Rockingham County Republican Committee
Election Integrity
The latest news on election integrity
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Apr 8, 2024, Ban Zuckerbucks Nationally, Washington Examiner
[Wisconsin was the 28th state to ban private funding of elections recently. Analysis showed that the Zuckerburg's $400 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and Center for Election Innovation and Research went exclusively to Democratic urban areas]
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[The judge ruled in favor of a Democratic candidate who complained that the 'County Line' which has a column for party endorsed candidates. Republicans said the ruling did not apply to them. The judge agreed.]
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Mar 30, 2024, Connecticut Becomes the Latest State to Approve Early Voting, The Hill
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[Federal judges approved congressional maps in Florida and South Carolina that are viewed as favorable to Republicans.]
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Mar 28, 2024, RNC Wins Major Election Integrity Victory in Pennsylvania, Trending Politics
[In a 2-1 decision among 3 Democrat appointed judges, they sided with Republicans on requiring verification signatures before expanding mail-in voting in Pennsylvania]
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Mar 27, 2024, New Mexico Accused of Hiding More Election Records, Daily Signal
[NM Official won't disclose key information about new signature-verification equipment for putting candidates on ballot.]
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Mar 20, 2024, RNC Sues Nevada Secretary of State Over 'Impossibly High" Voter Rolls, Daily Wire
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[Election activists allege that Dominion Voting System Touchscreen Machines are so flawed Georgia Elections are unconstitutional]
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[Mac Warner is the Secretary of State for West Virginia and running as a Republican for Governor]
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Feb 19, 2024, Wisconsin Governor Signs New State Legislative Maps Into Law, Ending GOP Gerrymander, NBC News
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Feb 9, 2024, Federal Judge Rules in Favor of DiSantis on Challenge to Election Law, Disantis Daily
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Feb 9, 2024, Arizona Prevents Election Recount Nightmare With a Bipartisan Fix, NBC News
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Jan 17, 2024, Republicans Intervene in DNC Lawsuit Over New Hampshire Election Law, American Liberty News
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Dec 23, 2023, Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down GOP-Drawn Legislative Maps, American Liberty News
[Court sided with Democrats that Republican maps had created two-classes of voters through extreme gerrymandering]
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Dec 19, 2023, China Meddled More Aggressively in 2022 Elections Because It Did Not Fear Biden Admin Retaliation Intel Report Finds, Daily Caller
[Three liberal justices dissented over using 2021 map for local elections.]
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Dec 9, 2023, Jack Smith Reveals Sweeping Scope of Bid To Debunk Trump Election Machine Claims, Politico
[The report raises serious questions about federal employee behavior and ethics]
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Dec 6, 2023, Nevada AG Announces Felony Charges Against Trump 2020 Alternate Electors, Truth Press
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Oct 22, 2023, Mike Lindell Wi-Fi Monitoring Devices Banned From Kentucky Polls, Truth Press
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Oct 6, 2023, New Mexico Judge Rules Against Republicans in Redistricting Case, NPR
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Oct 5, 2023, Live Oak CA Intoxicated Teacher Caught Teaching Second-Graders After Driving to Work Impaired, Law Officer
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Sept 27, 2023, New Mexico Republican Party Takes The State's Congressional Map to Trial, NPR
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Sept 27, 2023, 2023 Elections Bring New Scrutiny to 'Sore Loser' Rule, Virginia Mercury
[State pushes back on Democratic Candidate's Lawsuit Seeking to Undo Primary Loss]
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Sept 24, 2023, Articles of Impeachment Filed Against Wisconsin Election Chief,, Truth Press
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[Washington, D.C.; Georgia; Ohio; South Carolina; Tennessee; and W. Virginia]
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Sept 20, 2023, Republican Groups Sue New York, Governor Over Absentee Voting, The Hill
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Sept 19, 2023, Republicans Win a Temporary Freeze in Redistricting Win in New York, Politico
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Sept 4, 2023, Mississippi Democrat Says There Was Fraud in Democratic Primary, Truth Press
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[Dark Money Group, Arabella Advisors, through The New Venture Fund sought to control the non-partisan group Secure Democracy]
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June 27, 2023, Supreme Court Rejects Independent State Legislature Theory in North Carolina Case, Virginia Mercury
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[Hansjorg Wyss established the Wyss Foundation that funds groups such as the Berger Action Fund]
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Mar 28, 2023, Report: Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Kansas Congressional Map, American Liberty
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[Florida, Missouri, West Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama]
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[Convenience caused extra work for registrars]
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Mar 4, 2023, Arizona Supreme Court Agrees to Expedite Kari Lake's Election Lawsuit, Truth Press
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Former Arizona Republican AG Brnovich Sat on Records Refuting 2020 Election Fraud, Associated Press
[Former Arizona AG did not find report from two investigators credible, Democrats has filed 8 bar association complaints against Brnovich]
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[The Zuckerberg funded Center for Tech and Civic Life funded an $80 million initiative U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence which is targeting election offices with grants, training, resources, and consulting services, even in states that block public funding for election offices.]
