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This is a comprehensive PRR seeking all public records in a county between and among CISA, CIS, EAC, and other agencies. FROM: __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ TO: ______County Board of Elections ATTN: ___________, Director __________________________ __________________________ Date:________________ SUBJECT: Request for _________ County Correspondence with CIS, CISA and other Pubic and Private Organizations Regarding Network Security and Protective Infrastructure (1 July 2022 through 31 March 2023) 1. This is a public records request seeking a digital copy of all correspondence, received by or transmitted from the ____ County Board of Elections, pertaining to network infrastructure, network security, and intrusion protection for election systems at county or state level. This correspondence shall include all records of relevant communications between and among the Center for Internet Security (CIS) and its subsidiaries, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its subsidiaries, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE), and any 501(c)3 organizations advertising or purporting to assist the _____ State or County Board of Elections with protection of election records, systems, or processes. 2. Subject materials of interest pertain to protection of: Voter registration databases and associated IT systems; IT infrastructure and systems used to manage elections (such as the counting, auditing, and displaying of election results, and the post-election reporting to certify and validate results); Voting systems and associated infrastructure; Storage facilities for election and voting system infrastructure; and Polling places (to include early voting locations). 3. The period of interest for these records is from 1 July 2022 through 31 March 2023. 4. "Public records" shall mean all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data-processing records, artifacts, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with the transaction of public business by any agency of North Carolina government or its subdivisions. 5. For any records found that are deemed non-releasable because of confidentiality or security restrictions, the County BOE’s response shall indicate the existence of those other records that are not releasable and identify all local officials who are authorized to review that documentation. 6. I am requesting this documentation be provided to me at no charge in an electronic format that is commonly machine readable (such as pdf, jpg, etc.) and in a common media form such as a thumb drive or DVD. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Email: _____________________ Tel. _______________________

TUES, March 28 @ 10am! Two Election Bills coming up for a vote in the House: Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform Committee H6: Uniformed Heroes Voting Act. H304: Election Day Integrity Act. Please ask people to call/email the committee members and ask them to vote YES! https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21 If you want to watch the NCLeg vote on the bills at 10am LiveStream: https://www.ncleg.gov/LegislativeCalendar/ Election Bills Introduced by NCGA as of 20 March 2023: --S88 (Election Day Integrity Act)- Support --S89 (No Private $ in Elections)- Support --S137 (Const Amendment to Remove Literacy Test)- Neutral --S226 (Freedom to Vote)- Oppose --S306 (Fix Our Democracy)- Strongly Oppose!!! --H6 (Uniformed Heroes Voting Act)- Support --H9 (Independent Redistricting Process)-- Oppose --H44 (Const Amendment to Remove Literacy Test)- Neutral --H63 (Verify Immigration Status/SAVE)- Support [Not an Elections Bill] --H82 (Maintain Precinct Voting Data- Official Results Include All Pct Votes)- Support --H109 (Certain Prohibitions/Working/Voting)- Conditional Support, needs minor language change --H123 (Constitutional Amendment to Limit Early Voting to 7 Days)- Support --H191 (Popular Election)- Oppose --H249 (J6 Riot/Overthrow Government)- Oppose --H293 (Freedom to Vote)- Oppose --H303 (Shorten One-Stop Early Voting to 8 days)- Support --H304 (Election Day Integrity Act)- Support --H362 (Fix Our Democracy)- Strongly Oppose!!! --H376 (Little Federal Model for Senate Representation)-Questionable Necessity --H388 (Increase Threshold- Campaign Cash Contributions)- Strongly Support!!! --H396 (Repeal Participation in ERIC) Look up who sponsored, which committees, and where the bills as headed next https://ncleg.gov/ Type the bill number in the bar at the upper right hand corner of the page and hit Search - the spy glass. Example: S89 Please ask people to call/email the committee members and ask them to vote YES! https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21 If you want to watch the NCLeg vote on the bills at 10am LiveStream: https://www.ncleg.gov/LegislativeCalendar/

https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/H396 H D HOUSE BILL DRH40110-ST-20 Short Title: Repeal Participation in ERIC. (Public) Sponsors: Representative Setzer. Referred to: *DRH40110-ST-20* 1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 2 AN ACT TO REPEAL THE AUTHORIZATIONS FOR THE STATE BOARD OF 3 ELECTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION 4 INFORMATION CENTER. 5 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6 SECTION 1. Section 18.2 of S.L. 2013-381 is repealed. 7 SECTION 2. Section 26.1(4) of S.L. 2022-74 is repealed. 8 SECTION 3. Section 26.3 of S.L. 2022-74 is repealed. 9 SECTION 4. The State Board of Elections may not enter into any agreement, 10 membership, or other participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) 11 unless approved by an act of the General Assembly. 12 SECTION 5. This act is effective when it becomes law. Add an amendment saying that no confidential voter information may be released to any third-party unless approved by the leg.

