Dear Nursing Home Director/Adult Care Facility Director: The right to free and fair elections is the foundation of our country. Many of our seniors have made invaluable contributions to all of our freedoms, and have even gone to war to protect them. Protecting their votes, no matter who they vote for or what party they support, is a moral imperative for all of us. Yet there are many cases reported and prosecuted nationwide indicating that the ballots and political voices of many of our treasured seniors are particularly vulnerable to intimidation, manipulation and even outright fraud. As a long-term care facilities director, we know that protecting your residents’ votes is a key priority for you. There are two important groups that must be engaged to protect the votes of residents in long term care facilities. The first is your valued facility leadership and care staff, and the second, your residents and their family members. Below are some suggestions and resources for you to address vote security with both groups. · ∙ Please visit https://protectvulnerablevoters.org/protect-elderly-votes/ where you can find a “Senior Citizen Voter Bill of Rights.” This organization, American Constitutional Right Union, has provided this Guide as a tool and resource for anyone to download and use to inform both facility staff and residents. · ∙ You can also use this short video on “Stranger Danger” also provided by ACRU to open a dialogue about protecting senior voters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPwxpT6TzE or search “ACRU YouTube Stranger Danger.” · · ∙ To help understand the laws of North Carolina that govern senior voting, please refer to North Carolina General Statutes sections 163-226.3 and 231, North Carolina Administrative Code sections 08-18.0101 and 08-18.0102, and North Carolina State Board of Elections ("NCSBOE") · Numbered Memo 2022-11. These provisions govern requests for and submission of absentee-by-mail ballots. "Ballot harvesting" of absentee-by-mail ballots (i.e., the collection of ballots from voters with or without payment) is prohibited by North Carolina law. The county Boards of Election appoint members of multi-party assistance teams ("MAT teams") comprised of two members not of the same party, to provide assistance to those voters who request the Board's help in voting by mail. Two assistants may be required because absentee-by-mail ballots are required to have two witnesses (or a notarization) to the voter's marking of the ballot and signature. However, a disabled voter may request and receive assistance from any person in applying for, completing and delivering their ballot to their county Board of Elections. The completed mail-in ballot can be sent to the county Board by US Mail or a public courier service. It can be also be hand delivered to the county Board by an assistant to the voter, but the assistant must identify himself, the voter and state his/her relationship to the voter to the county Board at the time of delivery, as well as provide his/her address, phone number and signature. · The North Carolina State Board of Elections ("NCSBOE") also has a vote fraud Investigations Division that can be accessed through the NCSBOE's phone number (919-814-0700). Additional resources can be found at our your local county Board of Elections office. · If your residents are interested in confirming their voter registration, this information can be found by calling the local Board of Elections office or by visiting the NCSBOE website (ncsbe.gov), which has a Voter Search button/tool on its homepage requiring only the county to be searched and the name of the voter in order to find the voter's registration status. · Your residents and their families can also track an absentee ballot at: northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/; however, this service must be accessed through a link on the NCSBOE's website. You can find the link by searching "ballot tracking". By signing up with Ballottrax (using basic voter information) the voter is sent notices of the status of his/her ballot. If your residents are interested in confirming their voter registration, this information can be found at your local county Board of Elections office or may be easily accessed at www.VoteRef.com which has a voter database in North Carolina. As engaged citizens, we hope this brings you awareness to some of the vulnerabilities of senior voting, the laws governing them, and to partner with you to make sure all of your staff and residents are aware of the importance of protecting every citizen’s ballot. We hope you will find the above information valuable, and that these resources will aid you as you take an active role in protecting resident votes. We hope we can be a resource to you. Thank you for what you do for our seniors, and for your review of the above information. Sincerely, ================================================================================== This was the original model letter. Dear (make sure you use the person’s name) The right to free and fair elections is the foundation of our country. Many of our seniors have made invaluable contributions to all of our freedoms, and have even gone to war to protect them. Protecting their votes, no matter who they vote for or what party they support, is a moral imperative for all of us. Yet there are many cases reported and prosecuted nationwide indicating that the ballots and political voices of many of our treasured seniors are particularly vulnerable to intimidation, manipulation and even outright fraud. As a long-term care facilities director, we know that protecting your residents’ votes is a key priority for you, and our non-partisan citizen group _______ would be honored to assist and provide resources to you in this important effort. There are two important groups that must be engaged to protect the votes of residents in long term care facilities. The first is your valued facility leadership and care staff, and the second, your residents and their family members. Below are some suggestions and resources for you to address vote security with both groups. · ∙ Please visit https://protectvulnerablevoters.org/protect-elderly-votes/ where you can find a “Senior Citizen Voter Bill of Rights.” This organization, American Constitutional Right Union, has provided this Guide as a tool and resource for anyone to download and use to inform both facility staff and residents. · ∙ You can also use this short video on “Stranger Danger” also provided by ACRU to open a dialogue about protecting senior voters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPwxpT6TzE or search “ACRU YouTube Stranger Danger.” · ∙ To help understand the laws of OUR STATE that govern senior voting, please visit THESE STATUTES. (Give a quick overview of the laws including those for ballot trafficking, “assisting” voters with ballots, any criminal penalties that may apply and specific steps and requirements for absentee ballots.) · ∙ OUR STATE also has a vote fraud hotline that can be accessed at: 000-000-0000. Additional resource can be found at our COUNTY/CITY election office at PHONE and WEBSITE. · ∙ If your residents are interested in confirming their voter registration, this information can be found at COUNTY OR ELECTION OFFICE NUMBER AND WEBSITE or may be easily accessed at www.VoteRef.com which has a voter database in OUR STATE. · ∙ Your residents and their families can also track an absentee ballot at https://ballottrax.com/. (Check to see if your state or county is a member of BallotTrax.) As engaged citizens, OUR GROUP is here to bring awareness to some of the vulnerabilities of senior voting, the laws governing them, and to partner with you to make sure all of your staff and residents are aware of the importance of protecting every citizen’s ballot. ------------------ We hope you will find the above information valuable, and that these resources will aid you as you take an active role in protecting resident votes. If you have any further questions, or if there is any other information, we can provide you please contact me at CONTACT IINFORMATION. Or NAME will be calling you soon as a follow up to this letter to arrange a meeting on this important topic, and we will look forward to scheduling that at your earliest convenience. Or NAME will be calling you soon as a follow up to this letter to arrange a meeting with you on this important topic, which we will look forward to scheduling at your earliest convenience. We hope that we can work with you and your activities director to provide your staff and residents with a short, informative and patriotic and non-partisan session on how best to make sure every ballot at YOUR FACILITY is received and counted by YOUR LOCAL ELECTION OFFICE. Thank you for what you do for our seniors, and for your review of the above information. Mary Jones ANYTOWN County Election Integrity Task Force Vulnerable Voters Committee PHONE and EMAIL

Jane Bilello. North Carolina is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. 1/1/23 @7PM. Vulnerable Voters in Your County Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87440192867?pwd=NWRGRmgyZ3plQXptQlhmTlNlME0zdz09 Meeting ID: 874 4019 2867 Passcode: 539684 Dial by your location • +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) Meeting ID: 874 4019 2867 Passcode: 539684

https://defendingtherepublicpac.com/2023/05/20/what-is-wrong-with-eric/ ERIC Hopeful Breaking News in the Texas Legislature: A pending bill in the Texas legislature, SB1070, to withdraw the state from ERIC already passed the Texas Senate. It is facing strong Democrat opposition. SB 1070 needs to come to the Texas House floor for a vote. Texas ERIC bill returns to House of Representatives after setback. “The bill is now headed back to the House chamber to be considered for a vote. The Texas Legislature is scheduled to end May 29.” https://texas.votebeat.org/2023/5/17/23727762/texas-eric-bill-voter-roll-program-conspiracy-theory What is ERIC? As a supporter of DTR PAC, you already understand that vote fraud and election integrity are real problems which must be solved if we are going restore our republic. But too many of your neighbors and your government officials still don’t recognize how widespread election fraud is. We all need to be able to articulate clearly and succinctly, one issue at a time, the many different ways vote fraud can occur. What’s Wrong with ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center. -ERIC sounds like it is a government agency. It is not. ERIC is a private entity. Only about half the states belong to ERIC. They pay their membership dues with taxpayer monies. In other words, ERIC’s efforts to generate more Democrat voter registrations is funded with public tax dollars. -Member states collect and submit valuable personal data to ERIC: dates of birth, driver’s license/ID card numbers, and Social Security. -ERIC does not require states to inform ERIC if any submitted names are non-citizens and thus ineligible to vote. So the reports ERIC provides back to the states contain both citizens and non-citizens in the list. -Under ERIC, member states are mandated to conduct what are essentially Voter Registration, Get Out The Vote (GOTV) drives. Targeting voters for action are partisan activities for political parties and candidates to conduct — not the government. Judicial Watch has investigated and found that 29 states hadhuge registration excesses. Of the eight worst states, seven of the eight states are longtime members of ERIC (AK, CO, ME, MD, MI, RI & VT).In other words,ERIC is not effective in cleaning voter rolls. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/eric-investigation-part-3-soros-open-society-founding-nations-largest-voter-roll-clean-operation/ This Federalist article below spells out the major problems with ERIC including how Democrats can take advantage of ERIC’s database. Read this to understand why every state should withdraw from ERIC. “Here’s A Look Into Popular Voter Database ERIC’s Left-Wing Origins New details surrounding ERIC’s origins show there is no denying it was developed to help leftists win elections. Unregistered Citizens Equal The New American Majority …If ERIC were truly a voter list maintenance organization, then member states would be required to clean their voter rolls. Except it’s not required as a condition of membership. What is required, however, is sending voter registration mailers to eligible residents that ERIC hand-selects… And which “eligible but unregistered” residents is ERIC wanting states to reach out to? What Democrats coin the “New American Majority,” or young people, minorities, single women, and LGBT individuals. As a result, leftist political operatives were given a treasure trove of citizen data funded by American taxpayers themselves. As Hayden Ludwig put it for Restoration of America, “In a single stroke, ERIC had succeeded in building the most comprehensive, widespread, and valuable voter file the country had ever seen — updated practically in real-time. With it, a campaign could become unbeatable.” Thankfully, multiple red states are waking up to this clear Democratic-vote-harvesting scheme. In March alone, Florida, Missouri, West Virginia, Iowa, and Ohio exited ERIC over its ties to the left and data sharing concerns. https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/03/heres-a-look-into-popular-voter-database-erics-left-wing-origins/ WHICH STATES ARE MEMBERS OF ERIC? Note: Since public attention has been trained on ERIC, eight states have withdrawn from ERIC: AL, FL, IA, LA, MO, OH, VA, WV. The Republican controlled states still using ERIC are: AK, AZ, GA, PA, SC, TX & UT.(Texas may withdraw this month.) Three critical 2024 battleground states that still use ERIC include: AZ, GA, WI. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/eric-voter-registration-non-profit-loses-25-of-members-virginia-now-out-npr-blames-gateway-pundit-youre-welcome/ A year ago The Gateway Pundit published a four part series on ERIC. All four articles are on the DTR PAC website: https://defendingtherepublicpac.com/ERIC/ “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’ And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” -Star Spangled Banner Share this newsletter with all your like-minded friends and family. For more information on election integrity please go to: Defending the Republic PAC News Section for the latest news on contested elections.

A total of 8 States have left ERIC in the last 6 months. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, his Attorney General Jason Miyares, and Elections Commissioner Susan Beals all felt the ERIC voter registration non-profit was beyond repair. Commissioner Beals penned a letter yesterday notifying ERIC that Virginia will no longer participate in the voter data-sharing program. Virginia is leaving for several reasons. From the letter: Costly mandated GOTV activates are unrelated to list maintenance. Sharing data with 3rd party CEIR for “research purposes” in 2020. ERIC increasingly engages in efforts that are not list maintenance. Board rejected reforms unanimously suggested by subcommittee. Elevates the voice of a biased non-voting Board member (Becker). Significant dues increase for Virginia because seven States left. Concerns about stewardship, maintenance, privacy, and confidentiality of voter data. Susan Beals was appointed as the Election Commissioner by Youngkin in March of 2022. Yesterdays ERIC letter also explains Virginia will be able to “replicate favorable ERIC functionally internally. We will pursue other information arrangements with our neighboring States and look to other opportunities to partner with States in an apolitical fashion”. Sounds like partnering is afoot to actually clean some voter rolls. Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia recently left ERIC too. Read more: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/eric-voter-registration-non-profit-loses-25-of-members-virginia-now-out-npr-blames-gateway-pundit-youre-welcome/

Here are the EagleAI positions: State Coordinator (Herschel Johnson) – Primary interface to the EagleAI team and all County Coordinators. Also, final check on suspect voter registrant cases to be submitted to county boards of elections. Must be very familiar with state voter registration and list maintenance laws and regulations. County Coordinators (Different from NCEIT County Coordinators) – Must be county resident. Tasks County Reporter (see below) and Analysts (see below) with cases. Responsible for county list maintenance strategy and key to building and maintaining a strong working relationship with the county board of elections. Must be very familiar with state voter registration and list maintenance laws and regulations. County Reporter – Must be county resident. Submits voter roll challenges to county board of elections. Must build and maintain close working relationships with county board of elections. Must be very familiar with state voter registration and list maintenance laws and regulations. Analysts – Can reside anywhere. Works voter roll cases assigned by County Coordinator. Supports County Reporter in submission of voter roll challenges. Must be very familiar with state voter registration and list maintenance laws and regulations. I will help vet the candidates. To repeat the beta counties are: Brunswick Buncombe Lee Transylvania Wake Thank you. Herschel Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

North Carolina Press Release: More than 1600 NC Attend Town Halls and 'some' these meetings are taking place in tax payer funded Board of Elections Offices. Illegal! Are they in yours? Press Release: https://www.commoncause.org/north-carolina/press-release/more-than-1600-north-carolinians-attend-unitenc-town-halls/ Public Records Request to your local BOE: https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/common-cause-public-records-request PP Slide Presentation: The #UniteNC Town Hall Tour makes two final stops Oct. 25 in Graham (Alamance County) and Oct. 26 in Winston-Salem (Forsyth County). Members of the public and media can RSVP to a town hall in their area by visiting ccnc.me/UniteNC. The Asheville, Boone and Manteo #UniteNC Town Halls are among a total of 25 lawmaker accountability events hosted over the past four months in competitive voting districts by nonpartisan voting rights group Common Cause NC and the organization’s state and local partners. The centerpiece of each town hall gives residents a chance to ask questions of their elected representatives and respond to prompts such as “what do you want the future of North Carolina to look like?” ccnc.me/UniteNC. Excerpt: “Some state lawmakers are hell-bent on dismantling our democracy, rushing through new restrictions on popular voting options and manipulating their districts for partisan gain, among other problematic proposals,” said Gino Nuzzolillo, Campaigns Manager at Common Cause North Carolina. “Every issue before the legislature deserves robust public input, thoughtful debate and full transparency. Lawmakers are conducting ‘the People’s business’ in the People’s House. These #UniteNC Town Halls are meant to remind lawmakers who they work for – and remind the public that we’re putting people over politics ahead of the important elections to come.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/huge-win-election-integrity-north-carolina-republicans-override/ S747 (the Omnibus Bill) passed into law! We are making national news! Your NCEIT team worked very hard. With your lobbying, poll observers will have more mobility than ever before. Much of what we wanted is over the finish line, but not all of it. Next session, we will be addressing the 'holes.' That's why we need you engaged in the legislative process - Statutory Provisions & Compliance. Your poll observer reports made all of this possible. Huge Win for Election Integrity: North Carolina Republicans Override Democratic Governor’s Veto The NC State Board of Elections is now the State Board with the new bill S749. The Board will answer to the Secretary of State. taking the Board out of the hands of the Governor and the nameless faceless, unelected bureaucrats. Eight new members will be appointed from the General Assembly. Did we get everything? No, but we are making real progress. Contact Jane to join one of our Zoom meetings an find out what else is coming up for our continuing efforts that we must have ready by March for the short session. We vet everyone. jane.bilello@gmail.com

Please click on the link below for the newsletter Action Alert. Thanks. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/so/40OhIMEn8?languageTag=en&cid=de5f0a75-82ac-41f9-8d18-d2861b0d7ed7

From Jim Womack: "Well, now, never have I been referred to as a vigilante before. Gonna have to get comfortable with this new moniker from Marc Elias. Can't wait to resume training of our fraternal order of NC Election "Vigilantes." https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-growing-threat-of-republican-election-vigilantes/

Directions: Copy/paste the public records request below into a 'clean' email. Fill in the info for your county. Notice: the NC state statutes/admin code is referenced below the letter. Please send ASAP before Election Day, Oct 10th, 2023. If you don't get an answer within a few days, follow up with a phone call and another email. We need a paper trail. Thanks. ATTN: ______ County Board of Elections Director Address Date submitted From: Your first & last name Address Email Phone Cc: Board of Elections Members Their names and emails (find them on your local BOE website. Dear Board of Elections Director and Board of Election Members: On Election Day and night, October 10th, 2023, poll observers in our county will be at the polls to witness the boot-up of the tabulator/scanner and the shut-down (tabulation) of the scanner/tabulator. I believe that as a member of the public, laws and NCSBE directives cited below, we have the right to enter this precinct voting enclosure at two separate times on election day: Before the polls open to witness the boot-up of the scanner/tabulator, observe that there are no ballots in the bin or emergency bin, and to view and photograph the zero tape. 2. After the polls close on election night to witness the shut-down (tabulation) of the scanner/tabulator and photograph/take video of the poll tapes with zero tapes attached. The public may enter after the last voter has placed their ballot into the scanner/tabulator and the chief judge announces that the polls are closed. I am also requesting a digital copy of all poll tape information generated by tabulation machines operated by the county board of elections upon closure of the October 10th, 2023 election. These records are needed as soon as possible, so that our election integrity team can complete its review and analysis of machine counts prior to post-election canvass set for the October 17th, 2023. According to the ACLU, during any public process, my constitutional right to photograph/video is allowed. The only prohibition on photo/video in NC is of a voted ballot or of a person voting. Since no voters are present in the voting enclosure at either time and no voted ballots would be in open sight at either time, I do not believe that there are NC legal restrictions on photography/videography during these publicly observable processes. NM 2022-14 states that no photography/videography is allowed during these processes, however, this is a change in guidance from last election and there have been no new rules or laws passed that would affect this guidance We do not anticipate the need for election officials to redact any information contained on the poll tapes. At minimum these tapes should include the machine serial number, firmware/software version, and the final count of votes for each candidate and election on the ballot for that tabulator. The Poll Observers will stand out of the way as not to interfere with any election process and will quietly observe. Please see ​below for the Public Observation Laws for your reference. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your reply. Sincerely, Your name PUBLIC OBSERVATION LAWS NC General Statutes, NC Administrative Code, Numbered Memos & NC STEPPS Manual NC General Statutes § 163-182.2. Initial counting of official ballots. (a) The initial counting of official ballots shall be conducted according to the following principles: (1) Vote counting at the precinct shall occur immediately after the polls close and shall be continuous until completed. (2) Vote counting at the precinct shall be conducted with the participation of precinct officials of all political parties then present. Vote counting at the county board of elections shall be conducted in the presence or under the supervision of board members of all political parties then present. (3) Any member of the public wishing to witness the vote count at any level shall be allowed to do so. No witness shall interfere with the orderly counting of the official ballots. Witnesses shall not participate in the official counting of official ballots. OPENING OF PRECINCT POLLING LOCATIONS: NC Administrative Code 08 NCAC 04 .0304 a. Prior to the opening of the polls, the precinct officials shall open the voting system and examine the ballot for accuracy and examine the counters or other method to determine there is a zero balance. Any persons interested in viewing this procedure may observe but shall not interfere or impede the process. If the system prints a zero tape or other paper document, the document shall be maintained and secured in the manner prescribed by the manufacturer and the county board of elections. CLOSING OF PRECINCT POLLING LOCATIONS: NC Administrative Code 08 NCAC 10B .0105 (h) The counting of the ballots shall be made in the presence of the precinct election officials and witnesses and observers who are present and desire to observe the count. (i) As soon as the votes have been counted and the precinct returns certified, the chief judge, or one of the judges selected by the chief judge, shall do the following: (1) report the total precinct vote for each ballot item to the witnesses and observers who are present. 08 NCAC 06B .0105 (d) When the counting is completed the chief judge or his or her designee shall verbally announce the results at the precinct. Numbered Memo 2022-14 For absentee voting (including one-stop), when the results are tallied on one-stop and absentee- by-mail tabulators and announced after the close of the polls on Election Day at the county board office, members of the public may witness those procedures. It is a good practice to also post absentee tabulator results tapes for inspection at the county board office in a similar fashion. Any member of the public is permitted to photograph or video any posted results tapes—when the tapes are posted, the counting process is no longer ongoing. NC STEPPS Manual STEPPS Manual: Ballot Counting 7. Any member of the public wishing to witness the vote count at any level shall be allowed to do so. No witness shall interfere with the orderly counting of the official ballots. Witnesses shall not participate in the official counting of official ballots. The precinct facility should not be locked so as to prevent public access to the count. ### --