https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/workers-in-democrat-run-north-carolina-tourist-city-bemoan-downtown-decline-really-disturbing/ar-AA18i7ls?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=694b33ed712e4454b7984d25b60e72b0&ei=31 Business owners appeared on Fox and Friends with this: Business owners and workers in a Democrat-run North Carolina tourist town - ASHEVILLE - said their downtown district is deteriorating amid rising crime, rampant homelessness and diminishing police. Read more here Rank Choice Voting Operatives in Asheville! I will have more on this. In the meantime, Buncombe folks need to wake up about these operatives and push back with ads discrediting them. Below are notes from National Work Group RCV calls. StopRCV.com Model Legislation RCV failed in MA by about 10%. I want to note it’s a pretty deep blue state. Our example in MA is a reasonable roadmap to beating this back in blue states and without a lot of money. The yes side raised about 10 million for the yes side, and about 10,000 for the no side. Just looking at the map, it gives you a sense of the demographics and the groups we were able to connect with. The academic institutions voted for RCV while the blue collar working class voted against it. RCV boils down to 4 major questions Guarantee a majority winner? Ensure full voter participation? Increase civility in campaigns? End the need for strategic voting? More than 60% of winners don’t get a majority of all the votes under an RCV system. You need to literally remove votes from the count in order to get to a winner in RCV. You end up with a situation where the winner had 14 votes out of 30 votes. Exhausted ballots are the fatal conceit of RCV. Folks in MA were really turned off by that. Why should your ballot be discarded just because you didn’t participate in this convoluted system? Even with more RCV voting elections, the percentage of ballots exhausted is still very high. Even with the number of candidates increasing, you still see higher exhausted ballots. Even with the number of the RCV elections, you don’t see the number of exhausted ballots drop. It can disenfranchise minority, less-educated, and older voters. The data is not the most important aspect, you have to connect with people emotionally. It screws people over. Exhausted ballots are what you have to harp on. This is a survey from FairVote itself. One of the points I want to leave is that we have to keep our opposition to RCV non-partisan. This includes Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Mark Begich, and the NAACP. It doesn’t reduce campaigning or take money out of politics. RCV also does not end strategic voting either. You can fight RCV even if you are outspent 1000 to one. If you’re in an RCV area, you have to stack the ballot with candidates who are favorable to what you believe. Better yet. We need to pass legislation to permanently OUTLAW this hideous shredding our our Constitutional rights! StopRCV.com Model Legislation

