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Pennsylvania is one of the eight battleground states, like North Carolina, that has formed a coalition for election integrity as NC has. It's good to see the GOP is getting involved with the grassroots there to assure that 2020 never happens again and that we return to secure elections. Absentee ballots are a major vulnerability in our elections. Epoch Times: July 22, 2022 Pennsylvania Republicans are arguing a 2019 law that largely expanded mail-in voting in the Commonwealth has been made invalid by a court ruling. A group of 14 GOP lawmakers filed a lawsuit against the state’s Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman in the Commonwealth Court on July 20, seeking again to throw out Pennsylvania’s universal mail-in ballot law, Act 77. It comes two months before the midterm elections this fall featuring high-profile races across the Keystone State. The lawsuit claims that the mail-in voting law should be nullified under a federal appeals court’s May decision that had allowed election officials to count undated mail-in ballots. The panel said throwing out mail ballots in that election for lacking a handwritten date would violate voters’ civil rights. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has quietly dismissed Republicans’ request to overturn the court’s order. Yet provisions of Sections 6 and 8 of Act 77 both require voters to “fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope,” which goes against the Federal Law based on the court’s judgment. A non-severability clause written into Act 77 says “the remaining provisions or applications of this act are void” if any of its requirements are struck down. Plaintiffs, therefore, requested the court in the Wednesday lawsuit to declare all remaining provisions of Act 77 invalid and quash the law. State Rep. Seth Grove, chair of the House State Government Committee, also said last week in a letter that “the entire bill should now be void.” Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Leigh Chapman, a Democrat, disagreed in a July 20 letter, saying Act 77 still remains in place, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “Your specious legal theory perpetuates disinformation,” Chapman wrote. Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration wrote in a response to a state lawmaker’s query Wednesday that the federal appeals court decision did not trigger the non-severability provision. That’s because the lawsuit had targeted Lehigh County’s decision not to count the ballots, not the validity of the date requirement, it said. No-Excuse Mail Voting Law Act 77 was passed in the Pennsylvania Legislature and signed into law in 2019 by Democrat Wolf. In any case, courts have not always chosen to enforce non-severability provisions in the past. According to the state’s election agency, more than 4.2 million people voted in person in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, compared to the 2.6 million who voted by mail—which includes both absentee voting and no-excuse mail-in voting. Republicans have been questioning the practice, following former President Donald Trump’s claims about election fraud. Last August, the same 14 Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit against the mail-in voting law, saying it was unconstitutional. Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko in September 2021 filed a similar legal challenge before the two suits were consolidated into one. A Pennsylvania trial court then struck down Act 77 in a 3–2 decision in late January. This decision, however, was immediately appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The case is still pending, yet under state law, Act 77 was automatically reinstated upon appeal. The state’s 2019 mail-in voting law has become a hot topic for frontrunners on the 2022 campaign trail, with Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano vowing to repeal it if he gets elected, while his Democratic rival, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, has vowed to defend the law. On July 12, the state sued officials from three counties to force their local governments to count undated mail-in ballots from a recent primary election; Republican Senate candidate David McCormick filed a lawsuit on May 23 to ensure all mail-in ballots submitted without a handwritten date are qualified in the tightly contested GOP primary election for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. The Associated Press contributed to this report. https://www.theepochtimes.com/gop-says-pennsylvania-mail-in-voting-law-is-invalid_4615065.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-07-22-3&utm_medium=email&est=p5QygBkHYD0CBxISJ9BdMIeZp65X6RdMv%2FIk98oJKmZaxcnaf0I%2FmB1QMbnW%2BzJZvk4%3D

