Over 6,000 Have Participated in Election Integrity Trainings so Far: Tea Party Patriots’ Co-founder
The Tea Party Patriots, led by co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, after the 2020 presidential election began election improvement efforts and coordinated with other organizations to implement training programs to ensure a higher level of election integrity throughout the United States.
The goal of their training, which has had over 6,000 participants, is to “have citizens exercising their legal rights under their state law to make sure that there is a check and balance on the election system,” Martin told Epoch TV’s “Facts Matter” during a recent interview.
Their efforts are focused on Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan—the states that had the most problems counting ballots during the 2020 elections. Certain counties in these states had questionable election processes during the presidential election and revealed gaps in election integrity.
The Tea Party Patriot election integrity training was developed by Cleta Mitchell, who is an attorney and the senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) and chairs the CPI’s Election Integrity Network.
Martin said that the 2020 election taught conservatives that being a poll worker wasn’t enough, so in response, the training includes, “getting to know the people in your election board and showing up and watching the decisions that they are making before elections ever happen.”
The organization’s ultimate goal is to build a permanent election integrity infrastructure.
The training teaches participants how to improve local election infrastructure by “researching the contracts and understanding the processes for election boards, understanding how absentee ballots work … making sure they’re processed properly when they’re returned, understanding the election system, which includes the paper and also the computers and being present for logic and accuracy testing,” said Martin.
She said that Georgia is well organized between its own local integrity efforts and her group, which has been able
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