Overview Election Integrity Project®California, Inc. (EIPCa)
CALIFORNIA’S ELECTION MODEL: VOTING “EXPERIENCE”, NOT ELECTION INTEGRITY
As California lawmakers increase registration and ballot “access” without sufficient safeguards, Election Integrity Project®California Inc. continues to work to ensure that every vote is lawfully cast and accurately counted.
EIPCa Documentation of California Election Law & Procedures
- Legislation that weakens or removes integrity in election process
- No Photo Voter ID
- Pre-registration of 16 yr. olds
- Felon voting
- “Legal” ballot harvesting
- Same-day registration and voting without ability to ensure legitimacy of the voter
- Automatic DMV registration resulting in hundreds of thousands of changes to voter registrations without their knowledge
- Potential Manipulation of National Voter Registration Act Section 7 & Section 8 resulting in massively bloated voter rolls.
- Mailing Vote by Mail ballots to every name on the state or county voter rolls, including those that are ineligible due to poor list maintenance procedures.
- Manipulation of Vulnerable Populations through Ballot Harvesting.
- Non-citizen registration & voting with/without their knowledge due to Motor Voter.
- Policies and Procedures that do not protect integrity in the management of elections and the processing of the ballots
Mission Statement
The Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) is a nonpartisan group of U.S. citizen volunteers seeking to fulfill our duty to actively participate in the governing of our state/country, a government of, by, and for the people by helping to ensure the integrity of that part of our Republic through which citizens exercise our most fundamental right ~ the right to choose our representatives by fair and honest elections.
Purpose Statement
The specific purpose of this corporation is to defend, through education, research, and advocacy (including legal action and providing and funding the training of election observers), the civil rights of U.S. citizens to fully participate in the election process under Federal and state law.
EIPCa – Synopsis of who we are and what we do.
Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) is a California non-profit public benefit corporation committed to defending, through education, research, and advocacy the civil rights of U.S. citizens to fully participate in the election process under Federal and state law.
- EIPCa is a non-partisan organization qualified under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
- EIPCa believes that the electoral process is the cornerstone of self-governance and the preservation of our Constitutional Republic.
- EIPCa researches and documents the voting process with the goal of ensuring that every lawfully cast vote is accurately counted.
- As a non-partisan organization, EIPCa does not participate in any political campaign, nor does it endorse any candidate for public office. EIPCa takes no position on which candidate should prevail in a fair and honest election.
History
EIPCa originally began our work as Election Integrity Project® Inc. (EIP), founded by Linda Paine, Ellen Swensen on December 28, 2010.We foundedThe Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit California public benefit corporation, on July 21, 2017.
California is one of less than 30 states that passed laws that protect the rights of citizens to observe the election process as citizens without being connected with a political party. Because of this, EIP/EIPCa is able to research the evidence without being influenced by politics.
EIP and now EIPCa have studied the extensive California Elections Code and the federal election laws that govern elections. We have researched the voter rolls in multiple counties (some multiple times), as well as VoteCal, the new statewide voter registration database. This effort, the first to be undertaken by a citizen watchdog organization in the state of California, established a baseline of how California counties are implementing the electoral procedures and if the state is compliant with federal election laws.
Documenting the Truth
The Election Integrity Project®California, Inc. continues to document the truth: the radical change in California is due to the corruption and easy manipulation of our electoral process. Noncompliance with state and federal law has resulted in bloated voter rolls filled with illegitimate registrations; procedures in the polls that provide easy access to a ballot by those who don’t qualify to vote or who are attempting to vote more than once; and a legislative body intent on using legislation to create greater distance between the citizens and the assurance that their vote counts.
Legislation Strategically Orchestrates Transformation
EIP/EIPCa has documented a pattern that shows our reports were used to determine which issues weaken the election process and then laws were written or updated that legalized those very issues we uncovered in our reports.
In 2020 EIPCa was able to influence the inclusion of an amendment to AB860 regarding mail-ballot voting. The amendment prevented Vote-by-Mail ballots from being mailed to 4.5 million registrants on the INACTIVE list.
