The NC General Assembly can limit the damage from ERIC, a Soros funded leftist group. Jim Womack, President, North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT), wrote a letter (see below) outlining why ERIC is bad for NC election integrity and what the legislature can do to box ERIC in to minimize the damage to election integrity. Jim's proposed solutions are what we need to make this an election issue with candidates in November. Section 26 of HB 103 - NC Budget Bill - gives the "NCSBE the authority to acquire or share highly sensitive information on NC drivers licenses, full social security numbers, or other personally identifiable, private information with this 501(c)3 organization (ERIC) . ... DOT or Social & Health Services data in particular - would be used to help ERIC identify unregistered voters that must be added to our voter rolls (with or without their consent)." ERIC member agreement allows ERIC to share NC data with other third party organizations (namely the Center for Election Innovation & Research or CEIR), without control or permission from our state authorities. That data will be used to help left-leaning organizations - like CEIR - target unregistered or newly registered voters in NC for absentee by mail flyers, ballot request forms, and leftist materials intended to shape voter opinions." From: Jim Womack Date: July 12, 2022 at 14:51:42 EDT To: paul.newton@ncleg.gov, ralph.hise@ncleg.gov, warren.daniel@ncleg.gov, grey.mills@ncleg.gov Cc: "Rep. John Sauls" , "Sen. Jim Burgin" , Cleta Mitchell Subject: Limiting the Potential Damage to North Carolina Election Integrity from House Bill 103 Sirs: Please take a look at the attached Electronic Registration Information System (ERIC) "By-Laws" our state will be asked to accept and specifically the Member Agreement (Exhibit A- pages 13-14) that someone must sign to allow ERIC's review and "list maintenance" of NC Voter files. (View the ERIC Bylaws and Membership Agreement) I do NOT believe our NCGA was aware they were giving the NCSBE the authority to acquire or share highly sensitive information on NC drivers licenses, full social security numbers, or other personally identifiable, private information with this 501(c)3 organization. Nor do I think the NCGA intends that other NC agency data -- DOT or Social & Health Services data in particular - would be used to help ERIC identify unregistered voters that must be added to our voter rolls (with or without their consent). Regardless of intent, House Bill 103 appears to give permission for the NCSBE to share data with this non-profit that my (NCEIT) team -- a professional, non-partisan 501(c)4 solely focused on ensuring Election Integrity in our state -- cannot acquire. Moreover, the NCGA is allowing NCSBE to sole source the sharing of this data at great cost (perhaps $25K or more) when NCEIT is available to provide the same (and probably more comprehensive and accurate) list maintenance services AT NO COST TO THE STATE. Further, the ERIC member agreement allows ERIC to share NC data with other third party organizations (namely the Center for Election Innovation & Research or CEIR), without control or permission from our state authorities. That data will be used to help left-leaning organizations - like CEIR - target unregistered or newly registered voters in NC for absentee by mail flyers, ballot request forms, and leftist materials intended to shape voter opinions. Two weeks ago, I met with Cleta Mitchell, five Secretaries of State (LA, WV, AL, FL, and MO), and reps from several nationally acclaimed election integrity agencies in Washington, D.C. All of us were genuinely concerned with the risks associated with ERIC. Several states are seriously considering withdrawal from ERIC (or limiting their commitments to ERIC) because of the organization's staffing and its ties to corrupt individuals and agencies. Yet, here we are in NC, sending money to an organization known for adding more people to state voter rolls and sharing our voter data with organizations funded by Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros. Here's my proposal. Exercising your authority for election oversight: 1. Instruct the NCSBE and other state agencies that no data may be shared with ERIC that is not also shared with NCEIT for prospective voter roll clean-up (i.e., list maintenance). 2. Specifically instruct NCSBE and NCDOT/DMV that no NC drivers license data is to be shared with ERIC that is not also shared with NCEIT, and in no case are social security numbers, in whole or in part, to be shared with any outside agency. 3. Instruct NCSBE that House Bill 103 is not to be construed to allow the signing of any member agreements with ERIC without prior review and approval of the respective NCGA election committees. (This is needed to comply with the policy provisions of Section XXI (Part 4) of the budget bill.) The voters of this state want free and fair elections conducted from verifiably accurate and reliable voter lists. House Bill 103 did not meaningfully change anything other than to guarantee that more voters will be added to our voter rolls- which are already woefully bloated with ineligible or inaccurate records. Please help us to help you fix our voter rolls. And please protect our future elections by consulting with our NCEIT team before granting any further authority to NCSBE in sharing sensitive NC voter info outside our state. Warm Regards/ Jim Womack President, North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT) www.NCEIT.org Tel. (919) 770-4783