NC VALUES: Urgent: Ask Senators Burr & Tillis to oppose the "Pathway to Polygamy" Bill We want to urgently request you contact Senators Burr and Tillis, and ask them to vote against the so-called "Respect for Marriage Act" (HR 8404), or, as we're calling it, "The Pathway to Polygamy Bill." Under the bill, the federal government must acknowledge the legitimacy of ANY marriage validated by a state. The potential passage of a marriage law recognizing polygamy as valid in a liberal state like New York or California would have disastrous implications for North Carolina, and more importantly the institution of marriage as a whole. The impact on tax and welfare provisions alone could be significant, and this says nothing of the threats to our religious liberty. The bill has already passed the House, and now only needs 10 Republican Senators to vote for it to override a filibuster. Sadly, Thom Tillis has announced he plans to be one of them. For these reasons, we are URGENTLY asking you to join us today in using our quick and easy click-to-contact campaign to contact Senator Burr and Tillis, and ask them to truly respect the foundational institution of marriage by voting against HR8404 and its pathway for polygamy. READ MORE https://www.ncvalues.org/pathway_to_polygamy_bill?utm_campaign=20220722_ff_officials&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ncvalues

Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Caroliina, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are all of the battleground states that have formed election integrity coalitions to return security to our elections. NC formed the North Carolina Integrity Coalition, your Coalition, to train, to certify, and geographically certify you to establish a statewide infrastructure comprised of regional and county Election Integrity Task Forces for 2022 and 2024 and beyond.. WE are fighting back. Pennsylvania and Georgia are with us. Absentee ballot security is #3 on our list of Eight Systems of Election Integrity. Join US! https://www.npr.org/2021/03/25/981357583/georgia-legislature-approves-election-overhaul-including-changes-to-absentee-vot https://www.wabe.org/georgia-senate-passes-measure-to-eliminate-no-excuse-absentee-voting/

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One of the lefty publications in Washington, POLITICO, published an attempted hit piece attacking Cleta Mitchell this week for her presentation at the Arizona Election Integrity Summit in March 2022 – during which Cleta talked about how the left intends to manipulate the 2022 elections using our tax dollars. Because POLITICO falsified its description of the presentation, we are publishing the entire audio so you can learn what the Biden Administration is doing with your money. In March 2021, Biden issued Executive Order 14091, which requires all 600 federal government agencies to develop a “voter registration plan” using federal dollars to target what the left calls the “New American Majority” (their words, not ours): young people, people of color, unmarried women, and low- income people. The Executive Order targets those who are most vulnerable in our society, who come to the federal government agencies for assistance and benefits, and then uses their vulnerability for the Democrats’ political purposes. A major part of the plan is to provide tax dollars to left wing groups to “educate” voters…not all voters, though. Just the ones who comprise what the left calls the New American Majority. And none of the agencies are coughing up their plans, despite demands under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for copies of the agency plans. Mollie Hemingway wrote in June 2022 about the secrecy of the Biden Executive Order and the White House plans. Yes, Biden Is Hiding His Plan To Rig The 2022 Midterm Elections (thefederalist.com). The Biden Administration is using our tax dollars to churn out Democrat votes in November 2022. Listen to the entire audio presentation and help us fight back to stop this misappropriation by Democrats of our tax dollars for their political purposes. Biden Executive Order Using Tax-dollars for Democratic GOTV https://rumble.com/v1eo22j-biden-executive-order-using-tax-dollars-for-democratic-gotv.html 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

More Training: Here's your chance to get a better insight on Cleta Mitchell's Guide we use to secure election integrity. Ned Jones will be having a Zoom meet on Thursday, August 25th at 7PM. Please consider joining the call. Here's the link for Thursday.8/25/22. Ned Jones - Election Integrity Network/CPI is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Ned Jones - Election Integrity Network/CPI's Zoom Meeting Time: Aug 25, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81451848283?pwd=U1A2SDd0NE9qUHVoa3AvRFpWSXJzQT09 Meeting ID: 814 5184 8283 Passcode: 036912 One tap mobile +13126266799,,81451848283#,,,,*036912# US (Chicago) +16469313860,,81451848283#,,,,*036912# US Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 931 3860 US +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 309 205 3325 US +1 719 359 4580 US +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 386 347 5053 US +1 564 217 2000 US +1 669 444 9171 US +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 814 5184 8283 Passcode: 