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The Association of Mature American Citizens ( AMAC Action) has launched an Election Assistance Commkission (EAC) Comments Campaign in support of America First Legal’s petition to require documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) for voter registration in federal elections. Comments will be sent to the EAC’s website, and we’re rotating 20 different comments with each being a variation of the messaging EIN has suggested. The campaign will be kept active through the close of comments. AMAC Action continues to bring pressure to statehouses and federal stakeholders year round - and YOUR support is what makes constant pressure possible.   You may access our campaign by clicking on this link:   https://campaigns.civiclick.com/bb84a96f-386d-4007-a910-1b04d4b4ef52   Feel free to share with your respective organizations.   Thank you!   Best regards, Andy Mangione This Action goes hand in hand with passing the SAVE Act in the Senate. Your signed Petitions are being delivered today, Sept 10, 2025 to the Senate. The Bus is in DC. Thank you. Continue to call your Senators and make sure they pass the SAVE Act: Only Citizens Vote in US Elections. You may access our campaign by clicking on this link: Https://campaigns.civiclick.com/bb84a96f-386d-4007-a910-1b04d4b4ef This Action goes hand in hand with passing the SAVE Act in the Senate. Your signed Petitions are being delivered today, Sept 10, 2025 to the Senate. The Bus is in DC. Thank you. Continue to call your Senators and make sure they pass the SAVE Act: Only Citizens Vote in US Elections.

New Postal Rule Is An Admission That Mail Voting Is A Mess https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/08/new-postal-rule-is-an-admission-that-mail-voting-is-a-mess/ This problems with postmarks are more reason why we should limit voting by mail to absentee voting with an excuse. The United States Postal Service has announced a proposed new section to its mailing standards that would have a major impact on the return of mail-in ballots, as it would shift the responsibility to the voter to confirm the exact receival date by the postal service. USPS realizes that with their new mail processing system, the postmark is no longer proof of the date that it received a piece of mail. Their solution is to make the customer — in the case of ballots the voter — responsible for confirming the receipt date of their piece of mail. It will be up to the voter to obtain proof of date of receipt, or without it, a ballot may not be counted. “While the presence of a postmark on a mailpiece confirms that the postal service was in possession of the mailpiece on the date of the postmark’s inscription, the postmark date does not inherently or necessarily align with the date on which USPS first accepted possession of a mailpiece,” the proposal notes. Voters can confirm the exact date that the postal service first accepted possession of their ballot in various ways. The customer can hand the ballot or mail to a postal clerk at the post office and request a manual postmark, purchase a “Certificate of Mailing,” or pay extra for registered or certified mail. The postal service’s postmark has been considered the mail date for payments by mail, filing taxes, and other legal documents and, in 19 states and Washington, D.C., the mail date for mail-in ballots that are to be mailed by Election Day. Recent Changes to Mail Processing System Now, USPS is making a distinction between the postmark and what they are calling the “First Accepted Possession” of a piece of mail. The postmark only confirms that the postal service had possession of the mail on that date, not that it received the mail on that date. This proposal is necessitated by the implementation of USPS’s mail stream restructuring, Delivering for America, that was introduced in 2021. Under this system, a piece of mail may have entered the mail stream several days before the postmark is applied. All mail is now being processed at regional postal facilities, where the postmark is applied by machines — not at local post offices. Mail can be held at the local post office or the regional postal facility for a number of days. This delay is exacerbated by weekends, holidays, and rural areas that are far from a regional postal facility. Voters’ New Responsibility Delivering for America has been a disaster, as previously reported in The Federalist. Since it began, every USPS Inspector General report about the regional processing facilities, most recently the St. Louis region , has been extremely critical, with reporting about delayed and mishandled mail and other issues. President Donald Trump understands the vulnerabilities in voting by mail and recognizes the potential for election fraud. He issued Executive Order 14248 addressing these concerns and has made recent comments going even further, calling for the elimination of voting by mail. Eliminating, or drastically limiting voting by mail, and requiring that all ballots be received by Election Day, as he has suggested, would make USPS’s proposal about the postmark irrelevant. The Postal Service has become the largest precinct in our elections and their system is not set up to handle the burden of receiving and delivering millions of ballots. This issue with postmarks is just one more reason why we should limit voting by mail to absentee voting with an excuse. Additionally, the 20 states that use the postmark by Election Day to count a ballot should join the other 28 states that require ballots to be received by Election Day, regardless of the postmark. Ned Jones is the director of the Citizens Election Research Center at the Election Integrity Network. He has been researching election processes, including the USPS Election Mail System, since the 2020 election. absentee voting election integrity

The US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division is doing its part to Make America Great Again. Looks like the Buncombe County Commissioners are in trouble! Why? "All hands-on deck, folks. You're not gonna believe what Asheville, North Carolina is trying to pull off at taxpayers expense - again. This Commie town is about to torch $2.9 million dollars of taxpayer money in the name of “racial reparations.” That’s right, while working families are still trying to maneuver the leftovers of Biden’s inflation, one county is ready to dump millions into one of the most divisive and dangerous social engineering experiments that’s ever unfolded in America. ..." https://revolver.news/2025/09/all-hands-on-deck-youre-not-gonna-believe-whats-about-to-unfold-in-asheville-nc/ But, wait for it ... The DOJ has put these bottom feeders on notice. The Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division stands ready to investigate and enforce violations of civil rights laws and the Fair Housing Act Title VI to the fullest extent possible. Read it for yourself below. This is what I voted for. This is what it looks like to Make America Great Again!

