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(WHEN YOU FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION FORMS, DELETE JANE'S INFORMATION AND FILL IN YOUR OWN - NAME, EMAIL ETC. Thanks) Announcing the Creation of National Working Groups for Election Integrity National Working Group Calendar: : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P1eS6ldu4CjIr45YbGENL2GzR3ITo2fm7vRqExaNIEU/edit#gid=360387559 (Click on the link above to open the calendar. To register. click on the group you want to register.) NCEIT Leadership is inviting you to join the national working groups for election integrity, sponsored by CPI's Election Integrity Network. Register at the Links below if interested in sharing your time and talents with your counterparts from other states, or if you simply want to learn what challenges and solutions other states are experiencing. Ranked Choice Voting- Hosted by Marshall Yates, CPI, 1st & 3rd Thursdays- 4 :00 PM Voter Rolls Working Group- Hosted by Cleta Mitchell, CPI, Wednesdays- 4:00 PM Vulnerable Voters Working Group- Hosted by Kerri Toloczko, CPI, Jan 10th, then 1st & 3rd Tuesdays- 4:00 PM Vote by Mail / USPS Working Group- Hosted by Ned Jones, CPI, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays- 4:00 PM Election Technology Working Group- Hosted by Jim Womack, NCEIT, 2nd & 4th Thursdays- 4:00 PM National Legislative Working Group- Hosted by Zoe Miller, The FGA, Wednesdays- 2:00 PM Citizens Research Group- Hosted by Ned Jones, CPI, Tuesday Evenings- 6:00PM NCEIT | PO Box 146, Sanford, NC 27331, Sanford, NC 27330

Big Shout Out To The 20 Congressman Who Didn't Vote for McCarthy - the Real Resist Movement Don't see your Congressman? After you thank these Patriots, make sure you call your congressman who didn't and let him/her know how disappointed you are!

Daily Caller: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-wins-partial-ballot-inspection-victory-in-maricopa-county/ar-AA15nGXM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=be39e4e16f9d4092bd2c96ef5d168683 Kari Lake Wins Partial Ballot Inspection Victoy In Maricopa County Acourt Thursday granted parts of Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to have some Maricopa County ballots inspected as she contests the results of her election defeat against Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Lake filed a lawsuit Dec. 9 seeking to be declared the election’s winner or have Maricopa County ordered to re-run its gubernatorial election, according to USA Today. The Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona granted her petition for inspecting 50 randomly-selected Election-Day-cast and Election Day spoil-marked “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots respectively from six separate Maricopa County voting centers and 50 early cast ballots from six separate county batches. The court rejected Lake’s request to have 50 randomly selected early ballots’ envelopes inspected. It forbids the approved inspections from disturbing any ballots’ integrity, storage or maintenance in the county’s custody or interfering with any ongoing 2022 election result recount. The court ordered the inspection to start Tuesday morning. Lake has claimed that “nearly half of all polling locations had problems with tabulating machines and printers” on Election Day, forcing voters “to wait in line for hours.” At least 20% of tabulation machines in Maricopa County malfunctioned that day, county officials said. Lake’s representative did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org. Related video: Kari Lake Sues Arizona’s Largest County, Seeking To Overturn Her Defeat | US News | English News (News18)

Here's 9 Revelations From Kari Lake's Arizona Lawsuit https://open.substack.com/pub/emeralddb3/p/heres-9-revelations-from-kari-lakes?utm_source=direct&r=b0m7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

When this episode of “Who’s Counting with Cleta Mitchell” podcast originally aired in May of 2022, guest Maureen Riordan – a veteran attorney, retired from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – warned of the hyper-partisan and leftist ideology that dominates the DOJ swamp. During the 2022 election cycle, the Department of Justice proved Maureen’s warnings to be accurate as the DOJ became an active partisan bent on perpetuating the radical left’s attacks against citizen engagement in the election process, claiming that this citizen involvement constituted not a patriotic exercise of statutory and constitutional rights, but a ‘threat to democracy’. In the weeks and months leading up to the November election, the media carried a constant (false, threatening) narrative warning against “aggressive election observers becoming violent” and “voter suppression by right-wing activists.” All these outlandish claims were bolstered by similar warnings from the DOJ and its leftwing partisan leadership. None of those threats materialized and, in fact, the only chaos was caused in places such as Maricopa County, AZ by incompetent and malevolent election officials. But since the voter suppression resulting from the election failures on November 8 in Maricopa County impacted largely GOP voters, the Dept of Justice was nowhere to be found. Just as Maureen