Public Records Request for CVI and VPC. Copy/Paste into a clean email sheet and fill in your information. From: ____ County North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIt) Your Name Address: _________ To: _______ County Board of Elections Date: ___________ Attention: (BOE Director________) CC Your County Board of Elections members. Their emails should be on your county website) Subject: Request for Public Records for the Center for Voter Integrity and the Voter Participation Center. Pursuant to the North Carolina Freedom of Information Act, releasable under the provisions of NCGS 132-1, Public Records, I am requesting the following information. Please provide me with any correspondence, including, but not limited to, letters, emails, faxes, phone call notes, meeting notes, grant applications, grant offers, grant contracts, scholarship applications, scholarship offers, scholarship contracts between anyone associated with The Center for Voter Integrity, the Voter Participation Center, and the Center for Internet Security and anyone in the office of___________Director of ________ County Board of Elections, the Electoral Board, governing body, or other municipal employees, appointees and elected officials. I am requesting this documentation be provided to me at no charge in an electronic format that is commonly machine readable (suck as pdf, jpg, etc.) and in a common media form such as email, thumb drive or DVD disc. Thank you. Your name Your Email: Your Phone: Time Frame: 1/1/2022 to the present

Both the FL & VA Zuckerbucks laws both specifically include services related to elections. We have 'borrowed' the language to include in NC's bill S89 that does not address scholarships/memberships/services. Thank you Ned Jones and the Citizen Research Project and the Legislative National Workgroups for sharing this with NCEIT. ◦ 1. Virginia Law: ◦ § 24.2-124.1. Acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. The State Board, the Department, each local electoral board, and all offices of the general registrar shall not solicit, accept, use, or dispose of any money, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. This section shall not be construed to prohibit (i) the operation of a polling place or voter satellite office in a facility furnished by a private individual or nongovernmental entity that otherwise meets the requirements for polling places provided in §§ 24.2-310 and 24.2-310.1 or voter satellite offices provided in § 24.2-701.2 or (ii) acceptance of a federal government grant funded in whole or part by donations from private individuals or nongovernmental entities. ◦ Further, in Virginia, the state Department of Elections has issued guidance and the Attorney General has issued an opinion that reinforces that they are interpreting this law to prohibit training offered by volunteers and that this law would prevent a Virginia locality from partnering with the US Alliance for election excellence. 2. Florida Law: ◦ 97.0291 Prohibition on use of private funds for election related expenses.—No agency or state or local official responsible for conducting elections, including, but not limited to, a supervisor of elections, may solicit, accept, use, or dispose of any donation in the form of money, grants, property, or personal services from an individual or a nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding election-related expenses or voter education, voter outreach, or registration programs. This section does not prohibit the donation and acceptance of space to be used for a polling room or an early voting site. And, GA has a bill in their legislature that addresses the services related to elections. This bill has yet to be passed. Line 18: (1) 'Government employee' means any individual, committee, entity, or group acting in concert who are employed by a state, county or municipal government. Such term shall include, but not be limited to, election superintendents, registrars, poll workers, and the agents and employees Line 28: (2) (c)Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no state, county or municipal government, government employee, or election official shall solicit, take, or otherwise accept from any person a contribution, donation, service, or anything else of value for the purpose of conducting primaries or elections or in support of performing his or her duties under this chapter. thereof.

NEW information that we discussed at the last meeting. Hayden Ludwig's presentation about his research articles detailing the activities of the Center For Voter Information/Voter Participation Center. Here's the link to his article. https://www.restorationofamerica.com/uncategorized/inside-democrats-best-kept-secret-mass-nonprofit-voter-registration-pt-1/ We discussed the Six Left-wing initiatives that we're researching. 1. The US Alliance for Election Excellence (USAEE) 2. The Committee For Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE) 3. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) 4. The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (and partners) 5. The High School Registration/Lower The Voting Age Groups 6. The Center for Voter Information/The Voter Participation Center NEW information in Red that we discussed at the last meeting. Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center Hayden's article. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/03/09/activists_are_screwing_up_wisconsins_elections_its_time_to_stop_them_148960.html https://www.wizmnews.com/2023/03/07/wisconsin-voters-warned-about-misleading-mailers-with-false-absentee-ballot-info/ https://www.npr.org/2008/05/01/90114863/group-with-clinton-ties-behind-dubious-robocalls Call To Action: We need to submit FOIA/Public Records Requests to every local Election Office and every state Election Department to get their communications with the Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) https://www.cisecurity.org/ Article by Natalia Mittelstadt "In The News" https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dhs-funded-nonprofit-censoring-election-info-also-provides-cybersecurity Documents from Virginia. https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZwBuPVZ042YCFbOJ2BR8nIcIf8zI57Gq1x7 Press release from ES&S and Albert Sensors https://www.essvote.com/blog/our-technology/partnerships-to-further-election-security/ Link to list of CIS Locations. https://web.archive.org/web/20220122215430/https://www.cisecurity.org/ei-isac/partners-ei-isac/ Call To Action: We need to submit FOIA/Public Records Requests to every local Election Office and every state Election Department to get their communications with the Center for Internet Security, particularly, their Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with CIS."Alliance " partners. The Committee For Safe and Secure Elections - See the report that I sent out on 2/22/23. Here are links to CSSE (It doesn't always work), Fusion Centers and the longer version of the "Staged" R Street video that was played at the conference. https://safeelections.org/members https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-centers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYF8V5t-L4 Link to the Elections Assistance Commission Webinar - "Committee for Safe and Secure Elections" on March 2, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpnCzMB878 