EIPCa has spent the last 11 years working to restore integrity to the election process in California and share our work with other states.
2011 – 2012 – EIP provided Findings Reports to multiple county Registrars with information about voter roll data base issues indicating list maintenance weaknesses.
2012 – EIP trained 2400 citizens from around the state to observe the election process in 40 counties (representing 85% of the CA population). EIP created a Findings Report describing violations of state and federal law, non-implementation of state law, and weaknesses in election integrity and provided it to several Registrars, the Sect. of State and made it public.
2013 – EIP Board met with CA Secretary of State team to present the EIP 2012 Findings Report and discuss what could be done to address the bloated voter rolls and the procedures used to manage elections and process ballots. We were told the “CA SOS has no ‘line’ authority over county election officials; and the Secretary of State’s authority was limited to ‘advisory’ direction only.”
EIP sent a letter expressing our concern indicating: [by statute our Secretary of State is “California’s Chief Election Officer”, Elections Code section 10, “The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and has the powers and duties specified in Section 12172.5 of the Government Code.” And, our subsequent reading of CA Government Code section 12172.5 (a) “The Secretary of State is the chief elections officer of the state, and shall administer the provisions of the elections code. The Secretary of State shall see that elections are efficiently conducted and that state election laws are enforced.”] [….]
We received no answer.
2014 – EIP identified serious issues with “printing errors” in LA county’s Check-In rosters for all polling locations, approximately 4,580. The vote by mail indicators were nonexistent making it IMPOSSSIBLE for the check-in clerks to identify who cast a vote by mail ballot before arriving to vote in person. Additional printing errors included some voters not on the check-in list of the polling location listed on their sample ballot, requiring them to cast a Provisional Ballot instead of In-Person Ballot they had the right to receive.
EIP Board and Chief Analyst met with LA County Election staff to discuss. They verified they made an error but there was nothing to be done about likely double voters and legitimate voters’ ballots not being counted if an illegitimate vote by mail ballot was cast in their name.
2015 – EIP and over 80 citizens testified before the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on August 28, 2015, to inform the Committee about the state’s compliance with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). The report created by the Regional Director for the Western Region of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was heavily redacted and buried.
2016 – EIP, one of our DAG Analysts and a pro-bono attorney for EIP met with a county ROV & Fraud Dept. of ROV, the Fraud Dept. of the county, the County Council for the county and investigators from the county DA’s office to provide them with 25 of 200 hard copy registration applications showing how voter registrations re created by replicating voter registrations. We asked if an investigation of the four organizations and the people who signed the duplicated applications could be undertaken. EIPCa was told nothing could be done because the duplicated application showed the company stamp and the person who duplicated the application. This action made it impossible to prove intend because both parties would deny wrongdoing and point blame to the other party. EIP believes this action creates ‘the perfect crime’.
2017 – EIPCa put out a press release titled, “The BIG Dirty Secret of California’s Voter Rolls Unmaintained Voter Rolls + Careless Laws = Invitation to Vote Fraud” reporting 11 California counties have more registered voters than voting-age citizens.
EIPCa retained Judicial Watch and pursued a lawsuit against the CA Secretary of State and the LA County Registrar of Voters for noncompliance with the federal National Voter Registration Act’s mandate to maintain accurate voter rolls.
A Settlement Agreement was reached and signed on Jan. 4, 2019 requiring both to begin removing inactive registrants that meet the criteria for removal (approx. 3 million statewide/1.5 million in LA County).
2017 – EIPCa retained Landmark Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm, to review the evidence gathered by approximately 11,000 EIP/EIPCa trained Observers and the EIPCa Data Research Team with a view of aggressively pursuing further actions as warranted.
2018-2020 – EIPCa will leverage the 10 years of documented evidence provided by our Data Research Team, our Election Management/Ballot Processing Research Team, and our Election Observations Teams to restore integrity to California’s electoral process.
2019 – An Inquiry and Analysis of the 2018 Primary and General Elections proved there are NO protections against the manipulation of the outcome elections as seen in the 2018 flipping of multiple seats in CA. EIPCa filed an extensive Open Records Act request with nine counties in California to determine whether the policies and procedures they use protect the integrity of the management of the election process the processing of the ballots.
