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HENDERSON COUNTY POLL OBSERVER SIGN-UP Click or copy the Sign –Up Genius link for Early Voting 2022 Primary for April 28 – May 14th, 2022: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4fa8ae2ca7f9c07-may2022 or HCGOP: EARLY VOTING MAY 2022 POLL OBSERVERS (signupgenius.com) There are (3) four hour time slots per day beginning the first day of Early Voting on April 28th, 2022 and ending on Saturday, May 14th, 2022. You will receive a confirmation email with your sign-up dates and times. Sign up for as many shifts as you like. Click or copy the Sign-Up Genius link for Primary Election Day on May 17th, 2022: You will receive a confirmation email with your sign-up dates and times. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4fa8ae2ca7f9c07-primary or HCGOP: PRIMARY ELECTION DAY POLL OBSERVERS (signupgenius.com)

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Dispelling the Misinformation on Chuck Edwards & Voter ID & Election Integrity Support (ashevilleteapac.org) SENATOR CHUCK EDWARDS - VOTER ID 2019 SL 2018-128 - Constitution Amendment – Require Photo ID to Vote SL 2018-144 – Implementation of Voter ID Const. Amendment Senator Edwards voted YES on both bills! · Two special Congressional elections, which were not anticipated, were to be held that year when the voter ID Amendment and bill were passed. · The original implementation legislation anticipated that there would be an education and rulemaking process held before September 1, 2019 in time for municipal elections to be held that fall. But that was not going to be possible with the special elections taking precedent over the activities needed to ensure vote ID could be implemented in a uniform and orderly fashion. Additionally, if our opponents in court were able to say we were rushing and botching implementation of voter ID, then it would make the legislation more likely to go down. · A strategic decision was made to push voter ID into 2020 when it would affect far more voters and a presidential election, thus, SB 214/SL 2019-4 – Ensure Orderly 2019 Elections were passed. Senator Edwards voted YES on both bills! Last year in April, there was a Voter Integrity Project Bootcamp in Haywood County. Over 130+ attended. Because Senator Chuck Edwards donated to this project, we were able to keep the cost way down to cover expenses and lunch so we could get lots of folks to attend. Senator Edwards has always been a supporter of election integrity. He has also met with ATP on several occasions to discuss our concerns and to offer support. Please don't listen to the rumor mill. Chuck Edwards is the ONLY candidate for NC11 Congress qualified with a record to prove it! Other info on Chuck NC's 2A Watchdog GRNC Recommends Chuck Edwards/Nix Cawthorn for NC11 Congress. Here's why! (ashevilleteapac.org) Senator Chuck Edwards for NC11 Congress (ashevilleteapac.org) Home - Chuck Edwards for Congress

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This list will be periodically updated to include more information for Poll Observers to access. TOPIC PUBLICATION & LINK Assistance must be requested §163-166.8 Assisted voters need not to disabled & mandatory scriptNumbered Memo 2016-16 Assistants shall NOTNCAC 08 10B.0107 Interference Law §163-273 Duties of poll workers 08 NCAC 10B .0101 Set-up procedures 08 NCAC 10B .0102 Voting procedures (observers may hear voter names) 08 NCAC 10B.0103 Spoiled ballot procedures 08 NCAC 10B.0104 Observers can have vote totals at precinct 08 NCAC 10B.0105 Chain of custody for supplies 08 NCAC 10B.0106 Curbside affidavits 08 NCAC 10B.0108 Observers make observation "as the observer may desire "§ 163-45(c) Voting site duties inside polling location 08 NCAC 10B.0109 Observer - warning before ejection & "leaving" abuse 08 NCAC 20.0101 Obs can "ensure the [curbside] voter is not improperly assisted "Numbered Memo 2016-17 Obs allowed access to ensure "zero balance" procedure 08 NCAC 04 .0304 Abs ballot return policies Numbered Memo 2020-23 Click on the pdf link to open.

Cawthorn to be investigated over cryptocurrency, staffer relationship (blueridgenow.com) ASHEVILLE - Rep. Madison Cawthorn will face a House ethics investigation over allegations he improperly promoted a cryptocurrency and engaged in a relationship with a person employed on his congressional staff. That is according to a May 23 Ethics Committee statement released by Chair Theodore E. Deutch, D-Florida and Ranking Member Jackie Walorski, R-Indiana. They said a subcommittee would be formed to look into the allegations. Cawthorn loses re-election bid:Trump-endorsed Madison Cawthorn loses reelection bid for NC 11th congressional district Related:Madison Cawthorn court date set for misdemeanor of bringing loaded gun to Charlotte airport "The Investigative Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Representative Madison Cawthorn may have: improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff," the statement said. Cawthorn, a controversial Henderson County Republican representing Western North Carolina, lost his first reelection bid in the May 17 primaries amid scandals and missteps that spurred large numbers of Republicans and unaffiliated voters to back alternate GOP candidates. Cawthorn spokesperson Luke Ball did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. This breaking story will be updated. Joel Burgess has lived in WNC for more than 20 years, covering politics, government and other news. He's written award-winning stories on topics ranging from gerrymandering to police use of force. Got a tip? Contact Burgess at jburgess@citizentimes.com, 828-713-1095 or on Twitter @AVLreporter. Please help support this type of journalism with a subscription to the Citizen Times.

North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit June 10-11, 2022 About this event North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit, and Who's Counting with Cleta Mitchell, is a project of the Election Integrity Network. We are a coalition of conservative leaders, organizations, public officials and citizens dedicated to securing the legality of every American vote. If you are interested in free and fair elections, please join us for the North Carolina Statewide Election Integrity Summit to be held Friday through Saturday on June 10-11, 2022, at the Raleigh Marriott City Center located at 500 Fayetteville Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. Tickets here. Summit Details here. To make reservations at the Raleigh Marriott City Center in Raleigh, please click HERE for the special room rate (if you book by 05.31) or HERE for general reservations. For summit related questions or concerns, please email Kerri Toloczko at ktoloczko@cpi.org.

If you saw 2000 Mules, you remember these two heroes. rue the Vote founder and president Catherine Engelbrecht makes a point during a presentation on ballot trafficking at the Arizona statehouse on May 31, 2022. Seated next to her is True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) Arizona is one of the key states in the CPI initiative to assure Election Integrity. Arizona joins us, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The election integrity group True the Vote presented Arizona lawmakers with cell phone tracking data showing alleged ballot traffickers visited drop boxes in two of the state’s largest counties no less than 5,700 times during the 2020 election. “When we started the project, we didn’t know [what we would find],” said Catherine Engelbrecht, the Texas group’s founder and president. “We began to think through what is a realistic expectation or threshold for when going to a dropbox is too many times. We wanted to focus on a clear, narrow data set [to demonstrate] “extreme outlier behavior.” The group’s investigators settled on 10 visits as an actual number—but “here, in Arizona, they went an average of 21 times,” Engelbrecht told the panel of state legislators on May 31. Lawmakers—all Republican—vowed to move forward with HB-2289 to make ballot drop boxes illegal in Arizona. “The only thing I would like to see come out of this meeting is people going to jail,” said State Rep. Quang Nguyen (R). “I would just like to see people cuffed.” The presentation was delayed 45 minutes while Arizona Democratic legislators wrangled over proposed gun control. Arizona state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R) goes over data during a presentation on election integrity by True the Vote in Phoenix on May 31. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) “This is political grandstanding, which I find is shameful,” said Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem (R). “They’re trying to suspend the rules, which is always a bad idea—to bring forward a bill that hasn’t gone to committee, and that has not had any vetting whatsoever. It’s not going to happen.” During the 90-minute presentation, Engelbrecht and True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips, former head of Mississippi’s Department of Human Services, described the group’s investigation into so-called “mules,” illegal ballot runners, and the role NGOs may have played to commit 2020 election fraud. The investigation focused on two of the state’s largest counties—Maricopa County and Yuma County—and on unique visits to ballot boxes utilizing cell phone tracking technology to develop “patterns of life” for each alleged ballot trafficker. “We resolved to try to find a path that we could measure that would be useful to law enforcement,” Engelbrecht said. The study used Oct. 7 and Nov. 3, 2020 as a timeframe, identifying 202 target devices that made 4,242 unique dropbox visits in Maricopa County. In Yuma County, the study found 1,435 unique dropbox visits by 41 target devices based on cell phone signals, or “pings.” Arizona State Sen. Leo Biasiucci (R) listens as the election integrity group True the Vote presents its findings on ballot fraud in at the statehouse Arizona in Phoenix on May 31, 2022. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) Engelbrecht said a geofence is around every dropbox to provide a “digital coordinate set” and measure how many times a device passed through the geofence. Measurements are precise to within a meter of contact with a ballot box. The federal government uses the same tracking technology. Its accuracy is “nearly perfect [like] wearing an ankle bracelet,” Engelbrecht said. “Friends, it’s happening on all of our phones, which are attached to us at almost all times. Suffice for this purpose and for this time to say the outlier set was so extreme that it warrants serious consideration, one that we hope this body before us will consider,” she said. Phillips said the web of cell phone signals is “so significant. Your phone is sending regular pings [this] is how all that comes together.” He added, “It can’t be overstated not to do what the [New York Times] did” in a series of articles on geofencing—”to say we got 50 billion pings and make all these [erroneous] assumptions.” Phillips said the group’s study sifted through billions of signals, “teasing out” devices based to exclude “false positive” signals. Dinesh D’Souza illustrated these findings in the new movie “2,000 Mules,” which seeks to expose organized ballot trafficking in the 2020 election. “We decided to go in on a methodology that uses ad data [embedded] in all of your phones. This is how digital DNA is captured,” Engelbrecht said. “If there were a subversion of [electoral] process, it would show up in the drop boxes. We believed that to prove it [geospatial data] would be something to focus on. We resolved to look at the ways to prove this.” True the Vote is investigating alleged 2020 ballot harvesting in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania electoral jurisdictions as well, and will share its findings with law enforcement officials that could lead to criminal investigations. Engelbrecht said inaccurate voter rolls provide a “gateway to all your problems” with mass mailing of ballots. She said that issues are more likely to occur at ballot drop boxes because they are not well regulated. Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (C) claps during a presentation of ballot trafficking by True the Vote at Arizona’s statehouse in Phoenix on May 31. Next to her is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb. (Allan Stein/The Epoch Times) True the Vote recommends Arizona lawmakers commit to clean voter rolls using real-time technology, and eliminate mass mailing of ballots and drop boxes. Or at the very least, drop boxes should be secure with video surveillance technology. Finally, lawmakers should make the penalty for ballot running something “cheaters will fear,” said Engelbrecht, who views 2020 election fraud as a “vertical grift layers and layers deep.” “The exploitation targets the most vulnerable communities. This is voter abuse. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. This is about securing the vote,” Engelbrecht said. Arizona state Rep. Leo Biasiucci (R) said, “Obviously, something is going on. We’ve got to figure out what went wrong, how to fix it, and if you were involved, you should be prosecuted.” State Sen. Nancy Barto (R) said it is “very scary” for voters not to have confidence in the ballot. “We are going to get a handle on this,” she said. State Sen. Walter “Walt” Blackman (R) summed up the solution for Arizona in “HB-2289.” “After seeing this, we need to move forward with [HB-]2289,” he said to loud applause. Allan Stein Follow Allan Stein is an Epoch Times reporter who covers the state of Arizona.

CPI Senior Legal Fellow Cleta Mitchell Asheville Tea: The New York Times just learned about CPI’s Election Integrity Network and the statewide training conferences we have been leading across the country this year. And after seeing Cleta Mitchell leading just one Summit meeting, they are in full-out panic mode! Sunday, they published a 3,500-word expose on our efforts to: Organize volunteers (GASP!), Teach them how elections work (SHUDDER!), Train them to be civil and gracious (HOW DARE WE!), and Show them how to ensure fair elections. THE HORROR! The ridiculous article was the latest in a series of insinuating, dishonest hit pieces against Cleta, CPI, and conservatives. Whenever conservatives act, the media gets scared. Well… they should be. For generations, the media, the deep state, and liberal poll workers had exclusive power over election information in this country. The lesson Americans learned in 2020: NEVER AGAIN. Help end election fraud today: Support CPI The public wants free and fair elections, and the Election Integrity Network is working every day to ensure we have them. Liberal pundits are outraged that EIN is teaching activists exactly how the system works and how to prevent it from being corrupted. We teach citizens how to regain control over and confidence in their elections – and the Left calls that “intimidation.” Hogwash. They know what this is really about. They know the corners they have cut, the games they play with the rules, and with our votes. And we’re putting a stop to it. We’re going to be holding Election Integrity Summits in numerous states between now and November. But we can’t do it without you. Support CPI and the Election Integrity Network! We need your help to take EIN’s work to the next level. Voting season is in full swing, and the most important mid-term elections of our lives are only MONTHS AWAY! There is no time to lose – and no organization working harder to protect the integrity of the voting booth and the ballot box than CPI’s Election Integrity Network. If the liberals at the New York Times are shaking in their boots, you know we’re doing something right! Thank you for being part of our team and for helping us make CPI the place where conservatives go to win. Sincerely,Jim DeMint CPI ChairmanCONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE 300 Independence Ave SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 742-8988 Tel | (202) 595-0282 Fax CPI.orgSUPPORT CPI

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Michael Avenatti Sentenced to Prison for Scamming Client out of Book Deal Money (theepochtimes.com) Lawyer Michael Avenatti, who made headlines for his anti-Donald Trump stance, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday for cheating his former client out of $300,000 in cash from a book deal. Avenatti was convicted of aggravated identity fraud and wire fraud in a New York federal court earlier in 2022. He could have faced two years in prison for the first charge and 20 years for the second. During his sentencing, Avenatti acknowledged that he made a “series of mistakes” and “poor judgment” when he represented and bilked Stormy Daniels out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Previously, Avenatti said he did not want to appear at the sentencing, but the judge ordered him to. “I will forever be branded ‘disgraced lawyer’ and worse,” he also said Thursday. District Judge Jesse Furman said Thursday that Avenatti’s conduct was “so brazen and egregious” and said that he “took advantage of a vulnerable victim given her unorthodox career and somewhat unorthodox beliefs,” referring to Daniels, an adult film actress. Avenatti, meanwhile, still faces a retrial in California federal court in another case in which is being accused of stealing nearly $10 million from five clients. He’s also currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort more than $20 million from Nike by threatening to release damaging information to the public unless he was paid. Furman said that part of Thursday’s sentence will be served alongside the prison term that was handed down in connection to the Nike case. Avenatti will have to serve two and a half years after the Nike sentence is completed. The disgraced lawyer also has to pay $148,750 to Daniels and $297,900 to the federal government, Furman said. The sentencing marks another chapter in the tumultuous rise and fall of Avenatti, who was heavily featured on MSNBC and CNN during the Trump years as he claimed he would run for president while representing Daniels, who made a series of accusations against the former president. As a guest on mainstream news programs to discuss a lawsuit Daniels had filed against Trump, Avenatti logged more than 100 CNN and MSNBC appearances from March 7 to May 10, 2018, according to an analysis. In that time frame, Avenatti simultaneously gained hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and other social media platforms. But his time in the spotlight quickly came crashing down in early 2019 when he was arrested in New York City over the Nike extortion case. “I’m not [expletive] around with this, and I’m not continuing to play games,” he told the Nike attorney, according to court documents. Last month, Avenatti issued an apology letter to Daniels, which was handed to Judge Furman. “It is obvious that I failed you in many respects and that I disappointed you and let you down in multiple ways,” he wrote, adding: “I wish that we could turn back the clock so that the mistakes I made would never be repeated. I am truly sorry.” But prosecutors in a sentencing submission last week urged that he should face “substantial” additional time in prison for a wire fraud conviction and criticized his apology letter, saying the 51-year-old failed to apologize for his actual crime. “The defendant certainly had every right to defend himself at trial. But he is not entitled to a benefit for showing remorse, having done so only when convenient and only after seeking to humiliate his victim at a public trial, and denigrating and insulting her for months to her agent and publisher while holding himself out as taking up her cause against the powerful who might have taken advantage of her,” prosecutors wrote. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Jack Phillips BREAKING NEWS REPORTER Follow Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.

With the 2022 midterm elections around the corner, scrutiny of the 2020 election continues to raise questions about election integrity, including a newly identified anomaly in Maricopa County, Arizona. Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day. But newly uncovered records documenting the Maricopa County 2020 general election show that while more than 20,000 ballots were transported from the U.S. Postal Service after Election Day, Maricopa County only rejected 934 late ballots in its “Early Voting Rejections Summary” document. This means more than 19,000 late, invalid ballots should have been rejected. That is significant because it is enough to potentially sway the results of Arizona’s presidential election, which rested with a final tally of Joe Biden winning the state with 10,457 more votes than Donald Trump. It is impossible to know if the results would be different if the late ballots had not been counted in Maricopa County. The Early Voting Rejections Summary is just one of the documents telling the story. County documents were obtained by Verity Vote, a group of citizen volunteers with data research and investigation backgrounds who have been investigating the 2020 election results throughout the country. Verity Vote recently released a report detailing this investigation. How Ballots Move To understand the anomaly, it is important to know how ballots are moved in Maricopa County, which uses dropboxes and early mail-in voting. A truck driven by a Maricopa County Elections Department employee picks up ballots at least once a day. The collection truck starts at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center. The truck has some space for more ballots but is already loaded with some early in-person ballots and ballots that were placed in a dropbox. The driver goes to the post office and picks up more ballots, then takes the truck to Runbeck Election Services where all ballots are given an incoming scan. It is here, at the scan, that the “Inbound Receipt of Delivery” document is generated. This receipt of delivery shows the date, time, and names of the employees delivering and receiving the ballots, and it itemizes the number of ballots that came from the post office, dropboxes, and early in-person voting. In response to some document requests, Maricopa County made the Receipt of Delivery documents available for public inspection for dates spanning Oct. 13 to Nov. 6, 2020. From that collection of documents, Verity Vote noticed that documents from Nov. 4, 2020—the day after the election—were missing. Verity Vote requested Maricopa County provide the Receipt of Delivery for that day, first with a few phone calls, then with written requests. It should have been a simple request because all the other dates were already public. But this request went to a county attorney. “After numerous delays, multiple follow up emails, and phone calls, county employees informed Verity Vote that the records were with legal counsel pending review,” the report says. “It took nearly seven months to get the documents.” The Nov. 4 Receipt of Delivery shows 18,000 ballots were picked up from the Post Office the day after the Nov. 3 election. The form has three colors of ink. A Runbeck Election Services employee printed his first name only, Brandon, in blue. The ballots arrived at “9:30” on “11-4-20” and the paper is signed in the same blue ink by the receiver, but the signature is illegible. A row listed as “lates” should show how many ballots are late. The four columns in the late row have numbers in blue ink but are scribbled over and cannot be read. Another signature, scrawled in red ink, is also illegible. It denotes the person who delivered the ballots. Even though the document is dated Nov. 4, one day after the election, at the top of the page, above the margin, someone has written “Election Day” in black ink in what looks like different handwriting from the rest of the page. The county also documents receiving 1,000 ballots on Nov. 5 and 1,500 ballots on Nov. 6. Combined with the 18,000 ballots found on Nov. 4, the total documented late ballots were 20,500. A letter from County Recorder Stephen Richer, responding to Verity Vote’s document request, indicated that the Nov. 4 receipt the county provided is not the only receipt for ballots the county received that day. “This document does not represent the complete universe of Maricopa County inbound receipt delivery forms from Nov. 4, 2020. We cannot be certain, but we believe that the remainder of these forms were transferred to the treasurer’s office to be stored and sealed with ballots,” Richer wrote. If so, it indicates there are more mailed ballots that were not counted in the Early Voting Rejections Summary, and presumably would have been counted in the results.” Another anomaly is the number of ballots collected Nov. 4, compared to other surrounding days. Voters were instructed to mail ballots by Oct. 27 to be sure their ballots arrived on time. By Oct. 30, the number of ballots coming by mail dropped sharply, but then spiked the day after the election. On Oct. 28, the county received 58,500 ballots from the post office, then: Oct. 29: 14,500 Oct. 30: 10,500 Oct. 31: 6,000 Nov. 1: 1,500 Nov. 2: 1,000 Nov. 3: 2,500—Election Day. In order to be counted and valid, the ballot must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. Nov. 4: 18,000 late, invalid ballots Nov. 5: 1,000 late, invalid ballots Nov. 6: 1,500 late, invalid ballots Yet Maricopa County rejected just 934 ballots for lateness. Maricopa County responded to The Epoch Times’ request for comment with an email promising the communications director in its Elections Department would “reach out.” The Epoch Times will report when they do. Arizona has 11 electoral votes. In the final tally, Biden had 74 more electoral votes than Trump, according to the official record at the National Archives. Beth Brelje REPORTER Follow Beth Brelje is an investigative journalist covering Pennsylvania politics, courts, and the commonwealth’s most interesting and sometimes hidden news. Send her your story ideas: Beth.brelje@epochtimes.us