036912 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbcGNhncMM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ned Jones11:21 AM (4 hours ago) to me, hoffmanm679, karenvasquez1234 The Zoom trainings are Tuesday, 8/23/2022 Ned Jones - Election Integrity Network/CPI is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Ned Jones - Election Integrity Network/CPI's Zoom Meeting Time: Aug 23, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87124729209?pwd=eW9IbWtJRUlkdkI3eVhxSEI0cFhkQT09 Meeting ID: 871 2472 9209 Passcode: 301023 One tap mobile +13092053325,,87124729209#,,,,*301023# US +13126266799,,87124729209#,,,,*301023# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 309 205 3325 US +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 931 3860 US +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 386 347 5053 US +1 564 217 2000 US +1 669 444 9171 US +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 719 359 4580 US Meeting ID: 871 2472 9209 Passcode: 301023 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kCien7cze Ned Jones Deputy Director, Election Integrity Network Conservative Partnership Institute 804-337-9966 www.whoscounting.us Thanks, I'll be there. Got it, thanks! Thank you! ReplyReply allForward Ned JonesDeputy Director, Election Integrity Network Conservative Partnership Institute 804-337-9966 www.whoscounting.us

Asheville Tea Party will be having monthly meetings the first Thursday of each month at IHOP, 229 Airport Road, Arden at 6PM. On Thursday, August 4th, we will be showing the documentary 'Rigged: The Zuckerberg Plot To Defeat Donald Trump.' It will be followed by the winning strategy the North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT.org) is implementing to assure 2020 never happens again and how you can join the fight to assure election integrity. Sign ups for the NCEIT Regional Summit in Asheville on August 20th welcome. The Trailer here. Summary: Rigged is a documentary by Citizens United Productions, exposing Mark Zuckerberg for his role in funding drop-box ballot operations across the country during the 2020 Election. This documentary outlines a blatant cover-up of the fact that a billionaire elitist used his personal fortune to illegitimately sway the 2020 Election in favor of Joe Biden. By placing ballot drop-boxes across the country, Zuckerberg helped facilitate the ballot harvesting that was used to rob the American people of their voice. Please check out the posts on AshevilleTeaParty.org. Find out how the legislature, the judiciary, and the North Carolina State Board of Elections is doing everything in their power to stop us - but they won't. NCEIT is part of an eight state initiative to duplicate the 2021 Virginia electoral success. Come to the meeting and find out how this all came about and how to join this monumental to assure that we have a Republic. Thank you. Jane@NCEIT.org

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/08/09/judge-who-approved-maralago-raid-tied-to-epstein-obama-n2611480?utm_source=breakingemail In the hours since President Trump announced that his "Southern White House" Mar-A-Lago had been raided by the FBI, details on how the federal operation against the former president came to be were scant — but as more information about the raid's approval comes to light, things are looking even worse for those going after Trump. As Miranda Devine uncovered, a sealed search warrant was assigned to magistrate judge Bruce E. Reinhart, someone who has quite the legal history in Florida. Reinhart's resume includes previously quitting his job with the U.S. Attorney's office — which was prosecuting crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein — in order to start a private practice — through which he represented people who worked for Jeffrey Epstein against the government. That nugget of intrigue came from The Miami Herald: On October 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney's office after 11 years. On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein's lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice. The stated address, according to Florida state corporate records: 250 South Australian Ave., Suite 1400. It was the same location, and identical suite number, as that of Epstein's lead attorney, Jack Goldberger. By the end of the year, Reinhart had resigned his post in the Southern District of Florida. Within Days, on Jan. 2, 2008, he was hired to represent several of Epstein's accused accomplices who would later, like Epstein, receive federal immunity for allegedly trafficking underage girls. So, Reinhart switched from working for the government and prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and his associates for sex trafficking to... representing Jeffrey Epstein's employees accused of sex trafficking against the government, a successful effort that saw his clients get immunity. Among the Epstein employees Reinhart represented were his scheduler, pilot, and a woman Epstein once referred to as his "Yugoslavian sex slave," The New York Post reported. Adding to the questionable reputation for Judge Reinhart are his political campaign donations. Per FEC records, Reinhart donated $1,000 to Barack Obama in 2008 and $500 to Jeb Bush in 2015. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/08/09/judge-who-approved-maralago-raid-tied-to-epstein-obama-n2611480?utm_source=breakingemail

