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Information for Buncombe County Your Political Party needs to sign you up for Poll Observing. Contact Bobbi Shiplett at the Buncombe GOP Office. 801 455 0780 bobbishiplett@gmail.com You need to be a member of NCEIT to gain access to the many Member Resources available to Poll Observers including training videos and state statutes. Log on to NCEIT.org/Join Us https://www.nceit.org/ fill out the form. It's free. Then, contact Jane@NCEIT.org. You need to sign up for the State Election Integrity Reporting System - SEIRS - to report your poll obserrver experience on the Incident Reports. Send Jane@NCEIT.org your name, phone, email, county, and precinct so I can get you in the system. You will get a welcome email. Change your password and you're good to go! Very Important!! If you have had no training or want a refresher, there will be 4 opportunities in our area. In person in Henderson and Buncombe and 2 Zoom calls. See link below. Poll Observer Training In-Person and Zoom Calls. Click here for dates, time, and locations. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/in-case-you-missed-it-poll-observer-training-live-and-zoom. Thanks so much for caring. Our nation needs us NOW. Only you can make a difference. Hope to see all of you soon! Jane Bilello 209 986 3845.

By Gary Bai September 21, 2022 Updated: September 21, 2022 At ten past five in the morning on Election Day in 2021, retired construction company owner Warren Jenkins slid into his business-casual attire in a panic, knowing he had to get to the polling station in 20 minutes. He was the only Republican poll watcher at an important precinct. Jenkin’s wife, prescient, pre-made lunch for her husband, who then arrived at the polls to begin his 15-hour shift—from 5:30 a.m. to about 9 p.m.—just in time. As a volunteer poll watcher in Virginia, Jenkins would run back and forth between the outdoor ballot box and the in-door voting place, observe the conduct of the election, and report irregularities and violations of the Election Code, if any, to election officials. For his entire life, Jenkins has been somewhat of a model American man: he served in the army, built houses, and loves spending his weekends at church and with family and friends—and wasn’t into politics, at all. But as the battleground blaze simmered at the conclusion of the 2020 election lawsuits, Jenkins still had in his mind the lingering silhouette of Zuckerbucks (private funding in election administration that was allowed in 2020 and now banned in some states), whispers of faulty mail-in ballots, and alleged—later court-confirmed—election law-flaunting. He then thought he could do more for the country as an American. “With the Trump-Biden election, there was so much press on the dishonesty in the election. I thought I would see for myself,” Jenkins told The Epoch Times. “I’m retired now—and I thought, it was time to roll up my sleeves and to go out and to help out.” “I felt like being a poll watcher—even though we didn’t get paid—was an important role,” Jenkins said. “I didn’t really care about the money.” A poll watcher monitors the counting of ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Nov. 6, 2020. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)Jenkins is one of many who saw themselves as a part of a movement to defend the integrity of America’s elections, concerned that the 2020 election was not conducted well. Some offered explanations for what went wrong in 2020—some had substantial proof—but none seemed to be able to convince the courts to rule in favor of what they were proposing, which often consisted of flipping the election results for a district, or the Biden presidency altogether. Many realized this, so they pivoted forward. They formed a movement, driven by the belief that citizens should participate in the election process to give rise to transparency, and that accompanying the right to vote is the right to have every legal vote counted—and faulty vote trashed. Ground-up Movement Jenkin’s resolve to act proved fortuitous, because just as Republicans like him across the country decided to become more involved in elections, roads were built to help them do exactly that. Cleta Mitchell, who fought alongside former President Donald Trump in one of the 2020 election lawsuits disputing the election results in Georgia, was getting a lot of calls—and a lot of ideas—following the 2020 election. “What has happened in 2020 was that many people across the country realized that things were not right, and that the election was not conducted according to law in many cases,” Mitchell told The Epoch Times. “And so A lot of people have said, ‘What can I do to help? What can we do to make sure this doesn’t ever happen again?’” “As somebody who spent a lot of time in a lot of different aspects of the election, I’ve tried to say, here are things you can do: You can go to rallies and have somebody get yelled at,” Mitchell said. “Or, we can train you. We can tell you what you need to do to make sure it never happens again. And there’s plenty to do.” Mitchell, a seasoned lawyer with a swath of experience in all corners of election issues (and a Democrat-turned-Republican), leads the Election Integrity Network, a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute, a Washington-based non-profit. Since its launch, the network developed into a nationwide mobilization base and knowledge-sharing platform that operates at national, state, and local levels to work on election integrity initiatives, such as pushing legislation for voting security, hiring more poll watchers and election officials, and examining potential loopholes in election administration processes. Through training and discussion “summits,” the network has kicked off state-level “coalitions” across the country, and these state coalitions would then become the headquarters of mobilizing precinct-level task forces in that state to work on election integrity projects. “Ultimately, all elections take place at the local level,” Mitchell said when asked about her vision for launching the network. “We are asking people to become involved in apparatus at their local level, because that’s where the elections take place. And that’s where many of the problems occur, because that’s where the voting takes place.” Getting to Work The Election Integrity Network started humbly with weekly telephone calls, during which state coalition leaders in various battleground states would bounce ideas off of each other on how to improve election security and share the issues they spot. But things quickly picked up speed when Lynn Taylor, a regular on these calls who leads Virginia Fair Elections, a state-level coalition in Virginia, saw that time is cutting short for her state. “Virginia is one of two states that have statewide elections every year, Virginia and New Jersey,” Taylor said in an interview with The Epoch Times, sharing how she was concerned about the way the 2020 election was run and wanted to help improve the security of the 2021 election—the question now is how. “The idea came from Cleta when she and I were on the phone together, and she said, ‘you really need a summit,’” Taylor said, recounting her conversation with Mitchell. “I said, ‘I don’t have the budget for that,’ and she said, ‘I do.’ Two and a half weeks later, we had a summit.” “This was very different from the way that things had been done,” Taylor said. “You know, people have been having summits for ages, but this is the first one in my years that we actually use it for training purposes.” With the help of Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network, Taylor organized the network’s first “Election Integrity Summit” in August 2021 in Virginia. The two-day event featured election integrity training and information for grassroots who wanted to help improve election security. These included poll observers’ recruitment, scheduling, training, and administration; a project to document potential illegal voter registrations; and a discussion on the alleged influence of private funding in the 2020 election. A panel discussion on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s alleged influence during the 2020 election at the “Election Integrity Summit” in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which took place on Aug. 20–21, 2021. (Courtesy of Cleta Mitchell)During the summit, people who had already been working on related initiatives—improving security around the ballot box, analyzing election data for potential anomalies, or pushing for election integrity legislation, for example—found others scattered across Virginia working on similar things, and quickly fused into local work groups called “Election Integrity Task Forces” and began collaborating on projects on a county basis. “The coalition was how you get involved. You work on a county basis. Then you come up to the state coalition to bring your questions … to see if other counties are running into the same things,” Taylor said, recounting how there were a little more than a dozen task forces in the state during the time of the summit, a number that quadrupled to more than 50 in a few months. “I’ve been doing this for 26 years, and I’ve never seen people come together where they all left their logos at the door,” Taylor said. “They are more interested in the election integrity issue—and making sure that there are free and fair elections—than they are in promoting their own agenda. It is the first time I have ever seen this—in the 26 years that I’ve been working in the nonprofit arena.” Shelley Oberlander, a Republican Precinct Captain for ten years, was leading a local election integrity task force in the Virginia coalition. After learning from the summit about the election integrity projects that she could start in her county, Oberlander started to expand her team. After the summit, Oberlander connected with other county-level task forces and had weekly conference calls to share their experiences. Within a year, Oberlander’s team grew from a few members to six work groups, each specializing in areas of election integrity including legislation, education, data analysis, election technology, and voter administration. “We brought it home, we put it in practice, and we got it going,” Oberlander said in an interview with The Epoch Times. A Helpful Hand The backstory to Oberlander’s involvement in this grassroots election integrity movement is illustrative of the other driving force behind the movement: the Republican National Committee (RNC). As a member of a county-level GOP, Oberlander started the local election integrity team in the Loudoun County GOP at the calling of the state-level GOP, the Virginia GOP, which operates joined forces with the RNC earlier this year and started an election integrity program. Earlier this year, the Virginia GOP sent out a marching order earlier this year to county-level Republican units in the state asking them to start election integrity teams. “The RNC and Virginia GOP are encouraging unit chairs to hone in on local election integrity efforts,” Emma Vaughn, an RNC spokesperson, told The Epoch Times in a statement. In other words, Oberlander, as a part of the Republican Party, was able to utilize resources within the GOP establishment, as well as the Election Integrity Network to expand her task force and knowledge base. But the RNC wasn’t always able to do this, as its hands were only recently freed. The RNC, the powerhouse and teller machine of Republican initiatives, was legally barred from organizing and sponsoring ballot security operations like poll watching from 1982 to 2018, due to a 1982 consent decree (pdf) issued by Dickinson R. Debevoise, a judge appointed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. This has been consequential. The consent decree meant that for nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a structural advantage over the RNC in strategizing and developing election administration infrastructure in accordance with its vision of how voting should be done. “Because of the DNC v. RNC Consent Decree, the RNC had been shut out of most election integrity efforts for nearly four decades, which led to a lack of institutional knowledge to conduct election integrity operations,” the RNC’s 2021 election integrity report reads (pdf). After the consent decree expired in 2018, the RNC began building infrastructure around election integrity projects. This includes spending more than 30 million on election protection efforts in battleground states across the country during the 2021 cycle, and continued building election security infrastructure for the 2022 cycle, Vaughn told The Epoch Times. “The RNC has made a multi-million-dollar investment for the 2022 cycle, including 17 state Election Integrity directors, 35 in-state election integrity