https://www.eac.gov/Election-Official-Security-discussion-with-CSSE Call to Action: Meet with your local election official, or file a FOIA/Open Records Request, if necessary, to learn as much as you can about any communications with CSSE, Fusion Centers, and DHS. Every state has an association of election officials, and they all have an annual convention. Another call to action is to find out if CSSE and EAC made, or are making, a presentation at the annual convention in your state. The US Alliance for Election Excellence - Boone County, MO - Link to article. https://heartlandernews.com/2023/03/10/this-county-in-missouri-has-joined-a-left-wing-dark-money-linked-election-organization-one-watchdog-warns-could-endanger-election-integrity/ Contra Costa, CA - Link to article https://firebrand.news/big-tech-group-spurs-questions-with-2m-election-grant-to-california-county/?seyid=53059 Here are links to the Honest Election Project/John Locke Report about the top priority of our project, the "US Alliance For Election Excellence". https://www.honestelections.org/hep-and-locke-foundation-report-exposes-the-lefts-dark-money-scheme-to-influence-elections/ New link that works! https://www.honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/HEP_Locke_Alliance-for-Election-Excellence-Report-1.pdf https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/report-warns-of-dark-money-groups-influencing-local-elections Here's an excellent report about the "Alliance" from Real Clear Investigations. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/01/31/big_philanthropy_advances_as_a_big_player_in_the_private_funding_of_public_elections_877615.html There are now 14 "Alliance Election Centers" (attached list) that we know about. The Alliance has a scheme with Membership Dues/Scholarships/Credits for Services to gain influence in Election Offices in every state, including states that have passed statutes to ban "Third Party Grants" (Zuck Bucs). Call To Action: We need to submit FOIA/Public Records Requests to every local Election Office and every state Election Department to get their communications with the "Alliance " partners (See attached Sample FOIA). I have attached the original outline for the Citizens Research Project that lists the "Partners" in the "US Alliance For Election Excellence" and the tools that we can use to document their infiltration into our Election Offices. I have also attached a listing of Left-wing, Non-Profits (not complete, there are many more) and the election entities that they have infiltrated. Be on the lookout for them. Here are a couple of the new Left-wing, Non-Profits that we have been discussing. US Digital Resources (Alliance Partner)? Replacing Konnech? https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/ The New Majority (CCP Influence in Elections) Exposed by Trevor Loudon https://www.newvirginiamajority.org/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/new-virginia-majority/ The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (Attached NSLVE Survey) https://idhe.tufts.edu/nslve All In Campus Democracy Challenge (Civic Nation) https://allinchallenge.org/participating-campuses/ https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/voting/2023/02/17/444142/polling-sites-voting-texas-college-campuses-banned-under-proposed-bill/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/05/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-continues-to-promote-access-to-voting/ Generation Citizen - High School Infiltration/Lower The Voting Age https://generationcitizen.org/ https://www.tapinto.net/towns/plainfield/sections/elections/articles/plainfield-students-to-learn-why-and-how-to-vote Other research targets - State Power Caucus (From remnants of ACORN) https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/state-power-caucus/ NGP VAN https://www.influencewatch.org/for-profit/ngp-van/ The Election Center https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/the-election-center-national-association-of-election-officials/ NEW - Agenda from meeting in Pasadena, CA - Left-wing presenters https://www.electioncenter.org/national-association-of-election-officials/events-calendar/2023/ECSW-Pasadena-2023-Draft-Agenda.pdf Here's a link to the Heritage Report on Election Fraud that Peter Burke referenced during his presentation on the possible link between proven cases of voter fraud and Left-wing Non-profit groups. https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search Best resources to use to find Form 990 for Left-wing, Non-profits, from Kristen Eastlick, Senior Vice President, Capital Research Center (Influence Watch). IRS: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exempt-organizations ProPublica: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ Guidestar (rebranding as Candid): https://www.guidestar.org/ Be sure to report all your findings on the Citizens Research Project Report Page. Here's the link. https://whoscounting.us/citizens-research-project/ Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Ned Ned JonesDeputy Director Election Integrity Network Virginia Institute for Public Policy 804-337-9966 www.whoscounting.us

https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-bought-phone-data-to-monitor-americans-compliance-with-lockdowns-contracts-show_5118737.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-03-17&src_cmp=mb-2023-03-17&utm_medium=email&est=cDt3W0ca39bNt%2FVAgYgnL%2BLW9YdcfmWZSDqeQ%2BCWfNXZLQPhG4kuEpJdQftYweOauv0%3D The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) purchased data from tracking companies to monitor compliance with lockdowns, according to contracts with the firms. The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000. That bought access to location data from at least 55 million cellphone users. The contracts, approved under emergency review due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were aimed at providing the CDC “with the necessary data to continue critical emergency response functions related to evaluating the impact of visits to key points of interest, stay at home orders, closures, re-openings and other public heath communications related to mask mandate, and other merging research areas on community transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” the contracts, obtained by The Epoch Times, state. The CDC said it would be using the tracking data to “assess home-by-hour behaviors (i.e. curfew analysis) by exploring the percentage of mobile devices at home during specific period of time.” The data could also be integrated with other information “to provide a comprehensive picture of movement/travel of persons during the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand mandatory stay-at-home orders, business closure, school re-openings, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions in states and cities.” Under a heading labeled “potential use cases” for the data, the CDC said it could be used to try to connect the forced closures of bars and restaurants with COVID-19 infections and death rates, as well as try to assess the impact of state restrictions on close contact between people outside of their home. The data could also be used to monitor adherence to mandated or recommended quarantines after arrival from another state and to examine the correlation of mobility patterns and spikes in COVID-19 