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October 12, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

State Officials Probing Alleged Voter Registration Fraud.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections is probing allegations of voter registration fraud, according to a Brunswick County elections official. Sara LaVere, director of the Brunswick County Board of Elections, stated that 18 individuals contacted her office about not filling out forms submitted under their names.

“We noticed some information that was different than what we had on record, an address, Social Security number, so we sent a letter to those voters asking them to complete that information,” LaVere explained. “The [fraudulent] state voter registration forms appear to come from a voter registration drive.”

“The first thing I want to point out is, you know, we use words like ‘anomalies,’ ‘suspicion,’ and everything else because we try to be PC, I guess. But this is fraud, outright fraudulent behavior,” added Hamilton County Board of Elections member Alex Triantafilou.

Data suggest the 2020 election featured a significant amount of mail-in ballot fraud, with potentially one in five votes cast being fraudulent.

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Brunswick County election officials have alerted the state’s board of elections but have not yet received a response regarding the investigation’s progress. State officials have not commented on whether there are suspects or arrests.

One local resident in Leland, North Carolina, Shelley Gentner, reported receiving a letter from the county Board of Elections in August. The letter requested validation of her voter information, accompanied by a registration form containing incorrect personal details and a forged signature.

“I’m like, ‘Okay, someone has signed my name on an application. It’s not my signature. It’s not me,’” Gentner said.

Such an act is illegal under North Carolina law, potentially resulting in a Class I felony.

Election integrity concerns have been compounded by aggressive voter registration efforts and the chaos caused by Hurricane Helene.

Ohio is also experiencing election integrity issues, with numerous counties investigating voter registration fraud. In Hamilton County, inconsistencies were found in voter registration applications, including one under the name of the late Henry Kissinger.

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections is probing allegations of voter registration fraud, according to a Brunswick County elections official. Sara LaVere, director of the Brunswick County Board of Elections, stated that 18 individuals contacted her office about not filling out forms submitted under their names. show more
October 10, 2024
Election Integrity
Lawfare

Georgia Election Workers Demand Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings.

Andrew Giuliani has filed court documents to assert his ownership of four World Series rings, originally given to his father, Rudy Giuliani, by the New York Yankees following their championships in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000. The rings are at the center of a legal dispute involving a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss. The judgment stems from allegations Giuliani made about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which Freeman and Moss argued caused them to face significant threats.

Andrew Giuliani, who ran for New York governor as a Republican in 2022, argues that his father gifted him the rings in 2018, according to court filings in Manhattan. He seeks to prevent Freeman and Moss from acquiring the rings as part of their efforts to collect on the defamation judgment. A judge has allowed Andrew Giuliani to intervene in this case.

Rudy Giuliani, hailed as “America’s Mayor” for his leadership in New York City following the September 11 terrorist attacks, is facing attempts to seize property such as his Manhattan apartment and jewelry collection, including the World Series rings. He is appealing the defamation judgment, arguing his statements on 2020 election fraud fall under free speech protections. He also contends that Freeman and Moss did not demonstrate “actual malice” on his part, a necessary component for winning defamation cases.

Freeman and Moss’s legal team has accused Rudy Giuliani of evading efforts to collect the exorbitant judgment through various legal maneuvers. Their litigation to secure the assets is proceeding with a hearing set for October 17.

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Andrew Giuliani has filed court documents to assert his ownership of four World Series rings, originally given to his father, Rudy Giuliani, by the New York Yankees following their championships in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000. The rings are at the center of a legal dispute involving a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss. The judgment stems from allegations Giuliani made about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which Freeman and Moss argued caused them to face significant threats. show more
October 8, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

RNC Legal Fail Means Officials CAN ‘Cure’ Ballots After They’ve Been Cast.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Pennsylvania GOP to halt several of the state’s counties from engaging in so-called “notice and cure” procedures, which allow voters to make changes to their mail-in ballots after they are cast. According to the court, the lawsuit brought by the RNC and state party was too close to the election for a ruling to be made.

