Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates ran away from conservative journalist Laura Loomer’s questions about his election corruption and participation in a far-left election conference yesterday in Washington, DC. Twitter owner Elon Musk responded to the video, questioning the integrity of Bill Gates and the other election officials. As the Gateway Pundit reported, Gates appeared yesterday and today at the secret invite-only “Summit on American Democracy” from May 8-9 with partisan hack David Becker, who heads the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), for “A conference on the current state of American democracy and elections.” David Becker is the far-left operative who founded the ERIC system used in over 30 states, including Arizona, with 35m voter records. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/watch-maricopa-county-supervisor-bill-gates-runs-from-questions-at-secret-zuckerberg-funded-soros-tied-dc-election-summit-elon-musk-responds-theyre-supposed-to-be-impartial/

From Senator Warren Daniel 5/1/2023 Web page https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Reminder--NC-Senate-District-46-Newsletter.html?soid=1130799882206&aid=TU8bcY7gCKM Dear Friends, I hope everyone has had a good week! Below is a short list of topics that I wanted to cover in this newsletter. The Senate is not far from finalizing its version of the state budget, so stay tuned to future newsletters and press releases the next couple of weeks. Also, by the time you read this you will have heard in the news of the NC Supreme Court reversing a few decisions by the previous court. Those that have received this newsletter for the last few years know that I have disagreed with the previous court's outlandish decision to set aside Voter ID as unconstitutional, even though nearly 60% of the voting public approved the constitutional amendment. You also know that I disagreed with how the previous court declared redistricting maps unconstitutional without pointing to any provision in the state constitution that was violated. I will probably have more to say on the recent decisions next week. In this edition of the newsletter: Budget Update Protect children from obscenity School Choice options Help with federal agencies House Bill 259: 2023 Appropriations Act passed the House with a strong bipartisan vote of 78-38. The Senate appropriations team will be working on making the House proposal a better budget and expect that we will have a Senate version to vote on the week of May 15. The Senate budget will go through an amendment process in the Senate Appropriations Committee before a vote by the full Senate. Since the Senate budget proposal will be different from the House version, the House will likely not concur, and a conference committee of senior House and Senate members will hammer out the details to present to both chambers for a final vote. Stay tuned! SB 579 Prevent Harm to Children: I received quite a few calls about this simple 5-line bill this week. Most of the callers really didn't understand what the bill does, so allow me to explain. GS 14-190.1 outlines the definitions for obscenity and explains when it is unlawful to disseminate obscene materials. I will not list all the examples that are contained in state law because of the lewdness of the acts and exhibitions described. Currently it is already a felony to violate GS 14-190.1. SB 579 will elevate the felony charge if the dissemination of the obscene materials or exhibitions are directed toward minors. Keep in mind that there are forms of art or exhibitions that may be offensive to many of us, but as long as they do not rise to the level of obscenity defined in GS14-190.1, they are not violations of state law. SB 406/HB 823 Choose Your School, Choose Your Future. This is a broad school choice bill which is moving through the Senate that will change how the Opportunity Scholarship program will be administered. Very simply, under SB 406 all K-12 children in North Carolina will be eligible for Opportunity Scholarships, based on a sliding income scale. I have heard from many parents on the issue of 'school choice' and I will be closely following this bill. I encourage you to click the link to the bill to learn more about what this bill will do. I also encourage you to look up HB 823 to see what that bills seeks to do for families in North Carolina. This topic will certainly be one to follow. Volunteering helps to reduce depression, increase life satisfaction, and gives people purpose. If you’re an animal lover but can’t have a pet where you live, you could volunteer at your local animal shelter. Other examples of volunteer opportunities include libraries, museums, parks and zoos, ministries or other non-profits. To find more volunteer activities, visit the North Carolina Volunteer Opportunities website to discover opportunities that are available in the state. Interested in following along with next week's legislative business? Clicking on the image below will take you to the Legislative Calendar.

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/869268/ ay Valentine, the Director of the Fractal Technology Software Team at Omega4America, released an Open Letter to Shane Hamlin, the Executive Director at ERIC the outdated and inefficient voter roll maintenance program founded by far-left activist David Becker. The ERIC system is now used in 32 states despite the fact that voter rolls in those states are more bloated with phantom voters than ever in US history. The Gateway Pundit has reported on the ERIC Systems in a series of articles and follow-up reports. ** ERIC Part 1: Who’s “Cleaning” Our Voter Rolls? ERIC Now in 31 States ** ERIC Part 2: Largest U.S. Counties Removed ZERO to TWO Ineligible Voters ** ERIC Part 3: The Founding of the Nation’s Largest Voter Roll Clean-up Operation ** ERIC Part 4: A Response to the Panicked Media Attacks Since The Gateway Pundit first reported on ERIC two states have stepped away from the platform and more will follow.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-news-election-integrity-game-changer-three-more-states-pull-out-of-eric-system-democrats-in-a-complete-panic/ As The Gateway Pundit has reported for over a year now on the ERIC voter roll system that is used in 30-32 states. The system was originally promoted as a tool to clean up voter rolls. It is anything but that. For example, Wisconsin is an ERIC State and has over 7 million registered voters in a state with less than 4 million eligible voters. The Wisconsin state election leader Sarah Whitt was hired by ERIC after performing such exemplary work in Wisconsin. Obviously, ERIC is not working. The ERIC system is obsolete, inefficient, and has failed in its purpose. The Democrat party apparatus loves it for some reason. The ERIC system is now used in dozens of states despite the fact that voter rolls in those states are more bloated with phantom voters than ever before in US history. Read Also: Mike Lindell Reinvents What Started It All — MyPillow 2.0 Has “NEW Temperature-Regulating Technology” The Gateway Pundit has reported on the ERIC Systems in a series of articles and follow-up reports for over a year now. These articles have gone viral and are being passed on to state officials. ** ERIC Part 1: Who’s “Cleaning” Our Voter Rolls? ERIC Now in 31 States ** ERIC Part 2: Largest U.S. Counties Removed ZERO to TWO Ineligible Voters ** ERIC Part 3: The Founding of the Nation’s Largest Voter Roll Clean-up Operation ** ERIC Part 4: A Response to the Panicked Media Attacks And our message is resonating. Since our original reporting, thousands of grassroots activists have called their Secretary of State’s office and demanded they look into the ERIC system. As we reported earlier, since The Gateway Pundit first reported on ERIC two states have stepped away from the platform and more will follow. This is a grave concern to the Democrat lawmakers like Jocelyn Benson from Michigan and Gabe Sterling from Georgia who contributed to a recent AP report. The two liberal activists are concerned that several states are now taking a closer look at the failed system. Why is that? The Gateway Pundit received information last week that there is big news coming regarding ERIC. Earlier today we were informed there was going to be a major announcement made today. We can now confirm that THREE STATES – MISSOURI, FLORIDA, AND WEST VIRGINIA – Announced today, on Monday, they were cutting ties with the ERIC System. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft informed The Gateway Pundit on Monday that the three states would make an announcement later today. The three state officials felt it would be a powerful statement if all three states came together to make the explosive announcement. Here is the announcement from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-news-election-integrity-game-changer-three-more-states-pull-out-of-eric-system-democrats-in-a-complete-panic/ For several months Missouri has been leading other states in an effort to reform the ERIC system by addressing significant concerns and implementing changes in ERIC. “We have worked hard over the last several years to implement procedures that will make Missouri elections better, voter rolls more accurate, and bring greater trust to the election process,” Ashcroft said. “Voter confidence is compromised when individuals vote in more than one state and nothing is done. It appears that ERIC will not make the necessary changes to address these concerns, therefore, it is time to move on.” As West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner said, “There is no defensible justification to allow any opportunity for partisanship in voter registration and list maintenance, much less in the administration of our nation’s elections.” In his letter, Ashcroft cited reasons for Missouri’s departure including: not requiring member states to address issues of multi-state voters, board protocol procedures, lack of ERIC participation from border states, and unnecessary mailings. Missouri continues to lead the country in accessible, secure, and creditable elections. Watch for a MAJOR MELTDOWN from the Left and Fake News Media! DO NOT Believe their Lies! This is such great news for Americans who believe in free and fair elections!