described in her interview with Cleta. The DOJ through ongoing public statements and actions that were essentially not-so-veiled threats, were intended to discourage citizens from participating in election observation and engagement. None of the false narratives actually occurred and thanks to the encouragement of leaders like Maureen, citizens across the country braved the threats and engaged in record numbers as poll workers and observers nationwide. And thanks to the thousands of citizen observers and election workers deployed in Maricopa County, the issues and problems of the November 8 election were witnessed and documented. Maureen currently serves as Litigation Counsel for the non-profit election integrity law firm, The Public Interest Legal Foundation and was lead counsel in successfully suing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for her failure to clean the Michigan voter rolls. Maureen is a leading expert on federal voting laws and survived a career battling the Department of Justice’s leftwing agenda. Election integrity advocates must understand her message about the level of malicious interference that emanates from this federal “mothership.” Revisiting this informative podcast is a great reminder of the barriers faced and obstacles that must be addressed and overcome by citizens when battling the federal leftwing leviathan to protect the integrity of America’s elections for all voters. Watch the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkZN30GwDY Subscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Please support the Election Integrity Network by making a tax-deductible donation today. Your gift will help us build a coalition of conservative activists, leaders, public officials, and organizations to advance election integrity reforms nationwide. DONATE

Liz Cheney vacating congressional seat on Tuesday after six years in Congress Patriot News Alerts Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who became notorious for siding with Democrats against former President Donald Trump, is vacating her congressional seat today. Cheney was crushed by 40 points in the August Republican primary and was set to leave her post on January 3rd. Cheney will return home in shame and reviled by her constituents after choosing to side with anti-American Democrats to engage in a witch hunt against Trump. Despite her trashed reputation, Cheney returns home incredibly wealthy with her net worth soaring from $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020. Enriching herself using Americans Liz Cheney enriched herself immensely during her six years in Congress and was a fantastic example of what is wrong with American politics. Breitbart News investigated Cheney’s finances and found that her Personal Financial Disclosure form listed her declared net worth as anywhere from $10,422,023 to $44,140,000. It was also found that Cheney is in a trustee position at the University of Wyoming, has membership in a holding company, as well as a position in her family’s trust. The Cheney family was incredibly wealthy long before Liz Cheney was elected to Congress. Her father, Dick Cheney, has an estimated net worth of $150 million and served as Vice President to former President George W. Bush. Cheney is also married to Philip Perry, a partner at Latham & Watkins law firm in Washington, DC, which has advised Chinese companies. Those connections alone make Cheney’s position in Congress questionable. Cheney didn’t even live in Wyoming despite representing the state for six years. She barely bothered to campaign in Wyoming during the primary and that may have been a large factor in her 40-point rout. Cheney became addicted to the stardom she gained by selling her soul to the Democrat Party. She wasn’t fit to represent Wyoming nor was she fit to decide policy. Cleaning the Republican Party up Wyoming dumping Liz Cheney in favor of Trump-endorsed Republican Harriet Hageman represents a crucial step towards cleaning out the RINO’s in the Republican Party. As for Cheney, her choice to side with Democrats and participate in the January 6th Committee yielded nothing. It cost her a political career and the final report failed to produce anything legally actionable against Trump. Cheney went from the 3rd-most powerful Republican in the House to a complete pariah. There won’t be anywhere in the Democrat Party for her either, as she would never be accepted after demonstrating her lack of loyalty. Cheney’s fall from grace will serve as a warning to any other Republicans thinking of selling their souls for media coverage and liberal adoration.