1 ensuring the integrity of our electoral system Table of Contents 2 Introduction by Anita MonCrief 3 Voter Fraud 101 4 Election Protection, Laws and Universal Voter Registration 5 Voter ID 6 Voter Registration 7 How to Run a Voter Registration Drive in your State 8 Frequently Asked Questions 10 From Voter Registration to Voter Turnout 12 Citizen-Led Initiatives 12 Election Administration 13 Election Day Operations 15 ACORN and Project Vote 16 Voter Fraud 21 The Voter Fraud App 22 American Majority Overview and Resources 22 Connecting with American Majority 22 Additional Election Integrity Resources 2 My name is Anita MonCrief and I’ve been referred to as the “ACORN whistleblower.”” I joined the staff of ACORN affiliate Project Vote’s development department in 2005. Working with grassroots organizers across the country, we funded one of the largest voter registration drives in United States history. However, I began to notice ACORN’s practice of poorly training employees and sometimes covertly encouraging people to skirt the rules during voter registration programs. After working on voter fraud research for ACORN, I saw a pattern of employees being prosecuted for shenanigans during election years. I decided to take action and since 2008, I have been educating citizens on how to protect the integrity of our electoral system. American Majority’s Election Integrity course focuses on voter registration, voter fraud, Election Day operations and get-out-the- vote activities. Our goal is to prepare liberty-minded activists for the tactics of groups like ACORN. As citizens begin to peel back the layers on the groups working in their community, there is a need for educational materials that can be shared and utilized. Despite rumors of its demise, ACORN is still thriving and so are its over 300 affiliated organizations. Project Vote, ACORN’s voter registration arm will once again attempt to run the largest grassroots voter registration program during the 2012 elections. With organizations like Organizing for America, Emily’s List, SEIU and Planned Parenthood, partnering with Project Vote, the stakes couldn’t be higher. In 2008, Project Vote had a budget of over 28 million dollars (no where near the modest budgets of most liberty- minded organizations) and one can only imagine how much will be spent to keep President Obama in office. In this environment of lawlessness the people must stand up and protect the integrity of our electoral system. This guide can only begin to scratch the surface of everything involved in election integrity, but I hope it serves as an introduction to this critically important topic. We have seen what some are capable of doing in order to gain political power and now it is up to the citizens to educate them and demand that everyone uphold our electoral laws. For liberty, Anita MonCrief 3 Voter Fraud 101 Maybe you’ve read about Al Capone’s infamous “vote early and vote often” motto, back when he (not Obama or Rahm Emanuel) ran Chicago’s political machine. It wasn’t uncommon then for entire ethnic blocs (plus every name in a graveyard) to pull the lever the way the crime boss wanted. And maybe you know how, when asked by reporters about the massive fraud in the 1960 Presidential election, Richard Nixon calmly replied “they stole it fair and square”. Nixon knew JFK and LBJ had teamed up to once again use that Chicago machine, this time not only rigging it, but also combining it with Texas. Fast forward to campaigns of the last few years. Who can forget the counting and recounting that took place in Florida in 2000? Keeping the spotlight on ballot boxes, and making sure they never went to an off-camera, private room to be sorted was the name of the game (along with “hanging chads”) then. Since then, it’s gotten even worse. “Motor-voter” laws, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), and the manufactured-by-the-media controversy in having citizens (much less felons) show identification to cast a vote are now lightning rod issues every cycle. So is the novel idea of actually requiring college students (often out-of-state) to choose between campus and home (not both) to decide where they’ll vote. Now, every two years, both parties have to dispatch scores of specially trained attorneys and poll watchers to guard against these and many other forms of voter disenfranchisement (negating the votes of a community by committing fraud). VOTE EARLY You’ve heard it all. But the bits and pieces never seem to VOTE paint the whole picture. OFTEN There are reports of judges keeping polling places open well into the night in one-party- controlled places. Voter rolls that include the entire Dallas Cowboys roster. And of course, taxpayer-paid ACORN employees engaging (and getting caught) in enormous registration illegalities, as well as armed Black Panthers at polling places, blocking entry and access via voter intimidation. You see all this. And you want to know what you can do. Which is why we’ve put together this manual: so you can educate yourself about the laws and regulations regarding registering and turning out voters. And we’ve done it with the expert help of Anita Moncrief, an ex-ACORN employee and whistleblower who spends her time explaining how the Left undermines the democratic process. So that you, like Katherine Engelbrecht, a mother, wife and small businesswoman, can be empowered enough to start your own group of citizens concerned with making sure elections are conducted properly and fairly. Katherine and her “True the Vote” group operating out of Houston, Texas have now spread their techniques and knowledge to hundreds of other groups nationwide in preparation for the next spate of elections, both local or state and federal. Get ready to read some wild stuff. These real-life stories of “it couldn’t happen here” will astound and outrage you. But when you, the grassroots activist, have absorbed the truth and rules about voter fraud, you’ll be the best weapon for its prevention that there is. 4 Election Protection, Laws and Universal Voter Registration Help America Vote Act of 2002 at the same time that they apply for a driver’s license “The Help America Vote Act or seek to renew a driver’s license, and requires the (Pub.L. 107-252), or HAVA, is a State to forward the completed application to the United States federal law which appropriate state of local election official. Section 7 was signed into law by President of the Act requires states to offer voter registration Bush in 2002. Drafted in reaction to the controversy opportunities at all offices that provide public surrounding the 2000 U.S. presidential election, assistance and all offices that provide state-funded HAVA mandates that all states and localities upgrade programs primarily engaged in providing services to many aspects of their election procedures, including persons with disabilities. Each applicant for any of their voting machines, registration processes and poll these services, renewal of services, or address changes worker training” must be provided with a voter registration form of a declination form as well as assistance in completing the [Source: http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm, http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Help_America_Vote_Act] form and forwarding the completed application to the appropriate state or local election official. HAVA and Provisional Voting [Source: NVRA: Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Home Page A provisional ballot is used to record a vote when there http://bit.ly/dlwYnZ] is some question in regards to a given voter’s eligibility. Universal Voter Registration A provisional ballot would be cast when: According to some voting rights advocates: “The The voter refuses to show a photo ID (in regions that government should not only facilitate registration; it require one) should actively register adults who are eligible to vote as part of its responsibility to have accurate rolls. The The voter’s name does not appear on the electoral roll most comprehensive way to move toward universal for the given precinct. voter registration is to establish federal standards that The voter’s registration contains inaccurate or out- states must follow to ensure all eligible voters are on dated information such as the wrong address or a their states’ voter roll.” misspelled name. [Source: http://www.fairvote.org/why-universal-registration, American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/what_the_dems_ The voter’s ballot has already been recorded know_universal_v.html] Whether a provisional ballot is counted is contingent “John Fund described the Democrat plan, ‘The feds upon the verification of that voter’s eligibility. Many will tell the states: ‘take everyone on every list of voters do not realize that the provisional ballot is not welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of counted until 7-10 days after election so their vote unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of does not affect the calling of the states to different property owners, candidates. take everyone [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_ballot] on every list of National Voter Registration Act driver’s license Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act holders and of 1993 (also known as the “NVRA” and the “Motor register them to Voter Act”), to make it easier for all Americans to vote regardless register to vote and to maintain their registration. of whether they Section 5 of the Act requires states to provide want to be ..’ individuals with the opportunity to register to vote 5 Voter ID First-Time Voters The federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) mandates that all states require identification from first-time voters who registered to vote by mail and did not provide verification of their identification with their mail-in voter registration.