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/first-settlement-reached-health-care-workers-lawsuit-filed-over-covid Chicago-based NorthShore University HealthSystem has agreed to pay more than 500 current and former health workers. The first settlement in the U.S. has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed by health care workers over a university system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Chicago-based NorthShore University HealthSystem has agreed to pay more than 500 current and former health-care workers a total of $10,337,500 as part of the terms of the settlement. It’s also changing its policy to accommodate religious exemption requests and rehiring former employees who were fired or forced to resign whose exemption requests were denied. Represented by the nonprofit religious freedom organization Liberty Counsel, NorthShore employees sued, alleging they were discriminated against because they were denied religious exemptions from the company’s vaccine mandate. The settlement was filed Friday in the federal Northern District Court of Illinois. The is the “first-of-its-kind class action settlement against a private employer who unlawfully denied hundreds of religious exemption requests to COVID-19 shots,” Liberty Counsel said. Its founder and chairman, Mat Staver, said it “should be a wake-up call to every employer that did not accommodate or exempt employees who opposed the COVID shots for religious reasons. Let this case be a warning to employers that violated Title VII.” Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The settlement nearly concludes a conflict that began after NorthShore rejected employees’ religious accommodation requests to its “Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy.” Last October, Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter on behalf of the impacted employees but NorthShore didn’t change its policy. As a result, Liberty Counsel filed a class action lawsuit. “If NorthShore had agreed then to follow the law and grant religious exemptions, the matter would have been quickly resolved and it would have cost it nothing,” Liberty Counsel said. While the parties have agreed to the settlement, it still has to be approved by the court. Employees of NorthShore who were denied religious exemptions will receive notice of the settlement and be given an opportunity to comment, object, request to opt out, or submit a claim form for payment within deadlines yet to be established by the court. The settlement requires NorthShore to change its “no religious accommodations” policy, which it has agreed to do, and provide religious accommodations in every position throughout its company. Employees who were terminated because their religious exemption requests were denied are now eligible to be rehired, according to the terms of the settlement. They can apply for positions at their previously held seniority level within 90 days of the court approving the final settlement. NorthShore’s director of PR, Colette Urban, told The Center Square, “We continue to support system-wide, evidence-based vaccination requirements for everyone who works at NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health and thank our team members for helping to keep our communities safe. “The settlement reflects implementation of a new system-wide vaccine policy which will include accommodation for team members with approved exemptions, including former employees who are rehired.” The amount individuals will receive in payments will depend on how many valid and timely claim forms are submitted. If all, or nearly all, affected employees file valid and timely claims, it’s estimated that those who were fired or forced to resign after their religious exemption requests were denied will receive approximately $25,000 each. Those who were vaccinated under duress in order to keep their jobs and against their religious beliefs will receive about $3,000 each. The 13 employees who were the lead plaintiffs will receive an additional payment of roughly $20,000 each. Liberty Counsel will receive 20% of the settlement amount of $2,061,500 to cover attorney fees and costs. Liberty Counsel’s VP of Legal Affairs and Chief Litigation Counsel Horatio G. Mihet said, “The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore’s employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs. This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates.” Staver added that it was “especially significant and gratifying that this first classwide COVID settlement protects health care workers. Health care workers are heroes who daily give their lives to protect and treat their patients. They are needed now more than ever.”