cases at facilities such as churches, concerts, and grocery stores. It would also enable examining movement restrictions such as curfews to show “patterns” and “compliance,” the contracts state. The contracts were previously reported on by Vice News, but the outlet only released a screenshot of a single page. Together, the contracts run 71 pages. Both were signed in 2021, the same year new medical codes for COVID-19 vaccination status were approved. Early Research Published, Unclear What Purchased Data Used For The CDC, early in the pandemic, received the data for free from the firms, SafeGraph and Cuebiq. CDC researchers in 2020 published two studies utilizing the data. One focused on data from four U.S. metropolitan areas, finding that people moved around less when measures such as social distancing were imposed. Another found that harsh lockdown orders led to decreased movement, while there was more movement after states began lifting the orders. Other researchers have also used the mobility data for studies. No CDC studies were published after the agency bought the data and a CDC spokesperson did not provide examples of what the purchased data were used for. “For COVID-19, the insights derived from these data provide essential information on the impact and effectiveness of policies and COVID-19 mitigation measures (e.g., jurisdictional stay-at-home orders and business closures) that had profound effects on communities,” Scott Pauley, the spokesperson, told The Epoch Times via email. “These data provide important insights to protect public health and have been used to understand population-level impacts of COVID-19 policies and can shed important light on other pressing public health problems, like natural disaster response, and toxic environmental exposures. CDC does not and could not use these data for monitoring compliance with COVID-19 orders or individual tracking,” he added. While the data is deanonymized, it can be used to identify people, researchers have shown. “The data CDC received were aggregated and anonymous, had extensive privacy protections, and could not be used to identify individuals. They cannot be tied to an individual and have multiple layers of privacy protections to prevent misuse or re-identification,” Pauley said. Firms like SafeGraph and Cuebiq receive phone data from applications before passing it on to customers in sets. The sets from SafeGraph included “neighborhood patterns,” which showed how often people visited places of interest, where they came from, and where else they went. The sets from Cuebiq included a “shelter-in-place index” that measured the percentage of mobile devices at home during a certain period of time, and an out-of-state traveler set to estimate what percentage of people who came from another state were “failing to shelter in place.” A SafeGraph spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email that the firm “compiles and provides objective, verifiable facts about physical locations around the world—like the address or operating hours of a particular point of interest,” adding the data it sells cannot be “de-anonymized,” or “used to identify or to ‘track’ the movements or behavior of individual persons.” That’s accomplished in part by introducing “randomized noise,” the company said. Cuebiq did not respond to a request for comment. Congressional Concerns Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Investigation, expressed concern with the purchase of the mobility data, asking the CDC who approved the purchase and whether it shared the data with other agencies. “It remains unclear why the CDC tracked millions of Americans during the pandemic and whether it continues to do so. In response to COVID-19, the CDC should have been prioritizing the development of treatments, effective testing, and vaccine safety rather than tracking Americans’ daily lives,” Johnson wrote to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Walensky said in response that the data was part of “us[ing] the best science available to inform our understanding of the public health impacts of interventions and to inform recommendations.” The CDC has also utilized location tracking data from Google, but never paid for the data, Walensky said. She also said that the data that was purchased was not shared with any other agency, or any private companies.

It's about time! https://patriotnewsfeed.com/chinas-tiktok-under-u-s-investigation-controls-data-and-devices/ TikTok, and its parent company ByteDance, is controlled by communist China. Now, these companies are reportedly under federal criminal investigation for surveilling U.S. citizens. This report comes just as Washington D.C. lawmakers released bipartisan legislation that allows America to ban the social media app. The White House administration has said that it supports the new legislation. According to Forbes, it was reported that the FBI, Department of Justice Criminal Division, Fraud Section, and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia opened a criminal investigation over TikTok’s spying on American journalists. ByteDance has been subpoenaed by U.S. prosecutors for their “efforts by its employees to access U.S. journalists’ location information or other private user data using the TikTok app.” Erich Andersen, the General Counsel for TikTok, wrote in an internal email that “in this case individuals misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data.” ByteDance spokesperson Jennifer Banks confirmed to the publication that the spying did occur. “We have strongly condemned the actions of the individuals found to have been involved, and they are no longer employed at ByteDance,” she said. “Our internal investigation is still ongoing, and we will cooperate with any official investigations when brought to us.” President Biden demanded this week that ByteDance sell the vertical video application or face an outright ban in the United States. FBI Director Chris Wray shocked U.S. senators last week during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing when he made known the capabilities that the app gives communist China. Wray said that communist China can use TikTok to control data on millions of users, they can also control the software on millions of devices, and they can use it to pit Americans against each other. “And I think the most fundamental piece that cuts across every one of those risks and threats that you mentioned that I think Americans need to understand is that something that’s very sacred in our country, that difference between the private sector and the public sector, that’s a line that is non-existent in the way that CCP operates,” Wray said. Popular in the Community House Weaponization Committee Come After the Air Force – Watch Mark Stevens - March 16, 20230 China’s TikTok Under U.S. Investigation – Controls Data and Devices Mark Stevens - March 16, 20230 Biden with Bankers vs. Biden with Ohio Folks – Watch Mark Stevens - March 15, 20230 2.5 Tons of Natural Uranium Has Gone Missing from Libya Mark Stevens - March 15, 20230 Ohio Demanding Money in Lawsuit Against Norfolk Southern, Derailment was ‘Entirely Avoidable’ Mark Stevens - March 15, 20230 GET MORE STORIES LIKE THIS IN YOUR INBOX! Sign up for our daily email and get the stories everyone is talking about. Check this box to confirm your free subscription! * Subscribe!