See here for details. Announcing POSTPONEMENT of NC's Election Integrity Whistle Stop Tour until August 2022 (constantcontact.com) About this event North Carolina's "Whistle Stop" Tour on Election Integrity, originally scheduled for June 20-25 at venues across the state, will now be postponed to sometime in the month of August 2022. Following our magnificent Election Integrity Summit this past weekend, decisionmakers agreed this event is best tailored to do final recruiting and training for the state's election integrity volunteers during late summer. This event is being repurposed to focus efforts on preparation and training for the upcoming general election (October-November 2022). We will soon announce the dates and locations for all 13 stops across our great state in August. No one should have to travel more than one hour to attend a session led by Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots, assisted by our superb NCEIT statewide Team.. Thanks to all who made it out to the Summit in Raleigh! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTPONED: What: Whistle Stop Tour to Promote North Carolina Election Integrity Team Task Forces NCEIT.org https://www.nceit.org/ Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots is making 13 stops in NC. She will stop in Buncombe (#2) before heading East. Her purpose is to educate and bring awareness to Election Integrity and what we must do to secure our elections or the country will fail. Seating is limited to 100. You MUST RSVP Jane@NCEIT.org to secure your seat. Your name, phone, email, and county. We are asking for a $5.00 donation at the door for cost of the venue and refreshments. When: Monday, June 20, 2022. 7PM – 9PM Where: Averys Creek Community Center 899 Glenn Bridge Rd SE Arden, NC 28704 ++++++++++++++++++++ Please tell friends about this event and bring them along. But please RSVP or you may not have a seat. Contact Jane@NCEIT.org with questions. 209 986 3845 Thanks so much. Jane Bilello and the NCEIT Staff Jim Womack: Coordinator Jay Delancy, Voter Integrity Project Jane Bilello, Asheville Tea Party Sue Butcher, Liberty First Grassroots See Schedule for Whistle Stops in NC June 20th - June 25th: Election Integrity: Critical Dates Approaching (ashevilleteapac.org)

https://www.nceit.org/_files/ugd/71310c_a64eacd3e13b4656831b806b4313ba34.pdf Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) I. ERIC Overview: · ERIC is the Electronic Registration Information Center, a small 501(c)3 organization with a mailing address in Washington, D.C. ERIC is presently being used in 31 states and the District of Columbia as a solution provider for “Voter List Maintenance” 1, 10 · Founded in 2012 by David Becker, formerly of People for the American Way. Becker is an experienced electionlawyer with a career rich in left-leaning projects.6, 18 · David Becker remains a board memberof ERIC. He also created the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) in 2016, which distributed $69 million in grants from Mark Zuckerberg and his Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) for the 2020 election.2, 3, 4, 5, 15 · Through David Becker’s membership on the ERIC Board, CEIR has direct ties to ERIC for information sharing. 1, 18, 21 · ERIC has not published an annual report since 2017. 10 · ERIC is a “sole source” organization with no direct competitor thanks to lawsuits that closed down the “Interstate Cross-Check” system which previously served the purpose of helping to identify duplicated voter registrations among the states. 17 · ERIC was originally funded by Soros’ Open Society. Leaked funding documentsshowed Soros partneredwith the Rockefeller Family Fund to push changes to voter registration policies at the national level. Soros also gave money to “Pew Centeron The States” to improve voter list maintenance practices.8, 9, 19, 20, 21 · ERIC promotes itself as a means of “improving the accuracy of America’s voter rolls.” In reality, ERIC operates a national voter registration driveto produce a database of everyone who could possibly produce a ballot. Example: Colorado is a 10-yearuser of ERIC; at least 40 of 64 Colorado counties now have more registered voters than residents eligible to vote. 11, 13, 14 · ERIC is granted regularaccess to the detailed and personally identifiable information for residents in 2/3 of our states. This organization creates the opportunity to produce ballots ripe for exploitation by left-wing organizations.13, 14 · The initial ERIC state membershipfee is $25,000. Additionally each member pays from $15,000 to $74,000 annually for ERIC services. This generates well over one million dollars in annual revenue for the work of the 3-person ERIC staff. 