Zuckerbucks Takes on New Life in 2024 with CTCL’s ‘US Alliance for Elections Excellence’ an Organization Aimed at Recruiting Far-Left Operatives to Take Over Elections Offices Across the Country. Link https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/zuckerbucks-takes-on-new-life-in-2024-with-ctcls-us-alliance-for-elections-excellence-an-organization-aimed-at-recruiting-far-left-operatives-to-take-over-elections-offices-across-the-country/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zuckerbucks-takes-on-new-life-in-2024-with-ctcls-us-alliance-for-elections-excellence-an-organization-aimed-at-recruiting-far-left-operatives-to-take-over-elections-offices-across-the-country https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/zuckerbucks-influence-continues-new-funds-candidates-recruited-election#:~:text=of%20progressives%20to-,administer,-elections Updated: February 25, 2023 - 11:16pm The injection of private money into public election administration — or "Zuckerbucks" — is continuing in a new form, as left-leaning candidates are being recruited to run for local elections offices by an organization that receives funds from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a project of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), is awarding funds to counties and municipalities under the Centers for Election Excellence program. The alliance will provide $80 million over five years "to envision, support, and celebrate excellence in U.S. election administration," according to CTCL. CTCL poured nearly $350 million into local elections offices managing the 2020 election, with most of the funds donated to the nonprofit by Zuckerberg. The nonprofit has claimed its 2020 election grants — colloquially known as "Zuckerbucks" — were allocated without partisan preference to make voting safer amid the pandemic.However, DeKalb County Board of Voter Registration & Elections accepted $2 million in private money from the alliance in "violation" of 2021 state election reform law, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) told Just the News on Thursday, while the county claims that it adhered to the letter of the law. DeKalb County's acceptance of the funds came on the heels of an elections official in Michigan turning down an offer of private funding from the same source. Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck declined a $1.5 million grant from the controversial nonprofit due to concerns over private money with possible political connections being used "to fund election operations." In North Carolina, election officials in Brunswick and Forsyth counties also said they won't take money from the Alliance for Election Excellence. However, unlike Ottawa County, Brunswick and Forsyth are keeping their membership with the alliance. Yet the city of Madison, Wisc., like DeKalb, accepted a $1.5 million grant from the alliance. Critics of the unprecedented level of private funding injected into election administration offices in 2020 argue the grants were awarded disproportionately to boost voter participation in swing state Democratic strongholds. A House Republican investigation found that less than 1% of the funds were spent on personal protective equipment. Following controversy surrounding the disproportionate resources funneled to Democratic jurisdictions and claims the imbalance helped sway the election in Biden's favor, 24 states have either restricted or banned the use of private money to fund elections, while 12 counties have also restricted or banned the funds, according to the Capital Research Center. However, DeKalb County Board of Voter Registration & Elections accepted $2 million in private money from the alliance in "violation" of 2021 state election reform law, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) told Just the News on Thursday, while the county claims that it adhered to the letter of the law. DeKalb County's acceptance of the funds came on the heels of an elections official in Michigan turning down an offer of private funding from the same source. Ottawa County Clerk Justin Roebuck declined a $1.5 million grant from the controversial nonprofit due to concerns over private money with possible political connections being used "to fund election operations." In North Carolina, election officials in Brunswick and Forsyth counties also said they won't take money from the Alliance for Election Excellence. However, unlike Ottawa County, Brunswick and Forsyth are keeping their membership with the alliance. Yet the city of Madison, Wisc., like DeKalb, accepted a $1.5 million grant from the alliance. The alliance is not the only left-leaning, Zuckerberg-linked organization seeking to influence elections. Run for Something, which seeks out liberal Democratic millennial candidates for state and local political offices, was founded in 2017 by Amanda Litman, Hillary Clinton's former email director for her 2016 presidential campaign, and Ross Morales Rocketto, a Democrat Party consultant. Run for Something's "candidates must be pro-L.G.B.T., pro-choice, pro-immigrant and pro-equality," media outlet amNY reported from an interview with Litman. The organization received $10,000 in donations from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, $100,000 from Hillary Clinton's Onward Together, and $50,000 from ActBlue, a PAC that provides online fundraising software to Democratic campaigns and progressive groups, according to Open Secrets. Run for Something has a program called Clerk Work, which recruits candidates to run for local elections offices. In July, Clerk Work had recruited nearly 300 candidates. "You can influence quite literally who is administering elections," Litman told the Washington Post. "If we don't do it, we are absolutely going to regret it." Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), cochairwoman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, slammed Run for Something and CTCL in a statement to The Daily Signal. "Let's call this what it really is — a blatant attack on the security and integrity of the fairness and transparency of our elections," she said. "Dark money liberal advocacy groups will stop at nothing to inject partisan funds into election administration efforts," she added. "They did it in 2020 with 'Zuckerbucks,' and they are continuing to find ways to do it today." Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), cochairman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, told The Daily Signal, "Propping up partisan operatives to serve as election clerks will not solve our election integrity issues, and it definitely will not restore confidence in our electoral system on either side of the aisle. "It's going to take careful consideration and deliberate debate on these matters to improve election integrity and bolster faith in our elections."