https://www.westernjournal.com/cnn-morning-going-flames-1-host-threatens-quit-relocate-far-away-report/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriots-list-breaking&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=firefly The drama continues at CNN’s low-rated morning show as Don Lemon’s co-host Kaitlan Collins has threatened to quit and move to Washington, according to a report. New York City-based “CNN This Morning” is the cable network’s least-watched morning show in a decade. It was launched late last year by CNN CEO Chris Licht ato replace the long-running “New Day.” Lemon, Collins and Poppy Harlow were hand-picked by Licht to lead each day’s programming on the struggling network. The CEO said when he announced the creation of the show he expected the trio to blossom. Advertisement - story continues below “There is no stronger combination of talent than Don, Poppy and Kaitlan to deliver on our promise of a game-changing morning news program,” Licht said in a statement in September. None of that ever materialized. Instead, the show has become a spectacle. Thanks to Lemon, “CNN This Morning” is known more for the drama between its hosts than for its programming. Trending: CNN Correspondent Posts New Update on John Fetterman's Health, But People Aren't Buying It Lemon dressed down Collins during an off-the-air meltdown in December that left her shaken, according to numerous reports. He was said to have accused his co-host of interrupting him during the show, and there has been tension ever since. Advertisement - story continues below Recent reports suggested an alliance has formed along the lines of Harlow and Collins versus Lemon since he claimed on the air last month that women in their 50s are out of their “prime” during an attack on GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley. Lemon reportedly has been sulking around CNNs offices since he returned to the desk after he spent a few days away. Licht ordered him to undergo “formal training” as part of an agreement for him to return following the widely criticized remarks. Should Don Lemon be fired? Yes No Completing this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. There has been little by the way of drama on the air since Lemon, 57, made his way back. But according to the entertainment industry gossip site Radar Online, the waters at “CNN This Morning” are anything but tranquil these days. The outlet reported Thursday it had learned Collins “had private conversations about returning to Washington, D.C., leaving her on-air frenemy Don Lemon, 57, and Poppy Harlow, 40, in the dust.” Advertisement - story continues below “The revelation comes three months after Lemon blew up on Collins, ‘screaming’ and accusing her of ‘interrupting’ him after their December 8 broadcast,” it said. Radar Online, which cited a source close to CNN in its reporting, said Collins has attempted to spend as little time around Lemon as possible since the blowup. Related: Lemon's Failed Morning Show Given New Executive Producer - Just Wait Until He Finds Out Her Age Meanwhile, the outlet reported Lemon is at an emotional impasse over the drama and is still coping with being pulled from his primetime perch last year. It is not clear if Collins intends to leave Lemon and Harlow behind. But according to the report, her threat to move back to D.C. has executives assessing whether the show can even go on. Advertisement - story continues below This latest bit of information is merely a report from a gossip site, but given what we’ve seen with “CNN This Morning” on the air during its short tenure, it would not be the least bit surprising to see Collins jump ship. The 30-year-old was named the youngest chief White House correspondent in CNN history at age 28 in 2021. She left it all behind to work with Lemon. How could someone in her position not have a case of buyer’s remorse? Advertisement - story continues below No matter how the situation shakes out, CNN’s mounting troubles are a win for Americans who are opposed to the network’s mission, which is to mislead Americans on behalf of the Democratic Party. Truth and Accuracy Submit a Correction → We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards. Tags: CNN, Don Lemon, establishment media, liberal media, television, U.S. news

Link to states banning Zuck Bucks. https://capitalresearch.org/article/states-banning-zuck-bucks/ 3/14/22 Jane: I didn't see anything here that bans BOEs from accepting scholarships as they are doing in Forsyth and Brunswick. S89 (No Private $ in Elections)- Support NCEIT County Coordinators submitted public records request. The BOE’s in both turned down grant. CT & Utan did the same. Bad news: Left doesn’t give up. BOE's will participate by becoming members of the Alliance/CTCL and accept scholarships (U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence/Center for Tech & Civil Life.) BOE members in Forsyth and Brunswick accepted the scholarship money instead! (This all started when Cooper vetoed NC’s Anti-Zuck Buck bills. A BOE member in Forsyth sits on the Board of CTCL.) ” focused on reshaping election offices while thwarting meaningful oversight and public accountability.” Ned: Georgia is working on a strong revised statute. Hearing on- line at 1 PM today. (3/14/23) On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 12:49 PM Jim Womack wrote: Please advise which state has the best language prohibiting leftist influence in our elections. Appears the draft NC bill is inadequate to address the trickery that CTCL is now using to get around the "no private funds" prohibitions.