10 · ERIC sourced 17 millionnew voters for the 2020 election, the most in the historyof the organization. (By comparison, ERIC generated just 5.7 million new voters during Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.)12, 22 · The ERIC databases possess sufficient Eligible but Unregistered (EBU) voter data to influence a national election.9, 14 · In addition to the above list, Member Statesmust provide data on every individual in the state’s Motor Vehicle Department database- both licensed and ID recipients. This comprehensive combo of data includes the names, addresses, date of birth, license numbers, last 4 digits of social security numbers, voter activity, phone number, email address, title and type of citizenship documentation of: (a) Everyone who can generate a legal ballot; (b) Prospective voters approaching voting age; and (c) Non-citizens who have been issued an ID in a few states. 12, 13, 17 II. What happens with the lists that are generated from ERIC? · ERIC provides each member state with a targeted list of people that are not registered to vote. According to the ERIC membership agreement and bylaws, each state is required to contact at least 95% of the ERIC-identified unregistered prospects within 90 days, soliciting them to register. 12, 17 · There is no ERIC mandate or requirement for member states to purge their voter rolls of ineligible or illegal voters. States are “encouraged” but not required to request ERIC’s voter updates at least once a year. 12, 17 · According to ERIC member rules, “Under no circumstances shallthe members transmitany record indicating an individual is a non-citizen of the U.S.” 12, 17 · Some Member Statescurrently use ERIC to hide their list maintenance data,indicating it violates their ERIC vendor contracts, even though Federal law mandates that data be made public. 17, 23 · The 1993 NVRA (Motor Voter) law incudes “Public Disclosure Provision” which allows the public inspection of “voter list maintenance records.” States are required by federal law (1993 NVRA) to reportto Congress how many ineligible voters they removefrom the voter rolls-voters who fail to respond to an addressconfirmation request and fail to vote in two consecutive elections. 23 · Some ERIC member states merge public voter records and some private motor vehicle or drivers license datatogether, then claim the merged data must all remain protected, the data being non-releasable because it would violate the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) 17 · ERIC member states have an inferior record of list maintenance- removing 25% fewer voter registration records than their non-ERIC state counterparts. See the below chart – compiled from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) EAVS Report from 2020. 22 III. NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATIVE INTEREST · The North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) should investigate why it is necessary to expend tens of thousands of dollars annually through a sole source, non-competitive contract for undefined “List Maintenance” functions using an out-of-state501(c)3 with ties to left-leaning organizations, when in-state 501(c)3’s and 501(c)4’s are ready to provide essentially the same service at no cost to the state. · Section XXVI of House Bill 103 (State Budget) authorizes the expenditure of federal HAVA appropriations for unspecified “List Maintenance” services, allowing the transmittal of Voter Registration and Voter History data to ERIC. Nowhere in this bill is there an authorization to sign an ERIC agreement committing the state to release of other (confidential) data, particularly DOT/DMV or DHHS client data. The NCGA should immediately and unambiguously instruct NCSBE and other state agencies that drivers license information, full or partial social security numbers, and dates of birth are not releasable to ERIC. · NCGS § 163-82.10(a1) clearly conveys, “Full or partial social security numbers, dates of birth, the identity of the public agency at which the voter registered under G.S. 163-82.20, any electronic mail address submitted under this Article, Article 20, or Article 21A of this Chapter, photocopies of identification for voting, and drivers license numbers, whether held by the State Board or a county board of elections, are confidential and shall not be considered public records and subject to disclosure to the general public under Chapter 132 of the General Statutes.” · In the event state agencies are permitted or required to transfer personally identifiable DOT/DMV or DHHS information to ERIC, then the same information should be made immediately available to the NCEIT Team (a much larger, in-state, non-partisan, 501(c)4 election integrity team with the tools needed to effectively assist the state in its “List Maintenance” requirements). · ERIC bylaws seem to indicate that ERIC will only commit to “List Maintenance” support once the ERIC Member Agreement is signed. The NCGA ought to demand review and pre-approval of that Member Agreement prior to authorizing NCSBE to transmit any agency data beyond Voter Registration and Voter History data to ERIC. The ERIC Member Agreement has innumerable legal requirements, some of which likely conflict with NC General Statutes. · The NCGA should insist that all ERIC personnel using NC agency data sign a non-disclosure agreement, agreeing not to share that data with any third party organizations without the expressed written consent of the NCGA. · According to NC’s List Maintenance documentation, under § 163-82.14. List maintenance,the organization receives DMV and other state agency information on a frequent basis, info they shouldbe using to check for in-state duplicate registrations, felons and dead voters. ERIC support is not needed to improve the identification of dead, ineligible, or in-state movers we have already identified through NC list maintenance groups. IV. Sources 1 https://ericstates.org/who-we-are/ 2 https://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY00/20160913/105274/HHRG-114-SY00-Bio-BeckerD- 20160913.pdf 3 https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-election-innovation-research/ 4 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/28/lawsuit-silicon-valley-billionaire-recruited-election- officials-to-accept-grants-from-zuckerberg/ 5 https://capitalresearch.org/article/breaking-new-irs-disclosures-confirm-flood-of-private-money-to- elections-offices-from-zuckerberg-grantee/ 6 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/roads-lead-mark-zuckerberg-newest-liberal-group- eoldn-organized-defend-shady-election-officials-free-zuckerberg-roots/ 7 https://ericstates.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ERIC_Membership_Summary_v06-2022.pdf 8 https://www.pewtrusts.org/- /media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pewupgradingvoterregistrationpdf.pdf 9 https://ericstates.org/statistics/ 10 https://ericstates.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FINAL_ERIC_2017_Annual_Report.pdf 11 https://www.judicialwatch.org/co-voter-rolls/ 12 https://ericstates.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ERIC_Bylaws_and_Membership_Agreement_June_2022_FINAL_FOR_PUBLICATION.pdf 13 https://americanpolicy.org/2022/02/25/eric-the-electronic-registration-information-center-a-dream-database-for-voter-fraud/ 14 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/eric-part-4-response-panicked-media-attacks/ 15 https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/06/zuckerberg-funded-group-gave-11-8m-to-democrat- consulting-firms-for-nonpartisan-voter-education-in-michigan/ 16 https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/21/president-obama-announces-his- intent-appoint-individuals-presidential-co 17 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/cleaning-voter-rolls-soros-founded-funded-eric-now- used-31-states/ 18 https://theamericanleader.org/leader/david-becker-making-elections-more-secure/ 19 https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2016/11/07/leaked-documents-reveal-expansive-soros-funding- to-manipulate-federal-elections-n123917 20 https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/pew-center-for-the-states/ 21 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/eric-investigation-part-3-soros-open-society-founding-nations-largest-voter-roll-clean-operation/ 22https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/document_library/files/2020_EAVS_Report_Final_508c.pdf 23 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/eric-investigation-part-2-largest-u-s-counties-removed- zero-two-ineligible-voters-voter-rolls-4-years/

https://americanpolicy.org/2022/02/25/eric-the-electronic-registration-information-center-a-dream-database-for-voter-fraud/ "We MUST get off the couch and out the door. We have a country to save, and time is running very short." The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nation-wide voter data-gathering system, funded by the Pew Center and an “anonymous” donor, the Soros Open Society. Designed by activists in 2014, it is a membership organization established to maintain states’ voter rolls. Please don’t misunderstand. Legitimate maintenance of voter rolls, although required of every state by law, was not the intent of ERIC. Eleven blue states joined the first year, 2014. Membership was up to 22 states by 2017, which was the last year that it published an annual report. By 2022, 31 states – some red and some blue! – were a part of the Center. ERIC’s advertised purpose at its outset was to provide states a system of voter roll management. Provision of this data to the public is something that the Democrat Party has fought against for decades, since the NVRA (“motor voter” act) became federal law in 1993. That Act allows public inspection of “voter list maintenance records” – which has, of course, become hugely contentious since the blatant election fraud took place in 2020. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has recently sued the District of Columbia for its records rather than attempting FOIA requests, which are so often stalled or ignored by this regime. More on this later, however. Just know that ERIC is not forthcoming with the vast amount of voter data it has in its possession, and this IS against the law. ERIC is a voluntary membership organization which charges each member $25,000 annual membership fee – for its services. Each member state is mandated by the ERIC bylaws, to submit ALL details on every voter, both active and inactive, to ERIC every 60 days. Along with this, states must give over all data from their motor vehicle registration divisions. This provides ERIC the information on everyone with a drivers license or even a learner’s permit PLUS all ID recipients which include illegals, elderly shut-ins, etc. For this, ERIC then gives each member state a targeted list of all those NOT registered to vote, and requires that the state contact a minimum of 95% of these people within 90 days, soliciting them to register. Where updates in individual profiles are garnered, those voters must be contacted within 90 days as well. The one thing that is NOT mandated is that voter rolls be purged – the ostensible reason behind the organization. Member states are encouraged but not required to “update” their lists once every year. ERIC sends their data updates approximately every 425 days, whether or not it is requested. Let me highlight this provision of ERIC membership, from its own bylaws: “Under no circumstances shall the members transmit any record indicating an individual is a non-citizen of the U.S.” This, lest you be confused about the intent of the organization. In reality, ERIC creates a left-wing voter registration drive, using an incredibly complete list of potential voters it obtains from member states – at the taxpayers’ expense, which expenditure climbs to millions of dollars per state after all the ERIC mandates are fulfilled. In other words, the residents of ERIC member states are paying for the destruction of their own voter integrity, and this hurts both parties. Data collection does not stop with DMV and voter records. ERIC requires submission from each state of totals of provisional ballots counted, totals of those uncounted, and why. ERIC demands to know how many voters changed or updated their registrations on the day of voting; how many paper ballots were cast, and how many electronic votes were tabulated. ERIC even requires names of all individuals who participate in the act of registeriing voters, including public library staff, DHS, Depts. of Health and Public Safety, and volunteer organizations. Artificial intelligence from Senzing (an IBM spinout company) links this data with USPS records and Social Security information (death records). This company bills themselves as having the “most advanced data matching and relationship discovery capabilities, discovering “who is related to whom, including networks and households.” In the words of The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft, ERIC’s data collection is “comprehensive and would be one of the most coveted by bad actors looking to influence an election.” To quote J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, “From there is it unclear as to how else this data is massaged and utilized. Because a top election official from each state is on the ERIC Board, it might be assumed that the states know everything and anything about this organization, but they don’t. With what system or systems does ERIC interface after the massive collections? How is this data utilized?” In a Breitbart podcast, J. Christian Adams says, “ Even Secretaries of States who are on ERIC’s Board do not know the answers. State officials have seemingly lost track of a lot of what is happening. For lack of the initiative to build and maintain their own voter roll management systems, states have sacrificed all data on their citizens to the professional fraudsters. Some red states joined after leftist courts took out the Kansas Cross Check System of voter roll cleansing, which was being utilized by several states, apparently successfully. This left many red states without a system of their own, so they joined ERIC. (Yes, stop and ask yourself, “red states joining a Soros organization?? Must be time to elect better smarter people.) This is when ERIC got comprehensive powers. Thirty one states had no ability to deal with their own voter rolls but through the nationalized roll manipulation center. I know you’re curious, so here is the membership list of states who have thrown away their sovereignty: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Is your state among them?? If so, your first call after reading this should be to your local board of elections. Ask them to verify. Remember, they may be as clueless as to the electronic mole in their midst, ERIC, as the secretaries of states who are on its board, but it will be entertaining to find out. Make sure they know that YOU know, and forward them a copy of this article. Assemble a community to attend the next meeting, and bring the matter to the floor. Should be fun to watch reactions of your public officials. In the next piece, I will tell more of this Leftists’ dream data base, and how it is related to and developed from decades of dishonesty at the ballot box. I will also lay out an action plan for you to begin to reclaim your rights and secure your ballots. We MUST get off the couch and out the door. We have a country to save, and time is running very short.

Please watch Cleta Mitchell’svideo on WhosCounting.us : Biden’s Executive Order to Federal Agencies To Use Tax Dollars for Democratic Political Campaign: (The Left’s plan to bloat the voter rolls by exploiting vulnerable voters) https://whoscounting.us/2022/08/biden-executive-order-federal-agencies-to-use-tax-dollars-for-democratic-political-campaign-plans-in-2022-election/

Like North Carolina Election Integrity Team (NCEIT), , Michigan has a grassroots organization trying, like us, to clean up the voter rolls making it Easy to Vote and Hard to Cheat. Their Secretary of State refused to take 25,975 dead voters off the voter rolls. This is what happens when we fight back! https://www.theepochtimes.com/benson-loses-round-in-fight-over-dead-people-on-michigan-voter-rolls_4692255.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-08-29-1&utm_medium=email&est=8tZUZMMLBgwRYclNigc4ZvIRilwWx4JLbTG2lr5WKn3jj4q805hJ91tej8xpJNUnb1U%3D Michigan Secretary of State Loses Round in Fight Over Dead People on Voter Rolls Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has failed to convince a judge to dismiss a case that could force the state to remove 25,975 deceased people from its voter rolls. Benson moved for dismissal of a case brought against her in November 2021 by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) for her failure to clean up the state’s voter registration rolls—in an alleged violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. On Aug. 25, Benson’s motion to dismiss the case was denied by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The court also denied the motions to intervene filed by the Detroit/Downriver Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans, and Rise Inc. Additionally, PILF’s suit seeks to force Benson to provide documentation of her efforts to remove deceased registrants from the voter rolls, something she has thus far also failed to do. Names of 25,975 Deceased Voters PILF notified Benson of the problem in September 2020 and again in November 2020, a year before it filed its lawsuit. The foundation provided Benson with the names of 25,975 voters who had died but were still on Michigan’s voter rolls, as were discovered by its research. Of these, 23,663 registrants had been dead for five years or more, and 17,449 had been dead for at least a decade. The study found that 3,956 registrants had been dead for at least 20 years. That time span encompasses the terms of Democratic and Republican secretaries of state, an indication that neither party has been serious about a voter roll cleanup. J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation. (File photo) PILF president J. Christian Adams said in a statement about the 2021 case: “For over a year, we shared specific data with the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office about the alarming problem of deceased registrants on Michigan’s voter rolls. “Secretary Benson has done nothing to resolve the problem and is even refusing to hand over public documents related to these failures. “The failure to remove deceased registrants creates an opportunity for fraud and makes Michigan’s elections less secure. “This case is about ensuring that deceased registrants are not receiving ballots.” Commenting on the current legal victory, Adams said in an Aug. 25 statement, “This initial win is the first step.” “It’s astonishing that Secretary Benson is so vigorously opposing effective list maintenance,” he added. Adams called it “remarkable” that, after PILF shared its data with Benson in 2020, dead people remain on Michigan’s voter rolls. The Michigan secretary of state’s office said it doesn’t comment on ongoing or pending litigation. PILF won a complete victory in 2021 when Pennsylvania agreed to remove more than 20,000 deceased voters from its rolls. According to a statement, PILF will continue to assist states in the cause of election integrity and to fight against lawlessness in the conducting of American elections wherever found. Steven Kovac REPORTER Follow Steven Kovac reports for the National Team from Michigan. He is a former small businessman, local elected official, and conservative political activist. Steven is an ordained minister of the Gospel. He and his wife of 33 years have two grown children. He can be reached at steven.kovac@epochtimes.us

In case you're looking for numbered memos, click here https://www.ncsbe.gov/search/ncsbe?keys=2022-05 Please click on the blue links for the numbered memos dealing with Voter Challenges. North Carolina State Board of Elections Numbered Memo 2018-06. Voter Challenges May 12, 2022 https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/sboe/numbermemo/2022/Numbered%20Memo%202022-05_Absentee%20Voter%20Challenges%20by%20County%20Board.pdf North Carolina State Board of Elections Numbered Memo 2018-07 Voter Challenges. August 8, 2018 https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/sboe/numbermemo/2022/Numbered%20Memo%202022-07_Absentee%20Envelope%20Supply.pdf NUMBERED MEMO 2018-07 TO: County Boards of Elections FROM: Kim Strach, Executive Director RE: Court Order Affecting Voter Challenges DATE: August 8, 2018 (revised November 5, 2018) On August 7, a federal judge ruled that North Carolina’s voter challenge statute violates federal law when a challenge is based on the voter’s change of residency. In granting partial summary judgment to the plaintiffs in NC. Conf. of NAACP v. State Board, 1:16-CV-01274, Judge Biggs of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina held that G.S. §§ 163A-911 et seq. violate the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) prohibition on removal of a voter from the rolls based on change of residency absent a written request by a voter or providing notice and waiting two federal election cycles with no contact from the voter. As the chief state elections official, it is my duty to ensure statewide compliance with the NVRA and applicable court orders. Accordingly, all county boards of elections are hereby instructed as follows: 1. No voter challenges based on change of residency. Do not remove a voter from the rolls when a voter challenge is brought based on change of residency. Do not hold a hearing or take any other action to consider a voter challenge based on a voter’s change of residency.1 2. No voter challenges based on other qualifications without individualized knowledge within the 90 days before an election. Do not remove a voter from the rolls within the 90 days preceding a federal election based on a voter challenge brought without an “individualized inquiry as to the circumstances of each voter.” Do not hold a hearing or take any other action to consider a voter challenge that is brought without an individualized inquiry by the challenger. Today, August 8, marks the start of the 90-day period prior to 1 Exception: A voter may be removed only if (1) the county board has received written confirmation from the voter of a change of residency outside the county, or (2) the county board has already complied with the NVRA’s notice requirement and the voter has had no subsequent contact with the county board for two federal election cycles. 2 the general election. The judge explained in her order that, a county board’s removal of voters based on “generic evidence [that] conveyed no information about each challenged voter’s specific circumstance” violated the NVRA’s prohibition on systematic removal. The judge contrasted generic evidence with “reliable first-hand evidence specific to the voters challenged.” Order at 14.2 The order applies to voter challenges, whether filed before the election or on Election Day. This means you must ensure all precinct judges receive training that they are not permitted to entertain voter challenges brought based on change of residency or based on non-individualized evidence. Please note that this order does not affect statutes governing candidate challenges. County boards should continue to hear candidate challenge brought on the basis that the candidate does not meet the required residency period or does not reside in the jurisdiction. Additionally, the Order provides that challenges based on criminal conviction, death, and mental incapacity may continue. 2 Exception: A county board may remove a voter if requested by the voter or required by state law due to felony conviction, mental incapacity, or death of the voter. See G.S. § 163A-877 for regular list maintenance procedures

Listen to July 20, 2022 Podcast with Mollie Hemingway — Federalist Senior Editor and author of the new book Rigged reveals how big tech, a propaganda-driven liberal media, and Democrat strategy corrupted the 2020 elections. Mollie joins Cleta Mitchell to reflect on lessons learned and where the integrity of US elections is headed as they both draw on experience to identify problems and suggest solutions. Will we ever have fair elections again? Will mail-in ballots remain the Democrat’s strategic plan for vote manipulation? Listen to this episode of Who’s Counting with Cleta Mitchell and Mollie Hemingway: A Deadly Trend: Liberal Bias Transformed Into Election Corruption to find out. Mollie’s must-read book Rigged is available on Amazon. A Deadly Trend: Liberal Bias Transformed Into Election CorruptionSubscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify

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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