Critics have long alleged that the RNC under Ronna Romney-McDaniel and its new leadership had failed to take the required actions quickly enough to materially impact the 2024 election, with this case serving as further evidence. Chris LaCivita and Michael Whatley took over the RNC from McDaniel in early March 2024, allowing for plenty of time to file the case over the summer. They sued in late September, six months later.

Previously, the state’s high court held that counties do not have to allow “notice and cure” procedures; however, over half of Pennsylvania’s counties allow the practice.

While the court’s decision to not hear the “notice and cure” lawsuit is a blow to election integrity efforts in Pennsylvania—a critical swing state in the 2024 election that some believe may determine the presidential contest—the court did deliver a win for fair elections in a second decision handed down.

The court declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Democrat-aligned voting rights groups challenging a Pennsylvania law requiring mail-in ballots to be posted with the correct date in order to be tallied. Like the RNC lawsuit, the court determined that the filing had been made too close to the election to be ruled upon.

During the 2022 mid-term election, around 10,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified because their envelopes did not have the correct date.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Pennsylvania GOP to halt several of the state's counties from engaging in so-called “notice and cure” procedures, which allow voters to make changes to their mail-in ballots after they are cast. According to the court, the lawsuit brought by the RNC and state party was too close to the election for a ruling to be made. show more
October 7, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Please Don’t Do What Elon Musk’s Mother Said.

Maye Musk, mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, attracted attention over the weekend for posting controversial advice regarding the 2024 election on social media. On Saturday, she shared a message on her son’s X platform suggesting—likely sarcastically—that Republicans should commit voter fraud to even the field with Democrats in Georgia. Additionally, she encouraged supporters of President Donald J. Trump to use false identities to cast multiple ballots at various polling places on election day.

“The Democrats have given us another option,” Elon Musk’s mother wrote. “You don’t have to register to vote. On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too.”

Such tactics would be a federal crime. According to 52 USC 10307, using false identities to vote multiple times illegally is punishable with heavy fines and imprisonment for each violation.

Earlier this year, the mayoral race in Bridgeport, Connecticut, had to be re-run for a third time after the prior two elections were found to be tainted by ballot stuffing—a similar illegal tactic to the one advocated by Maye Musk. Late last year, three Democrat officials in their respective states faced charges of tampering with votes, casting fraudulent mail-in ballots, and ballot stuffing.

Maye Musk’s post was tagged with a Community Note bluntly emphasizing the illegality of her suggestion. “This is, in fact, illegal,” it states.

Image by Elekes Andor.

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Maye Musk, mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, attracted attention over the weekend for posting controversial advice regarding the 2024 election on social media. On Saturday, she shared a message on her son's X platform suggesting—likely sarcastically—that Republicans should commit voter fraud to even the field with Democrats in Georgia. Additionally, she encouraged supporters of President Donald J. Trump to use false identities to cast multiple ballots at various polling places on election day. show more
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October 4, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

AZ Uncovers Further 120K Voters Without Citizenship Proof.

Arizona’s Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver’s license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.

The massive voter registration error was first identified last month when approximately 97,000 voters were found to be listed as full-ballot voters without providing the required citizenship documentation for state elections. Arizona requires those registering to vote in state-level elections to provide documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC). Consequently, if a voter cannot provide the required information, they’re designated as only being allowed to cast a federal election ballot.

According to the state investigation into the database issue, approximately 79,000 registered Republicans and 61,000 Democrats are impacted. An additional 76,000 voters who are registered under other political parties are also affected.

Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State, stressed that the individuals impacted “have lived in the state for decades and have attested under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens.” According to the Secretary of State’s office, those affected can still participate in November’s elections with full-ballot rights—citing a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling on the matter. Both Fontes and the Arizona Republican Party urged the court to stop an effort by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to restrict the voters to federal-only ballots.

In response, Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda criticized the handling of the situation, accusing Fontes of misleading the public and failing to fulfill his duties. She demands transparency and immediate disclosure of the affected voter data to all county recorders.

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Arizona's Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver's license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases. show more
October 4, 2024
Election Integrity
Lawfare

Senior Citizen Jailed for 9 Years for Letting Public Examine Voting Machines.

