Search Results

The elections administrative code for NC is very, very hard to find. If a private company selling goods made it this difficult to find products, they'd be out of business before they started! The government is pretty useless. The BOE doesn't want you to find The Administrative Code on their website so they buried it under pages and pages. Hmmm! At a Board of Elections meeting in Henderson County, our group asked for the Administration Code for the chain of custody for seals on the absentee ballots. They refused us and they refused a Board of Election Member. Really! What are they hiding? Enjoy! Be armed with the facts. Just follow the steps below: In your search engine, type in https://www.ncsbe.gov/ Click on About Elections on the right side of the page. Click on the Box labeled, Legal Resources; https://www.ncsbe.gov/about-elections/legal-resources On the right side of the page, click on Election Law Index: https://www.ncsbe.gov/about-elections/legal-resources Click on NC Administrative Code Title 8 (bottom of the list) http://reports.oah.state.nc.us/ncac.asp?folderName=%5CTitle%2008%20-%20Elections On the upper left of the page, you will see NCAC > Title 08 - Elections. The page lists 21 chapters of administrative code on elections. Type in Election Observers in the upper search bar or scroll down the page to Chapter 20. Also, take a look at all of the Chapters. There is information to help you with the Eight Systems of Election Integrity. Be armed with the facts when you Observe, go to the Board of Elections, join a MAT team, or go to the post office about absentee ballots, or question voting equipment, etc. Get organized in your county on the Eight Systems of Election Integrity. Put Eyes Everywhere. Shine the Light so they can't cheat! This was we never have another 2020 again. Citizens Guide To Building an Election Integrity Infrastructure by Cleta Mitchell https://www.nceit.org/_files/ugd/71310c_f06a43795f68464c99002c03bbfda79d.pdf

Act for America is one of our NCEIT partners. https://www.actforamerica.org/ The Left is heavily investing in local politics! They have over 160 million dollars ready for deployment towards MEGA PROGRESSIVE candidates this Fall and 2024 General Election. We have seen the destructive and dangerous results of Soros funded District Attorney’s. · Soros backed groups have spent over $40 million to elect progressives in the past decade. · Today 1 in 5 Americans live in a Soros criminal justice system · Soros owns HALF of America’s largest jurisdictions We have seen the destructive results of Zuckerbucks flooding battleground states and county election systems, installing unsecured drop boxes which allowed unprecedented ballot harvesting and trafficking, and significantly impacted the outcomes of elections by as much as 30%. We have seen the destructive results of rogue School Boards, City Mayors, and City Council infecting our cities and our children with outrageous controls, spending, propaganda, and indoctrination. From cradle to grave, the Left is steeped in understanding of how transformation of a nation happens at the local government level. And they invest their money and time into local grassroots to impact elections and policy! Now their eyes are focused on securing Election Clerks! The Left is working very hard to run and elect mega progressive political activists in local district seats. Election Clerks hold a lot of discretionary decision-making power that absolutely impacts outcomes of elections! Nationally, only 15%-27% of registered voters bother to vote in local elections for Mayor, City Council, Sheriff, District Attorney’s, School Board, and yes, Election Clerks! For the Left, this means no contest because the Left runs for these local seats and their local grassroots army elects them with as little as 40 votes or a few hundred dollars in some cities!! Those who simply want to vote and be left alone will always lose against those who want to rule AND if we don’t engage, we will NEVER be left alone! 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! It’s not expensive or difficult for grassroots patriots to overcome this Mega Progressive, Soros/Zuckerbuck 3-talking-point robot activist army! Our Winning Grassroots Strategy 1) Chapters and Volunteer Teams in Every County 2) ACT in FAITH Chapters in Every Church and State 3) ACT for America Statewide Mobilization Network 4) Growing Grassroots Keyboard and Phone Activists 5) Overcoming Mega Progressive Local Efforts Shaping Policy and Holding Officials Accountable Imagine a tsunami of conservatives washing over the Media, the Fed, our States, and the Leftwing Cabal, until their voice and views become silenced by the roar of conservatives that render them irrelevant! We are the firewall of defense! We are the line that won’t be crossed! We will turn the tide on the ‘Woke and Broke Agenda’ that is destroying our nation and our future! Support Us | Join the Movement | Receive Email Alerts