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, 146 patriots gathered in Buncombe County at 9AM at the Woodfin Community Center for a day of North Carolina Election Integrity Training and learning how to make it Easy to Vote and Hard to Cheat. It was incredibly successful and the day accomplished what the NCEIT team hoped it would. Because we value and respect you, a crew of 12 of us arrived at 6:30AM to make the place look decent, a very difficult task for reasons stated below. This letter was sent to Shannon Tuch, Woodfin Town Manager, all of the Buncombe County Commissioners, residents of Woodfin, and key folks in Buncombe who attended. Why did we rent this place? We needed a place that could afford a large crowd and we needed to keep the cost at a minimum. Your entry fee covered materials, lunch and the venue. This was the only place we could find that met those needs. We tried churches and other community centers to no avail. We thank you for your patience and your understanding. It is my hope that maybe, just maybe, something will be done about the care and maintenance of this facility paid for by Buncombe taxpayers. You deserve better! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Complaint From a Customer: There is no excuse for filth and disrepair and deliberate negligence of the Woodfin Community Center. External Inbox Jane Bilello 8:36 PM (11 hours ago) August 21, 2022 to STuch@WoodFin-NC.gov Town of Woodfin Shannon Tuch Town Manager 90 Elk Mountain Rd. Woodfin, NC 28804 STuch@WoodFin-NC.gov 828 253 4887 Jane Bilello NCEIT 218 Vincent Place Hendersonville, NC 28739 Cell: 209 986 3845 Dear Ms Tuch: On July 6, 2022, I signed a contract with the Woodfin Community Center for rental of that space for August 20, 2022 for the purpose of educational training. With a debit card, I paid $525.00 on July 6th, 2022 and on July 15th, 2022, I paid $265.00 for a total of $790.00. The contract I signed states a rental fee of $250.00 with a deposit of $500.00 for a total of $750.00. We had no alcohol. Why $790? This is the additional problem. Others who rented Woodfin Community Center complained that the place was dirty. There were beer bottles and cake left on the floor. It also had no air conditioning. I called Ryan Vinson to talk to him about this. He said that it would be cleaned up by Merry Maids and it would be clean for our use on August 20th. He also informed me that the air conditioning would be fixed. So, three of us came to inspect the place starting approximately 3 weeks before our event. We made three visits to the Center. Picked up the key. This is what we found - on two visits! The floor was so dirty that we stuck to the floor. The floor is tile. Cleaners remove dirt and grit. I know because I have tile in my house. The excuse that it was an old floor and it had always been that way did not hold sway. It obviously was not cleaned. The kitchen was filthy. Both refrigerators had never been cleaned. They contained sprinkles, crud stuck to the shelves, and some brown gunk stuck to the bottom shelf. There were crumbs and sticky stuff on the counter tops. The bottles of cleaner were empty. The closets smelled. The toilet seat in the handicapped ladies’ room was broken. It would not stay up. The toilet paper dispenser in the handicapped ladies’ bathroom was held together with scotch tape. It did not work. Other than a light over the vanity in both the ladies and men’s room, the other two fluorescents in both bathrooms were burnt out. There was garbage all over the lawn. The garbage pails were full and stunk. Mr. Vinson said that the garbage was picked up by the town once a week. The grass was mowed every other week. However, we came to make sure the place was clean. The garbage pails were still full and stunk. Garbage was also stuck to the cement patio on the side of the building. We spoke to Mr. Vinson again when we returned the key. He said that Merry Maids would return to clean the floor and the kitchen. The day before our event, on August 19th, 2022, at approximately 11:30AM, two of us came to pick up the key to inspect the facility again. This is what we found. The floor had been cleaned. It looked good. We did not stick to the floor. The kitchen had never been cleaned. It was still filthy. The fluorescent lights in both bathrooms were still dead. I brought my blower from home anticipating debris on the sidewalk. It was still there. So, I used the blower to blow out the sidewalk of the debris strewn on the sidewalk and all over the lawn. It wasn’t enough. We hand picked out paper, bottle caps and other debris from the lawn. The air conditioning worked. This was a good sign. However, it quit on August 20th. We had to go out and purchase 5 fans to keep the place cool until 3PM. The fluorescent light in both bathrooms still didn’t work. The toiled seat was still not repaired. The toilet paper dispenser held together with scotch tape was not still not replaced. The garbage pails were still full and stunk. There was garbage