counsels, and in recruiting over 43,000 poll workers and poll watchers in battleground states across the country,” Vaughn wrote in a statement. “The RNC works with other groups who have an interest in promoting election integrity but the party’s efforts are independent from any outside organization,” Vaughn wrote. The Movement Ripples The Election Integrity Network’s success in Virginia, which Mitchell calls the “Virginia model,” was promptly republicated in other states. By mid-2022, the Election Integrity Network held summits in eight battleground states—Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina—and mobilized thousands to start election integrity projects at the local level, according to Mitchell. “What we are focused on is building out the infrastructure—creating state coalitions and local election integrity task forces,” Mitchell said. “We really are measuring our success by the number of states who are up and running with statewide election integrity coalitions. “We measure that by helping them bring together the various groups to have weekly calls, then getting their local task forces going and then getting a framework for recruiting and training poll workers, election officials and starting the working groups within each state,” Mitchell said. According to Marshall Yates, Executive Director of the network, the network’s state-level conference calls in North Carolina, Michigan, and Georgia had over 75 in attendance, and Arizona and Pennsylvania had about 40 in attendance. The attendees are like Oberlander: they mostly consist of task force leaders who would put what they learned in the calls into practice at their local counties. Even Congress hopped on. “She’s a lawyer and has a lot of experience and knowledge, and she’s dogged on this,” Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), who heads the Election Integrity Caucus with more than 70 Republican members, said of Mitchell in an interview with The Epoch Times. Tenney participates in the Election Integrity Network’s conference calls when she has time and has passed around some of the network’s materials around Congress. “We go through with a very methodical legal analysis, and that’s what she does, which I really appreciate,” Tenney said. “We’re trying to set the record straight, and come up with solutions. We just want to make sure that people feel confident and trust their vote.” The Bigger Picture: Uneven Playing Field An important pretext for the project, according to Mitchell, is that the left has been building infrastructure around election administration and attempting to influence election outcomes with more effort and conviction than those of the right. “We need conservatives to become involved and engage in the process—because the left has been systematically building their own infrastructure,” Mitchell told The Epoch Times. Underlying this infrastructure-building Mitchell was referring to are two competing ideologies, one held by the right and another by the left, on how voting rights should be protected in a democratic society. As articulated by J. Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth A. Klukowski in a paper (pdf) in the Yale Law & Policy Review, improving access to voting (making voting more convenient) and improving ballot security (placing more burden on the individual voter but prioritizing the integrity of the voting process) often come into tension. The left leans toward the access approach, and the right leans toward the security approach. “The voting system, by necessity, requires a balancing of these somewhat countervailing interests,” the paper reads. As evidence that this balance is tilted disproportionately towards the left’s agenda, Mitchell pointed to reports by Capital Research Center (CRC), which allege a “coordinated effort” by the left to influence elections via private donations and dark money networks, such as the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s left-leaning non-profit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). The Epoch Times has reached out to the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Center for Tech and Civic Life for comments. Notably, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, funneled via the CTCL $400 million to a network of nonprofits that sent advisers to local election offices across the country to become directly involved in election administration in 2020. Critics of the CTCL like Mitchell say its maneuvers are outright election manipulation. The CRC wrote in an analysis that CTCL “consistently gave bigger grants and more money per capita to counties that voted for Biden.” The CTCL’s advisory services to local election offices were often provided in conjunction with left-leaning organizations, such as the Brennan Center for Justice. The CRC reported in August that this kind of private funding in election administration had been banned in 24 states. But the tilted balance goes beyond Zuckerbucks. Open Secrets, a non-profit research group tracking political financing, estimated in a March 2021 report that $447 million of “dark money”—political donations with undisclosed sources—supported liberal groups at the federal level during the 2020 election cycle, while only $190 million supported conservative groups. ‘Something They Will Never Have’ According to Mitchell, however, notwithstanding the uneven playing field in favor of the left, conservatives have “something they will never have.” “Conservatives and patriots who believe in election integrity and the rule of law—the many volunteers who form the Election Integrity Network—will never have the money the left-wing billionaires have dedicated to building their sprawling election disruption enterprise,” Mitchell said. “We will never have the sheer number of entities as the left has built over the past decade.” “But we have something they will never have: an army of citizen patriots who love America, and are tirelessly dedicated to becoming an integral part of the election process at every local election office in the nation—who are intent upon saving and preserving our Constitutional Republic—that is the mission of the Election Integrity Network and the thousands of volunteers across the country who are part of this mission,” Mitchell added. “That’s why Conservative Partnership Institute is proud to have launched the Election Integrity Network and why we continue to support and grow it.”

