Over 140 Western North Carolinians gathered together on a Saturday morning at the Woodfin Community Center to learn how they could help assure election integrity. At least half the attendees live in Buncombe County, and other counties represented include Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Forsyth, Gaston, Haywood, Henderson, Lee, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania.
Poll Observer Training
Jane Bilello of the NC Election Integrity Team opened the August 20 summit by stating a sad but undeniable truth: “We have been missing in action” while the left has spent years corrupting our election processes. She passed the baton to Jay Delancy of the Voter Integrity Project (VIP). Jay is an energetic and entertaining speaker, and he shared many personal anecdotes as he walked us through the duties and responsibilities of volunteer poll observers. We also learned how NCEIT’s SEIRS app allows poll observers to report to the “Election Integrity war room” instantly about shenanigans in polling places.
Phantom Voter Discovery
Jay also gave us a tour of the Voter Integrity Project’s website, including its Phantom Voter Project Tool. It allows you to identify registered voters in your neighborhood who are deceased or have relocated to another address. You can join the Blue Ridge Republican Women’s Club meeting on September 8 to learn how to use the Phantom Voter app so you can walk your neighborhoods and gather evidence.
This training will empower you to participate in the essential (yet sadly neglected) task of maintaining Buncombe County voter rolls.
Observer Support
Jane then told us about another way NCEIT supports poll observers –Jay’s Smart Book. The amount of support from NCEIT for citizen voter integrity efforts is impressive! Using this material, you can do a little, or you can do a lot.
“How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank wrote as a child while hiding with her Jewish family from the Nazis during World War II. Please don’t wait that long before you engage. Things didn’t turn out so well for Anne and her family.
(Thanks, also, to the Asheville Tea Party for their contributions to this article.)