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/07/18/how-the-left-hopes-to-use-big-money-to-seize-control-of-local-election-offices/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Top5&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGFxW5XHtE5_OUD4cEsjeMVe_UyaRkPG_0Uf-ceuhembjfW2AAFgYwpSpY3LFf5d5P2g5fl0BkR3KcVkC76Lm-4Wi2y3XOOilo2nRKvoAHc9A0LOahw Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead. “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The Daily Signal. One of the two liberal groups, Run for Something, is a political action committee founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. In the spring, Run for Something established its Clerk Work project with the goal of electing clerks, election supervisors, registrars, recorders, and other local officials charged with running elections. The PAC says it will promote thousands of election administrators in the years ahead. But for 2022, it reports endorsing 11 candidates competing in races in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Local election clerks generally are empowered to interpret and enforce state election regulations. They often have discretion on matters such as whether to count absentee ballots that come in after Election Day, how strictly to enforce voter ID or signature-matching requirements, and how closely poll watchers may monitor the ballot counting on Election Day. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, county-level election officials are elected in 22 states. In 10 states, elected officials appoint members to a local board of elections. Another 18 states divide election administration duties between two or more offices. In any case, donating to specific candidates to oversee elections could directly or indirectly affect who holds these positions. Some practices of local election administrators also could be guided by another $80 million effort by the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a coalition of mostly left-leaning organizations financed in part by Big Tech executives to train local officials in running elections. Snead and other critics say they see parallels between Run for Something and efforts to elect liberal prosecutors financed by liberal hedge fund manager George Soros. They also see strong similarities between the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s election administration grants in the 2020 election cycle. “What we shouldn’t lose track of is they are playing the long game,” Snead said. “They are going to look for every possible way to impact elections, and they can make substantial changes in the long run through this kind of program that they wouldn’t have been able to make in 2020.” The Alliance for Election Excellence is not formally aligned with Run for Something’s Clerk Work project. However, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (created by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan) has donated to Run for Something. “I would not be surprised if someone gets elected with the support of Run for Something and then immediately plugs themselves into the [Alliance for Election Excellence], because there are those natural synergies,” Snead said. Election Clerk Controversies The Clerk Work project is new this year, but politicization of election officials has been a growing controversy for years. Last month in Philadelphia, a former Democrat congressman, Michael “Ozzie” Myers, pleaded guilty in federal court of bribing the city’s election officials to stuff ballot boxes in local races. In 2012, Kathy Nickolaus, a Republican county clerk in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, agreed to step down after saying that “human error” led to the late discovery of 14,000 uncounted votes in a contested election. In 2019, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, removed Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, a Democrat, who admitted in a 2017 lawsuit that the county had more registered voters than eligible voters, and that noncitizens and ineligible felons may have voted in past elections. A Florida judge ruled in 2018 that Snipes violated the law when she destroyed ballots from a Democrat congressional primary in August 2016. Her office once posted the results of an election 30 minutes before polls closed. In 2012, Donald Whitten, a Democrat who was county clerk in Lincoln County, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes and falsifying absentee ballots in 2010. A national project aimed at electing partisans to election supervisory positions poses threats to clean and honest elections, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, parent organization of The Daily Signal. “It is a very dangerous development for local election officials, who were supposed to be objective and nonpartisan,” von Spakovsky said. “This group is trying to elect political consultants and political activists to these positions, with the potential for meddling with the election results and further undermining confidence in elections,” he said of Run for Something. Soros Prosecutors Provide Model Run for Something’s $80 million Clerk Work project, which began in April, is set to span three years and encompass 35 states. The project closely resembles one by Soros, a Hungarian-American billionaire, to elect district attorneys across the country who would take a progressive approach to prosecutions, Snead said. But in this case, it’s a national effort to elect left-leaning election officials, he said. Soros was the primary funder behind Justice and Public Safety, the super PAC that gave big donations to the campaigns of liberal candidates for district attorney. “What we are seeing is the same sort of strategy being directed toward