EMPTY headquarters of ERIC. On February 15, 2023, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen made an unannounced visit to the published address of the headquarters of the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) at 1201 Connecticut Ave NW Ste 600 in Washington, DC. Upon arriving at the address, Allen found that the location was actually the home of a virtual shared workspace and that no ERIC headquarters existed at the location. “I was in DC 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 explained. “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. Instead, I found a virtual office that is rentable by the day. What it was missing was people, servers and any sign of the ERIC team.” Despite publishing the Connecticut Avenue address as its official address on its website, the location is actually operated by Expansive, a company that offers virtual workspaces across the country and rents space by the day. Read on for more details; https://www.sos.alabama.gov/newsroom/wes-allen-finds-vacant-virtual-office-eric-address OMEGA4 AMERICA A REPLACEMENT FOR OUTDATED ERIC Using Fractal Technology OMEGA4 AMERICA is capable of processing every voter roll, in every state, on multiple dates, on a few small computers, with every query delivered at silicon speed, to a citizen or elected official’s phone. How about that? Omega4America is currently has teams operating in 12 states. Several other state organizations are expected to join this movement. https://www.omega4america.com/ States Voter Rolls Become Bloated Since Using ERIC https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/869268/

https://www.theepochtimes.com/2-more-gop-states-exit-national-voter-verification-coalition_5132778.html?utm_source=share-btn-copylink Ohio and Iowa became the latest GOP-led states to indicate they’re withdrawing from the national voter verification coalition over concerns about its impartiality. Frank LaRose, Ohio’s secretary of state rumored to be mulling a run for the U.S. Senate in 2024, announced the decision in a letter (pdf) to the director of the coalition, called the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). “I cannot justify the use of Ohio’s tax dollars for an organization that seems intent on rejecting meaningful accountability, publicly maligning my motives, and waging a relentless campaign of misinformation about this effort,” LaRose wrote. LaRose’s letter came soon after member states that are part of the coalition held a meeting on Friday and a proposal to reform some of the coalition’s bylaws failed. “ERIC has chosen repeatedly to ignore demands to embrace reforms that would bolster confidence in its performance, encourage growth in its membership, and ensure not only its present stability but also its durability,” LaRose wrote. He argued that the coalition has transformed from a “previously bipartisan organization to one that appears to favor only the interests of one political party.” Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose speaks at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on Oct. 6, 2022. (Julie Carr Smyth/AP Photo) Following Friday’s meeting, Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate was cited by Politico as saying that the departure of several states from the coalition undermines its ability to serve as an effective tool for Iowa. “My office will be recommending resigning our membership from ERIC,” Pate said, per Politico. A request for comment sent to ERIC outside of normal working hours was not immediately returned. More Details ERIC was set up to let elections officials from different states cross-check data when seeking to confirm their voter rolls. It lets states know when voters move or die so that voter rolls can be kept up to date. It also generates data on people who may be eligible to register to v ote but have not, while requiring states to contact such would-be voters. But the coalition has been under fire from Republicans in several states in the wake of 2021 allegations by Gateway Pundit that the coalition was “a left-wing voter registration drive disguised as voter roll clean-up.” During Friday’s meeting and vote, two initiatives failed. One of them—previously proposed by LaRose—would have allowed member states to decide what to do with data produced by ERIC. The other would have tied the requirement to contact eligible unregistered voters to a report that helps states identify double voting. Iowa and Ohio are the sixth and seventh GOP-led states to opt out of ERIC, with media speculation that others might soon join. Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, and West Virginia have all dropped out of the coalition. Former President Donald Trump has been critical of the consortium. Trump Weighs In Following the recent decision of Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia to withdraw, Trump encouraged more Republican-led states to take similar action. “All Republican Governors should immediately pull out of ERIC, the terrible Voter Registration System that ‘pumps the rolls’ for Democrats and does nothing to clean them up. It is a fools game for Republicans,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia were among ERIC members that proposed changes in how the states would work together in the consortium, including eliminating a requirement for member states to notify and encourage eligible unregistered voters to register. ERIC executive director Shane Hamlin in a March 2 open letter, citing “recent misinformation spreading about ERIC,” iterated the network is a bipartisan nonprofit, is finan ced by member states, is not connected to any state’s voting system, and follows standard safety protocols. “We analyze voter registration and motor vehicle department data, provided by our members through secure channels, along with official federal death data and change of address data, in order to provide our members with various reports,” he wrote. “They use these reports to update their voter rolls, remove ineligible voters, investigate potential illegal voting, or provide voter registration information to individuals who may be eligible to vote.” John Haughey contributed to this report.