https://estancia.news/soros-backed-sos-caught-lying-to-legislature-new-mexicos-election-system-is-completely-exposed-to-the-internet/ During a March 10th hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on the controversial election bill titled SB 180, Representative Greg Nibert asked the Secretary of State directly, “Is the election system connected to the internet?” “No,” responded the SOS. This representation by the SOS to the legislature is patently false. The truth is that the SOS has gone to great lengths and spent almost $3 million of taxpayer money to get almost the entire election system centralized under her control and exposed to the internet. The clerks and SOS are also working with Dominion Voting Systems to destroy all original electronic election data. Previously, we established that the post-election canvass reports in all 33 New Mexico Counties are being illegally prepared. Complete election records are being uploaded to an uncertified, centralized software under the control of the SOS called SERVIS, which is then used to create the official election results. Use of any uncertified software for this part of the election process is a violation of federal and state law. And according to state law, the SOS is not to have access to the complete election record from any county until the election has been certified. But the story gets much, much worse: When the illegal canvass process is complete the SOS is having counties download election data from internet-connected SERVIS onto their “secure” election computers, and then Dominion comes in and wipes out the original election data. This is a blatant violation of state and federal law that require all election records to be kept for 22 months after any election with a federal candidate on the ballot. Further, if SB 180 becomes law, all paper election records will be hidden from the public, leaving no way for the people of New Mexico to verify anything about their own elections. We will just have to take the word of a corrupt SOS that the election turned out the way she told us, no matter how at odds the results were with pre-election polling data. THE ORIGINS OF “SERVIS” To understand how almost our entire election system was put on the internet, we need to understand the timeline, source, and questionable events surrounding the creation of SERVIS. For some important background: the 24th Secretary of State was a Republican named Diana Duran. Duran was elected as SOS in 2010 and reelected in 2014. In 2012, Duran attempted to do a statewide cleaning of the voter rolls, which she abandoned after being roundly criticized by Democrats. Duran’s top priority as SOS was to get a voter ID law passed in New Mexico. In 2015, a voter ID bill easily passed the Republican-controlled house, but died in the Democrat-controlled senate. In May 2015, Duran entered a sole-source $60,000, one-year contract with a South Dakota company called BPro, Inc. The contract states that BPro was “gifting” their software platform called TotalVote valued at $1,000,000 to New Mexico. The contract was to create a custom software interface called IRIS (Integrated Reporting and Integrity System) to “integrate with an election night reporting system and canvassing system, so that vote totals can be obtained for each precinct from each voting system tabulator within a voting convenience center.” It was provided for “ease of use by county clerks and designated election officials.” In other words, BPro “gifted” their TotalVote software to New Mexico, in exchange for a series of what would turn out to be very lucrative, sole-source contracts to develop a customized interface between the SOS, clerks, and TotalVote that they called “IRIS.” IRIS was renamed “SERVIS” (Statewide Elections, Registration and Voting Integrity System) in 2017. At the time Duran signed the original contract, vote tabulation was provided by ES&S, and ballot printing was provided by AES, Robis, ABS, and Runbeck. AES and Robis are still providing ballot printing services to New Mexico, but ballot tabulation has since been turned over to Dominion Voting Systems. According to the BPro website, TotalVote is a “centralized voter registration and election management system that securely captures and manages voter, candidate, and all election information. It is the only software system that encompasses the entire election process into one system.” (emphasis added). TotalVote has no Election Assistance Commission (EAC) certifications whatsoever. Meaning it does not comply with the Help America Vote Act and it has never been tested by any accredited third-party. However, as previously established, it is certainly touching parts of the election that require certification. Shortly after signing the contract with BPro, Duran was charged by the Attorney General, Hector Balderas, for crimes involving the use of campaign funds for gambling. In October of 2015, Duran entered a plea deal and resigned from office. Mary Quintana was Acting SOS for about two months before Brad Winter was appointed by Governor Susana Martinez on December 18, 2015. Winter served as SOS until a special election held in November 2016 resulted in Maggie Toulouse-Oliver’s election. Immediately after the ouster of Diana Duran, Mary Quintana, renegotiated and extended the contract with BPro according to documents signed by Quintana on December 2, 2015. The contract value was tripled, and the scope of work was expanded to include multiple additional items that were not in the original contract signed by Duran. THE ALL-INCLUSIVE SCOPE AND QUESTIONABLE PARTICIPANTS OF THE SERVIS PROJECT The goals of the new contract included integration of the BPro TotalVote software into New Mexico’s voter registration management, election management, election night reporting, and general public portal access. Some of the individual objectives in the expanded scope of work raise questions as to the intent of the Acting SOS. Here is an example: Automate Voter Registration Records via Public Portal, County Portal and direct integration with Motor Vehicle. Develop data exchange and integration with the…Department of Motor Vehicles, Voter Registration Agents, the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), the Voting Information Project (VIP). “Voter Registration Agents” are typically partisan people employed by various non-government operations who go door to door and ask people to register to vote. It is unclear from the scope of work exactly how much access to the state’s databases these agents have been given, but it is in the same list with the Department of Motor Vehicles, which has full write-access to the election database. The same concerns exist with ERIC and VIP, which are both private, leftist organizations. ERIC charges states to give them their data on their populations in exchange for “cleaning voter rolls” and identifying eligible, but unregistered people. At its peak, more than 30 states were members of ERIC, but states have recently been jumping ship as election officials fear that their data is being misused, and voter rolls are not getting “cleaner” in any state that is a member of ERIC. In recent months, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Florida, and West Virginia have left ERIC. Texas has signaled it will shortly be leaving the failed program as well. It was recently reported that ERIC’s offices are nonexistent by the Alabama SOS, Wes Allen, who attempted to visit the office: “I was in D.C. for a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of States and, since I was in town, I went to see the ERIC Headquarters,” Allen said. “What I found was that there was no ERIC headquarters at that address. There were no employees. There were no servers. There was no ERIC presence of any kind. “A lot of personal data and taxpayer money has been transferred to ERIC. Where is that data? Where are the employees? Where are the offices? Where are the computers?” AN EXPENSIVE GIFT To date, New Mexico, has paid BPro a total of $2,722,939 for the development and upkeep of SERVIS