Ohio removed thousands of citizens from the state voter rolls this week due to inactivity, Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced. Ohio purges thousands from voter rolls© Provided by Axios Columbus Why it matters: Those impacted are urged to re-register if they want to cast a ballot this year. State of play: Ohio has a "use it or lose it" system when it comes to staying active on its eligible voter list. Those who do not vote, update their registration address or respond to board of elections notices over a six-year period are automatically removed. Zoom in: Nearly 11,000 voters registered in Franklin County were taken off the rolls. LaRose says it's necessary in order to clean the voter rolls of those who have moved or died.

Submit a Public Records request to STOP the Threats to Poll Workers from the Left and DHS. They are targeting the BOE. You can stop this by exposing them. . https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/new-threat-to-poll-workers-a-call-to-action To: ________, Director Board of Elections __________ County Board of Elections Members Address: __________ Date: _______ From: Your name Address Organization your represent – if applicable. Dear BOE Director’s Name, Pursuant to the North Carolina Freedom of Information Act, releasable under the provisions of NCGS § 132-1. Public Records, I am requesting the following information. Please provide me with an electronic copy of any correspondence, including, but not limited to, letters, emails, faxes, phone call notes, meeting notes, grant applications, grant offers, grant contracts, between anyone associated with · The Committee for Safe & Secure Elections (CSSE)and anyone in the Henderson County Board of Elections office, the Electoral Board, governing body, or other municipal employees, appointees and elected officials. Time frame - 1/1/2022 thru Present. Thank you, (Your Name) Cc: Board of Elections Members

Public Records Request for Grant Money and Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE) to Your Local BOE. (CSSE is a New Threat to Poll Workers. Take Action please. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/new-threat-to-poll-workers-a-call-to-action Use the Public Records template below and send to your local BOE. PLEASE! CITIZENS RESEARCH PROJECT NATIONAL WORKING GROUP SAMPLE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOIA) REQUEST/PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST To: _______ Board of Elections _____ BOE Director Attention: ((Director's name) Address Date From: Your name Your address Your contact phone Dear (Local Election Official’s Title), Pursuant to the North Carolina Freedom of Information Act, releasable under the provisions of NCGS § 132-1. Public Records, I am requesting the following information. Please provide me with an electronic copy of any correspondence, including, but not limited to, letters, emails, faxes, phone call notes, meeting notes, grant applications, grant offers, grant contracts, between anyone associated with · The US Alliance for Election Excellence · The Center for Tech and Civic Life · The Center for Civic Design · The Center for a Secure and Modern Elections · The Elections Group · The Center for Election Innovation and Research · US Digital Response · The Committee for Safe & Secure Elections (CSSE) and anyone in the Henderson County Board of Elections office, the Electoral Board, governing body, or other municipal employees, appointees and elected officials. Time frame - 1/1/2022 thru Present. Thank you, (Your name) cc: (Your local Board of Elections Members)

•Working Group meeting on Rank Choice Voting. Our next meeting on February 16th. (invite your friends to register here. •Model legislation to ban ranked choice voting in your state. •StopRCV.com Model Legislation •This is the link to RCV zoom meetings: https://www.betterballotnc.org/outreachtraining_20230208 •Video: HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: ALERT! “RIGGED” CHOICE VOTING ROBS VOTERS OF BALLOTS AND THROWS ELECTIONS INTO CHAOS •https://whoscounting.us/2023/01/hans-von-spakovsky-alert-rigged-choice-voting-robs-voters-of-ballots-and-throws-elections-into-chaos/ Whoscounting.us •The Problem With Rank Choice Voting https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/the_problem_with_rankedchoice_voting.html ============================================================================== Big RCV (Rigged Choice Voting) nonprofit in NC! I was just on the National RCV zoom call and a man from Alaska told us that 5 nonprofits from out-of-state came up there with BIG money and pushed RCV on the Alaskan people. One of the groups was the Election Administration Resource Center and its located in Kinston, NC! "The Election Administration Resource Center (EARC) is an election policy nonprofit based in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Our mission is to collect, distribute, and analyze information regarding the adoption, implementation, and impact of ranked choice voting (RCV)." Here is their website (you can subscribe to their newsletter): https://www.rcvresources.org/ Here is their 990: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MihhlASKozqiaDJOhZpfp8oF5I_JiRPn/view Here's what they did in 2020: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLSBaJQaycBN23YpCyM0xrMdi1Ueo2qE/view EXPENSES: Program services: RCV Tabulator 122,856 - 122,856 RCV Education and Support 270,467 - 270,467 UOCAVA Ballot Design - 25,053 25,053 Voting Rights Group Coordination 1,873 - 1,873 Website Development 6,206 - 6,206 Disability Ballot Design 50,000 - 50,000 Federal Voting Standards 19,164 - 19,164 Municipal RCV Efforts 3,258 - 3,258 Total program services 498,877 - 498,877 Supporting services: Management and general 206,593 - 206,593 Fundraising 36,727 - 36,727 Total supporting services 243,320 - 243,320 Total expenses 742,197 - 742,197 See Less

Details by this very informed woman exposing the truth, right here in Buncombe County N.C. Excellent video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7eGKN2nfRs&t=1650s The exhibits mentioned in the video... https://publiushuldah.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/exhibits-to-presentation-in-north-carolina-during-may-25.pdf

From NCEIT Director Jim Womack on the Voting Machines Jim is also the National Work Group Director for Voting Technology and Voting Systems which has a Zoom Call the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month. Registration link https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lf-iopzIiGdSpa3hUZoSlHTHNypjlYw71 Thanks Doug. I once had a Philosophy professor who sagely advised, "No paper will refuse ink." In other words, there is no limit to what might be tried by any agency, commercial or governmental, to modify election procedures, for good or for ill. We are not going to stop the use of tabulating machines in elections. Trickery like this to hold state election entities to a standard they cannot attain, will not stand the test of judicial review. I would be very surprised if legislative attorneys in AZ even permitted the SCR to get past a floor vote of that body. I am all for holding election agencies accountable to high standards. I am all for making these tabulating machines as auditable and transparent as possible. And I am completely in agreement that every person should cast a paper ballot that can be examined to see all markings from the voter. However, the billions of HAVA dollars that have been spent acquiring machines will not be undone anytime in the next decade. in fact. most republican legislators are just fine with the use of machines- even in full awareness of their vulnerabilities. I find it much more useful to address the vulnerabilities of voting machines where I might be most productive- that of compelling the escrow of machine source code for periodic examination, making the machines more transparent for examination of their output files (including CVRs), examination of Poll Tapes, and conducting audits where a high percentage of hand counted ballots are compared to machine tallies. Citizens and Boards of Elections want to complete their counts on election night, and they do not want to spend enormous amounts of money and time to perform 100% hand counting of ballots (where human errors are abundant). Best/ Jim

Election Integrity Action Alert! Rally/Lobby/Call The NC General Assembly. Clean Up Our Election Laws! NCEIT Legislative Action Days Begin Wednesday, February 8th, 2023. We need you to call our NC Senators and Representatives to fix our election laws. Come In-person to Raleigh or Call Into the Legislature. Click the link for all of the details. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/so/b9OOTbh4W?languageTag=en&cid=08bae0ea-3b36-45a2-b7b6-0613125ad107

Call those representatives who sponsored an Observer bill last session (H 819) to find a sponsor. (Reps Mills, Kidwell and K. Hall). Call them and tell them to Please sponsor the Bill – To Clarify Poll Observer Appointments, Access and Permitted Activity https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/nceit-summary-of-poll-observer-bill-for-legislation-action-days (You sponsored H 819 last session.) We need citizen oversight at each polling location. The only way to get that is through transparency and accountability that only poll observers can provide. (NCEIT has the affidavits to expose the problems caused by unspecified language open to interpretation by the NCSBE (NC State Board of Elections) The NCEIT bill provides specific black and white language that eliminates the 'gray' language. Thank you. Leave your name and phone so they can call you back. Let them know you are a member of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team. Rep Grey Mills: 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 635 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-733-5741 Grey.Mills@ncleg.gov Rep Keith Kidwell: 16 West Jones Street, Rm. 1206 Raleigh, NC 27601-1096 919-733-5881 Keith.Kidwell@ncleg.gov Rep Kyle Hall 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 305 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-733-5609 Grey.Mills@ncleg.gov