Election Law Changes in HB958 contains a section on Contributions by Foreign Nationals. A new Proposed Committee Substitute (PCS) to this bill was offered on Thursday, 8/21. The PCS Passed out of the House Judiciary 1 Committee with all the proposed changes.  Joanne Empie crafted two NCEIT amendments for this bill. This post addresses the one to ban all foreign money in all aspects of our elections. NCEIT submitted this to the House bill sponsor, Rep Hugh Blackwell, the language recommended by America First Policy Institute, whose model policy on foreign funding of elections is sound. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/protecting-american-elections-from-foreign-influence We now need you to contact the sponsors and co-sponsors of H958. Make phone calls, email, and post on social media. Government of, by and for the people must be free from foreign influence to protect the right of American citizens to democratic self-governance. Don’t allow foreign influence to become law in H958. Deliver this message: protect American elections from foreign influence ban foreign money in ballot initiatives and campaigns remove any carve outs for foreign entities in H958 While federal law prevents foreign nationals from donating to U.S. political candidates, committees, and Super PACs, there is no federal law preventing foreign nationals from donating to ballot committees. #NCGA needs to ban all foreign influence in our elections in H958.  It’s the morally right thing to do!  Only US Citizens Vote and Influence US Elections. You represent us, not foreign influencers!  https://americansforpublictrust.org/news/new-report-reveals-nearly-100-million-from-foreign-funded-group-financing-state-ballot-campaigns/ *************** Also contact your NC House Reps. H958 Sponsors Rep Hugh Blackwell Hugh.Blackwell@ncleg.gov 919-733-5805 Rep Sarah Stevens Sarah.Stevens@ncleg.gov 919-715-1883 Co-Sponsors Rep John M. Blust John.Blust@ncleg.gov 919-733-5877 Rep Jimmy Dixon Jimmy.Dixon@ncleg.gov 919-715-3021 Rep Keith Kidwell Keith.Kidwell@ncleg.gov 919-733-5881 Rep Howard Penny Jr. Howard.Penny@ncleg.gov 919-715-3015 Rep Joseph Pike Joe.Pike@ncleg.gov 919-733-5906 Rep Bill Ward Bill.Ward@ncleg.gov 919-733-5780 ************************************************************** The following are suggested posts for social media outlets to reach these representatives. You can also use them in emails, etc. On X, @AshevilleTeaPty page is uploading them. Please also send to #nceit, @Votechecker @EIWatchdogs I will be updating this page so check back often. Please, our reps need to hear from We the People. They must ban foreign money and influence from our elections, or we don't have a country. .Banning Foreign Money in Ballot Initiatives Act closes loopholes in state law that allows foreign nationals to influence public policy by contributing to ballot measures. @RepHughBlackwell pass this model legislation instead of H958. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/banning-foreign-money-in-ballot-initiatives-act .Ohio, California, Maryland, North Dakota, and Washington currently have laws prohibiting foreign money in ballot initiatives to some degree. So should #NCGA https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/banning-foreign-money-in-ballot-initiatives-act @RepHughBlackwell @RepSarahStevens #RepJohnBlustNC #RepJimmyDixonNC .The Banning Foreign Money in Ballot Initiatives Act is largely modeled after comprehensive legislation in Ohio that became law in June 2024 (HB 1). #NC needs to use it to model #NCleg and nix foreign influence in H958 https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/banning-foreign-money-in-ballot-initiatives-act @KeithKidwell . #NCGA needs to adopt the Model Policy to ban foreign $ for ballot initiatives. H958 continues foreign national interference and dilutes our vote. Nix it! https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/banning-foreign-money-in-ballot-initiatives-act @RepHughBlackwell .While federal law prevents foreign nationals from donating to U.S. political candidates, committees, and Super PACs, there is no federal law preventing foreign nationals from donating to ballot committees. #NCGA needs to ban all foreign influence in our elections in H958.  It’s the morally right thing to do!  Only US Citizens Vote and Influence US Elections. You represent us, not foreign influencers!  https://americansforpublictrust.org/news/new-report-reveals-nearly-100-million-from-foreign-funded-group-financing-state-ballot-campaigns/ .New Report reveals nearly $100 million from foreign-funded group financing state ballot campaigns and #NC is part of it.  @NCleg now needs to remove foreign nationals influence from H958 https://americansforpublictrust.org/news/new-report-reveals-nearly-100-million-from-foreign-funded-group-financing-state-ballot-campaigns/ .States and localities take on foreign-influenced political spending.  Why isn’t the #NCGA doing the same by removing the loopholes in H958?  https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/states-localities-take-foreign-influenced-political-spending-2023-05-30/   .@RepHughBlackwell .Nearly 80% of Voters Support Prohibiting Foreign Entities from Funding Ballot Measures.  So why aren’t you deleting foreign influence in H958?  https://publicconsultation.org/united-states/foreign-funding-of-ballot-initiatives/    .(Republicans 77%, Democrats 84%, independents 74%) and congressional districts (very red districts 74%, very blue districts 80%) support prohibiting foreign entities from funding ballot measures.  Why isn’t the @NCGA allowing foreign nationals to influence our election in H958? https://publicconsultation.org/united-states/foreign-funding-of-ballot-initiatives/   .States can prohibit foreign funding of ballot measures, and seven states have done so. Why hasn’t the @NCGA in H958?  https://publicconsultation.org/united-states/foreign-funding-of-ballot-initiatives/ #FL House passes foreign contribution ban, other ballot initiative changes.  #NCGA needs to follow their lead.  https://floridapolitics.com/archives/502236-house-passes-foreign-contribution-ban-other-ballot-initiative-changes/ .#NC should follow states and localities who have gone beyond the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act and adopted ‘foreign influence’ bans.  #NC needs to be one of those states.  Remove foreign national influence in H958.  Only US Citizens Vote and Influence US Elections. https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/states-localities-take-foreign-influenced-political-spending-2023-05-30/     .There can be NO foreign $ spent on ballot measures.  H958 leaves the door wide open for foreign influence in our elections.  Totally unacceptable.  https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/states-localities-take-foreign-influenced-political-spending-2023-05-30/   *********************************************************************************************************** Resources Protecting American Elections From Foreign Influence: https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/protecting-american-elections-from-foreign-influence Combatting Foreign Interference https://campaignlegal.org/democracyu/transparency/combatting-foreign-interference America First Policy Institute. (2024a, August 26). Securing U.S. Elections and Preventing Non-Citizen Voting. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/securing-u.s-elections-and-preventing-non-citizen-voting 3 Things Congress Can Do To Protect American Elections From Foreign Interference https://thefederalist.com/2024/05/17/3-things-congress-can-do-to-protect-american-elections-from-foreign-interference/ America First Policy Institute. (2024b, September 10). Banning Foreign Money in Ballot Initiatives Act. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/banning-foreign-money-in-ballot-initiatives-act America First Policy Institute. (2024c, September 10). Prohibiting Non-Citizen Voting Act. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/prohibiting-non-citizen-voting-act Americans for Public Trust. ‌(2024, April 17). New Report Reveals Nearly $100 Million From Foreign-Funded Group Financing State Ballot Campaigns . https://americansforpublictrust.org/news/new-report-reveals-nearly-100-million-from-foreign-funded-group-financing-state-ballot-campaigns/ Blackwell, J.; Gidley, H; & Martinez, J. (2022, September 6). Only American citizens should vote in American elections. America First Policy Institute. https://www.americafirstpolicy.com/issues/only-american-citizens-should-vote-in-american-elections Bollag, S. (2018, October 8). California DMV: Non-citizens may be registered to vote. Associated Press. https://apnews.com/general-news-f5f245dbff474013a5f4bda673818138 Christenson, J. (2024, June 24). Election officials in all 50 states urged to halt non-citizen voter registration: ‘Time to act is now.’ The New York Post . https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/election-officials-in-all-50-states-urged-to-halt-non-citizen-voter-registration/ar-BB1oODaP Conklin, A. (2021, December 10). Where are noncitizens allowed to vote in the US? Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/united-states-noncitizen-voting-cities Farr, J. (2005). Point: The Westphalia Legacy and the Modern Nation-State . International Social Science Review, 80 (3/4), 156–159. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41887235 ‌Federal Elections Commission. (n.d.). FEC Ballot Measure Ruling . DocumentCloud. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21096628-fec-ballot-measure-ruling Hong, K. & Rothbloom, S. (2023, May 30). States and localities take on foreign-influenced political spending . Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/states-localities-take-foreign-influenced-political-spending-2023-05-30/ Mathews, J. (2017, August 4). You heard me, California: Give noncitizens the right to vote . The Sacramento Bee . https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article165368987.html ‌Minnesota Department of Public Safety. (2023). DVS getting Minnesotans ready for Driver’s License for All. 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Dear Friends, I hope this Labor Day finds you well, and that the weekend brings a few days of well-deserved rest and relaxation for you and your families.  Our campaign is going well, as we travel all over the state and meet with grassroots conservatives in one town after the other. We have literally traveled from Cherokee County, our western most county, all the way to Manteo in Dare County, the most eastern county in our state, and have visited many counties in between. Everywhere we've visited, about 50 counties so far,  the grassroots enthusiasm is electric!  We've also made numerous media appearances, both locally and nationally. If you haven't seen it, we're including a link to this past week's appearance on the Fox Business Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RlKvFmMxWk   In our travels across our state, we've discovered that there are many like-minded patriots determined to take our country back from the globalist elitists, and want to remove complacent insiders who place their self-interests over the needs of the nation.These insiders have run up an inexcusable national debt, allowed the deep state to explode, and gradually chipped away at our freedoms and liberties with every cockeyed regulatory scheme they've cooked up. This cannot stand! If we are going to save this nation, the same old business-as-usual politics that we've become accustomed to for all these years is no longer an option.  With your help, we can and will win this state and this nation back to "We the People." Please consider helping our campaign by clicking the link below. We can and will win this election with your help, and every bit helps. https://secure.anedot.com/don-brown-for-senate/donate Thanks, and God bless Don -- Don Brown The next US Senator from North Carolina Email: don@brownfornc.com Website:  https://brownfornc.com

Karen Raines, Pres of Conservative Advancement Network (CAN) with Jenny Beth Martin, CEO Tea Party Patriots, and Karl from Liberty First At the rally in Raleigh with our Election Integrity Warriors, August 29th, 2025. US Senate, Pass the SAVE Act!   Speakers: Tea Party Patriots President, Jenny Beth Martin Representative Mark Harris NCEIT CEO Jim Womack EZ AZ Ceo Merissa Hamilton Wake Count GOP Chair Sandy Joiner   Grassroots groups represented who turned in sign petitions included: Conservative Advancement Network with Pres Karen Raines and member, April Pennisi Liberty First Grassroots: Linda Harper and Wayne Franklin County NCEIT Coordinator Teri Sparrow with Rose Holmes, Carol Knedgen, Dee Sams, Sid Reynolds Asheville Tea Party (had 300+) Thank you, Karen, for delivering them.   (If I missed anyone, please send me your name and group. I was not there. These are notes from some who were. Thanks. Jane Bilello)

https://www.regulations.gov/document/EAC-2025-0236-0001 ? Petition of America First Legal Foundation for Rulemaking "On July 16, 2025, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC or Commission) received a petition for rulemaking submitted by America First Legal Foundation asking the Commission to amend EAC Regulations and the National Mail Voter Registration Form to require documentary proof of United States citizenship to register to vote in federal elections." Comments must be submitted on or before October 20, 2025. We ALL should comment!  Information thanks to United Sovereign Americans newsletter: https://43534789.hs-sites.com/08.28.25-empowering-our-movement-and-more-news ? Saving our Republic...one step at a time. Bound by a common goal, together we succeed. ​Joan Roan

https://carolinapublicpress.org/72308/omnibus-elections-bill-nc-still-shaping/ Feedback still shaping NC omnibus elections bill, but Democrats wary of GOP majority’s goals. If it passes, expect veto override battle. by Sarah Michels August 26, 2025 You Can Vote executive director Kate Fellman breathed a sigh of relief when a bill effectively banning voter registration drives died earlier this legislative session after bipartisan pushback . But now, one of a multitude of provisions in the latest version of this year’s elections omnibus bill would do the same thing, albeit in a different way.  The omnibus bill would require registrants to provide their full Social Security number on their voter applications. Under current law, applicants have an option between giving the last four digits of their Social Security number or their North Carolina driver’s license number.  This session’s elections bill began as a “correction to the rush job” the legislature passed last year after the elections, Senate Bill 382 , said Mark Swallow , an advocate for left-leaning Democracy Out Loud. Last year’s bill tightened ballot counting and curing deadlines, amongst other election changes , while this year’s bill loosens them a bit.  [ Subscribe for FREE to Carolina Public Press’ alerts and weekend roundup newsletters ] However, as the session progressed, it quickly became a grab bag for the Republican majority’s election priorities.  While much of the legislature’s policy work is paused until next year, the elections omnibus is on a different timeline. It may see movement as early as September, according to bill sponsor Rep. Hugh Blackwell , R-Burke.  In Swallow’s view, it’s come a long way, but still has a ways to go.  And in an increasingly uncommon move in North Carolina’s GOP-led legislature, Blackwell is taking in everyone’s feedback on the omnibus before moving forward.  Social Security number, please Fellman does a lot of voter registration as part of You Can Vote, a civic organization focused on voter education and empowerment.  She already hears concerns about the security of providing the last four digits of registrants’ Social Security numbers. Some of the younger registrants don’t know their number offhand, and have to call or text their parents to get the information, which raises further security issues, she added.  “Nobody would give (their full SSN) to a stranger just out on the street,” Fellman said. “… I just don’t know how you could actually do paper voter registration form collection.”  Jim Womack , president of the conservative North Carolina Election Integrity Team, said having a full Social Security number, as the omnibus would require, would make list maintenance easier, as the only true unique data point among voter registrants.  NCEIT is a chapter of the Election Integrity Network, founded by former Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell . Mitchell helped Trump in his failed bid to overturn the 2020 election. Now Rep. Pricey Harrison , D-Guilford, and several others think North Carolina lawmakers are following her election policy playbook.  Womack, for his part, said providing a full Social Security number is no more dangerous than providing any other information at a voter registration drive.  “If it’s the full Social, they’ve got to protect it the same way they do the last four (of the SSN) or the driver’s license number, because both of those are protected as well,” he said. “So I mean, there’s always risk in allowing voter registration drives.”  ‘How it should be’ At a late June House Election Law committee meeting, Harrison posed a concern to Blackwell about a provision of the omnibus bill that would have barred boards of election from “encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”  The provision seemed “a bit vague” to her. Didn’t they want the county boards to encourage turnout? Wasn’t part of their job to promote voting?  Blackwell assured Harrison that there was more work to do on the bill before it was ready for a vote.  “The idea is that we want the State Board to focus on the conduct of the election, and that the responsibility for turnout is better handled by other folks,” he said. “We were trying to draw a line, and we may not have gotten it just at the sweet spot.”  The next time the omnibus bill was heard in committee, the turnout provision was axed. And instead of moving straight from the elections committee to rules, where the bill would have likely been expedited to a floor vote, the bill was assigned an additional committee hearing.  After that committee meeting, where Harrison raised other concerns, Blackwell’s staff emailed her to ask further questions. While Harrison still has a list of issues with the omnibus bill, she gave credit to Blackwell for being amenable to changes, and giving the bill time to improve.  “I’d rather them do it out in the open, in a committee, than to go into a back room and figure out what’s going to work,” she said. “This is actually a better, more public process. This is how it should be.”  The omnibus bill has undergone a number of other changes since its debut. Instead of offering State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes the ability to make 25 political hires — which he said were needed to ensure “ the folks that are surrounding me, certainly my direct reports and I, are aligned on the vision for the agency” — the latest version gives him five positions.  An initial campaign finance provision limiting foreign nationals’ ability to contribute to referendum committees has turned into a broader ban on foreign national contributions for any candidate, political committee, party or treasurer.  The latest version officially takes back the ability of so-called “Never Residents” to vote in state elections, in line with recent court rulings , and limits the acceptable photo ID documents for overseas and military voters.  And of course, it changes some deadlines. ‘Humanly not possible’  Last Election Day, the Wake County Board of Elections received 4,800 absentee ballots before the 7:30 p.m. cutoff. Staff checked ballots, conducted data entry and reviewed the voter and two required witness signatures on each envelope before adding them to the tally.  If last year’s Senate Bill 382 had been in effect, Wake County’s count would have begun at 5 p.m. on Election Day and run continuously until there were no ballots left, with no leaving the room allowed, except in case of an emergency.  That would have meant spending one or two nights in the office, Wake County Board of Elections Democrat Gerry Cohen said. It wasn’t a realistic ask.  Last year’s bill also moved up deadlines for counting and curing provisional and absentee ballots. Before its passage, county elections staff had until the day before county canvass, nine calendar days after the election, to count and cure all the ballots. Senate Bill 382 gave staff just three business days after the election to do so.  This year’s omnibus bill takes it back — kind of. It would give election officials five business days after the election to complete the job.  Lee County Board of Elections Republican Jay DeLancy , who founded the right-leaning Voter Integrity Project, said the deadlines set under SB382 were “humanly not possible” without a hiring surge.  As an election integrity advocate, DeLancy liked the idea of the count being “continuous,” but as a board member, his perspective has shifted slightly.  “The things election integrity people like me have been complaining about were not all put there for nefarious purposes,” he said. “Now we’re having to see, oh, it was done for a pragmatic purpose, just so we have time to count them.”  However, DeLancy wants stronger penalties for those who share ballot count results before the polls close to avoid any possibility of fraud.  What else is in the omnibus bill?  North Carolina absentee voters must attach a copy of their photo ID to their ballot, and either get two witnesses or a notary to sign the envelope.  Last year, the State Board of Elections was supposed to try a third security measure — signature verification — but the pilot program never quite got off the ground due to issues finding an acceptable vendor.  Signature verification requires the use of a machine to detect whether a voter’s signature belongs to them. If North Carolina implemented it through the omnibus bill, it would be the only state to require three security measures for absentee voters.  Hayes’ chief of staff Brian LiVecchi told lawmakers they’ve discussed potential vendors to avoid and seek out with other states. The pilot program wasn’t made a priority under the previous State Board of Election administration, he said. They would like to change that.  Harrison isn’t a fan of the idea.  “They’ve been wanting to go down this road for a while, but we know that there’s a long history of folks getting thrown out because of their signature,” she said. “And anybody who’s watched their signature change from age 18 to 40 or to even 80. I mean, nothing looks the same.”  Hayes, who worked in the legislature as House Speaker general counsel until a few months ago, has fingerprints all over the elections omnibus bill.  Besides the signature verification piece, Hayes was clear that securing positions exempt from the North Carolina Human Resources Act, which bans political hiring and firing, was a top concern. Under the current bill, the State Board would also be able to hire private counsel for legal matters, removing the Democratic attorney general from the picture and shielding any documents from the public records law.  Swallow trains elections workers, and he said these provisions violate one of his golden rules.  “One of the things we tell our poll workers is that the only people that can be partisan in our elections are the candidates, and that’s changing with this bill,” he said.  Even bipartisan sections of the elections omnibus bill face obstacles. The provisions attempting to block foreign influence in elections and campaign finance aren’t quite across the finish line yet, according to Womack.  “They’re struggling to find language that would allow them to restrict referendums or foreign funding of referendums and that sort of thing without infringing on First Amendment rights,” Womack said.  No language change is going to be effective unless the legislature repeals two recent laws that make it easier to cover up the origins of funds, Harrison said.  And some of the omnibus bill’s provisions don’t do anything at all, except maybe send a message, Cohen said.  The omnibus bill bans ranked choice voting, a process by which voters rank candidates instead of choosing just one, and no winner is crowned until they earn a majority. The election method is lauded by supporters for producing more moderate consensus winners and criticized by opponents for being too confusing for voters. But ranked choice voting already doesn’t happen in the state, and it would take express permission by the legislature for any localities to allow it. Laws that allowed ranked choice voting experiments in Cary and Hendersonville years ago have expired, Cohen said.  A ways to go on omnibus Fellman is concerned about the timeline. If the elections omnibus becomes law, most of it goes into effect Jan. 1, 2026. That’s just a few months before the 2026 primary election, which isn’t much runway to implement changes and educate voters, she said.  There will likely be legal challenges, which may make things murkier, she added.  At the end of the day, House Democrats have a leg — or seat — up. If they decide they’re not satisfied with the bill, they can block a veto override. Generally, Democrats tend to stick together on election matters, Harrison said.  Swallow isn’t so confident after swing Democrats have sided with Republicans on several veto overrides so far this session. “There are things in this bill that fix issues, like the curing of ballots timeframe,” he said. “But I hope that doesn’t convince Democrats that this is something they should be voting for.”

Congratulations, Heather! Great job. Election systems expert Heather Honey has been sworn in at the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) as a deputy assistant secretary, leading elections integrity for the Trump Administration, and the left is losing its mind . Honey, a long-time open-source investigator, has spent years analyzing every aspect of how elections are administered, looking for vulnerabilities that leave election systems open to exploitation. Her investigations have led to lawsuits aimed at changing or clarifying election laws in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, and Tennessee, where she helped rewrite election legislation. Read more here. https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/26/left-wing-media-spreads-falsehoods-about-trumps-new-election-integrity-watchdog/

Election systems expert Heather Honey has been sworn in at the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) as a deputy assistant secretary, leading elections integrity for the Trump Administration, and the left is losing its mind . Honey, a long-time open-source investigator, has spent years analyzing every aspect of how elections are administered, looking for vulnerabilities that leave election systems open to exploitation. Her investigations have led to lawsuits aimed at changing or clarifying election laws in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Maine, and Tennessee, where she helped rewrite election legislation. Read more here. https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/26/left-wing-media-spreads-falsehoods-about-trumps-new-election-integrity-watchdog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=left-wing-media-spreads-falsehoods-about-trumps-new-election-integrity-watchdog&utm_term=2025-08-27

https://www.dailyfly.com/2025/08/21/education-department-ends-federal-work-study-funding-for-campus-political-activism-including-voter-registration-jobs/ WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The U.S. Department of Education announced this week it is ending taxpayer-funded programs that supported political activism jobs on college campuses. The Department of Education will no longer fund the Federal Work-Study, a Biden administration program that paid students to engage in political activities. The department issued a  guidance letter  clarifying that institutions should focus FWS funding on jobs that will give students real opportunities. “Federal Work-Study is meant to provide students opportunities to gain real-world experience that prepares them to succeed in the workforce, not as a way to fund political activism on our college and university campuses,”  said   Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent. The FWS program provides part-time jobs to students involving voter registration, voter assistance at polling locations, voter hotline services or other political activism roles. The jobs could take place either on or off campus. Following the letter from the Education Department, 16 Republican attorneys general outlined in a letter in April 2024 how the Biden administration violated federal law by allowing FWS to support partisan activism on college campuses. “Unfortunately, spending tax money to get more Democrat voters to the polls this fall looks to be this administration’s policy,” the letter  stated. In addition, the department’s new guidance makes clear that the Higher Education Act of 1965 does not require institutions to distribute registration forms to students known to be ineligible to vote, to avoid voter fraud. “Under the HEA, institutions are required to make a ‘good faith’ effort to distribute voter registration forms to students,” the press release said. Additionally, the Education Department has requested institutions to tell students that only citizens of the U.S. may vote in federal elections, voting twice and providing false information is prohibited under federal law, and an individual can only be registered to vote where they are permanently living. The Department of Education’s actions of rescinding federal funds from political activism on college campuses follow President Donald Trump’s executive order,  “ Protecting the Integrity of American Elections. ”

It was a great honor to have hosted US Senate Candidate, Don Brown, at our Tea Time meeting on August 21st at Bay Breeze Restaurant. Don was his usual dynamic self touching upon every issue and his many accomplishments. If you truly want a Patriot who has a proven record of standing up to the RINO establishment and winning and you're sick of the likes of Tillis and Whatley, please sign up to help us with Don't campaign here. Don Brown on Fox News Business Report 8/ 20/2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RlKvFmMxWk You tube Videos: Don Brown Interviews on major networks