necessary to utilize their “gift” of TotalVote. From reviewing the contracts, it appears that SERVIS took several years to fully develop. The online voter registration was launched in 2016, but the integration with the Motor Vehicle Department wasn’t functional until 2018. It is unclear when SERVIS began handling the entire post-election canvassing process. In 2017, Toulouse-Oliver hired yet another contractor, an IT services company called CSW, to facilitate “the…testing and implementation” of SERVIS software. CSW was paid $60,000 for these services over one year. It is assumed that BPro was unable to provide sufficient IT support, and local help was needed. Internal emails also reveal that notoriously corrupt Senator Daniel-Ivey Soto also aids county clerks in their use of SERVIS. The contract history with BPro shows that presidential election years were the most lucrative for them. BPro received a contract valued at $713,025 in 2016, and two contracts with a combined total of $845,881 in 2020. In 2020, Toulouse-Oliver expanded BPro’s scope of work to include geolocation of registered voters. There is no obvious reason from the contracts why presidential election years happen to be windfall years for BPro. SERVIS/TOTALVOTE EXPOSES THE ENTIRE ELECTION TO THE INTERNET AND HAS WRITE ACCESS TO COUNTY SERVERS The previous article established that all 33 county clerks are uploading all their election data to SERVIS. Internal training documents indicate that limited election night data is uploaded on Election Day, but all of the election data from the electronic tabulators is uploaded the day after the election. Then SERVIS is used to create the canvass documents against federal law, and the SOS is given full access to the entire state’s data before any county has certified, against state law. Further, state and federal law requires that only aggregated data—and not data from individual ballots—be used for election night reporting that appears on the SOS’s website. Also, there can be no access path from the election night reporting to any storage device used for official data. We know that the complete election reports are uploaded to SERVIS the day after the election. We also know that frequently races are not called on election night, but sometimes a day or two later. The SOS can’t honestly maintain she is keeping these data sets separate, when they are being uploaded to the same program before all races are called. Excerpt from Voluntary Voting System Guidelines which are incorporated into state and federal law The most disturbing discovery by far was this slide, titled “Protecting the Dominion Server Air Gap,” from internal training documents. It shows the clerks how they are to transfer their data from their Dominion Server to the SERVIS system and back again: Slide from SOS’s internal training document teaching clerks how to use SERVIS during an election As the figure shows, USB memory sticks in “read-only” mode are being used to move data from the Dominion server, which houses the official digital election results for each county, to the internet-connected “SERVIS” computer. As soon as the results are uploaded into SERVIS the day after the election, the entire statewide results are accessible by multiple parties and could be manipulated and changed. The instruction for downloading data from the “SERVIS Computer” back to the “Dominion Server” is to use USB memory sticks in “read-write” mode. This instruction is mind-blowing, and literally the opposite of “protecting the air gap.” What data does the SOS need to transfer to the counties since she is not supposed to have any part in finalizing a county’s election? We asked local information technologies professional, Destry Hunt, his opinion of this slide. Mr. Hunt has experience in business intelligence analysis, website development, and coding. He stated: The USB procedure is an insult to the intelligence of New Mexicans. No serious IT person will believe the same removable drives can be used securely in that way. Removable drives are so notoriously insecure that they are banned from many government agencies. They can upload or download a lot of information, quickly, and without leaving a trace. You cannot audit the data transfer when the drive is removed. The obvious vulnerability? If election results needed to be changed by the SOS or anyone with authorized or unauthorized access to SERVIS, they could be. Then those corrupted results could be loaded onto the county’s servers, overwriting the original data and no one would ever know. DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS CONTINUES TO DELETE RECORDS, WHY? If that wasn’t bad enough, we also discovered blatant disregard for the law being carried out by the county clerks in concert with Dominion Voting Systems. The following screen shots are emails from county clerks announcing that Dominion has already erased the 2022 Primary Election off their servers. They are mandated by state and federal law to maintain all election records for 22 months following an election. Daniel Ivey-Soto was aware the clerks and Dominion are erasing data as these conversations took place on his list serve. Email from Cibola County Clerk announcing Dominion has wiped her serverEmail from Union County Clerk announcing Dominion wiped her server If Dominion has wiped data in these two counties, it is likely they have done so across the state in blatant violation of state and federal law. This is not the first time Dominion has been caught deleting records – during the Otero County Audit of the 2020 election, national vulnerability expert, Jeff Lenberg, discovered that the 2020 election project had been wiped after the audit had commenced. An emergency County Commission meeting was held on May 9th, 2022 to alert public officials to this fact. The Otero County Sheriff failed to act, and Dominion is still deleting records. To sum up: it appears that the SERVIS is being used to overwrite counties’ official election data per processes imposed by the SOS, and Dominion Voting Systems is then deleting remaining records on the County’s server, destroying the audit trail. IS SERVIS COMPROMISED? The SERVIS program is internet-connected, uncertified, and accessible by all county clerks, the SOS’s office, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and potentially others such as ERIC, VIP, and “registration agents” according to the BPro contracts. The public, who has paid for its creation, has no way of knowing whether SERVIS can be trusted since it has never been tested to EAC standards, even though it handles parts of the election that are subject to federal oversight. We do know the SOS lied to a sitting New Mexico representative last week when she stated the election system was not connected to the internet. If we can’t trust her, why should we trust the program BPro built for her? The data suggests that we should not. As stated, the Motor Vehicle Department was given full access to SERVIS in early 2018. The Otero County Audit of the 2020 Election cited inexplicable, and unnatural changes that took place in the voter registration data at the beginning of 2018, corresponding with the merger with SERVIS. The report states: Staff at the Otero County Clerk’s office indicated that they noticed a strong uptick in registrations and changes to registrations when the MVD was given write‐access to the rolls. The canvass performed as part of the audit revealed that there are people who are listed on the rolls who were unaware that they were registered, including a non‐citizen who knew he was not eligible. There is evidence that people are being registered without their knowledge by the MVD, or bad actors have compromised one of the multiple electronic access points to the rolls granted to the MVD in recent years. “Audit of the Otero County November 2020 General Election and Vulnerability Assessment of the Election System Used in New Mexico”, published August 11, 2022. Figure showing daily registrations in New Mexico over a two-month period, from Audit of the Otero County 2020 General Election The report went on to describe odd patterns that appeared around the beginning of 2018 in the rolls when considering the number of registrations that were being added or changed in the rolls: “The extremely regular and obvious weekly pattern of the total registration count in the figure is not consistent with random, human behavior. The consistent ratios between the parties is also alarming.” This unexplained correlation between the parties appears to have arisen only in recent years and now exists at the state, county, and even precinct level. In almost all counties, the majority party out registers the minority party every day, and the DTS voters consistently register in almost equal numbers with the minority party in almost all the counties. “Audit of the Otero County November 2020 General Election and Vulnerability Assessment of the Election System Used in New Mexico“, published August 11, 2022. The expert audit team overseeing the Otero County Audit concluded that a source of this apparent manipulation may be BPro. With what we now know about BPro and SERVIS, we would tend to agree with the Otero County auditors that the system is compromised and by the design of policies imposed by the SOS. WAS BPRO A TROJAN HORSE? The SOS’s custom software SERVIS is being used outside state and federal law meant to protect our elections from bad actors. The SOS’s lie about the election system not being connected to the internet to Representative Nibert during last week’s hearing for one of her election bills suggests that her credibility does not warrant public trust. Taken together, the facts would suggest that the “gift” of BPro’s TotalVote software could be a Trojan horse that is being used to subvert New Mexico’s elections. And this issue affects more than just New Mexico. The BPro platform is used in at least 15 other states, including Arizona and Nevada – two states that “stopped counting” in the middle of the night and took days to report their election results in 2020, with Arizona repeating the exercise in both the primary and general 2022 elections. New Mexicans must demand that their election data be held entirely within their counties as the law requires. The SOS cannot touch any of the data until each election has been certified at the county level. And law enforcement must investigate this matter and provide justice for New Mexicans who are being abused by a weaponized, lawless government. If a New Mexico Attorney General prosecuted a former SOS for misusing campaign funds, surely the crimes being committed against our election franchise by the current SOS deserve his attention. The next article will cover how the federal government and private companies have been given undue access to New Mexico’s election data. If you have news tips you would like to share, email us at estancianews@proton.me.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/09/report-democrats-are-weaponizing-nonprofits-to-run-partisan-voter-registration-drives/ Democrats are using tax-exempt and allegedly nonpartisan nonprofits to conduct voter registration campaigns targeting likely-Democrat voters in key battleground states. Anew report reveals how the left has been actively weaponizing nonprofit organizations, which are legally required to function as non-partisan, to conduct explicitly partisan voter registration campaigns to help Democrats win elections. Released by Restoration of America, the two–part report unveils how Democrats employ tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofits to administer voter registration campaigns targeting likely-Democrat voters in key battleground states and districts. Notably, federal law expressly prohibits partisan voter registration through nonprofits: “voter education or registration activities conducted in a biased manner that favors [sic] (or opposes [sic]) one or more candidates is prohibited.” According to the report, some of the most notable groups engaged in such efforts are the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI), a pair of D.C.-based nonprofit organizations founded by Page Gardner. Gardner, who “registered voters for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign,” is often given credit for “discovering the ‘marriage gap’ … a statistical revelation showing that unmarried women were less likely to be registered or turn out than married women but were more likely to support Democrats,” the report says. Figures cited in the report estimate VPC and CVI sent out approximately 85.5 million mailers in 32 states in the months leading up to the 2022 midterms. In October alone, VPC mailed get-out-the-vote materials to an estimated 52.8 million homes, with battleground states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania among those the report estimates were “hit hardest.” The group’s efforts were also noticeable in the 2020 election, in which VPC’s registration-by-mail campaign purportedly netted an additional 272,443 votes. Most of them (214,000) came from the election-crucial states of Ohio, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania. “VPC and CVI were created to identify and register likely Democrats, cleverly using statistics to predict how individuals vote and microtargeting techniques to discover where they live. Using demographic data is the sharpest way to register certain voters without explicitly violating the IRS ban on biased registration drives,” the report reads. While speaking with Restoration of America, Thomas More Society election lawyer Erick Kaardal noted the uphill battle election integrity groups face when litigating against such efforts. “The challenge is to have state courts hold that 501(c)(3) funds can’t be used for voter registration of targeted progressive demographic groups,” he told report author Hayden Ludwig. That often includes “urban residents or students.” “The Internal Revenue Service has stated such funds can’t be used directly or indirectly for biased voter registration. But there is no authorization for suing in federal courts. So, the only remaining choice is taxpayer standing lawsuits in state courts—which is good enough,” Kaardal said. “But eventually the U.S. Supreme Court will have to rule whether urban cities and public universities can lawfully use 501(c)(3) funds for the political purpose identified: voter registration campaigns targeted to progressive voters.” Where are groups like VPC and CVI getting the funds to run this massive operation? According to Restoration of America, Democrat super PACs such as Mind the Gap, which was founded by Barbara Fried — the mother of disgraced former FTX CEO and Democrat mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried — are encouraging wealthy leftist donors to give their money to nonprofits focused on voter registration (such as VPC and CVI) instead of “campaign committees.” In a 2019 memo, Mind the Gap claimed this strategy, if focused on Democrat-leaning so-called “underrepresented groups,” could be “2 to 5 times more cost-effective at netting additional Democratic votes than the tactics that campaigns will invest in (chiefly, broadcast media and digital buys).” In other words, Democrat PACs are telling donors to spend on “nonpartisan” 501(c)(3) groups specifically in order to boost Democrats’ electoral prospects. In her 2021 bestselling book, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway documented how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used nonprofits to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into local election offices in battleground states. These efforts largely boosted Democrat turnout in the 2020 election. Whether it’s skirting federal law or injecting partisan money into election offices, Democrats will stop at nothing in their bid to rig elections in their favor. That means it’s incumbent upon Republicans to wake up and completely revamp their game plan for winning elections, including by exposing and prosecuting violations of election laws. Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood