THE HYDRA

How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections

THEY ARE PREPARED

Our past is teeming with examples of subversive tactics used by the Left to destroy American Elections. Year by year, inch by inch, the trap has been set. Heres a look at three such tactics that have done signicant damage: Mission: Dilute the Integrity of Voter Rolls In 1993, President Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act, also known as Motor Voter. This bill created new rules for voter registration; removing many of the checks that safeguarded against fraud, while radically expanding registration efforts into social service ofces. Opportunities to register were built into applications for drivers licenses, unemployment benets, welfare, and any other government run public assistance program. In 2011, approximately 100 million Americans - 33% of the U.S. population - received benets from one or more of these programs.1 Examiners were under orders not to ask anyone for identication or proof of citizenship, notes National Review columnist John Fund in his book, Stealing Elections. These new enrollees were then immediately added to the GOTV headcount of the Organized Left, creating new voters, most dependent on government aid, just waiting to be mobilized. Mission Accomplished At least 13% of our voter registry is invalid; many experts believe the number to be closer to 20% 2 At least 2.75 million voters are actively registered to vote in more than one state3 Over 2 million dead voters are on the rolls 4 Nearly 10% of US counties have more than 100% of their eligible population registered to vote5

Mission: Control Who Counts the Vote TheSecretary of State Project (SoSP), funded in part by George Soros Open Society Institute, was established in July 2006 as a partisan effort devoted to electing Democrats to the ofce of secretary of state in targeted swing states. Politico described SoSPs purpose as an administrative rewall designed in anticipation of a photo-nish presidential election, to protect Democrats' electoral interests in the most important battleground states. 6

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Heritage Foundation; Obamas End Run on Welfare Reform Part 1, September, 2012 Pew Research, April 2012 Pew Research, April 2012 Pew Research, April 2012 US Census and Election Assistance Commission records Politico; Secretaries of State Give Dem Firewall, November, 2008 True the Vote copyright 2013

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How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections

Mission Accomplished In 2006, SoSP-backed candidates won in Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio. In 2008, SoSP-backed candidates won in Missouri, Montana, Oregon, and West Virginia. In 2010, the SoSP was discontinued, the Left lost control, and states began cleaning voter rolls and initiating common sense reforms. The US Dept. of Justice immediately began suing these states.(see Litigation section) In 2013, as Conservative Secretaries of State in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Florida, New Mexico and many other states will attest, Soross Secretary of State Project appears to be back in full swing. The Left is heavily promoting its own SoS candidates in these states, signaling a return to the command and control election tactics that have allowed them to pull strings and change election outcomes: In the 2008 election, Secretary of State Projects Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner refused to comply with county election-board requests7 that she turn over more than 200,000 voter-registration forms in which the name did not match the driver's license or Social Security number. The Presidential election was decided by 262,224 votes in Ohio. In the 2008 election, Secretary of State Projects Minnesotas Secretary of State Mark Ritchie declined to verify approximately 261,000 duplicative registrations and 63,000 voter listings with invalid or nonexistent addresses. Ritchie dismissed those pleas8 as politically motivated attempts to create a cloud over an election so people don't accept the outcome. After multiple recounts and six months of new ballots being discovered, every time favoring the challenger Al Franken, the election for US Senator in Minnesota went to Franken, with a margin of 312 votes. It is now known that at least 393 convicted felons voted illegally. Al Franken gave Democrats a 60 vote, libuster proof majority in the Senate. The rst vote Franken cast was for the Affordable Care Act - Obamacare. Without Franken, the bill would not have passed.

Mission: Eliminate the Competitions Ability to Fight Back In 1982, after a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee against the Republican National Committee, the RNC entered into a consent decree with the DNC, effectively barring the RNCfrom engaging and assisting in voter fraud prevention unless the RNC obtains the courts approval in advance. 9

Mission Accomplished: The RNC currently has no organized ballot security program. Although the decree binds only the activities of the national party, state parties, left to develop programs without any national support, have largely chosen to look the other way.

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The New York Times; Justices Block Effort to Challenge Ohio Voters, October, 2008 The American Spectator; SOS in Minnesota, November, 2008 Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee, December, 2010 True the Vote copyright 2013

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How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections

THEY ARE LEGION

It is well known that the Organized Left is comprised of a huge syndicate of organizations, each advancing a particular aspect of their agenda, and all willing to stand together on issues the collective has determined to be essential to survival. Election integrity presents a tremendous threat. There are already well over 80 national groups, including every major Union, who focus year round on pushing the electoral system towards collapse.10 These groups are essential to fullling a new goal of the collective, to stop dead any attempt at election reform. A coalition of progressive political groups, often referred to as the Democracy Alliance,11 have publicly pledged to pool and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to combat citizen-led election reforms like voter ID. Groups include : SEIU, AFL-CIO, NAACP, Common Cause, Project Vote, Demos, Center for American Progress, The Nation Foundation, LULAC and hundreds of others. In January of 2013, these groups came together to put forward the Democracy Initiative, their plan to remake American politics.12 The Initiative has only three directives: to change key rules in the Senate (primarily the rules surrounding libuster), to change campaign nance rules, and to crush any attempts to improve ballot security. The mass of groups, from the Sierra Club to Planned Parenthood, will swarm on command to stop any legislation that stands in their way. Recent examples of such swarming include: over 200 progressive organizations coming together to demand changes to felon voting rights13 28 progressive organizations coming together to support Dept of Justice preclearance power over state elections. 14 orchestrated rallying against election reform in Virginia 15 orchestrated rallying against election reform in Florida 16 orchestrated rallying against election reform in Texas 17
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Election Protection website; www.866ourvote.org Democracy Alliance website; www.democracyalliance.org Mother Jones; Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics, January, 2013 Prisoners of the Census; February 2013 Stakeholders Letter, February, 2013

Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States of America, et al, No. 12-96, February 2013
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Project Vote; Press Statement from League of Women Voters and Project Vote, January, 2013 Project Vote, et al; SB600 Relating to Elections, by Senator Latvala, April, 2013 Project Vote, et al; HB2093, HB2372 and HB2848, April, 2013 True the Vote copyright 2013

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How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections interestingly, in Texas, the swarm was led by Project Vote Texas director, Amy Busenk. Ms. Busenk was convicted of 13 felony counts of election fraud 18 while working on behalf of ACORN in Nevada during the 2008 election. Her plea deal freed her to resume pursuits in Texas.

THEY ARE FOCUSED

In Litigating Since the election of Barack Obama, there has been a radical shift in litigation to undermine election integrity. 23 cases led by the DOJ since 2008 dismissed lawsuit brought against New Black Panther Party on charges of voter intimidation disregarded rampant election fraud by ACORN, even though 22 states led charges sued Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico for attempting to remove deceased and non-citizen voters from voter rolls routinely sues states to force increased voter registration of citizens receiving public assistance routinely blocks or sues states pursuing voter ID legislation 100 cases led by progressive special interests since 2008 seeking to block state citizenship checks in voter registration restore felon voting rights include provisional ballots in general tabulations Only 3 cases have been led by pro-liberty groups since 2008, all by True the Vote, an organization that was only established in 2010. 19 In Lobbying Legislative Trends include: Preventing photo voter Identication - NH, RI, US Federal Government Extending early voting periods - NY, CT, NJ, MN, FL, IL Supporting felon voting rights - VA, DE, IA, MN, FL, WY, NV, NM, NC Promoting youth registration and mandatory initiatives inside schools - CA, HI, CO, IL, NE, WA, FL, OR Preventing citizenship verication - AZ, CA, KS Supporting same-day registration - IL, NY, AZ, NE, MD, UT, WA, HI, US Federal Government

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Las Vegas Review Journal; letter to The Honorable Ken Detzner, May, 2012 True the Vote; Election Litigation Archive, April, 2013 True the Vote copyright 2013

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How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections

In Aggressively Funding their Efforts Crushing election integrity requires heavy funding to push counter-reform messages in US culture, support litigation and lobbying machines, and sustain the myriad organizations whose work it is to advance their cause. Cumulatively, budgets of the known groups involved in anti-integrity efforts exceed $1.69 billion20 Funding of the Democracy Initiative is estimated to run into the hundreds of millions.21 Tides, Open Society and Ford Foundations donate tens of millions of dollars solely for litigation and legislative advocacy of election subversion. Since 1999, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights has received $13.5 million in funding to specically challenge anti-voter fraud laws and voter roll management. In March of 2013, George Soros Open Society Foundation gave a $1,000,000 grant to NAACP22, the largest grant theyve received in decades, to ght voter ID laws nationwide. Millions of dollars were raised using the false narrative of voter suppression as an emotional ploy, though in 2012 there was not one documented report of voter suppression in any of the battleground states.23

THEY WILL NOT STOP

Attempting to Federalize Elections President Obamas Executive Order Establishing a Commission on Election Administration24 Attempting to Enforce Mandatory Voter Registration of All Individuals in Any Government Database

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American Thinker; The Democracy Initiative: A Coup in Plain Sight, January, 2013 Mother Jones; Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics, January, 2013 The New York Times: Soros to Give $1 Million to NAACP Legal Fund, March 2013

True the Vote; Report on Voter Suppression, http://www.scribd.com/doc/127481956/Voter-Suppression-in-the-Electionsof-November-2012

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The White House; Executive Order - Establishment of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, March, 2013 True the Vote copyright 2013

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How The Left Plans To Destroy American Elections The Organized Left is Preparing a Massive Campaign to Promote Universal Registration25 Targeting Citizens Who Are Engaged in Election Processes Threatening to Block Citizen Observers from the Polls 26

THEY WILL NOT STOP

Hiring political special interest groups to expand enrollment efforts for the Affordable Care Act and including voter registration as a part of the enrollment process Suggesting a continuance of benets will be dependent upon voting 27 Using mainstream media to deliver messaging that supports a Leftist agenda ABC News Targets True the Vote28 Data Mining on the Tax Payers Dime Using Access to Government Data to Build Voter Proles 29 Using Immigration Reform to Produce a Captive Voting Bloc The Organized Left is well positioned to quickly register, court, and mobilize millions of new voters, by any means necessary.30

THE QUESTION IS - WHY? Why does the hydra exist?

Because the Organized Left isnt playing to win free and fair elections. They are playing to end them. But it can be defeated. The way to end the Hydra is to attack the source of its strengths.

We Are Prepared We Are Focused

We are not constrained by establishment party limitations We are making history in our research and litigation efforts

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The Heritage Foundation; Backgrounder:Mandatory Voter Registration: How Universal Registration Threatens Election Integrity, March 2013
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News; True the Vote: Obama Campaign Targets Citizens Trained to Prevent Voter Fraud in OH, February, 2013

Washington Examiner; Obamavote: Health Care Application Registers Voters Too, March, 2013 Newsbusters; ABC News Targets Group Fighting Voter Fraud, Hints at Racial Motive, November, 2012 Time Magazine; Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win, November 7, 2012 ABC News | Univision; Immigration Reform: Sizing Up the Undocumented Vote, April, 2013 True the Vote copyright 2013

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We Are Legion

We are growing in number, connecting with millions of fellow citizens whove had enough

We Will Not Stop

If we lose election integrity, nothing else will matter

True the Vote is Leading Americas Voters Rights Movement

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