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center. https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/taxpayers-forced-to-spend-millions-on-gay-trans-projects-via-omnibus-bill/ Thanks to Republican support for a newly passed $1.7 trillion omnibus federal spending bill, American taxpayers are funding left-leaning LGBT organizations across the country, including those that promote deviant sex to youth, teach biased “gay history” to kids, and lobby for letting biological boys use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms in schools. he Washington Stand reported that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill — backed by 18 GOP senators and signed into law December 30 by President Biden — contains $11 million in LGBT funding, included the following homosexual- and transgender-related earmarks (specific spending requests) by Democrat lawmakers: $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers” at San Diego Community College District $1 million for Zora’s House in Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color” $3 million for the American LGBT Museum in New York City [see below] $1 million designated for “LGBT special services program as a part of the VAWA grant funding” $250,000 for “Our Lives Matter,” a gay rights law archive in Wisconsin $750,000 for the “TransLatin@ Coalition” to provide “workforce development programs and supportive services for Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles” [see below] $105,000 for a mentoring program for LGBT youth in the greater Pittsburgh area $856,000 for an “LGBT Center” in New York [see below] $523,345 for Compass LGBT Youth and Social Services programming $113,520 for an LGBT Center in Greater Reading, Pennsylvania $500,000 to establish a staff position for Special Advisor to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQIA+ persons $1.5 million for an LGBT+ community center new home project in New York $750,000 for “LGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing” in Albany, New York As WND reported, the following 18 Republican U.S. Senators voted for the omnibus spending bill loaded with pork-barrel projects, of the LGBT variety and other “woke” agendas:

North Carolina Supreme Court Blocks Voter ID Law Over ‘Discriminatory Intent’ - is their last gasp!https://www.theepochtimes.com/north-carolina-supreme-court-blocks-voter-id-law-over-discriminatory-intent_4930525.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search We knew this was going to happen before the new North Carolina Supreme Court justices were sworn-in. Back in June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that NC Republicans may intervene to defend voter ID. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/supreme-court-north-carolina-republicans-may-intervene-to-defend-voter-id-ballot-law So, this move by the progressive NC Supreme Court was no surprise. (We actually expected this in October. I guess they thought it would be so much more meaningful just before Christmas!) So, what next, you say? We will have a majority conservative Supreme Court after January. At a public candidate forum in Asheville in October, I raised that very question knowing the currrent group of justices would try one more time to deny NC voter ID. Chuck Edwards and Trey Alken - our new Supreme Court justice - responded that the only way we get to hear Voter ID is to bring a new voter ID case to the Court. That happens when the North Carolina General Assembly brings that case. We will get this. So, take a breath. This too will be added to the list of issues we bring to the NC General Assembly, thanks to all of your affidavits of election integrity violations. It's been quite a year and this year will bring changes to prepare us for 2024. Please join the army at NCEIT.org/Join Us. Sign up for the Asheville Tea Party newsletter too. Starting in January, we have trainings planned to address the issues with the post office, vulnerable voters, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, list maintenance, and machines and technology. Your NCEIT team is already lobbying our state legislators like they did to shut down ERIC. It is the work we do in between elections when we are not poll observing. Thank you for being a patriot and for caring. The road ahead will be rough but we will win the day. We have to. Our great Republic is worth saving and only WE THE PEOPLE - YOU can do that! Have a wonderful Christmas. Please stay in touch and I will do the same. Jane Bilello

Posted December 13, 2022 The video with the Jackson County Board of Elections members trying to explain what happened with the double counting of mail in ballots! https://rumble.com/v1u4y0g-jackson-county-board-of-election-meeting-nov-11..html Attached is Keith Blain's request. Lisa Lovedahl is the JC Director of Elections and Kirk Stephens is the chair of the JCBOE. I have not received back a response from my email 3 weeks ago. Request for Election Information from Keith Blaine, Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:39 PM To: Lisa Lovedahl - ELECTIONS , kirkstephens-boe@jacksonnc.org Cc: "Rep. Mike Clampitt" Hi Lisa and Kirk, Thanks for providing an update on the duplicate counting of the mail in votes and responding to questions from our community. Just wanted to check to see what the next steps are to determine how the duplicate counting occurred. I sincerely appreciate being informed on what occurred, but I believe we need to know how it occurred. I would also like to request a copy of the precinct poll tapes for Election Day, the zero tapes at the beginning of election day, and the closing tapes. Again, thanks for your transparency on what occurred on Election Day. Thanks, Keith Blane 828.331.762