2019 – EIPCa filed legal action in Fresno County in order to review to the 2018 ballot envelope and the remade ballots as part of the Inquiry and Analysis.
2020 – EIPCa trained 1,000 citizens to observe the polls, vote centers and Registrars of Voter Offices during the March Primary.
2020 – EIPCa DAG researched the statewide voter rolls and identified multiple counties with multiple people who cast more than one ballot. CA Secretary of State agreed with EIPCa and referred at least 15 people to the Attorney General.
2020 – EIPCa observed the attempted Long Beach recount of a ballot measure as well as the CD25 race which spanned Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Los Angeles County continues to show a system that is mismanaged and enacts policies and procedures that minimizes transparency.
2020 – EIPCa filed legal action against Ventura County to challenge the practice of implementing policies and procedures for election management and ballot processing that supersede California law that allows citizens to observe elections and make challenges to actions that do not comply with state and federal law.
2020 – EIPCa Research Team documented serious issues with the main voting machines used across CA and the nation. The result of the research causes serous concern about the trustworthiness of the integrity of the machines and the companies.
2020 – EIPCa assisted with our LLC EIPNv in filing legal action in Nevada to prevent AB4, a law that would implement California style election laws, from being implemented.
2020 – EIPCa trained approximately 3,000 citizens to observe, document and take action to protect integrity in the 2020 election. The evidence from EIPCa Observer Incident Reports & Witness Statements, Citizen Incident Statements and reports from our website Contact option have been overwhelming consistent in showing the CA elections were chaotic due Padilla’s emergency regulations, noncompliance with NVRA Section 8 requirements to maintain accurate voter rolls, and California’s bad laws that remove integrity in the election process.
2020 – Landmark Legal Foundation filed Brief of Amici Curiae on behalf of EIPCa & EIPNv with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding Ballot Harvesting. The Supreme Court accepted our Brief and will be included when Case number 19-1257 heard in Jan. 2021
2021 – EIPCa trained CA citizens to observe the Gubernatorial Recall Election in 45 out 58 counties. These counties represent over 85% of the population in CA. EIPCa is analyzing over 3,000 signed (under penalty of perjury) Incident Reports, Witness Statements, Citizen Incident Statements from CA and multiple states around the country. A Findings Report will be made available by the end of 2021.
2021 – EIPCa filed legal action against the CA Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, and 13 Registrars of Voters.
EIPCa and the 13 Congressional Candidates filed a lawsuit on January 4, 2021 because
election integrity and transparency are critical for the enfranchisement of every eligible voter, regardless of party or political view. While many recent election cases have focused solely on the outcome of the November 2020 election, this suit also challenges California’s unconstitutional election process for future elections.
Our Constitutional Republic is founded on the sacred right of every eligible citizen to cast an equal vote to determine who will represent him or her in government.
NATURE OF THE ACTION
- While many recent election cases have focused solely on the outcome of the November 2020 election.
Our lawsuit primarily challenges California’s unconstitutional election process for future elections based on 11 years of documentation of how CA laws, policies & procedures, and emergency regulations have destroyed integrity in the election process whereby creating vulnerabilities that can and are being used to manipulate election results.
- The Constitution of the United States guarantees this right through
- Equal Protection Clause
- Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
- In the case of Federal congressional elections, through the Elections Clause (Art. I, § 4, cl. 1).
- It also “guarantee[s] to every State . . . a Republican Form of Government, and protect[ion] . . . against Invasion. (Art. IV, § 4.)
- This is not a partisan issue but a United States Constitutional issue that affects EVERY candidate and EVERY election.
- It is time to ensure the integrity of future elections for all citizens.
- Language in our lawsuit:
Over the past three decades in California, these rights have been intentionally eroded by an onslaught of unconstitutional statutes, regulations, executive orders, and voting practices which, taken together, are designed to create an environment in which elections could be manipulated and eligible voters of all political viewpoints disenfranchised.
