inactive again? The A.I. systems pick this up with snapshot analysis. That scam is over! For the first time, voter integrity teams have technology ballot-harvesters cannot outrun. When Sheriff Clarke and Mike Lindell started supporting these kinds of technologies, after the 2020 election, the focus was voter roll anomalies. Anomalies were abundant. The battlefield has changed to real-time analysis, driven by artificial intelligence. The combined knowledge of a dozen gifted voter integrity teams, with 16 months of experience, is built into an artificial intelligence engine, identifying phantom voters before they are registered, before they can illegally vote. Every time a fake vote is cast by a Voter Concierge, an American is disenfranchised. Artificial intelligence helps the good guys protect the vote and gives confidence to all Americans that their elections are legit. Voter integrity teams learned that chasing 2020 voter fraud after the election is too late. Some leading election integrity teams are stopping phantom voter fraud before it impacts elections. Cleaning up voter rolls just became an A.I.-driven, real time endeavor. Jay Valentine led the team that built the eBay fraud detection engine and the TSA No-Fly List. Jay’s website is JayValentine.com. He can be reached at Jay@ContingencySales.com.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/23/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections/ When Biden ordered all 600 federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process” on March 7, 2021, Republican politicians, Constitutional scholars, and election integrity specialists began to worry exactly what was up his sleeve. Biden gave each agency 200 days to file their plans for approval. Mobilizing Voters Is Always a Political Act There are several major problems with Biden’s secret plan, critics say. It’s unethical to tie federal benefits to election activity. It’s unconstitutional to have the federal government take authority that belongs to the states and which Congress has not granted. And, given that all 50 states have different laws and processes governing election administration, it’s a recipe for chaos, confusion, and fraud at a time when election security concerns are particularly fraught. Choosing which groups to target for Get Out The Vote efforts is one of the most important activities done by political campaigns. Federal agencies that interact with the public by doling out benefits can easily pressure recipients to vote for particular candidates and positions. Congress passed the Hatch Act in 1939, which bans bureaucrats and bureaucracies from being involved in election activities after Democrats used Works Progress Administration programs and personnel for partisan political advantage. Executive Order 14019 ignores that the Constitution does not give the executive branch authority over elections. That power is reserved for the states, with a smaller role for Congress. With H.R. 1 and other Democrat Party efforts to grab more control over elections have thus far failed, Congress hasn’t authorized such an expansion. Leftist Groups Know Exactly What’s Going On Conservatives may be in the dark, but left-wing activist groups are fully involved in the plot. The left-wing dark money group Demos put out press releases immediately after the executive order was issued, saying it would be happy to work with federal agencies on the project. And then the group admitted publicly that it “organized agency-based working groups and met with the staff in these agencies to provide technical expertise as they developed their initial voter registration plans, to ensure those plans reflect the knowledge and priorities of various agency stakeholders.” It also admits it “developed research and resources to assist and advance agency efforts to implement robust voter registration opportunities, including a slide deck explainer of the agencies’ potential for impact, best practices for conducting voter registration at federal agencies, and recommendations for modernizing and improving the accessibility of Vote.gov.” What We Know While the White House and agencies are steadfastly refusing to share details about how they’re complying with the executive order, who they met with to develop their plans, or how they’re justifying their involvement in something Congress has not authorized them to participate in, some details are trickling out. Here are a few examples of the widespread and coordinated effort by Biden’s political appointees to meddle in the state administration of elections. The Department of Labor boasted that it was turning 2,300 American Job Centers previously focused on helping displaced workers find jobs into hubs of political activism. These new federally funded voter registration agencies were given guidance about how to bring in organizations to conduct “voter outreach.” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services likewise announced plans to turn community health centers into voter registration agencies, using thousands of health care facilities to focus on voter registration and turnout. The Housing and Urban Development Department sent notice to public housing (disproportionately Democrat) authorities that they should begin voter registration drives and participation activities. The Department of Education sent letters to universities, telling them that Federal Work Study funds could now be used to support voter registration activities The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it’s using its child nutrition programs to push voter registration and enlisting state, local, and federally funded employees to implement voter registration drives in local schools. The Commerce Department produced a massive, 113-page report directs local voting board members about polling stations and poll worker training. The article The White House is refusing to share details about its coordinated efforts to engage in a federal takeover of election administration. Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections. The lack of transparency and responsiveness is so bad that the Department of Justice and some of its agencies have been repeatedly sued for the information. When President Biden ordered all 600 federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process” on March 7, 2021, Republican politicians, Constitutional scholars, and election integrity specialists began to worry exactly what was up his sleeve. They had good reason. The 2020 election had suffered from widespread and coordinated efforts by Democrat activists and donors to run “Get Out The Vote” operations from inside state and local government election offices, predominantly in the Democrat-leaning areas of swing states. Independent researchers have shown the effect of this takeover of government election offices was extremely partisan and favored Democrats overwhelmingly. At the time the order was issued, Democrats were also hoping to pass H.R. 1, a continuation of the effort to destabilize elections throughout the country via a federalized takeover of state election administrations. Biden gave each agency 200 days to file their plans for approval by none other than Susan Rice, his hyperpartisan domestic policy advisor. Yet fully nine months after those plans were due, they are all being hidden from the public, even as evidence is emerging that the election operation is in full swing. Mobilizing Voters Is Always A Political Act There are several major problems with Biden’s secret plan, critics say. It’s unethical to tie federal benefits to election activity. It’s unconstitutional to have the federal government take authority that belongs to the states and which Congress has not granted. And, given that all 50 states have different laws and processes governing election administration, it’s a recipe for chaos, confusion, and fraud at a time when election security concerns are particularly fraught. Mobilizing voters is always a political act. Choosing which groups to target for Get Out The Vote efforts is one of the most important activities done by political campaigns. Federal agencies that interact with the public by doling out benefits can easily pressure recipients to vote for particular candidates and positions. Congress passed the Hatch Act in 1939, which bans bureaucrats and bureaucracies from being involved in election activities after Democrats used Works Progress Administration programs and personnel for partisan political advantage. Executive Order 14019 ignores that the Constitution does not give the executive branch authority over elections. That power is reserved for the states, with a smaller role for Congress. With H.R. 1 and other Democrat Party efforts to grab more control over elections have thus far failed, Congress hasn’t authorized such an expansion. As with previous efforts to destabilize elections, the chaos and confusion that would occur are part of the plan. The Executive Order copied much of a white paper put out by left-wing dark money group Demos, which advocates for left-wing changes to the country and which brags on its website that it moves “bold progressive ideas from cutting-edge concept to practical reality.” Not coincidentally, Biden put former Demos President K. Sabeel Rahman and former Demos Legal Strategies Director Chiraag Bains in key White House posts to oversee election-related initiatives. Rahman serves as senior counsel at the White House office that oversees regulatory changes, meaning he approves every federal agency’s regulations and provides legal review of executive orders before they’re released. If you were looking to rush out constitutionally and ethically questionable orders, this post would be key to fill. Bains had been Demos’ director of legal strategies, helping write the paper that was turned into an executive order. He reports directly to Susan Rice, the hyperpartisan head of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice has served in political positions in Democrat White Houses and the scandal-ridden Brookings Institution. She played a role in the spying-on-Trump scandal, blatantly lying about the same, lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack, and lying about Bowe Bergdahl’s military record. Rice is described as President Obama’s “right-hand woman,” and it’s been said she was “like a sister” to the former president. She was his National Security Advisor at the same time Hunter Biden was hitching rides on official White House aircraft to other countries for meetings with oligarchs and corrupt government officials. She spread conspiracy theories about the law enforcement officers in Portland during the violent BLM riots that besieged the city. Most worrisome, she was briefed on the Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion hoax, which was used to destabilize the 2020 election and question its illegitimacy. Leftist Groups Know Exactly What’s Going On Conservatives may be in the dark, but left-wing activist groups are fully involved in the plot. The left-wing dark money group Demos put out press releases immediately after the executive order was issued, saying it would be happy to work with federal agencies on the project. And then the group admitted publicly that it “organized agency-based working groups and met with the staff in these agencies to provide technical expertise as they developed their initial voter registration plans, to ensure those plans reflect the knowledge and priorities of various agency stakeholders.” It also admits it “developed research and resources to assist and advance agency efforts to implement robust voter registration opportunities, including a slide deck explainer of the agencies’ potential for impact, best practices for conducting voter registration at federal agencies, and recommendations for modernizing and improving the accessibility of Vote.gov.” All of that information should be available to oversight authorities in Congress and the American taxpayers paying for its implementation, not just the left-wing groups that produced it. Yet as of this publication date, none of it has been shared. Biden’s plan “raises serious ethical, legal, and constitutional concerns,” wrote Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., along with three dozen Republican members of Congress on January 19, in a letter to the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), demanding more information by February 28 about the secret plot. It went unanswered. The top Republican members of nine House committees and subcommittees likewise demanded information from Rice and the head of OMB in a letter they sent on March 29. They noted that election activity goes well beyond “the scope of each agency’s authorizing statute and mission.” One of the concerns shared by the members was that Biden was directing agencies to work with third-party organizations. Nobody knows which third-party organizations have been approved by Rice for her political efforts, nor which are being used. They also asked how much money is being spent on the effort, which statutory authorities justify the election activities, and what steps are being taken to avoid Hatch Act violations. They received no response. The Foundation for Government Accountability filed a lawsuit on April 20th to compel the Department of Justice to respond to the FOIA request for information. And the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) filed suit on June 16 to compel Justice to comply. Those suits are ongoing. What We Know While the White House and agencies are steadfastly refusing to share details about how they’re complying with the executive order, who they met with to develop their plans, or how they’re justifying their involvement in something Congress has not authorized them to participate in, some details are trickling out. Here are a few examples of the widespread and coordinated effort by Biden’s political appointees to meddle in the state administration of elections. In the midst of a labor crisis, the Department of Labor boasted that it was turning 2,300 American Job Centers previously focused on helping displaced workers find jobs into hubs of political activism. These new federally funded voter registration agencies were given guidance about how to bring in organizations to conduct “voter outreach.” The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services likewise announced plans to turn community health centers into voter registration agencies, using thousands of health care facilities to focus on voter registration and turnout. The Housing and Urban Development Department sent notice to public housing authorities that they should begin voter registration drives and participation activities. Previously, officials had been barred from electoral activities because they receive federal funding. “It is presumed residents of public housing might disproportionately vote Democrat. … The executive order targets people receiving government benefits who might think their benefits depend on one party in power,” Stewart Whitson, legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability, told the Daily Signal. The Department of Education sent “dear colleague” letters to universities, telling them that Federal Work Study funds could now be used to support voter registration activities, contrary to previous guidance. The change was made without having gone through any rulemaking process to allow the change. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it’s using its child nutrition programs to push voter registration and enlisting state, local, and federally funded employees to implement voter registration drives in local schools. The Commerce Department produced a massive, 113-page report which likely took four agency officials many hours to generate. It directs local voting board members about polling stations and poll worker training. The tactics being used by these agencies were almost certainly contained in the plans submitted to Rice that have been withheld from investigators and overseers who had hoped to have some transparency about what the plans were. Frequently, the agencies claim the tactics are in response to the executive order, yet information about how they were developed has been withheld from the public for much of the year. It is unclear why Biden and his political appointees are being so secretive about the work that went into their plan to engage in a federal takeover of election administration. Whatever the case, Americans have a right to know whether these bureaucracies that are meddling in elections have experts in for each state’s election laws, what type of training is going on to ensure that state laws are being followed, whether they are allowing inspections and oversight to ensure no illegal activity, how they are determining whether a third-party group is genuinely non-partisan, whether they are allowing state investigators to approve money, and how much is being spent on this federal takeover of elections. Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is the Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College. A Fox News contributor, she is a regular member of the Fox News All-Stars panel on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, CNN, National Review, GetReligion, Ricochet, Christianity Today, Federal Times, Radio & Records, and many other publications. Mollie was a 2004 recipient of a Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship at The Fund for American Studies and a 2014 Lincoln Fellow of the Claremont Institute. She is the co-author of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court. She is the author of "Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections." Reach her at mzhemingway@thefederalist.com

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July 14, 2022 "As noted by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein in 2018, "[...] the bulk of voter fraud occurs absentee, and there's nothing to do with ensuring that the person voting absentee is who they say they are." By specifically prohibiting signature-match verification on absentee ballots, the State Board has neutered the County Boards of Elections ability to mitigate potential fraud where the risk of fraud is highest. The People of North Carolina deserve far better." Read press release here: https://www.nc.gop/ncsbe_signature_ruling So, what's wrong with this picture? The NC General Assembly creates election law, not the NC State Board of Elections or the judiciary. NCGOP Chair Michael Whatley: "We are stunned that the Democrats on the State Board of Elections are blocking the use of signature verification on absentee ballots," said Chairman of the N.C. Republican Party Michael Whatley. "This misguided decision is a direct contradiction of state law, which is clear that County Boards of Elections are required to validate the identity of absentee voters. The North Carolina Republican Party will explore every option at our disposal to restore voter signature verification as an essential component of our County Boards' efforts to protect the integrity of North Carolina elections.” So where is the legislature? Make this an election issue. Ask you reps or candidates about this issue when they come to see you to ask for your vote and support.