election officials,” Snead told The Daily Signal, referring to activists on the left. “They are trying very much to repeat that strategy and the successes that they’ve seen in these local election officials, and the consequences could be significant.” In the case of electing prosecutors who would be softer on criminals, Soros fueled national campaign resources into what had previously been low-dollar, down-ballot local campaigns. The effort to put sympathetic elections officials in place could be similar, Snead said. “A lot of these positions are very, very down-ballot races. They can be won or lost—in terms of campaign spending—at the cost of buying a box of doughnuts,” he said. “The idea that you have an organization coming in like Run for Something, bringing national resources to these races, it could be a substantial impact on the race itself.” ‘Influence … Who is Administering Elections’ In 2017, former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Amanda Litman founded Run for Something as a 527 political action committee aimed at winning down-ballot races, endorsing candidates, and helping to fund their campaigns. Run for Something did not respond to numerous inquiries from The Daily Signal about this report. Litman, however, recently told The Washington Post, “You can influence quite literally who is administering elections,” and added: “If we don’t do it, we are absolutely going to regret it.” The organization’s Clerk Work project specifically aims to elect liberal election workers. In April, Litman tweeted that Clerk Work will be “supporting 5,000+ candidates for local offices in charge of election administration,” the website of the Alliance for Election Excellence says. Amanda Litman @amandalitman· Follow Today @runforsomething is announcing Clerk Work, our $80 million 3-year plan to save democracy from the ground up by recruiting & supporting 5,000+ candidates for local offices in charge of election administration. @ec_schneider has the details: politico.com Fighting Trump, Dems launch plan to elect thousands of local election supervisors The $80 million effort comes as Trump-friendly conspiracy ... However, Run for Something’s candidates page lists only 11 candidates running in 2022 for offices such as county clerk, county registrar, and county recorder—all with supervisory roles over local elections. Run for Something notes that Steve Bannon, a former campaign and White House adviser to Donald Trump, said in December 2021: We are going to take over the election apparatus. American citizens that are volunteering. … They are going to volunteer to become a precinct committeeman. They are going to volunteer to become an election official. They are going to come and run for county clerk and overthrow those [incumbent] county clerks. In a December 2021 tweet, Run for Something said of the former Trump aide: “Steve Bannon is recruiting people to run for local election administrator. So are we.” However, recruiting registered Democrats or Republicans as poll workers and poll watchers is different than a well-financed effort to place party activists in election supervisory posts, said Snead, head of the Honest Elections Project. One of Run for Something’s largest donors is LinkedIn’s political arm, which gave $250,000 in the 2018 election cycle, the most recent listed by the Center for Responsive Politics, which monitors political donations. The 501(c)(4) group Onward Together, founded in 2017 by Hillary Clinton, gave $100,000 to Run for Something. Act Blue, a PAC devoted to electing Democrats nationally, gave $50,000. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative contributed $10,000. Election Excellence The Alliance for Election Excellence is a five-year, $80 million project made up of seven nonprofit organizations aimed at advising local election offices on how to run elections in their jurisdictions. The Center for Tech and Civic Life is the leading organization among seven in the alliance. In 2020, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gave $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning group that distributed grants to mostly Democrat-dominated precincts, driving up the vote. The Zuckerbergs’ grants, dubbed Zuckerbucks, helped finance drop boxes and expanded mail-in balloting, among other activities. Although the Alliance for Election Excellence is not specific about what recommendations it will promote, critics such as Snead suspect it will be suggestions that tend to help Democrats, such as expanding mail-in voting. Other groups in the alliance include the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, a project of the New Venture Fund, itself sponsored by the liberal dark money group Arabella Advisors. Arabella Advisors sponsors several left-leaning organizations, some of which are pop-up organizations that exist for the duration of an election cycle while others spin off to become independent nonprofits. The alliance’s “training” is a loophole to avoid bans on private funding of election administration in 21 states, Snead said. No one should assume this $80 million project would be less effective than the $400 million Zuckerberg project in 2020, he said. That funding was skewed heavily toward expanding mail-in voting and providing ballot drop boxes, and critics say this could have amounted to a get-out-the-vote effort