Please be warned. Plan to attend your local Board of Elections Meetings meetings. It is quite possible that each county may pull this as a policy change since the NCSBE was shut down on their illegal rule change stunt. You need to attend, take notes, ask questions after their meeting (if they do not run away). Write it up and submit it to us. Henderson County Board of Elections Meeting, Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 5PM. 75 E. Central Street, Hendersonville, NC 29792. 828 697 4970 Karen Hebb, Director of the Henderson County Board of Elections, asked the Board of Election members to approve a policy change in a letter to be mailed to party chairs regarding observers ‘access’ to machine tapes at the opening and closing of the early voting and election day precincts. (Please see attached PDF.) Both Republican Board members, Linda Rebuck and Debbie Dante, strenuously were opposed. They read, three times, the statute 08 NCAC 04.0304 that clearly states (my underline and bold): 08 NCAC 04 .0304 OPERATION AND MATTER OF VOTING ON VOTING SYSTEMS (a) Prior to the opening of the polls, the precinct officials shall open the voting system and examine the ballot for accuracy and examine the counters or other method to determine there is a zero balance. Any persons interested in viewing this procedure may observe but shall not interfere or impede the process. If the system prints a zero tape or other paper document, the document shall be maintained and secured in the manner prescribed by the manufacturer and the county board of elections. (b) The voter shall follow the instructions contained on the voting system. Only official ballots shall be introduced into the voting system. Spoiled or damaged ballots shall not be introduced into the voting system. If a voter improperly marks or damages a ballot, it shall be returned to the precinct official, marked as spoiled and maintained as specified by the county board of elections. The voter may not receive a replacement ballot until the spoiled or damaged ballot is returned to the precinct official. The voter shall not be given more than three replacement ballots. (c) Except as provided for curbside voting in G.S. 163-166.9, official ballots shall not leave the voting enclosure during the time that voting is being conducted there. History Note: Authority G.S. 163-22; 163-165.7; Temporary Adoption Eff. April 15, 2002; Eff. August 1, 2004; Readopted Eff. June 1, 2019. Karen Hebb continued to argue that observers were not to be given ‘access’ to the machine at any time but they should trust the Democrat and Republican judges and paid staff to ‘tell’ the observer the count. The statute does not mention ‘access.’ The statute clearly says “viewing and observing.’ The Board voted 3 Democrats to 2 Republicans in favor of accepting Ms. Hebb’s letter to party chairs with the illegal policy change. After the meeting, the four of the eight witnesses approached the desk and plexiglass barrier to ask questions. The Chair Charlie Medd and Karen Hebb, refused to answer our questions regarding this policy change. This is a violation of the legal rights of observers and citizens - ‘persons interested’ – in viewing and observing the printed tape from the machine. The last item on the agenda was security at the polls. Linda Rebuck, Board Member, asked why three sheriff's deputies' cars showed up to the Board of Election office on the night of the primary. Karen Hebb responded that they had been called. Linda asked why they had been called and Karen Hebb answered that staff felt threatened. She stated that she saw a group of people standing outside of the office. Linda asked if there had been any actual threats made. KH said no threats had been made. KH stated that one of the judges had reported that she thought she had been followed on her way from the polling place to take the voting material back to the Board of Elections. Karen stated that she felt comfortable calling 911 any time she perceived a problem at one of the polling places. My concern is that KH will call 911 on the observers at the drop of a hat. Attachment: Evidence Letter to Party Chairs file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/Observers%20(2).pdf Witnesses Kathy Maney Sharon Brooks, Henderson County GOP Chair Dorothy Calloway Paul Rebuck Beatrice Park Leigh Nunzio Gina Moffit David Shipp Submitted by Jane Bilello, 218 Vincent Place, Hendersonville, NC 28739. 209 986 3845

NCGOP, RNC file Lawsuit Against NC State Board of Elections September 12, 2022 For Immediate Release RALEIGH, N.C. – Late last week, the North Carolina Republican Party, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee and Clay County GOP Chair Barbara Deas, filed a lawsuit in Wake County against the North Carolina State Board of Elections over the Board’s unconstitutional efforts to restrict poll observers and extend the absentee by-mail deadline. See the full complaint here. Once again, the State Board of Elections has usurped the legislature’s authority to make laws that govern our elections, demonstrating the Board’s allegiance to their partisan agendas over the Rule of Law. Election integrity is consistently ranked by North Carolina voters as a top priority, and our electoral system and officials should always aim to provide and promote transparency. The N.C. The State Board of Elections, a body whose very existence is predicated on the goals of transparency and integrity, has instead gone rogue in an effort to restrict transparency. Much like they did in 2020, the State Board has attempted to unilaterally push back the absentee ballot deadline. That deadline is set by law as passed by the duly elected members of our state legislature. The Board has no authority to change it. Further, poll observers play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of elections, providing much needed oversight from the citizens. This State Board has continued to do everything in its power to restrict the rights of observers and to make it more difficult for the Republican Party to shift observers in every county. The Rules Review Commission shut down such an effort by the Board just a few of weeks ago and also shut down so-called “emergency rules” the Board attempted to pass in 2020. However, the State Board remains undeterred and is now explicitly directing county boards to violate the law by restricting at-large poll observers to 4-hour shifts, thereby cutting their flexibility and making it tremendously more difficult for the county parties to have eyes on all voting sites. “Voters in North Carolina deserve to have confidence in our elections, but when the State Board continues to bend, change, or otherwise flatly ignore the law that undermines the public trust,” said NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley. “Frankly, we’re not going to stand for it. That’s why we have partnered with the RNC to reign in this out of control Board.” This lawsuit is but one of the many actions the N.C. The Republican Party has taken action at the state and national level to protect election integrity. Republicans will not allow the hijacking of our elections by a group of unelected partisans who have proven more loyal to their political party than to the laws that govern them. The NCGOP will continue its efforts to ensure transparency, integrity, and accountability within our election systems on behalf of the voters of North Carolina. CONTACT: Jeff Moore Jeff.Moore@NCGOP.org (252)723-1540 North Carolina Republican Party 1506 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27605

From ERIC Member Agreement Exhibit A Within sixty (60) days of the Certification Date, and at least every sixty (60) days thereafter, the Member shall transmit: (1) all inactive and active voter files (excluding those records that are confidential or protected from disclosure by law), including those fields identified in Exhibit B, and (2) all licensing or identification records contained in the motor vehicles database (excluding those fields unrelated to voter eligibility, such as fields related to an individual’s driving record), including those fields identified in Exhibit B. Under no circumstances shall the Member transmit an individual’s record where the record contains documentation or other information indicating that the individual is a non-citizen of the United States. Should Member believe it has an alternative source of data that is equivalent to or better than the motor vehicle database (“Alternative Data Source”), Member may apply in writing to the Executive Director of ERIC to substitute the Alternative Data Source for motor vehicle data. Such written application shall explain the basis for Member’s assertion that the Alternative Data Source is equivalent or better and why using it will effectively serve the goals of ERIC. If, in the Executive Director’s assessment, the request is reasonable, the Executive Director shall submit the Member’s request to the ERIC Board of Directors (“ERIC Board” or “Board”) for approval. If membership in ERIC is contingent upon a jurisdiction’s ability to use an Alternative Data Source, the jurisdiction may seek approval of a data substitution request in advance of joining ERIC. c. If the Member fails to transmit the required Member Data as described above, ERIC shall not deliver, nor shall the Member receive, any Data or services from ERIC until ERIC receives the required Member Data from the Member. Should Member fail to transmit Member Data in any sixty (60) day period as provided in sub-section b, Member shall, upon written notice from ERIC, have a thirty (30) day grace period in which to provide such Member Data. Should this grace period expire without a transmission to ERIC of Member Data from the Member, the Member shall be automatically removed from membership in accordance with the Bylaws. Member may submit a written appeal to the Executive Director of ERIC for a reasonable extension of the grace period deadline if Member is unable to meet that deadline because of a technical issue or a problem accessing or receiving the Member Data. Whether or not to grant the extension or to proceed to automatic removal shall be in the sole discretion of ERIC’s Executive Director. 3. State Agency Records. The Member shall use its best efforts to transmit, on a regular basis, data relating to individuals that exists in the records of other agencies within its jurisdiction that perform any voter registration functions, including, but not limited to, those required to perform voter registration pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act, 43 U.S.C. 1973gg-5 (“Additional Member Data”). Notwithstanding this section, a state’s failure to transmit Additional Member Data under this section shall not affect the Member’s compliance with this Section or its standing as a member of ERIC. EXHIBIT B 22 Last updated on March 28, 2014; May 21, 2015; October 28, 2015; December 16, 2016; November 30, 2018; February 3, 2020; June 3, 2022 ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION INFORMATION CENTER, INC. Voter Registration and motor vehicles data fields to be submitted to ERIC by each participating jurisdiction, if collected by the Member State 1. All name fields 2. All address fields 3. Driver’s license or state ID number 4. Last four digits of Social Security number 5. Date of birth 6. Activity dates as defined by the Board of Directors 7. Current record status 8. Affirmative documentation of citizenship 9. The title/type of affirmative documentation of citizenship presented 10. Phone number 11. E-mail address or other electronic contact method

(Sept 11, 2022) Attorney Erick Kaardal laid out a compelling case that Wisconsin’s participation in ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, violates the federal Help America Vote Act, HAVA. (Go to video 22:00). In Kaardal's Sept. 8 testimony before the Wisconsin Assembly (state legislature) Committee on Campaigns, the special counsel to the Thomas More Society demonstrated that federal law unequivocally prohibits states from farming out access to their voter rolls, let alone to opaque, third-party nonprofits. “I don’t think ERIC was honest from the beginning. That’s the problem.” Kaardal pointed out that the argument that the state government needed ERIC to track people was absurd. “This is the Wisconsin state government. We’re going to say we can’t track people?” He pointed out the state’s proven track record in collecting taxes. “Some things are better done by oneself even if done badly,” he explained, like dressing and feeding oneself. Even so, he said ERIC is failing to clean the rolls. “They are not doing a good job.” Kaardal cited ERIC’s ties to George Soros and David Becker’s Center for Election Innovation Research (CEIR), which received $69 million in Zuckerbucks in the runup to the Nov. 2020 elecitons. Becker, a far left activist who has had ethics charges filed against him, founded ERIC while employed at PEW Research. He is reported to play an active role in ERIC. “Anything is better than sharing with ERIC,” Kaardal said to positive reception from the committee. https://wiseye.org/2022/09/08/assembly-committee-on-campaigns-and-elections-29/

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Bet you can't guess which town! https://www.foxnews.com/us/democrat-run-tourist-town-north-carolina-sees-violent-crime-spike-as-police-dwindle-perfect-storm And this was reported on Fox News, no less! Asheville, North Carolina, has seen a 31% surge in violent crime within five years https://www.foxnews.com/us/democrat-run-tourist-town-north-carolina-sees-violent-crime-spike-as-police-dwindle-perfect-storm Asheville, North Carolina — Multiple local law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News Digital laid partial blame for the deteriorating condition of a North Carolina tourist town on the city's liberal political leadership and on left-wing activists who undermine police. "I think what you're seeing in Asheville right now is a culmination of the last several years of pulling police back and not letting them do their jobs like they're able to do," former Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. Asheville, a city of approximately 90,000 people nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Buncombe County, North Carolina, has seen a 31% surge in violent crime per 100,000 people from 2016 to 2020, according to statistics released in the spring. Asheville's growth in violent crime is nearly double that of the national average and ranks among the highest in North Carolina, where violent crime has increased 13% statewide. Asheville has so far seen 11 homicides in 2022, setting it on pace to surpass the homicide rate of 2021 and 2020. Rates of homelessness have increased 21% since 2021, according to data released in May. There is also evidence of increased Mexican drug cartel activity in the area, according to multiple law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News Digital. Both the Asheville Police Department (APD) and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department have been hemorrhaging officers in recent years, with many retiring early or simply quitting. APD made international headlines in June 2021 when they announced they would no longer respond in-person to 911 calls about theft, fraud or trespassing after losing a third of their force. ‘Downhill quickly’ Duncan, who was a longtime registered Democrat, retired as sheriff and became politically unaffiliated in 2018, citing "an anti-law enforcement sentiment in the Democratic Party right now," according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. He told Fox News Digital that police who do wrong must be held accountable, but also said officers both locally and around the country have become hesitant to do their jobs "because they can be right, but it can be the wrong set of facts, and they can still wind up in trouble." Duncan further noted that when he was serving as county sheriff, "left-wing activists" from outside the community would sweep in to disrupt community meetings. "They would really try to get into it with the police, and a lot of times, they would try to shout down things," he said. "And the first people who quit coming to those meetings were the people within the community. They really didn't get to speak, and they really didn't get anything done." "Personally, I think that is the agenda of the Left: for law enforcement not to be able to do anything that's effective and makes the community safer," he added. An officer currently with the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department who spoke to Fox News Digital on condition of anonymity attributed the exodus of officers to policy changes that hamstring them. The officer also cited an overall lack of leadership and the "liberal agenda" of some county commissioners and members of city council. Neither the Asheville City Council nor the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners responded to Fox News Digital's request for comment. HOMICIDES DOWN BUT VIOLENT CRIME UP IN MAJOR US CITIES AS MIDTERMS APPROACH The officer laid particular blame on Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams, a Democrat whose office did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. The officer claimed Williams' office often doesn't charge criminals at all or reduces felony charges to misdemeanors. "Crime will continue to rise when there is no accountability for subjects of a crime," the officer said. "Officers overlook so many things because they know that it will go nowhere in court." The officer predicted the situation in the Asheville area is headed "downhill quickly" without a change in leadership. ‘Evil is real’ APD Chief David Zack told Fox News Digital that the reasons behind the steady flood of resignations in his department are complicated and multi-faceted. Zack said the APD has lost more than 100 sworn officers since May 2020, which he noted is roughly equivalent to 600 years of experience walking out the door. He pinpointed family pressures, a lack of community support and low pay in the expensive city as major factors pushing police to throw in the towel, but explained that APD has been working with the city to make salaries more competitive. He also said that "officers are very, very frustrated" with low bail. Placing Asheville's situation within the context of trends present in police departments across the U.S., he said the loss of officers accelerated following the protests that took place in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020. The protests that roiled Asheville that summer were especially tense, with APD officers decked out in riot gear engaging in an hours-long standoff with protesters on a bridge leading into the city. "There certainly have been questions about support [for police] from elected officials, from the president of the United States right on down, so it's not just local leaders," he said. "It's just been like a perfect storm of events and circumstances that are driving officers out of the profession who have a significant amount of time and experience invested." Zack also noted that fewer people even want to become police officers anymore, leading to what he described as "a hamster wheel of losing people and trying to replace them at the same time." "I certainly think that with the losses that we have, our ability to be proactive and also our ability to be visible are partly causing some of the increases," the chief said of rising violent crime. "Because we've lost so many officers, and we're operating at almost 42% down every single day, officer presence and officer visibility are not what they were." Zack also said fentanyl in the region has gotten "out of control," and that the amount they have been taking off the street is "alarming." He recounted that county police recently made the biggest fentanyl bust in Buncombe County history until APD made a bigger bust weeks later. When Justin Wilson, who served a decade as an APD community resource officer, resigned in August 2020 to begin a new career, he sent a letter to the community he served, apologizing to them and explaining that the job had "taken a toll on my personal life." His letter was published on the front page of the local newspaper. Writing how he had come to believe that police were tasked beyond their capacity with "stopping societal issues and disorder," Wilson concluded that law enforcement solutions are merely "a Band-Aid" on such profound problems and that "strong communities are the real remedy." "After 10 years at APD, I can say confidently that APD officers are good people with good hearts," he wrote. "Evil is real. Evil exists in Asheville, officers are surrounded by it, and they do their best with what they have. Please remember that." ‘Hub of Antifa’ Chad Nesbitt, the former chair of the Buncombe County GOP who now works as a local investigative journalist, attributed some of the city's problems to Antifa's presence in Asheville, which he described as "the hub of Antifa" in the region. "It's devastating what they've done here in town and the Asheville area," Nesbitt said of Antifa, whose activity he has followed closely ever since he was nearly killed during protests downtown following the verdict in the Breonna Taylor case in 2020. Activists also dropped off a coffin filled with dirt and animal manure in front of APD headquarters at the time. Nesbitt said local Antifa have used Floyd's death "as an excuse to bring anarchy to this city," and pinpointed Firestorm Bookstore Co-op in West Asheville as the nexus of their activity. The bookstore did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Nesbitt said Antifa activists from other major cities throughout North Carolina congregate in Asheville, and that the members of the organization who believe in political violence "will try to instigate some of the dumbest people to do something very stupid." Asheville drew national attention this summer when Mountain Area Pregnancy Services, a local faith-based crisis pregnancy center, was among several similar pro-life establishments nationwide that were vandalized in June by the radical, Antifa-affiliated pro-abortion group "Jane's Revenge." On July 4, a day after receiving a threatening email signed "ANTIFA," the APD arrested two suspects for allegedly attempting to bomb the former site of the Vance Monument, an obelisk dedicated to North Carolina's Civil War-time governor. The monument stood in the center of downtown Asheville for 123 years before the city dismantled it in 2021. esbitt maintained that local Antifa has worked its way into universities throughout western North Carolina, and that figures sympathetic to Antifa have risen to positions of power on the city council, which did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on his allegation. Joey Reece, who is now retired after serving 12 years as a state trooper and another 22 years as an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the area, reflected sadly to Fox News Digital how Asheville has declined since he grew up there. "You're going to have to literally go back to some old 1990s-style law enforcement, and people have to be put in jail who commit crimes," he said. "Or Asheville will soon become a non-entity. Asheville will not be a vacation destination. It won't be a retirement destination. We're already in the top 10% of violent cities in America." Asheville was rated among the top 10 U.S. travel destinations according to Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards in 2016, and the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority recently spent $1.3 million in local tax dollars to advertise at the 2022 U.S. Open. "There's no stopping it unless you change what you're doing," Reece added. "And to do that, you have to have community resolve. And I think the community that is there now doesn't have that resolve. I think they're more of an enabling community, and I don't see it getting any better."

Did you miss one of NCEIT's summits? Do you want further training on Phantom Voter app to do List Maintenance? Want to hear what Transylvania patriots are doing with List Maintenance and the other Election Integrity Task Forces? Become pro-active with Vulnerable Voters! Come to our Asheville Tea Party meeting on Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 6PM at IHOP, 229 Airport Rd., Arden. ATP is a Board Member and integral part of the North Carolina Election Integrity Project (NCEIT.org). We have been training all over the state since the end of February and will continue to do so until early voting in October. We need an army of poll observers for the election. That means YOU. We are also setting up local Election Integrity Task Forces across the state to put eyes on all of the systems the Left has infiltrated and corrupted. In short, we are duplicating the 2021 Virginia Model of election success. It is our mission to bring you the tools you need to be effective. It is a non-partisan effort to assure that it is Easy To Vote and Hard to Cheat. As promised at the Buncombe 8/20 Summit, we will continue to offer training and support. Speakers Learn how to walk your neighborhood or precinct using the Phantom Voter app as demonstrated at the Buncombe Summit and developed by Tom Braine. Find our how one county is cleaning up the voter rolls and working with their BOE. Herschel Johnson and Palmer Swanson of Transylvania County have a success story that you need to hear. You may want to follow their lead. You won't know unless you come. Become pro-active with Vulnerable Voters! Herschel Johnson, Election Integrity Chair, Transylvania County: "The Task Force is a permanent organization and will continue to focus resources on Voter Roll Maintenance. Three of the eight lanes have active leads. The others will be operational by November. The Task Force will continue to expand the Voter Roll Maintenance capabilities to other NC counties with a special focus on Western North Carolina. The Task Force will also avail itself to assisting other counties to set up Election Integrity Task Forces." Link to Citizen's Guide to Building an Election Integrity Inferastructure: (The Eight Systems of Elections Integrity https://www.nceit.org/_files/ugd/71310c_f06a43795f68464c99002c03bbfda79d.pdf

Dear Caller: Thank you so very much for doing this. You are the lynch pin for our success in recruiting County Coordinators for all 100 NC counties! You rock! These calls are for those who attended one of our NCEIT Workshop/Summits since February. If you get an answering machine, please mark your spread sheet LM with a time so you can call again at another time to hopefully reach them. Answering Machine: Hi. This is ______ from the North Carolina Election Integrity Team calling to follow up with you since you attended one of our workshop summits. We want to make sure you have signed up to be a Poll Observer and we want to give you some information about the County Coordinator position in your county. Please call me back at ____________________. Call Script: Person answers. Hello, my name is __________ ______________. I am calling to say Thank You from the North Carolina Election Integrity Team – NCEIT – for attending one of our Workshop Summits. We’re here to offer support. We hope you have signed up as a Poll Observer with your local political party. Do you have any questions about how to do that? 1* (Let them answer. If they do need direction, see 1* below.) If we are to make it Easy to Vote and Hard to Cheat, we also need to mobilize all North Carolina counties to get involved in NCEIT. To do that, NCEIT wants to encourage you to consider joining our state NCEIT team of local County Coordinators. We would like to invite you to a short Zoom call that will outline the Tasks of a Local NCEIT County Coordinator. We will show you how to become an NCEIT member so you have additional access to Member Resources and our State Election Integrity Reporting System – SEIRS, our weekly Tuesday statewide call, Poll Observer videos, state statutes, legislation, and more. Can I send you those links with the day and time of those calls? There are 9 Zoom calls at different days and times for your convenience. See 2* below. Get their name and email and county. Send them the times and links. Send their info to Jane@NCEIT.org so I know who’s coming and I can send them an invite. Also, give them my contact info Jane@NCEIT.org. See 2* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1*: Only a political party can sign you up to be a poll observer. The poll observer names have to be sent to the local Board of Elections 10 days before poll observing. So, get on the list now for early voting and the election. Look up and call your local party (Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Green Party) and ask to be put on a list. It’s that easy. You pick your days, location and time slot. The time slots for poll observers is 4 hours. (If they want more Poll Observer training, direct them to NCEIT/Member Resources. Scroll down the page to the instructional videos. They have to be a member. Members sign up at NCEIT.org/Join Us 2* Days, Times and Links to Zoom Intro for County Coordinators • Monday, Sept 12th at 4PM here • Tuesday, Sept 13th at 7PM here • Wednesday, Sept 14th at 11AM here • • Monday, Sept 19th at 4PM here • Tuesday, Sept 20th at 12:15PM here • Wednesday, Sept 21st at 7PM here • • Monday, Sept 26th at 5PM here • Tuesday, Sept 27th at 7PM here • Wednesday, Sept 28th at 11AM here

Every Tuesday across North Carolina, local Boards of Election conduct the opening and scanning of absentee ballots. YOU NEED TO BE THERE TO WITNESS that the process is correct, and ballots are handled securely. The Process a) Every BOE member inspects every container (envelope) to assure there is a witness signature/notary. b) All BOE members open the containers. Lay ballots flat. c) Ballots are run through the machine. d) The number of containers (envelopes) must equal the number of ballots. (Ask to see the receipt.) Don't be afraid to ask questions before or after the process. They need to see us and understand we are watching. Be nice. This is what is not happening to secure absentee ballots that needs to be changed at the legislature: Ballots should be placed in a secure container and sealed with a tamper proof seal. All BOE members should sign. Then, the observer/citizen should ask to see the serial numbers on the seal. Take note of the serial number and write it down. (This is how cheating occurs. Anyone with a key to the machine can tamper with it. This is how it happens. This has to stop. The statutes need to be changed at the Legislature. SC has implemented this last step. We will have the demo video up on NCEIT for your perusal.) What can you do about it?? Want to be part of assuring absentee ballots are secure? Join #7 Statutory Provisions & Compliance (Legislative oversight and advocacy) committee to establish a Permanent Infrastructure in every county! We must establish committees to address each of these 8 components of election integrity. (See below for the (Eight Systems of Election Integrity) Find others who are motivated to lobby for election law changes to make it Easy to Vote. Hard to Cheat. Contact your NCEIT team to get started. We will be having Zoom calls to get each county started in forming these committees. Jim Womack: 919 770 4783 james.k.womack@gmail.com Jay Delancy 919 332 4129 jay.delancy@gmail.com Jane Bilello 209 986 3845 jane.bilello@gmail.com Sue Butcher 919 213 7165 one_in_spirit@yahoo.com REMEMBER From the NCEIT Training: We need to make County Board of Election Liaison a permanent committee along with the others below. For this primary, we can establish a Board of Elections committee and (2) Poll Observers, employees, and greeters (Recruited & trained at all voting locations.) After this Primary, we continue to meet and work to establish the other committees. There will be Zoom and in-person meetings to accomplish this. Thanks!! FYI: You will be given access behind the firewall after you have created an NCEIT.org account and we have vetted you. Please sign up at www.NCEIT.org. NCEIT training materials and videos are up there. Please check the website often because more information and videos will be uploaded. Plus, we now have the reporting app that will be ready by the end of the week of May 2, 2022. Call Jane if you have questions: 209 986 3845. This is how we establish a Permanent Infrastructure in every county! We must establish committees to address each of these 8 components of election integrity.

HUGE: CISA Releases Much-Anticipated Report on Dominion Voting Machines - Reveals Software Is Exploitable and Attackers Are Able to Insert Malicious Code to Alter Results (thegatewaypundit.com) CISA released its much-anticipated report on Dominion Voting Machines on Friday afternoon before the weekend. Last Saturday, CNN admitted that Dominion Voting Machine Software has flaws that can be exploited. Federal authorities finally admitted to this truth last Saturday during the long holiday weekend. The same officials who did not inspect the machines after the election told CNN that there is no evidence that the machines were tampered with. TRENDING: FBI Arrests Trump Advisor Dr. Peter Navarro at DC-Area Airport One Day After He Vowed to Help Republicans Impeach Joe Biden The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Dominion for two years now. It appears officials are finally catching up on something we already knew. The report shows that software could be leveraged by an attacker to gain elevated privileges and to install malicious code. Federal authorities finally admitted to this truth last Saturday during the long holiday weekend. The same officials who did not inspect the machines after the election told CNN that there is no evidence that the machines were tampered with. TRENDING: FBI Arrests Trump Advisor Dr. Peter Navarro at DC-Area Airport One Day After He Vowed to Help Republicans Impeach Joe Biden The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Dominion for two years now. It appears officials are finally catching up on something we already knew. The report shows that software could be leveraged by an attacker to gain elevated privileges and to install malicious code. Read more here.