VIP-NC Finds Dual Voters in FL & NC March 20, 2013 (Raleigh, NC)—MAR 20, 2013—The NC State Board of Elections has confirmed their intent to prosecute five people on suspicion that they voted in both Florida and NC during the November 2012 election, according to email records provided by the Voter Integrity Project of NC, the group that investigated and identified the voters to both states’ election offices earlier last month. Thanks to the relatively accessible election records in both Florida and North Carolina, this research was possible,” said Jay DeLancy, Executive Director of VIP-NC, “but we have every reason to believe this is only the tip of the iceberg.” The group scoured the Florida election records to identify November 2012 voters who listed an alternate address in NC and then scrubbed that list against the NC voter history files. They found over 300 who appeared to be registered in both states and 33 who appeared to have voted in both state’s elections, which is a felony. Read the rest of this entry » Big News Coming Here Later Tonight… March 19, 2013 …but you will have to check back later! VIP-NC Response to League of Women Voters (Letter to Editor–Asheville Mt. Exp) March 9, 2013 Dear Editor It is sad to see the League of Women Voters squander their credibility by echoing partisan myths about voter ID law. The League’s defensiveness on the issue suggest a preference for facilitating vote fraud over restoring any confidence in our poorly managed electoral process. Your recent League letter stumbled in citing some ham-handed “research” announced by the outgoing NC SBOE Director, Gary Bartlett. In an attempt to scare legislators away from voter ID, Mr. Bartlett compared the state’s DMV records to his BOE voter registrations and breathlessly concluded that 600,000 people will need NC voter ID cards at a cost of zillions! But grownups might conclude that more than half a million people no longer belong on the voter rolls for any of several plausible reasons: First, people move out of state and exchange their NCDL for a new license in their new state. While our DMV gets back the old license, there is no law to make DMV share that information. As a result, quite a few former NC voters remain on the rolls for years. Second, while many deceased voters get quickly removed, a surprisingly high number does not. And third, non-NC resident college students have exploited our lax election laws by registering and voting from their school address without bothering to obtain an NCDL. All three of these scenarios erode the claim that 600k NC voters will need an ID card. South Carolina heard smaller scare numbers (approx 200k) in their fight over voter ID, so the SC Election Commission mailed post cards to each of the potential ID card customers. To date, they have received “more than 20 trays” of postcards marked “returned undeliverable.” Georgia, whose Progressives screamed 300K, found less than 30,000 in the six years since their voter ID law took effect. And not that our current Justice Department cares, but in both Georgia and Indiana—two states with real voter ID laws—minority participation rose significantly over their demographically similar neighbors: Mississippi and Illinois. Researchers grudgingly surmised that ballot box security can enhance public trust by drawing people back into an electoral process after such obvious flaws are corrected. So, rather than defending our state’s fraud-friendly election laws, we hope groups like the League of Women Voters would stand beside us to help re-enfranchise voters by supporting solid election law reform. ### VIP-NC Response to DACA Drivers Licenses March 5, 2013 Proper Licensing is Proper Governing (Raleigh, NC)—MAR 5, 2013—The citizen group known as Voter Integrity Project of NC delivered a letter to the Governor’s mansion today at 3:30 PM in support of Governor McCrory’s plan to issue distinct driver’s licenses to certain non-US citizens. “The Governor’s bold decision to issue distinct licenses is a critical action for ballot box security,” said Jay DeLancy, Executive Director of VIP-NC. “This measure will help prevent wholesale voter registrations of noncitizens who will suddenly own some very important identity cards.” The group is concerned that any well-meaning election board employee in North Carolina or in other states could interpret the state-issued licenses and ID cards as some sort of proof of citizenship. “We’ve seen this in other states,” said DeLancy, “where the license is used to obtain a voter registration card and every lawful voter in this country should be concerned when non citizens begin tampering with US elections.” In June, 2012, VIP-NC brought evidence to Wake County’s Board of Elections that suggested hundreds of non-US citizens were registered to vote and that more than a hundred had already voted, but their complaints were rebuffed in the partisan “quasi-judicial” process. “We remain deeply concerned about the fidelity of our electoral process,” said DeLancy, “and mistaking these newest license holders as citizens would destroy public trust in our entire constitutional way of life.” The group’s letter encouraged the Governor to issue only “identifiably distinct DMV documents” in a fashion similar to (but not the same) as the licenses issued to beginner drivers. “It is vital that these ‘special licenses’ cannot be confused with a ‘normal’ driver’s license,” he said, “especially if people use them illegally to obtain voter registration and to influence our electoral process.” In September 2012, VIP-NC was credited for finding almost 30,000 dead people on North Carolina’s voter rolls. The move prompted election officials to launch an unprecedented “program audit” of the state’s entire voter roll just 85 days before the November election. “As a group of people who have looked at the voter fraud problem in this state from several angles,” DeLancy said, “this licensing decision will be a good compromise between those not wanting to issue any licenses [to non-US citizens] and an extreme minority who attack those of us who are concerned about election fraud.” The group says Governor McCrory’s compromise will be copied by other states. “And that is why certain activists are so desperate to stop it right here,” said DeLancy. ### Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina is a trans-partisan organization that researches and advises on election law reform to ensure that all elections are conducted in a free and fair manner and that no voters are disenfranchised. Coming Soon: Buncombe County Follies December 17, 2012 We are the organization that researched NC voter rolls last summer and compelled the NC State Board of Election to re-classify almost 30,000 deceased voters from the state’s election records. (Please see more detailed biographical info at the end of the article). My team has been watching this matter closely and we want to offer our assessment (pasted below and attached in a Word file) for your consideration. Thanks, jd – Coming Soon: Buncombe County Follies (Raleigh, NC)—DEC 14, 2012— North Carolina lawmakers should give careful consideration to the State Board of Election’s quiet 5-0 decision last Thursday, in Raleigh, on the Buncombe County Commissioners’ election and how the decision could dramatically impact any particularly close local races in some of our state’s college towns. The Buncombe County folly involved 175 Warren Wilson College students who were all registered to vote from their campus mailing facility (701 Warren Wilson Road in Asheville) instead of from their actual domiciles. Some even lived off campus, but still used their school mail box address for snail mail and for their voter registration. This is also the case at Duke, NC Central, Wake Forest and NC School of the Arts, and it forces election officials into working hard to find the students’ physical address. Or they could just look the other way, allowing students to vote from their mailroom address. Sadly, until they were busted, the Buncombe County BoE staff had used the lazier option. The problem was with a precinct line that had dissected the Warren Wilson campus for “a long time,” according to testimony at the hearing. Some dormitories (and the campus mailroom) are in County Commissioner District 1 but several other dormitories are in District 2. On Oct. 30, a couple asked a BoE employee why, even though they lived together in an off-campus house, they were assigned to two different districts. The guy had registered from his District 1 college address and the girl from their home address in District 2. The law requires election officials to “make every effort” to correct the situation before the canvass, so their BoE staff volunteered to fix it for all student voters… halfway through the Early Voting period.