Tina Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado in her late sixties, has received a nine-year prison sentence for allowing 2020 election skeptics to replicate Dominion voting machine hard drives to check for evidence of fraud. Peters was convicted in August of multiple charges, including official misconduct. The charges stem from her use of another person’s security badge to allow access to Mesa County election equipment by an individual connected to election skeptic Mike Lindell.

The “breach” led to the online dissemination of sensitive data, necessitating the replacement of the county’s voting equipment—with more Dominion machines. During closing arguments, prosecutor Jessica Drake characterized Peters as “a fox guarding the henhouse,” noting her responsibility to secure the election equipment and alleging she failed to do so.

Despite the verdict, Peters insists she is innocent and was trying to safeguard election integrity. “It is with a heavy heart that I hear the vile accusations and anger levied against me,” she told the court, requesting probation instead of imprisonment.

Twenty-first Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett has instead opted for a harsh prison sentence. “I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could,” Barrett said of Peters, calling the senior citizen “as defiant a defendant as this court has seen.”

Following Peters’s “breach,” lawmakers in Colorado passed the so-called Colorado Election Security Act (SB22-153), which contains unrelated provisions that effectively outlaw the hand-counting of ballots in favor of mandatory machine counting. The National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) requested this anti-election integrity measure to stop the “election denial world” from requesting hand counts to verify the validity of vote counts.

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Tina Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado in her late sixties, has received a nine-year prison sentence for allowing 2020 election skeptics to replicate Dominion voting machine hard drives to check for evidence of fraud. Peters was convicted in August of multiple charges, including official misconduct. The charges stem from her use of another person's security badge to allow access to Mesa County election equipment by an individual connected to election skeptic Mike Lindell. show more
October 1, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Abortion Ballot Measure Would Also Establish Noncitizen Voting Rights.

A broadly worded New York state ballot measure could enshrine voting rights in the state constitution for noncitizens even though it is ostensibly aimed at protecting abortions. Proposition 1, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, would guarantee the right to abortion in the state constitution. However, there is mounting concern the measure’s broad anti-discrimination provision could lead to significant unintended consequences.

The proposed amendment states, “No person shall be denied the equal protection of the laws of this state,” and lists protections regardless of “race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, creed [or], religion, or sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.” According to critics, the inclusion of “national origin” could extend protections and potentially voting rights to noncitizens, including illegal immigrants.

Westchester County-based constitutional lawyer Bobbi Anne Cox, who is spearheading a campaign opposed to Proposition 1, argues the anti-discrimination amendment is so broadly worded that it equates noncitizens with citizens in terms of legal protections.

“It covers anybody. That includes people who came here illegally and broke our laws,” she emphasized, suggesting it is a “Trojan horse of epic proportions.”

Additionally, Cox notes the measure could result in taxpayers having to cover even more services for illegal immigrants than they already are—further ballooning state and local budgets.

Republican pollster John McLaughlin agrees with Cox, suggesting that voter support for Prop 1 decreases when they learn of its broader implications, said to include allowing transgenders to compete in women’s sports and share female locker rooms. He described the ballot measure as a “radical wish list.”

Image by rchristie/Ryan.

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A broadly worded New York state ballot measure could enshrine voting rights in the state constitution for noncitizens even though it is ostensibly aimed at protecting abortions. Proposition 1, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, would guarantee the right to abortion in the state constitution. However, there is mounting concern the measure's broad anti-discrimination provision could lead to significant unintended consequences. show more
September 30, 2024
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Democrats File Lawsuit to Stop Georgia From Hand-Counting Ballots.

Democrats have filed a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board, challenging a new rule that mandates hand-counting ballots. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Party of Georgia, with support from Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, initiated the suit. They claim that this rule, intended to reduce election fraud, will create confusion, delay results in larger counties, and threaten ballot security.

The Democrats insist the Georgia State Election Board exceeded its authority by establishing the Hand Count Rule. Passed earlier this month, the rule requires county election officials to count ballots by hand after polls close to verify machine count totals are accurate, though not to examine individual votes.

A 3-2 conservative majority on the board, formed this summer, has introduced several rules and measures to strengthen election integrity. Former President Donald J. Trump has expressed support for the board’s majority. At a rally in Atlanta this summer, he named them individually, referring to them as “pitbulls” fighting for “victory.”

Despite the claims of the Democrats and Republican-in-name-only (RINO) officials in Georgia that hand-counting ballots would cause “chaos,” it is standard practice in many advanced democracies, such as Britain and France, where voting machines and tabulators are virtually non-existent.

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Democrats have filed a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board, challenging a new rule that mandates hand-counting ballots. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Party of Georgia, with support from Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, initiated the suit. They claim that this rule, intended to reduce election fraud, will create confusion, delay results in larger counties, and threaten ballot security. show more
September 27, 2024
Election Integrity

Another 747,000 Ineligible Voters Purged from Electoral Rolls.

The North Carolina State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 individuals from its voter rolls over the past 20 months, citing ineligibility. Those purged from the registration lists include over 30,000 individuals who have moved to other states, nearly 190,000 deceased persons, 289,000 duplicate registrations, and a handful of those who have personally requested removal from the rolls.

This action follows a recent lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of North Carolina, which alleges the presence of ineligible voters on the state’s voter rolls. The lawsuit also claims that voter registration forms in Wake County do not require mandatory information such as driver’s license or Social Security numbers. “By failing to collect certain statutorily required information prior to registering these applicants to vote, Defendants placed the integrity of the state’s elections into jeopardy,” the lawsuit states.

North Carolina’s role as a potential swing state in the 2024 presidential election adds further significance to the maintenance and accuracy of its voter rolls. The National Pulse reported earlier this year that a federal investigation found numerous noncitizens registered to vote in the state, with several dozen being accused of having illegally cast ballots in prior elections.

Concerns regarding noncitizen voters have become a top concern among Republican lawmakers and election watchdog groups. Recent data shows a statistically significant number of noncitizens are participating in federal elections, undermining the integrity of the outcome. In addition, a recent investigation revealed that nearly one million deceased individuals are still listed on voter rolls in Puerto Rico—a U.S. territory in the Caribbean. There were 1,287,745 votes cast in the territory’s 2020 general election, with the margin of victory for winner Pedro Pierluisi standing at around 19,000 votes.

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 individuals from its voter rolls over the past 20 months, citing ineligibility. Those purged from the registration lists include over 30,000 individuals who have moved to other states, nearly 190,000 deceased persons, 289,000 duplicate registrations, and a handful of those who have personally requested removal from the rolls. show more
September 26, 2024
Election Integrity

Another Noncitizen Charged with Illegally Voting in a U.S. Election.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) has filed voter fraud charges against Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez, a noncitizen residing legally in the United States. He faces two counts of election misconduct stemming from his alleged actions on July 16, 2024, during a special election for the Marshalltown City Council. According to  Bird’s office, the charges include registering to vote and casting a ballot on the same day.

Concerns regarding the illegal participation of noncitizens in U.S. elections have been increasing over the past year as more incidents of criminal acts have been uncovered. The National Pulse reported in July that survey data shows a statistically significant number of noncitizens have illegally voted in American elections. Additionally, a recent investigation in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico found approximately 900,000 ineligible voters were listed on its voter rolls—though in this instance, the individuals were predominantly deceased.

The instances of noncitizen voters documented around the country are abetted by state laws allowing illegal and legal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses or state-issued identification, which either does not or does little to differentiate them from American citizens. Additionally, many states have voter registration laws that automatically add an individual to the state’s voter rolls whenever they fill out certain government forms—such as a driver’s license application. This has resulted in some states seeing thousands of noncitizens erroneously registered to vote.

In Iowa, Sanchez-Vasquez signed a voter registration form, falsely asserting under oath that he was a U.S. citizen. According to Marshall County Sheriff Joel Phillips, Sanchez-Vasquez was aware of his ineligibility to vote. “He had full knowledge [that] he was not valid to vote,” Phillips said in a recent interview.

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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) has filed voter fraud charges against Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez, a noncitizen residing legally in the United States. He faces two counts of election misconduct stemming from his alleged actions on July 16, 2024, during a special election for the Marshalltown City Council. According to  Bird’s office, the charges include registering to vote and casting a ballot on the same day. show more