New details surrounding ERIC’s origins show there is no denying it was developed to help leftists win elections. Information Center (ERIC), an interstate voter roll maintenance organization with ties to Democratic activists, corporate media outlets are working overtime to label such states conspiracy theorists. Yet their reporting fails to mention ERIC’s ties to left-wing get-out-the-vote operations. But new details surrounding ERIC’s origins, unveiled by Restoration of America and good government group VerityVote, show there’s no denying ERIC was developed to help leftists win elections. https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/03/heres-a-look-into-popular-voter-database-erics-left-wing-origins/

Green = Support Red = Oppose Black = Neutral Election Bills Introduced by NCGA as of 25 April 2023: Senate Bills: --S88 same as H 304 (Election Day Integrity Act) – Support – (revisions suggested) --S89 similar to H641 (No Private $ in Elections) – Support - (revisions suggested) --S137 (Constitutional Amendment to Remove Literacy Test) - Neutral --S226 (Freedom to Vote) - Oppose --S306 (Fix Our Democracy) - Strongly Oppose --S313 (Safeguard Fair Elections Act) - Oppose (see also H372) --S349 (Whiz Kids/Slow Pokes Registration) - Strongly Oppose --S352 (Remove Foreign Citizens from Voter Rolls) – Support (also see H365) --S416 (Popular Election) – Oppose (See also H191) --S471 (Automatic Voter Registration) – Oppose --S484 (Make Election Day a State Holiday) – Oppose --S544 (Revise Buffer Zone Limitations/Elections)-- Oppose --S577 (DMV Proposed Legislative Changes) (SS# to SBE – verifying voter registration data)- Support --S630 (Constitutional Amendment/Citizens Only Voting) - Support --S642 (Independent Redistricting Commission)-- Oppose --S676 (Restricted Drivers License for Undocumented Immigrants) (has election-related item in bill)- Support House Bills: --H6 (Uniformed Heroes Voting Act) - Support --H9 (Independent Redistricting Process) - Oppose --H44 (Constitutional 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 (see also S416) --H249 (J6 Riot/Overthrow Government) - Oppose --H259 (2023 Appropriation Act) (in bill: HAVA Funds, Post Election Audit Report, Prohibit ERIC- Support Membership, Funds for Voter ID, Prohibit Private Monetary Donations in Elections)– Support (Revise “Prohibit Private Monetary Donations” section if possible) --H293 (Freedom to Vote) - Oppose --H303 (Shorten One-Stop Early Voting at county BOE by 3 days) – Support --H304 (Election Day Integrity Act) – Support (see also as S88) - (revisions suggested) --H352 (Remove Foreign Citizens from Voter Rolls) - Support --H362 (Fix Our Democracy) - Strongly Oppose --H365 (Require that Jurors be US Citizens) - Support - (revisions suggested) --H372 (Safeguard Fair Elections Act) - Oppose (See also S313) --H376 (Little Federal Model for Senate Representation) -Questionable Necessity --H388 (Increase Threshold- Campaign Cas h Contributions) - Support --H396 (Repeal Participation in ERIC)-- Support --H475 (Revise Certain Ballot; 48 Hour Report Reqs.) - Support --H485 (Provisional Ballot/Same Day Registration) - Strongly Support --H613 (Access to Voted Ballot)- Support (minor revisions needed) --H641 (No Soliciting Certain Funds/Elections Boards) (see S89; H259) - Support - (revisions suggested) --H694 (Campaign Finance Late Reports)- Support --H706 (Electioneering/Voter Photos)-- Strongly Oppose until proposed Buffer Zone restrictions set at 200' are restored to 50'. --H708 (Clarify Felon Voting Rights) --H709 (Election Director Dismissal)-- Neutral --H713 (Election Day a Holiday) - Neutral --H728 (Maintenance of Voter Records)- Support (major revisions needed to remove duplicate and foreign national registrations) --H770 (Access to Voted Ballots)-- Strong Support --H772 (Poll Observer Activity)-- Strong Support --H816 (Poll Observers)-- Support (revisions needed to observe counting of absentee ballots) --H818 (Performance Bonds for Vendors)-- Neutral --Election Bills Drafted by NCEIT which need sponsors in order to be filed. --Retention of State Election Records – (Senator Alexander indicates interest in sponsoring our NCEIT language in a bill) Election Bills Still to be Drafted **UOCAVA Clarifications **Local BOE Transparency **Out-of-State College Student Voting **2023 current Long Session now ends in August**. Alert volunteers they will receive a legislative directive email weekly on ______. Calls to Legislature are encouraged Monday through Thursday 9-4. A suggested standard election integrity phone lobbying format will be included in each email communication. The www.ncleg.gov website will be included in weekly emails to phone lobby members.

There are many election integrity bills in the North Carolina General Assembly here. The list of priority bills are listed below with talking points. Please encourage your folks to make some of these calls each day. New Bills supported by NCEIT – contact legislators now • Poll Observers - House Bill 772 and • Access to Voted Ballots (Cast Vote Records) - House Bill 770 These bills which were submitted by House Republicans include the language suggested by NCEIT. We would like you to contact legislators to let them know YOU support H 772 and H 770 and • urge passage of the bills in the House Election Committees • urge the Senate Election Committee members to sponsor a similar bill in the Senate. These are the sponsors you can thank for H 772 Poll Observer Davis; Cleveland; Mills; Warren (Primary) Blackwell; Cairns; Clampitt; Kidwell; McNeely; Miller; Riddell See the bill here https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21 H 770 Access to Ballots Davis; Cleveland; Mills; Warren (Primary) Cairns; Humphrey; McNeely See the bill here https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/h770 To show your support, at this time, call or write: 1. Ask members of the House Election Law & Campaign Finance Reform Committee to pass the bills in their committee because they are important election i ntegrity measures (use your own words). Use this link to find contact info for the members. Click on their names. https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/HouseStanding/21 2. Ask members of the Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee to be a SPONSOR for similar bills in the Senate because they are important election integrity measures (use your own words). Use this link to find contact info for the members and click on their names. https://www.ncleg.gov/Committees/CommitteeInfo/SenateStanding/154 3. Your legislators. You can identify your NC House and Senate members with this link https://www.ncleg.gov/FindYourLegislators. Click on the name and it usually brings you to a page with contact info. If it does not, use these links to find the contact info and click on their name. House https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/MemberList/H Senate https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Membe rList/S Talking points to show why you support the bill - select a 1 or 2 to highlight for the legislators. H 772 Poll Observers See this link to the bill: https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2023/Bills/House/PDF/H772v1.pdf · A new section has been added that lists 19 activities that observers are permitted to do which addresses problems observed in the 2022 election. (If you have been an observer and were not allowed to perform an activity, you could highlight that. If you were not an observer, you could pick one or two you like.) · There is also a list of 8 activities that are not permitted by observers, so they do not interfere with the voting process. · There is a new procedure for removing observers. · The bill includes a Class 1 misdemeanor for any election official who restricts or denies observer access greater than what is allowed by the law. H 770 Access to Voted Ballots (Cast Vote Records) See this link to the bill: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/h770 · Public records requests for Cast Vote Records have been denied by the NC State Board of Elections based on confidentiality. They have been available in other states. The bill provides access to the public of cast vote records through public records requests. · Access to Cast Vote Records is needed for inspection and verification of machine counts of ballots, so they can be matched to the machine’s printed reports. Without this access, voters lose confidence in the accuracy of machines and the outcomes of elections. · The bill requires voting sytems to create and maintain cast vote records. · The bill includes a Class 1 misdemeanor for knowingly disclosing how an individual has voted that ballot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have sponsors on these bills. Thanks for you lobby efforts. H 772: Poll Observer Bill (NCEIT drafted) H 770: Cast Vote Record: Only mechanism for citizen audits of machines H 728: List Maintenance: It's a 50% solution. Major revisions needed. It does not address removal of foreign nationals (who have never lived here and claim commercial properties as addresses) and duplicate voters H 304: Observers cannot look at absentee ballot envelopes. S89 similar to H641 (No Private $ in Elections). This bill only addresses grant money to BOE's from leftist 501c3s. It does not address scholarships, membership, or other services. We have the language to add.

Election Law Toolkit Training Event (Up to 5.25 CLE credits) Who Should Attend: 1. Attorneys wanting to develop an election-related side hustle 2. Election law activists Topics: Residency Challenges, Provisional and Absentee Vote Monitoring, Election Protests, Quo Warranto Challenges, Poll Observer Civil Rights, and additional attorney CLEs on Ethics and Substance Abuse (1 credit), and Technology--Mastering Adobe Acrobat (1 credit) Presenters: Cleta Mitchell, Josh Howard, Tim Haga, Tyler Brooks, Boyd Worley, Adam Draper (Ethics & Substance Abuse CLE), and Shawn Gaither on Mastering Adobe Acrobat (Technology CLE) Program Host: Jay DeLancy, Founder of Voter Integrity Project - NC, Co-Founder of NC Election Integrity Team NC Bar Association HQ 217 Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA March 24, 2023 Sign-in 8:30 AM to 9:00 General Program 9:00 - 1:00 Ethics, Substance Abuse & Tech CLEs 1:00 - 3:30 RSVP Your street address Your phone number Share on social Check out our site