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https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/so/b6OJtCgvo?languageTag=en&cid=de5f0a75-82ac-41f9-8d18-d2861b0d7ed7 Buncombe Board of Elections Meeting Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 Come to address Buncombe County's Illegal Electioneering To Cost Tax Payers $70.000.000! The Buncombe County Board of Elections is having a meeting on Tuesday, December13th at 4:30. This is a post mortem on the 2022 election and the time to find out the who, the why and the how of illegal electioneering for the two bond issues that will cost taxpayers $70,000,000. Buncombe residents should be there to hold the Board accountable for the illegal electioneering inside the polling places in favor of passing two bond referenda - Housing and Open Spaces - that will cost taxpayers $70,000,000! NCEIT has affidavits from poll observers during early voting and on election day that workers were handing out 'positive' information to voters as they were about to cast their votes. The Buncombe Board of Elections agreed there was improper electioneering and said they would investigate. WE need to hold them accountable and find out what has been done since the canvass on November 8th 2022. Who did this? Who said it was okay? Why did they do this? How did this happen? Who paid for the materials? What's been done? Why aren’t those judges/site supervisors fired? Why is the Board not even handed in dealing with judges/site supervisors? They fired a Republican judge for one Facebook post about a ,candidate but it's okay for Democrat judges to endorse Democrat candidates on their campaign websites. In addition, whoever the judges were at the precincts where electioneering was taking place, why are they not fired? YOU NEED TO RAISE THESE QUESTIONS WITH YOUR BOARD! Hope to see you there! Buncombe Elections Board Meeting 59 Woodfin Place, Asheville 28801 Tue, Dec 13, 4:30 – 6:30pm https://www.buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/election/board-meetings.aspx Read the rest here

Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army, retired, is the author of VISION TO EXECUTION, a book for leaders, and a new book May 2022, FIX THE SYSTEMS, TRANSFORM AMERICA as well as the author of a blog WeThePeopleSpeaking.com. He hits every broken part of our election system. The following is an excerpt from his article, WHAT’S NEXT REPUBLICANS? (PART 2) By: Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army retired, November 16, 2022 (For Covault's other articles on We The People Speaking, see here. (Your NCEIT team is already in the process of addressing each of these issues with the NC Legislature. Your 1000+ affidavits are our evidence. We also have a great chance during this long session to get back our voter id. Stay tuned for dates for legislative action days schedule. Thanks to all of you for working so hard during the primary and election day to collect the evidence we need to make it Easy to Vote and Hard to Cheat! JB) Let’s begin by defining the problem; here are ten reasons why the election system is broken and must get fixed: ONE: Voter registration rolls are inaccurate. For example, in 2017 Judicial Watch brought suit against California and Los Angeles County, alleging that LA County has more voter registrations on its voter rolls than it has citizens who are old enough to vote. LA County has over 10 million residents, more than the population of 41 of the 50 states. Additionally, 11 of California’s 58 counties have registration rates exceeding 100% of the age-eligible citizenry. January 2019 California in general and LA County, in particular, were ordered to begin the process of removing 1.5 million invalid registrants. Whether deliberate or not, terribly inaccurate voter registration rolls across America provide the basis for fraudulent election results. TWO: Mail-in ballots provide opportunities for fraud: In some states blank ballots, with no security identifier, (easily reproduced on any copy machine) are automatically sent out to everyone on the voter registration rolls. That could result in millions of ballots out there for ineligible voters, dead people, for example, that could be filled out by anyone. Signature verification of returned ballots is so difficult that some states simply don’t require verification. Additionally, the volume of mail-in ballots in some areas is so high, election staff may have as little as five seconds to check a signature. If someone mailed in multiple ballots, there is virtually no way to catch the voter. THREE: Ballot harvesting provides opportunities for fraud: Ballot harvesting is the collection of mail-in and absentee ballots from voters by a third party who then, supposedly, delivers them to election officials. The term vote harvesting was essentially unknown to the general public until the North Carolina State Board of Elections overturned the results of the 2018 election for the Ninth Congressional District due to illegal vote harvesting; what the board called, quote, “a coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme.” A Florida grand jury summarized the problem as follows: quote, “once that ballot is out of the hands of the elector, we have no idea what happens to it. The possibilities are numerous and scary.” FOUR: Fraud by election officials: This happens when ballots are manipulated by officials administering the election, such