stuck to the patio where the garbage cans are kept. When we returned the key to Janice in the office, we informed her of what we found. Very nice lady. She called me a few hours later to tell me the toilet seat had been fixed and the lights replaced so they worked. That was a welcome relief and I thanked her profusely. Saturday, August 20th, 2022, the day of the event. A crew of 12 of us arrived at 6:30AM. We cleaned the kitchen: the countertops and the filthy refrigerators. Disgraceful. The fluorescent lights in both bathrooms had been replaced and worked. However, the toilet seat still would not remain upright. It had not been repaired properly. It should have been replaced. We decorated the filthy front doors, back and front. A little paint would have been great. The air conditioner quit within an hour after folks arrived. It seemed that the kitchen air worked but the main room did not. So, one of our folks went out and bought 5 fans to keep the temperature down for the 146 of us who were there from 9:15AM to 3PM. Purchasing fans for $105.00 was an expense we did not expect or anticipate. We washed down the kitchen after we finished. We also brought our own toilet paper and paper towels and plenty of hand disinfectant. Ms. Tuch, we all understand ‘old’ facilities that need updating. However, there is no excuse for filth and disrepair and deliberate negligence. That’s all this is. Deliberate negligence. You have some nerve charging this kind of money for this dump. I had thirteen North Carolina counties from across the state in that room on August 20th. The opening remarks focused on this place as a physical manifestation of the failure of government. A waste of Buncombe tax payer dollars. A very poor face for Buncombe. I know Buncombe is trying to pay for greenways and parks. That’s all well and good but it has nothing to do with cleaning facilities you are renting to the public and charging a ridiculous amount of money for a filthy, unkempt facility in total disrepair. How dare you. Repeated reasonable requests to at least fix and clean every day wear and tear went unanswered. Have you no shame! We left this dump in way better shape than what we found it. I am forwarding this to your commissioners, residents of Woodfin who attended as well as the many Buncombe county folks who attended our event. Something needs to be done. I expect our $525.00 deposit - over charge - to be returned and a reimbursement of the $105.00 we spent on fans at the very least. We will never rent this place again and we will make sure no one else we know does either. This is shameful and a blatant disrespect and disregard for every hard working taxpayer in your town and county! Totally Disgusted With You, Jane Bilello 209 986 3845 -- North Carolina Election Integrity Team NCEIT.org Jane@NCEIT.org Cell: 209 986 3845

Task for #1: County Board of Elections Liaison (Leads all local Task Force interactions with CBE) County Board of Elections Liaison Citizens Guide to Building An Election Integrity Infrastructure here Task Force #1: Pg 12 - 13 Become a Presence Always go to in twos. Witnesses! Remember: You Build a Permanent Infrastructure •Make an appointment with your local Board of Elections Director. Let that person know who you are. How can we support your tasks? Where do you need help? Volunteers? •Get to know your local Republican Board of Elections members. How can we support you? What are the current issues we need to address? Have coffee. Exchange phone numbers. Stay in close touch. •Get on an email list from the local BOE to be notified of the upcoming meetings. Request an Agenda from the BOE. (Warning: The will probably send a generic/non-descript agenda. This is where your relationship with your BOE member is vital. Know what to expect at the upcoming meeting. •Request notification for Observation of Voting Machine Set-Up and Testing •Read the minutes of the last BOE meeting: learn the issues that have been addressed (or not) by the office in past meetings. •Attend every local BOE meeting. No less than two. Have a phone or in-person meet with others on your task force to go over what to expect/hear. •After the meeting is concluded, remain, raise your hand and ask question about what you just heard at the meeting. (Ex: What is the chain of custody for seals on absentee ballots? Where do you store them? What security measures do you use? Are you taking funds from any 501c3s?) (Know that answer!) •Make the commitment that every decision made by the election office will be made in the presence of one or more representatives of your local Election Integrity Team. •Only by being ever-present at the election office and board meetings can you see and learn things. •Make the commitment that every decision made by the election office will be made in the presence of one or more representatives of your local Election Integrity Team. Only by being ever-present at the election office and board meetings can you see and learn things. BeThere PLAN TO MAKE THIS PERMANENT!

No one should expect a government agency to act in “bad faith.” That’s why it should concern us when a U.S. District Court judge uses those words in connection with the N.C. State Board of Elections. The headline emerging from Judge James Dever’s courtroom Friday evening was his decision to guarantee Green Party candidates a spot on the N.C. election ballot. But another piece of Dever’s order deserves attention. The judge offered a harsh assessment of the state elections board. Specifically, Dever wrote that the board “completely changed course” in its stance about federal jurisdiction over the Green Party case. The board’s shifting position “is astonishing and reflects bad faith.” The legal dispute between Greens and the elections board started after a 3-2 vote on June 30. The board’s Democrats voted to keep the Green Party off the state ballot. Republican board members supported the Greens. The dispute involved challenged petition signatures. The party filed a federal lawsuit on July 14. It asked a federal judge to declare that the Greens had met legal requirements to become an officially recognized party. The suit also called for a waiver of a July 1 candidate filing deadline. That deadline would have blocked Green Party candidates from the ballot, even if the party had official state recognition. “Before the Board certified the Green Party on August 1, 2022, defendants argued that the Board certifying the Green Party would moot ‘all of [the] claims, except for the relief related to the candidate filing deadline,’” Dever wrote in his court order. In other words, elections board defendants recognized that Greens would continue to have a legal claim even if they gained official party recognition. That recognition arrived on Aug. 1. With a 4-0 vote, the elections board certified Greens as a party. As a legal matter, the Greens’ pursuit of party recognition became moot. But the fate of individual candidates remained a live legal dispute. In a new twist, the elections board argued that a federal court did not have jurisdiction over that dispute. Dever disagreed. “[T]he question of whether the court should enjoin the candidate-filing deadline in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 163-98 as to the Green Party is not a state-law issue,” the judge responded. “Instead, it is a federal constitutional issue concerning whether applying the July 1 candidate-filing deadline in light of the timing of the Board’s investigation and certification violates plaintiffs’ rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.” The state elections board had appeared to accept Dever’s reasoning earlier in the case. “Defendants implicitly recognized this reality … when they expressly told the court that they ‘do not dispute that if certification were to occur … relief from the Court allowing for the extension or temporarily enjoining of the candidate deadline would be appropriate to ensure access to the November general election ballot,’” he wrote. The Green Party’s original suit sought two actions from the court. First, declare the Greens a recognized N.C. political party. Second, block the July 1 candidate filing deadline. “Defendants … oppose plaintiffs’ first request for relief but have taken completely contradictory positions on plaintiffs’ second request for relief,” Dever wrote. “On July 29, 2022, before the Board convened on August 1, 2022, and certified the Green Party as a new political party, defendants told this court … that they ‘ha[d] no objection to the [plaintiffs’] second [request for relief] should the Green Party be certified when the State Board takes up that issue on August 1, 2022.’” “They had no objection because they ‘d[id] not dispute that if certification were to occur on August 1, relief from the Court allowing for the extension or temporarily enjoining of the candidate deadline would be appropriate to ensure access to the November general election ballot,’” the judge added. “Nevertheless, in its August 3, 2022, status report to the court, defendants completely reversed course and stated: ‘The State Board opposes any order that concludes that this federal court has jurisdiction over this purely state law claim.’” Dever noted the 180-degree reversal in the span of five days. “Following their representations to this court on July 29, 2022, and the Board’s unanimous decision to certify the Green Party as a political party on August 1, 2022, defendants’ position in their August 3, 2022, status report to the court concerning jurisdiction is astonishing and reflects bad faith.” For the Green Party, the story ends well. Its candidates can appear on the November ballot. The result is mixed for those of us interested in good government. We should be concerned about “astonishing” legal arguments from the N.C. State Board of Elections. None of us needs a board whose actions “reflect bad faith.” Mitch Kokai is senior political analyst for the John Locke Foundation. https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/judge-chides-n-c-elections-board-for-astonishing-reversal-that-reflects-bad-faith/?utm_source=John+Locke+Foundation&utm_campaign=000b1bd199-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_05_10_04_01_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7a6c958a22-000b1bd199-428844801&mc_cid=000b1bd199&mc_eid=aac85a2fc8