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Jan 20, 2023, The Supreme Court is Weighing a Theory That Could Upend Elections, Here's How, NPR
[Potential impact of 'independent state legislature theory']
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Jan 17, 2023, Heritage Foundation Election Fraud Database Tops 1,400 Cases, Daily Signal
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Dec 23, 2022, Democrats Rolled a New Election Law into $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Bill, Truth Press
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[Moore v Harper is a dispute between voting rights advocates and the North Carolina State Legislature over Republican gerrymander of 14 house seats and whether there should be judicial review over state legislative maps]
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Nov 15, 2022, Nevada's Vote-by-Mail System Is A Total Disaster, Daily Signal
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Nov 11, 2022 Judge Orders Two Voting Machines in NJ Opened to Retrieve Data, Truth Press
[Poll Worker Prematurely Removed Thumb Drives, machines will be opened to retrieve all of the votes]
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Nov 7, 2022, These 400 Elections Over Two Years Show How 1 Voter Can Make a Difference, Daily Signal
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Nov 7, 2022, Wisconsin Judge Won't Order Sequestering of Absentee Ballots, Associated Press
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Nov 6, 2022, Google Is Shifting Votes On A Massive Scale, But a Solution Is At Hand, Daily Caller
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Nov 5, 2022, PA Voter Database Suffers Outage As Election Day Nears, Truth Press
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Nov 4, 2022, If Republicans Win on Nov 8, Thank The Election Integrity Movement, The Federalist
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Nov 3, 2022, Breaking: Milwaukee Election Official Fired for Alleged Election Fraud, Post Millenial
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[Center for Accountability and Government Ethics - CAGE - filed complaint over alleged PA non-profit violation land purchases in Braddock, PA where he was mayor]
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Nov 1, 2022, Processing of 149,000 Virginia Voter Records Delayed, The Republican Standard
[Records were stuck online between Dept of Motor Vehicles and Voter Registrars]
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Oct 27, 2022, RNC Files 73 Election Integrity Lawsuits Ahead of 2022 Midterm Elections, Truth Press
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Oct 27, 2022, Pennsylvania Sends Out 240,000 Unverified Ballots, Truth Press
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Oct 26, 2022, Ohio Elections Chief: Precincts Cannot Take Absentee Ballots, Associated Press
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Oct 24, 2022, NY Judge Declares 'Vote By Mail' Law Unconstitutional, Truth Press
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Oct 21, 2022, Is Conservative Poll Worker Interference Really a Concern?, Wired Conservative
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[The Supreme Court invalidated a lower court ruling that mail-in ballots that lacked a mandatory date would be counted in a 2021 judicial race.]
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[LA County District Attorney George Gascon arrested Yu in Michigan. Gascon insists the theft had no impact on votes. The NYT Times called the allegations of data theft a conspiracy theory by election deniers.]
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[Myers was sentenced to 2 years of jail after pleading guilty of conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election, and orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for specific democrats in 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.]
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[More than 630 people have been charged with alleged voter fraud in Ohio in 2020]
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Oct 1, 2022, Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams Loses Election Lawsuit, Truth Press
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Sept 28, 2022, Kentucky Sen Mitch McConnell Backs Post-Jan 6 Revision to Elections Law, WLKY
[McConnell said, "The chaos that came to a head on Jan. 6 of last year certainly underscored the need for an update,"]
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Sept 27, 2022, Southern Virginia Republican Primary Battle Heats Up After Misdemeanor Complaint, The Republican Standard
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Sept 23, 2022, Flint Michigan Election Director Suddenly Resigns, Truth Press
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[Senate developing separate version of legislation]
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Sept 21, 2022, Democrats Have Set Their Sights on Another Key State's Voting Laws, Daily Signal
[North Carolina]
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Sept 15, 2022, Delaware Judge Nathan Cook Ruled No Excuse Mail In Voting Unconstitutional, Fox News
[Judge also upheld same day voter registration law ahead of mid-term elections]
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Sept 13, 2022, 'Troubling': The DOJ is Hiding Biden's Voter Registration Plan, Daily Caller
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Sept 10, 2022, Miyares Turns Up the Heat on Election Integrity Enforcement, The Republican Standard
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Sept 10, 2022, New Evidence of Voting Irregularities Reported in Florida Aug Primary, Truth Press
[Florida First Freedom Alliance reports that More than 1,000 Mailed in Absentee Ballots came from Undeliverable Addresses in Orange County]
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[In order of worst first: Hawaii, Nevada, California, D.C., Oregon, Vermont, Washington/New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska]
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[Decision to change form was unannounced and comes immediately before early voting period and is already confusing voters]
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Aug 25, 2022, Voting Machine Tampering Points to Concern For Fall Election, Associated Press
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Aug 16, 2022, Alaska Primary Results, Fox News
[Alaska is using a ranked-choice voting process which will take time to produce its results, Sen Lisa Murkowski will advance to general election,. She is only US Senator who voted to impeach President Trump who is running for reelection.]
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[Lower Court may restore it before November 2022 Election]
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Aug 15, 2022, Radical Los Angeles Prosecutor Narrowly Dodges Recall, Washington Free Beacon
[Attorneys blame out-dated signature standards for failure of petition to oust Gascon, high incidence of failure to match addresses and names]
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[George Gascon recall effort up-in-the-air after campaign reveals outdated signature verification process]
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Aug 3, 2022, Latest Takeover of Federal Elections Violates the Law, Daily Signal
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[Process of counting is now slower because of volume of signatures on early voting ballots that must be verified]
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Aug 2, 2022, Wisconsin Clerks Refer 10 New Voter Fraud Cases from 2020 Election, Truth Press
[Click HERE to read opinion: 'This federal court cannot usurp the authority that the Constitution grants Virginia over its elections.']
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[Taddeo is a former gubernatorial candidate now running for U.S. Congress. The allegation is that funds from a state account were transferred to a federal account]
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[Link to report by conservative lawyers, retired judges, and former US Senators]
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[Click here to read the two new laws providing extended time for certain persons to register to vote]
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July 8, 2022, Wisconsin Supreme Court Disallows Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes, Politico
[Court did not address whether anyone other than the voter can return his or her ballot by mail]
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July 6, 2022, Federal Judge Upholds Georgia's Voter Integrity Law, Conservative Fighters
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June 13, 2022, Federal Judge Expedites Lawsuit Seeking New Virginia House Elections, US News
[Democrats plan to vote against Lauren Boebert]
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June 7, 2022, More Than 8,000 Double-Registered Voters Found on New Jersey Rolls, Truth Press
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June 7, 2022, Arizona Judge Rejects GOP Challenge to Mail-In Voting in Arizona, Truth Press
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May 26, 2022, Michigan GOP Governor Hopefuls Off Ballot, Court Fight Next, Associated Press
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May 25, 2022, Brian Kemp, Herschel Walker Win Georgia Primary Races, Truth Press
[Hotly Contested Secretary of State Race Still Undecided]
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May 18, 2022, Printing Error Affects At Least 21,000 Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots, Truth Press
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[All 7 Democrat-appointed judges vote against the redistricting plan]
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Apr 24, 2022, Are Democrats and Joe Biden Up to Their Old Election Tricks?, NY Post
[Comments on Dinesh D'Souza's Documentary '2000 Mules']
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Apr 20, 2022, Anti-Semitism Rocks Congressional Campaign in Tennessee, Washington Free Beacon
[Tennessee State Senator Frank Nicely who Successfully fought to remove Morgan Ortagus from ballot made anti-Semitic remark about his effort]
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[Tennessee Republican Party has a rule that candidates must have voted in last three of four GOP primaries.]
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[Free Speech for People alleges Green violated the Constitutions Disqualification Clause by allegedly participating in an insurrection on Jan 6, 2021]
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Apr 18, 2022, How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Rigged the 2020 Election to Defeat Trump, Daily Signal
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Apr 18, 2022, Judge Rejects Stacey Abrams' Effort to Challenge Georgia Fundraising Law, Truth Press
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Apr 11, 2022, Iowa Democrat Candidate for US Senate Finkenauer Knocked Off Primary Ballot, ABC News
[Judge ruled Finkenauer did not collect enough signatures in two counties]
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Apr 2, 2022, Republicans Score Last-Minute Redistricting Victories, Truth Press
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Apr 1, 2022, Judge Throws Out New York Dems' Dream Redistricting Map, Daily Caller
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[True the Vote presented the findings to the state Assembly's Committee on Campaigns and Elections]
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Mar 28, 2022, New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud, Real Clear Politics
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Mar 28, 2022, Study Raises New Questions About 2020 Election Results in Six States, Daily Signal
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[Election official intentionally broke a seal to prevent a possible recount]
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Mar 3, 2022, How This Oklahoma State Senator Wants to Make Elections More Secure, Daily Signal
[Bill would require that absentee ballots have watermarks/bar code for every absentee ballot to prevent fraud]
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Feb 10, 2022, Election Law Landscape in Constant Flux Ahead of Midterm Elections, Daily Signal
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Jan 28, 2022, Pennsylvania Court Rules State's Mail-In Voting Law Is Unconstitutional, Daily Wire
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Election Administration at State and Local Levels According to the National Conference of State LegislaturesNNational Conference
[This givess you an idea of the complexity of election administration throughout the States.]
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Definition of Ballot Trafficking/Harvesting:
Ballot trafficking is an activity in which absentee ballots and votes are solicited, sometimes in exchange for money or other valuables. They are then collected through a process called “harvesting” and delivered to drop boxes by intermediaries (someone other than the voter), who are often paid a per-ballot fee by partisan actors.
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Here are some of the sections of the Virginia Code Related to Ballot Fraud, Handling, Tampering.
24.2-707. How ballots marked and returned by mail. [Absentee voting] "On receipt of a mailed absentee ballot, the voter shall, in the presence of a witness, (i) open the sealed envelope marked 'ballot within' and (ii) mark and refold the ballot . . . without assistance and without making know how he marked the ballot . . ."
"After the voter has marked his absentee ballot, he shall (a) enclose the ballot in the envelope provided for that purpose, (b) seal that envelope, (c) fill in and sign the statement printed on the back of the envelope in the presence of a witness, who shall sign the same envelope, (d) enclose the ballot envelope and any required assistance form within the envelope directed to the general registrar, and (e) seal that envelope and mail it to the office of the general registrar or deliver it personally to the general registrar. . . . For the purposes of this chapter, 'mail' shall include delivery by a commercial delivery service, but shal not include delivery by a personal courier service or another individual except as provided by Section 24.2-703.2 and 24.2-705." [Emphasis added]
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24.2-1004. Illegal voting and registrations. "A. Any person who wrongfully deposits a ballot in the ballot container or case a vote on voting equipment, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor." [Voting more than once, being registered in more than one location, state, territory]
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24.2-1005. Bribery, intimidation, etc., of person receiving ballot
24.2-1005.1 Communication of false information to registered voter. [impeding a voter to vote]
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24l.2-1007 Soliciting or accepting bribe to influence or procure vote. "No person shall solicit or accept directly or indirectly any money or any thing of value to influence his or another's vote in any election. Any person vilating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. This section applies to any election and to any method used by a political party for selection of its nominees and for selection of delgates to its conventions and meetings."
24.2-1008. Selling, giving away, or counterfeiting ballots. "Any person who (i) wrongfully sells or gives to any person an official ballot or copy of a facsimile of or device or plate used to reproduce such ballot or (ii) counterfeits or attempts to counterfeit the official ballot or the seal used on that ballot shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony."
24.2-1009. Stealing or tampering with ballot containers, voting or registration equipment, software, records or documents.
24.2-1012. Offenses as to absentee voters. [violation of absentee voting procedures, fraudulently signing the name of an absentee voter]
24.2-1015. Conspiracy against rights of citizens under this title.
24.2-1019 Complaints and allegation concerning election law offenses.
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A National Election in the United States is really 51 ( including the District of Columbia) separate state elections directed by each state's legislature (or D.C. government) that together produce a national election result. Each state selects its electors under Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. What emerged in 2020 were basic issues of election integrity in certain jurisdictions or for specific processes in state elections.
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Virginia Election Integrity Actions
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The Rockingham County Republican Committee had a representative for the accuracy testing of voting machines in September 2021 and was present for every day of the 2021 post-election canvas on November 3,4,5, and 8, 2021. Local voter registration records were updated monthly throughout 2021.
The State of Virginia also spent $1.5 million on an election intregrity ad campaign.
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The Rockingham County Republican Committee monitored the local Risk-Limiting Audit on February 2021. The report on statewide audit results can be found here.
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The purpose of conducting a Risk Limiting Audit is generally to ensure the accuracy of an election BEFORE it is certified. Normally, there are three levels: polling of samples from precincts, partial recount, and full recount as necessary to ensure accuracy of the data – all done BEFORE certification. The Virginia RLA is being done several months AFTER the certification of results to ensure machine accuracy. Any errors that may be found will have no impact on the election for which ballots were sampled.
The position of the Republican Party of Virginia is that this is an ineffective exercise that wastes taxpayer money and does not accomplish any of the tasks of a Risk Limiting Audit, which is to ensure the accuracy of election results before they are certified. Why do it at this point? Well, the only possible purpose at this point is to give the appearance of accuracy of the election process and the equipment. Logic and Accuracy testing of the equipment before the election already provides a review of election machine accuracy.
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As the United States has sought to help other countries implement democratic reforms, the U.S. Agency for International Development has developed a number of resources for assisting countries with conducting elections that produce governments that have legitimate standing with its citizens. These resources include a robust toolkit as well as many examples of election processes and results which were analyzed. These are useful tools for understanding the 2020 U.S. election and making corrections for the future. Republican lawyers used these tools to challenge problematic areas.
"The most fundamental principle defining credible elections is that they must reflect the free expression of the will of the people." - USAID
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A Guide to Elections Forensics, U.S. Agency for International Development, July 28, 2017​
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Supporting Free and Fair Elections, U.S. Agency for International Development Program
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