that helped Democrats. “If you assume that 2020 was a learning opportunity at the very least, then certainly they could come back with potentially more effective programs the second go-around,” Snead said. In addition to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, the alliance includes: —The Center for Civic Design, an election-administration policy organization that frequently partners with left-of-center organizations. —The Arabella-sponsored Center for Secure and Modern Elections, which advocates for automatic voter registration. —The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, part of the university’s school of engineering. —The Elections Group, a consulting organization that works with election officials and was established in 2020 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. —The Prototyping Systems Lab at University of California, Davis, which focuses on designing technology. —U.S. Digital Response, which started during the pandemic to help with state and local governments’ digital needs. The Alliance for Election Excellence is inviting cities, counties, and other local election jurisdictions to apply for training to become “centers for excellence.” Its website says: As part of the alliance, centers will receive training, mentorship, and resources, and serve as a support system for each other and election departments across the country. … Local election officials are the expert on what their voters need, and the alliance will work with each center to fill in the gaps. This could look like redesigning a form so it’s more likely a voter will successfully complete it or updating an election website so it is mobile-friendly and answers voters’ top questions. Given the political ties of the organizations running the alliance, Heritage’s von Spakovsky said, he is skeptical that the organization is trying to train election officials in best practices. “‘Best practices’ is a thin disguise necessary for doing what these organizations wanted to see done under the HR 1 federal bill, which was legislation that would have made fair and honest elections nearly impossible in the future,” von Spakovsky said. The former Federal Election Commission member was referring to HR 1, dubbed the “For the People Act,” legislation from congressional Democrats that passed the House last year but died in the Senate. The bill would have nationalized local or state election procedures by banning voter ID laws in most states, expanding the controversial practice of ballot harvesting, and mandating that every state allow Election Day voter registration. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off, please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the url or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. Want to keep up with the 24/7 news cycle? Want to know the most important stories of the day for conservatives? Need news you can trust? Subscribe to The Daily Signal’s email newsletter. Learn more >> @FredLucasWH Fred Lucas Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. Lucas is also the author of "Abuse of Power: Inside The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump." Send an email to Fred.

Tucker Carlson: Nothing like this has ever happened Video: What the 1965 Immigration Law has done to US.

See link https://ago.mo.gov/home/news/2022/07/13/missouri-attorney-general-condemns-fbi-s-illegal-attempts-to-harvest-concealed-carry-permit-information-from-missouri-sheriffs The FBI is out of control under this illegitimate regime. This is how we fight back. We cannot let these Marxists in DC trample all over our inalienable rights. One of the Systems of Election Integrity is Statutory Provisions & Compliance where WE provide legislative oversignt and advocacy. Join the army of an established, trusted, statewide infrastructure, comprised of a network of regional and county Eection Integrity Task forces with operators who are trained, certified and geographically positinal to ensure secire ad legitimate election processes for November 22 and beyond. Visit NCEIT.org at Join Us. Come to the WNC Regional Summit on August 20th, 2022 in Buncombe County to get trained and equipped to stop the Left.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHdl__KG-PUOxXIZNO75qRSQhDQk4p8h/view PRESS RELEASE JULY 19, 2022 Contact: Lynn Bernstein, Transparent Elections NC, 910-764-8328 Tyler Brooks, attorney, 336-707-8855 Case # 5:22-cv-00277-BO Link to Complaint: https://bit.ly/3B2uYRm RALEIGH, NC – A well-respected Wake County elections observer filed a lawsuit today against the Director of Elections for Wake County, Gary Sims; and against the Wake County Board of Elections, seeking relief and redress for actions that have deprived her of her constitutional rights. The Complaint lists several egregious actions by Director Sims and the board that were taken against Lynn Bernstein, founder of Transparent Elections NC, but focuses on a May 14th trespass notice issued to her, without cause, by order of Director Sims. This trespass notice has the effect of banning Ms. Bernstein for life from observing elections, attending Board of Elections meetings, serving as a poll worker, or voting in person at any early voting site or at her precinct because she will be arrested if she steps foot on property under the control of the Wake County Board of Elections. The trespass notice was issued to Ms. Bernstein even though she never entered the open gate to the Board of Elections facility on May 14th, which is confirmed by surveillance video. She was looking for a legal place where she could hold a small, peaceful protest on Election Night to bring attention to the fact that Director Sims and the board do not allow public observation at the elections facility after the polls close at 7:30 pm. Election night is when the results poll tapes for early voting and absentee-by-mail should be available for public viewing. This is also the time when critical election materials are brought back to the board warehouse and the electronic vote count is sent to the state. Ms. Bernstein brings exceptional qualifications to her role as an election observer and monitor. She is a trained International Elections Observer; a member of the Election Verification Network; a member of the National Voting Rights Task Force; a member of the Carter Center Advisory Council for Fair, Safe and Secure Elections in North Carolina; a Board Member of AUDIT USA Elections; and an active member of the Wake County Democratic Party, serving as a Board Member for the Democratic Women of Wake County and as a Member of the Executive Committee for the NC Democratic Party Disability Issues Caucus. In addition, Ms. Bernstein’s degree in Aerospace Engineering and her work experience in the aerospace industry allow her to use her technical experience to advocate for increased security, accuracy of election equipment and comprehensive uniform processes. “I have never created a disturbance. I always act professionally and respectfully and have always followed the law. I’m being singled out and punished for exercising my constitutional right to speak at board of election meetings and observe and improve elections procedures,” Ms. Bernstein said. “Being trespassed and banned from election properties is a clear retaliation against me.” Ms. Bernstein’s nonpartisan efforts have made a difference in North Carolina. To list just a few examples, she helped Guilford County save $5.8 million by successfully advocating for its purchase of a hand-marked paper ballot voting system instead of more expensive and less secure ballot-marking devices for all voters. (Guilford County used the millions saved on raises for its school bus drivers and air conditioning in some of its schools.) The North Carolina State Board of Elections adopted her suggestion for improving the transparency of the selection process for randomly determining which precincts will be audited. And due to her advocacy, the State Board of Elections directed Wake County to correct its improper procedures for processing absentee-by-mail ballots, which drew the ire of Director Sims and the Wake County Board of Elections. Bernstein’s advocacy also prompted a statewide directive from the State Board of Elections to ensure all counties were following the correct procedures for handling absentee-by-mail ballots. Ms. Bernstein is a longtime advocate for evidence-based elections that are worthy of the public’s trust. Director Sims and some members of the Wake County Board of Elections have expressed annoyance with Ms. Bernstein’s attention to proper election procedures and best practices, and Director Sims has physically and verbally intimidated Ms. Bernstein on more than one occasion, including a witnessed incident that is described in the Complaint. The Complaint asks the court to revoke the trespass against Ms. Bernstein so that she may continue to pursue the civic duties that are so important to her and that benefit North Carolina elections and voters. The Complaint also seeks compensatory damages for the violation of Ms. Bernstein’s constitutional rights. “I do this work because I believe that for our democracy to survive, voters must have confidence in election results, which can only be achieved with elections that are transparent, trackable, robustly audited, and publicly verified,” Bernstein said. “Everything I do is aimed at greater transparency, improved security, and increased voter confidence.” # # # # Link to Complaint: https://bit.ly/3B2uYRm (Please note: The bold italics are the website owners. ATP) Read the rest here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHdl__KG-PUOxXIZNO75qRSQhDQk4p8h/view Please check out Lynn Bernstein's website with invaluable information on election integrity: https://www.transparentelectionsnc.org/

Letter to Editor, The Hendersonville Lightning, 12/26/2021 Open Letter To The Flat Rock City Council and Henderson County Commissioners: Don’t Fund The Flat Rock Playhouse Fascism The Flat Rock Playhouse is requiring vaccine passports accompanied by a photo ID. The playhouse is North Carolina’s State Theater that receives our state tax dollars. In addition, the Henderson County Commissioners and the Flat Rock City Council are giving the Playhouse our county and town hard earned tax money. This action by Flat Rock Playhouse is the hallmark of communist dictatorships, not a 245-year-old constitutional republic like the United States of America. Funding the playhouse makes you complicit. In this country, medical privacy is the right of every American citizen. Whether we choose to take a COVID-19 vaccine or not is no one’s business - not the Federal government or the Flat Rock Playhouse. The nameless, faceless, unelected bureaucrats at OSHA were never given authority to mandate vaccine passports (with a photo ID no less) by Congress because it’s unconstitutional. Congress did not give OSHA the authority to mandate vaccine passports let alone the Flat Rock Playhouse. The Flat Rock Playhouse thinks they can discriminate and divide us, violate our individual inalienable rights, our bodily integrity, our medical privacy, and the rule of law. By funding the Playhouse, you are complicit in these egregious violations. The citizens of Flat Rock and Henderson County never gave you the right to tax us to violate our rights or to bar us from our theater. Since you have the authority to give away our tax dollars, you have the authority to them take away. Like my fellow tax payers, I pay taxes to the state of North Carolina, Henderson County, and Flat Rock. The citizens of North Carolina urge you to do the right thing in your 2022 budget. Do not fund their fascism. Jane Bilello

Letter to NCGA Withold Funds To Flat Rock Playhouse December 26, 2021 Dear North Carolina Senators and House Representatives: Are you aware that The Flat Rock Playhouse, the North Carolina State Theater, is requiring vaccine passports accompanied by a photo ID? You allocate our tax dollars to fund the theater. This action by the Flat Rock Playhouse is the hallmark of communist dictatorships, not a 245-year-old constitutional republic like the United States of America. This is not a Right-Left/Republican-Democrat issue. This is a violation of our civil rights guaranteed to us in The Bill of Rights. In this country, medical privacy is the right of every American citizen. Whether we choose to take a COVID-19 vaccine or not is no one’s business - not the Federal government or the Flat Rock Playhouse. The nameless, faceless, unelected bureaucrats at OSHA were never given authority to mandate vaccine passports (with a photo ID no less) by Congress because it’s unconstitutional. Congress did not give OSHA the authority to mandate vaccine passports let alone the Flat Rock Playhouse. The Flat Rock Playhouse thinks they can discriminate and divide us, violate our individual inalienable rights, our bodily integrity, our medical privacy, and the rule of law. If you choose to continue funding the Playhouse, you will be complicit in these violations. The citizens of North Carolina never gave you the right to tax us to violate our rights or to bar us from our theater. Since you have the authority to allocate our tax dollars, you have the authority to withhold them. I pay taxes to the state of North Carolina, Henderson County, and Flat Rock. If the Flat Rock Playhouse does not remove their illegal vaccine mandate and photo ID, the citizens of North Carolina urge you to do the right thing in your 2022 budget. Do not fund their fascism. Link to ruling: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/21/21-60845.0.pdf Congress Didn’t Give OSHA Authority to Impose Vaccine Mandates (dailysignal.com) Health and Safety | Flat Rock Playhouse Health and Safety | Flat Rock Playhouse https://flatrockplayhouse.org/health-and-safety Thank you for your time and consideration. Jane Bilello jane.bilello@gmail.com "If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams That time has come! JB

https://dailyhaymaker.com/who-the-hell-is-eric-and-why-is-he-in-my-state-budget/ Republican leaders (Like NC Speaker of the House Tim Moore (R) and President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate, Phil Berger) in the North Carolina General Assembly have stated repeatedly, in the face of complaints about ERIC, that the group ERIC) will not be removed from the state budget. There were only 3 Republican excused absences in the Senate. All other Republicans voted for this Leftist scheme. NC House NC Senate Please make this a November election issue with your lawmakers. We need to hold them accountable. They need to tell you HOW they are going to undo this! More information and evidence is coming regarding ERIC ties to the radical Left. Election Integrity has been a HUGE issue during recent years. A lot of grassroots groups on both sides of the aisle have been taking on the issue and paying close attention to related developments. Several red flags went up when the budget bill was passed by The North Carolina General Assembly. The bill includes authorization for North Carolina to join and send money to something called the Electronic Records Information Center (ERIC). Critics see ERIC as a foot-soldier for the left wing seeking to take America on a long-term leftward trajectory. Others see it as an important resource for cleaning up voter rolls and ensuring the widest possible participation in voting. (Heck, even the John Locke Foundation is endorsing the idea of North Carolina aligning with these folks. ) Alabama has had some recent drama with ERIC. A candidate for that state’s secretary of state post has raised several red flags: A nationwide program that the state of Alabama contracts with to maintain voter information is coming into question after an Alabama Secretary of State candidate announced he will withdraw the state from the program if he is elected. Rep. Wes Allen (R), said the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a George Soros-funded organization. “Alabama taxpayers do not want their information provided to a Soros-funded, leftist group like ERIC,” Allen said. Current Secretary of State John Merrill, who is term-limited from running again, signed a contract between the state and ERIC in 2015. The state pays a fee of $28,000 per year, which Merrill feels is a good deal for the services offered. “No state has the capacity to do what ERIC does,’’ Merrill said. “No state has the financial resources to do what ERIC does. No state has the ability, the personnel, or the extra budget to do what ERIC does. “So if they can’t do it, how are you going to do that work,” Merrill asked? As for the Soros’ allegations, Merrill said, “The problem is, ignorant people have information introduced to them, they get a toenail sliver piece of it, and they think it’s enough to write a master’s thesis because they heard somebody say that George Soros was supportive of ERIC and he helped create it.” Allen disagrees. “Through the Pew Charitable Trust, their funding partner is Open Society,” said Allen. “Well, Open Society is George Soros. So, even though the Soros money may have been all spent by now, there’s no dispute that Soros’ money helped feed the project. “Alabama can police our own voter rolls,” Allen added. “Paying about $25,000 a year in taxpayer money to a private non-profit organization – I think Alabama has the resources to do it ourselves.” According to its website, ERIC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to assist states in improving the accuracy of its voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible citizens. It was formed in 2012 with assistance from The Pew Charitable Trusts. ERIC claims to help states maintain voter rolls by identifying potential registered voters who have passed away, moved out of state or have duplicate registrations. In Alabama, Merrill said ERIC has identified more than 19,000 potential dead voters, more than 22,000 potential cross-state movers, and more than 24,000 voter records of potential duplicates. Merrill also said ERIC can assist in locating and removing illegal immigrants from voting. However, the state’s contract with ERIC, which Merrill provided to 1819 News, states, “Under no circumstances shall the members transmit any record indicating an individual is a non-citizen of the U.S.’’ As of October 2021, 31 states plus the District of Columbia were members of ERIC. However, Louisiana recently suspended its participation after allegations against the program surfaced. In a press release, Allen claimed ERIC was originally managed by David Becker, a well-known Democrat election lawyer who became the architect of ERIC after serving in the Justice Department during the Obama Administration. Becker created the Center for Election Innovation and Research, the same organization accused in 2020 of distributing millions from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to Democrat-led counties. “I don’t know how Alabama got mixed up with these people, but nothing like this will ever happen under my watch if I am elected to serve as Alabama’s next Secretary of State,’’ Allen said. “Soros can take his minions and his database and troll someone else because Alabamians are going to be off-limits – permanently.” Allen is not the only one concerned with ERIC. Members of the state legislature are considering legislation to end the state’s contract with the organization. Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, and the District of Columbia, which are members of ERIC, are being sued for blocking a review of voter registration records. […] Republican leaders in the North Carolina General Assembly have stated repeatedly, in the face of complaints about ERIC, that the group will not be removed from the state budget.

Pages 153 - 154 HB 103 PART XXVI. ELECTIONS (Line 51) General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2021 Page 154 House Bill 103 H103-PCCS20003-MLxr-9 1 SBE/USE OF HAVA FUNDS SECTION 26.1 26.1. The State Board of Elections (Board) shall use federal Help (Lind 3) America Vote Act (HAVA) funds appropriated in this act for the 2022-2023 fiscal year for the (Line 4) following purposes: (Line 5) (1) The maintenance and update of voter lists in coordination with county boards (Line 6) of election. (A function of the NC State Board of Elections!) (Line 7) (2) The retention and preservation of State election records and papers consistent (Line 8) with the requirements for federal elections as prescribed by Title 52 U.S.C. § 9 20701. (Line 10) (3) The funding to continue no more than (Line 10) current, full-time information (Line 11) technology positions, including the Chief Information Technology Officer. (Line 12) (4) A one-time analysis of the State's voter registration data by the Electronic (Line 13) Registration Information Center, Inc. (ERIC), and a subsequent mailing to (Line 14) affected individuals by the State Board of Elections to improve the accuracy (Line 15) of voter registration records. (Line 16-17) SBE/CONTINUED MEMBERSHIP IN ERIC (Line 18) SECTION 26.3. If the State's continued membership in the Electronic Registration (Line 19) Information Center (ERIC) requires the State Board of Elections or a local board of elections to (Line 20) change any of the policies or procedures related to elections in this State, the change in policy or 21 procedure shall not occur unless approved by an act of the General Assembly.

There were over 229.000 signatures from folks like you who signed the pledge. We gave away boxes of police pledge yard signs right here in NC. We ever ran a security camera raffle and donated the proceeds to the Fraternal Order of Police in Asheville, NC that has been devestated by defunding. The good news is that the loons on the city council figured out that defunding caused crime to increase and officers to leave. They have since increased their budget. Thank you for supporting our law enforcement. https://heritageaction.com/policepledge They deserve our respect and honor. Nikki Haley Signs Heritage Action Police Pledge Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/nikki-haley-signs-heritage-action-police-pledge Washington—Heritage Action for America today announced Nikki Haley, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Governor of South Carolina, has signed Heritage Action’s newly launched Police Pledge. “I am proud to stand with our nation’s law enforcement,” said Haley. “Violence and calls to defund the police do nothing to solve... Heritage Action Congratulates Police Pledge Signers on Successful Elections Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-congratulates-police-pledge-signers-on-successful-elections Washington, DC — Heritage Action for America today released the following statement from Executive Director Jessica Anderson congratulating the candidates and elected officials who signed Heritage Action’s Police Pledge and won their elections. The American people want safety and security in communities across the nation. Over 100 members of Congress... House Republican Leader Kevin Mccarthy Signs Heritage Action Police Pledge Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/house-republican-leader-kevin-mccarthy-signs-heritage-action-police-pledge Washington—Heritage Action for America today announced Representative Kevin McCarthy, House Republican Leader, has signed Heritage Action’s newly launched Police Pledge. “Today and every day I am proud to stand with our men and women in blue who uphold their oath to protect our communities,” said Leader McCarthy. “It is human... Heritage Action Launches Police Pledge; New Poll Shows 4 Out of 5 Swing State Voters Oppose Defunding Police Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-launches-police-pledge-new-poll-shows-4-out-of-5-swing-state-voters-oppose-defunding-police Washington—Heritage Action for America today called on all elected officials to sign its newly launched Police Pledge, a pledge for citizens, lawmakers and candidates to stand with our nation’s law enforcement officers. Heritage Action also announced the results of a new battleground poll revealing overwhelming national support for our police... Heritage Action Launches Pro-police Billboards Blog Articles: https://heritageaction.com/blog/heritage-action-launches-pro-police-billboards Heritage Action has put up SEVEN pro-police billboards in New York City, Atlanta, and Dallas—cities where the “defund the police” movement is taking hold. Executive Director Jessica Anderson joined Fox & Friends on Monday morning to announce the launch. These billboards are grabbing media attention and helping us rally support... Heritage Action Unveils “No Police, No Peace” Billboards in New York, Dallas, and Atlanta Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-unveils-no-police-no-peace-billboards-in-new-york-dallas-and-atlanta Washington—Heritage Action today announced their new “No Police, No Peace” billboards in New York City, Dallas, and Atlanta. Jessica Anderson, Executive Director of Heritage Action, first announced the billboards on Fox & Friends this morning. “Americans want safety, security and a clear vision for how to quell the violence. I... Heritage Action Sponsors Inaugural Pro-police “Blue Courage” Event Press Releases: https://heritageaction.com/press/heritage-action-sponsors-inaugural-pro-police-blue-courage-event Washington, DC—Heritage Action for America today announced its sponsorship of the inaugural Blue Courage one-hour special event, organized by Just The News, to honor our nation’s police officers on Tuesday, October 20th at 8:00PM EST. The event will be broadcast on Real America’s Voice, the Pursuit Channel, and social media.“America...

Create a blog post subtitle that summarizes your post in a few short, punchy sentences and entices your audience to continue reading. Welcome to your blog post. Use this space to connect with your readers and potential customers in a way that’s current and interesting. Think of it as an ongoing conversation where you can share updates about business, trends, news, and more. Design with Ease “Do you have a design in mind for your blog? Whether you prefer a trendy postcard look or you’re going for a more editorial style blog - there’s a stunning layout for everyone.” Every layout comes with the latest social features built in. Readers will be able to easily share posts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, view how many people have liked a post, made comments and more. With Wix, building your online community has never been easier. Create Relevant Content You’ll be posting loads of engaging content, so be sure to keep your blog organized with Categories that also allow readers to explore more of what interests them. Each category of your blog has its own page that’s fully customizable. Add a catchy title, a brief description and a beautiful image to the category page header to truly make it your own. You can also add tags (#vacation #dream #summer) throughout your posts to reach more people, and help readers search for relevant content. Using hashtags can expand your post reach and help people find the content that matters to them. Go ahead, #hashtag away. Stun Your Readers “Be original, show off your style, and tell your story.” Blogging gives your site a voice, so let your business’ personality shine through. Are you a creative agency? Go wild with original blog posts about recent projects, cool inspirational ideas, or what your company culture is like. Add images, and videos to really spice it up, and pepper it with slang to keep readers interested. Are you a programmer? Stay on the more technical side by offering weekly tips, tricks, and hacks that show off your knowledge of the industry. No matter what type of business you have, one thing is for sure - blogging gives your business the opportunity to be heard in a way in a different and unconventional way. Get Inspired To keep up with all things Wix, including website building tips and interesting articles, head over to the Wix Blog. You may even find yourself inspired to start crafting your own blog, adding unique content, and stunning images and videos. Start creating your own blog now. Good luck!