as tossing out ballots. FIVE: Chain of custody: In so many ways voters lose control of their ballot; ballot harvesting is a prime example. SIX: Chaotic behind-the-scenes ballot counting: During every election, we see videos of counting rooms with large numbers of election workers milling around and tables stacked with hundreds or thousands of ballots. SEVEN: The movement towards non-citizens voting: The New York City Council, in December 2021, passed an ordinance allowing over 800,000 noncitizens to vote in city elections, declaring, quote, “New York City must be seen as a shining example for other progressive cities to follow.” EIGHT: Uncontrolled so-called “dark” campaign spending and billionaire involvement: While the Federal Election Commission is authorized to enforce the limits and prohibitions on contributions, they can't accomplish that mission given that current campaign finance laws, which in some cases authorize “unlimited” and “undisclosed” terminology. NINE: Only one day for in-person voting: Why are we so stupid as to believe one of the most important functions of our cherished republic has to be a hurry-up affair during one workday? TEN: VOTER APATHY: In the 2016 election, an estimated 100 million eligible voters did not vote. In the 2020 election, a record number of Americans voted but still an estimated 80 million, one-third of all eligible voters did not vote. Given the above list of ten sub-systems, it is obvious to the casual observer, we need to fix a terribly broken election system. Americans want election reform. This was confirmed by a July 2021 poll conducted by the Republican National Committee with 800 registered voters (31% Democrats, 29% Republicans, 31% Independents): 80% agree Voter ID is a key security measure. 87% were against ballot harvesting. 77% rejected the Democrat claim that Voter ID is racist. 78% agreed with voter signature verification and chain of custody controls. 89% agreed that voter rolls need to be cleaned up. 88% believe states should not send mail-in ballots to the general public and non-citizens. Can election reform become a reality before we have an election meltdown that tears this nation apart? Yes, it can be accomplished with a no-more-than 20-page federal law. It needs to be no more than twenty pages so that newspapers will publish it, whereby all Americans can read it and support it. The law needs to be very specific in its requirements so opponents cannot distort the intent or meaning. ELECTION REFORM BEGINS WITH A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTER ID: Here is what we know will happen first. The president, VP, and right-on down-the-line Democrats will immediately accuse anyone who believes in voter ID of being a racist and that voter ID is voter suppression. My response to that is a question, Mr. President am I to believe you are saying that adult Black Americans are incapable of going to the DMV and getting an ID? Precedent for personal IDs: In 2005 Congress passed the “Real ID Act” establishing minimum security standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards. Implantation was to have been in October 2020 but was Covid-extended to 3 May 2023. Under the law applicants applying for a Real ID must prove their birth date, birthplace, citizenship, legal status, Social Security number, and residence documentation. Without a Real ID, Americans will be denied access to TSA at any airport. The point to be made here is this; is there a movement to oppose the Real ID law? Have you heard one single dissenting voice in the mainstream media concerning the Real ID requirement? Is anyone calling it racist? No, because there is no opposition. Ask yourself this question; do I know any adult U.S. citizen who does not have a valid ID? I thought so, you can’t think of one, and neither can I. So why is this particular ID requirement racist voter suppression? It makes absolutely no sense. The reality is, a Voter ID Card system will solve most of the ten election problems and it will be self-policing. A Voter ID Card law intends to positively identify a voter at a voting site with a current photo, a valid state Voter ID number, a current address, and a history of voter activity. Under this federal law, everyone who is eligible to vote must have a Voter ID Card to perform in-person voting or to apply for an absentee ballot, the only two voting methods that will be authorized. The Voter ID Card will be obtained from a state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) facility and it will expire simultaneously with the expiration of a driver’s license. Both can be renewed at the same time. The Voter ID Card will be the same size and quality as today’s Real ID. the Voter ID Card will present a photo, full name, date of birth, address, sex, eye color, height, hair color, expiration date and, most importantly, an individual Voter ID 10-digit number beginning with the two-letter state abbreviation such as NC-456-789-3322. To obtain a Voter ID Card, you must be 18 years of age and present the following documents: a valid passport or birth certificate proving identity and date of birth. One document confirming full name and social security number. Two documents with a current physical address prove state residency. The state DMV will immediately provide the state election headquarters with all Voter ID Card data. The important point here; THAT LIST WILL BECOME THE STATES’ VOTER REGISTRATION ROLL. This immediately solves the first election fraud problem of ineligible voters on the voter registration rolls. When a voter presents their Voter ID Card at the voting site, the administrative assistant will swipe the Voter ID Card and ascertain if that particular Voter ID Card number has already been used during the current election period. if not, the assistant will print out an individual ballot that has the voter’s full name, address, and Voter ID Card number printed on the ballot. In the presence of the voting assistant, the voter will sign the ballot acknowledging that the data is correct. Fraudulently signing a ballot will be a federal offense. With Voter ID Cards, every ballot instantly becomes individualized with the voter’s name and number. This prevents ballot stuffing, voter impersonation, and fraud by election officials. Once the voter has filled out the ballot and it has been read by the vote-tabulating machine, any subsequent ballots presented with that Voter ID number will be automatically rejected. Additionally, any ballot presented without or with a fraudulent ID number will be rejected. The Voter ID Card system will also be self-policing. That is, when a Voter ID Card hits the expiration date the software will automatically delete that Voter ID name and number from the system. Furthermore, when a voter gets a new card or renews an expired one, the system will automatically add the voter to the registration rolls. The result will be that we will no longer have dead people voting or 1.5 million ineligible voters registered to vote in LA County. Ballot stuffing means casting illegal votes or submitting more than one ballot per voter. That cannot be done with voter ID because every ballot must have a voter ID number on it and that number can only be used once during an election cycle. Voter registration fraud involves filling out and submitting a voter registration card for a fictional person, or filling out a voter registration card with the name of a real person but without that person's consent and forging his or her signature on the card. None of that can happen with the voter ID card system in place because of the voter identification requirements at the DMV site. Voter impersonation occurs when a person claims to be someone else when casting a vote. The voter ID card prevents all of that activity. Fraud by election officials happens when officials administering the election are tossing out ballots or casting ballots in voters' names. The system will not accept ballots without a valid number and the system will only accept that number once. Opponents of voter ID call it “voter suppression and racist”, a ridiculous, unintelligent, slanderous charge. Their scenario is that perhaps some elderly, single lady living alone in the north Georgia mountains will have no opportunity to get a voter ID card. That is a doubtful assumption but even if true, voter ID is for the greater good of the most people. Let me now comment on election day. Why are we so stupid as to believe one of the most important functions of our cherished republic has to be a hurry-up affair during one WORK-DAY? And we wonder why one out of three eligible voters fail to cast a ballot. There is an easy fix, make the election a weekend happening. The Constitution gives the States and Congress the authority to, “set the time and place of elections.” Begin voting on the first Saturday in November from 8 until 7 o’clock. Continue on Sunday, 10 until 7. The majority of voters do not work on weekends. Top this off with a Monday national election-day holiday every even-numbered year. Give everyone ample opportunity to participate, eliminate long waiting lines, and take away most apathetic lame excuses for not voting. Make it difficult for citizens not to vote. IN-PERSON VOTING AND ABSENTEE BALLOTS: This federal law intends that the maximum number of registered voters will physically go to a local polling site, record their vote privately on a paper copy and observe the ballot being inserted into the electronic counting terminal. The only alternative voting procedure is to request an absentee ballot from where they are registered to vote. Mail-in voting and ballot harvesting are prohibited. Furthermore, the specific voting procedures described below intend to ensure transparency of the process, accountability by all election personnel, and voter faith that the process is error-free. A citizen may be registered in only one location. Multiple registrations is a federal offense and punishable by a $25,000 fine for each occurrence. During presidential elections voters will receive two ballots; one for president and vice president only and one for federal congressional offices, and state and local candidates. Every election day, we inevitably see videos of the back-room activities at voting sites and it looks chaotic with multiple tables stacked with ballots, people milling around, and a total lack of security. The object must be to improve efficiency and security. Personnel working the in-person voting sites should be organized as follows: all of the work will be accomplished by teams. each team will consist of a person affiliated with each of the major political parties plus an observer. Executive team: This team will oversee all operations during each voting day and ensure that every procedure prescribed in the law is being adhered to. An executive team member must secure the voting facility after the last departing election worker. Administrative team: they are responsible for in-processing all voters and getting them to a voting booth. Counting teams: They are responsible for a backup system of manually counting all in-person and absentee presidential ballots. After a ballot has been read by machine the voter will then hand the ballot to a counting team member. That ballot will be manually numbered from 1 through the total number of ballots that will fit in a storage box; let’s say for example 200. Additionally, the counting team will keep a manual count of how many votes each candidate received; for example, when the box is full the counting team will agree that it was 115 votes for candidate A and 85 for candidate B. When ballot number 200 goes in the box it will immediately be sealed with permanent tape with the total for each candidate recorded on the box exterior. That box will immediately be turned over to the Accounting Team. That manual backup counting process can be accomplished in just a few seconds with a 100% chain of custody and no stacks of unattended ballots on tables in the election center. Accounting team: they will verify the count of each box of ballots, secure the counted ballots in a secure storage room and maintain an up-to-the-minute total presidential vote count. ABSENTEE VOTER'S ACTIONS. Absentee voters must fill out and mail the federally mandated standard voter registration and absentee ballot request to the voter registration office where they are registered to vote. That request will require the voter to specify the reason they cannot be on hand to vote locally, such as: ü Being unable to get to the polling place due to illness, injury, or disability. ü Being on business travel or vacation outside of the county or area of residence on election days. ü Being a student at an out-of-state college or university. ü Military personnel stationed out of state or overseas. If this is accomplished by mail, the voter is responsible for mailing the absentee ballot request no later than September 15th. Voter registration offices are responsible for mailing the return absentee ballot no later than October 5th. Absentee voters must mail in their completed ballot no later than October 20th. Counting teams will begin counting absentee ballots on 25 October using the same procedures described above for in-person voting. Voters who determine they will be unavailable to vote in person due to illness, unprogrammed travel, etc. after the 15 September mail-in request date, may get an absentee ballot in person at their regular voting location up to within 24 hours before the beginning of in-person voting and turn in the completed ballot before in-person voting ends. All election results will be released simultaneously across the nation beginning at noon, eastern standard time, on Tuesday, the day following the election close. Any release of voting results by anyone at any time before this is a federal offense and will be immediately investigated by the FBI. Races that end with competing candidates’ vote count within one-half of one percent of each other will be recounted. My conclusions and final thoughts: What is recommended here is a load of changes to the election system. But, to me, that simply explains what a mess the election system is now and how badly it needs to be cleaned up. I am a states-rights advocate; I am against big government with big controlling regulations. But I do not believe we can equivocate on foundational issues, such as free speech and free and lawful elections, that have been the hallmark of this great republic for over 200 years. For the electorate to have confidence in the system, this nation needs one set of common-sense rules for elections that apply to every state. Finally, it is important to note that in 2021 the democrat-controlled House of Representatives and Senate set forward election reform bills, HR-1, and S-1. Fortunately, neither bill came to a vote. The bills were about 800 pages in length and generally would have mandated into law most of the elements discussed above that currently have the potential for fraudulent results. When drafted and presented to the House of Representatives for consideration and ultimately for a vote, this Election Reform Bill will, in my estimation, be about twenty pages in length. Author’s note. The next proposed Speaker presentation to America outlining the legislative agenda for the 118th Congress will soon appear entitled, WHAT’S NEXT REPUBLICANS? (PART 3) And again, if any of you agree with what I have proposed in PART 2, and if you have contact with any movers-and-shakers in Washington, please provide them a copy. Thank you. Marv Marvin L. Covault, Lt Gen US Army, retired, is the author of VISION TO EXECUTION, a book for leaders, and a new book May 2022, FIX THE SYSTEMS, TRANSFORM AMERICA as well as the author of a blog WeThePeopleSpeaking.com.