Call those representatives who sponsored H1159 from last session - Cast Vote topic. Rep Cleveland, Rep. McNeeley, Rep. Clampitt, and Senator Hanig Ask them to sponsor NCEIT's Bill - Access and Retention of Cast Vote Records https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/nceit-summary-for-cast-vote-records-for-legislative-action-days Some county boards claim the CVRs are not public records because they were not printed, which is inconcistent with the definition of public records as in NCGS 132-1. Citizen analysts of election results need access to Cast Vote Records for inspection and verification that machine counts of ballots for each race match the machine’s printed reports. Without this access, voters lose confidence in the accuracy of machines and the outcomes of elections. Thank you. Leave your name and phone so they can call you back. Let them know you are a member of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team. Rep. George Cleveland 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 417A Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-715-6707 George.Cleveland@ncleg.gov Rep. Jeffrey C. McNeeley 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 606 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-733-5661 Jeffrey.McNeely@ncleg.gov Rep. Mike Clampitt 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 633 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-715-3005 Mike.Clampitt@ncleg.gov Senator Bobby Hanig 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 629 Raleigh, NC 27603 Bobby.Hanig@ncleg.gov

Bill – To Clarify Poll Observer Appointments, Access and Permitted Activity The Problem · NCGS Chapter 163-45 specifies that there shall be no more than three observers in the voting enclosure and requires no more than two be precinct-specific and no more than one be at-large; when maximum ought to be three observers regardless of source- at-large or precinct-assigned. · Neither the NCGS nor the NCSBE (in administrative code) has defined the term “impede the voting process” as referenced in the statute, which leads to ambiguity in interpretation. · Observer access to information about those who have voted is limited to “not less than 3 times during election day with spacing not less than one hour apart” and “at times specified by the State Board of Elections” conflicts with 163-45(c) allowing free access for observations in the voting enclosure. · The statute is unclear about reasons and authority to remove an Observer. · Local boards of election are inconsistent in limiting Observer access to the entire voting enclosure, except where restricted by statute, often leading to a violation of 18 US Code 245 which protects “poll watcher” activities. · The statutory definition of “voting enclosure” does not extend to include “curbside voting” which should be an extension of the voting enclosure. · General Statute Chapter 163 assigns no penalty for not following the provisions outlined in Chapter 163. The Solution · There is no need to specify the type of observers (precinct specific or at large) so long as no more than three are permitted in the voting enclosure. Any combination of the two observer types is adequate. · A definition for “impede the voting process” should be introduced in statute. · Clarification is needed to describe activities that Observers shall be allowed to perform within the voting enclosure- including unrestricted access to and observation of the registration table and check-in of voters, the ballot table, the Help Desk, the ballot marking area, curbside voting, and the tabulation/counting machine, so long as the voter’s ballot markings are not viewed and the voting process is not impeded. · The timeframe on accessing information for those that have voted should not be limited for Poll Observers. · Procedures for warning and removing an Observer for unpermitted activity must be prescribed. · Extend the definition of “voting enclosure” to include the space inside a vehicle with a voter(s) at curbside voting. Apply all voting enclosure restrictions to the space inside a vehicle in curbside voting. · Prescribe penalty for unlawfully restricting the permitted activities of Poll Observers- preferably a Class 1 misdemeanor. See Also Heritage Standard “Allow election observers complete access to the election process.” https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-facts-about-election-integrity-and-the-need-states-fix-their-election Contact: North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT), Jim Womack, Tel. (919) 770-4783 Paid for by North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT)