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Ensuring the integrity of West Virginia\u2019s elections is part of Mac Warner\u2019s job, but the secretary of state has been just \u2062as zealous \u200cabout protecting national elections from \u200cunfair meddling.<\/p>\n

Now in\u200b his\u200b second term\u200d as the Mountain State\u2019s top election \u2064official, Warner \u200dhas cleaned up \u200dWest Virginia\u2019s bloated voter \u200drolls and severed the state\u2019s\u2064 ties with\u200b leftist-linked voter roll groups.\u200c Even political opponents<\/a> have credited Warner,\u200c who\u200b is running for governor as a \u200bRepublican, with being \u201cvigilant\u201d to\u2062 make West Virginia elections \u201cvery secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Warner, 69, has also crusaded against federal intelligence agencies\u2019 \u200cmeddling\u200d in the controversial\u2063 2020 presidential election \u2014 an\u2064 election the conservative \u200dunabashedly asserts was \u201cstolen by \u2063the CIA.\u201d Such statements\u200c have earned \u200chim the\u200b ire of corporate \u200bmedia outlets<\/a>, which, as dutiful public-relations agents for the Democrat Party, have dubbed \u2063the\u2062 secretary of state an \u201celection \u2064denier.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSecretary Warner\u2019s \u2064work on election \u2063integrity and security has set the example for what is needed right now across this entire country,\u201d \u200cRet. Lt. General Michael Flynn, war hero and former national security adviser for\u2062 President Donald Trump, said<\/a> in endorsing Warner in West Virginia\u2019s 2024 \u200bGOP \u200cprimary race for governor. Flynn, in case you\u2019re scoring\u200c along at home, had his life and reputation \u200dripped\u200c apart<\/a> \u2062 by Democrats \u2062and \u200btheir allies in the \u200ddeep state and accomplice media\u2063 as part of their Russia-collusion hoax. <\/p>\n

Calling Out \u200bthe \u2018Worst Election Interference\u2019 in U.S. History<\/h2>\n
Warner has been the\u2064 rare voice \u2064among his peers in vehemently calling out the\u2064 Big Brother censorship operation known as\u2063 the\u2063 Cybersecurity and Infrastructure\u2062 Security Agency (CISA).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we have our own federal agencies lying \u2064to the American people, that\u2019s the \u200dmost insidious thing\u200d that \u2062we can do in elections,\u201d Warner told officials from the FBI \u2064and CISA on a \u2063panel at the February meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State<\/a> (NASS) in Washington, D.C., according to Wired\u2019s Eric Geller. \u200cWhile Geller did his best to defend<\/a> the federal\u200c agency \u2014 under \u2064the\u200d suggestive \u2063headline, \u201cHow a\u200c Right-Wing Controversy Could Sabotage US Election Security\u201d \u2014 its \u200dhistory of censorship and election interference validate Warner\u2019s concern.<\/p>\n
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CISA, as\u200d The Federalist has extensively reported<\/a>,\u2063 was established in 2018 to ostensibly \u201cprotect \u2018critical infrastructure\u2019<\/a> and guard against cybersecurity\u2063 threats.\u201d It moved \u200binto the nefarious business of information management\u00a0by partnering with Big Tech to\u200d silence speech that it \u2064deemed to be \u201cdisinformation,\u201d \u201cmisinformation,\u201d or the\u2062 Orwellian-sounding \u201cmalinformation.\u201d CISA labored behind the scenes to censor \u2062those who questioned \u200beverything from the administration of \u2063the 2020 elections to the government\u2019s iron-fisted\u200c handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
Warner spoke out against the agency and the federal intelligence apparatus<\/a>\u2062 in late December during a West Virginia Republican gubernatorial \u2064candidates debate<\/a>.\u200b He \u200cwas, of course, vilified by the usual suspects for asserting the Covid-tainted 2020 election was \u201crigged.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe election was\u2064 stolen,\u201d Warner said, \u201cand it was stolen \u2063by\u200b the \u2062CIA.\u201d <\/p>\n
To explain what\u200b he meant, Warner cited<\/a> forming Acting CIA Director \u200bMichael Morell\u2019s testimony under oath to the House Judiciary Committee that then-Biden campaign adviser \u200bAntony Blinken had \u201creached \u2064out\u201d to Morell after a damning story \u200bsourced to Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop broke. Blinken\u2019s outreach,\u200c Morell testified, \u201cset in\u200c motion the events that \u2062led to\u2064 the issuance of\u201d a letter\u00a0attempting to discredit the laptop \u200cstory.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYes, [Morell] colluded with [now-Secretary of State] Antony Blinken to sell a\u200d lie to the American people\u200b two weeks before the election for the very purpose of throwing the\u2063 presidential \u200delection,\u201d Warner explained. \u201cAnd the\u200c FBI covers it up. And Mark\u2063 Zuckerberg pays $400 million to put his thumb on the scales. That\u2019s not \u2064fair.\u201d <\/p>\n
Morrell told the Judiciary Committee that he pushed \u200dthe letter,\u200d which was signed by 51 former intelligence officials, to help \u2064then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, \u201cbecause I wanted\u200b him to win \u200cthe election.\u201d The \u2063letter, released not long before the 2020 general election, falsely claimed that the New York Post\u2019s bombshell report<\/a> exposing the damning \u2062contents of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop appeared to be \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warner also noted the unprecedented use of Zuckbucks<\/a> \u2014 hundreds of \u2062millions \u2063of dollars in\u2064 donations to leftist groups by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg \u2014 to infiltrate swing state elections offices in \u20622020.<\/p>\n
The West Virginia\u2064 secretary of state has\u2064 courageously spoken out against such alarming practices and other forms of election interference. <\/p>\n
\u201cFolks, this \u200cwas the worst election interference in the history of the United States, when our\u200d own 300 agencies lied\u200c to the people of America \u200cwith the expressed intent of\u2062 throwing a presidential election. It doesn\u2019t get\u2062 any worse than that,\u201d Warner\u200d said<\/a> during a press conference last \u2064summer on the U.S. Capitol\u2062 steps in support of the American Confidence in Elections Act.<\/a> The legislative package \u201cequips\u00a0states with election integrity tools, implements\u00a0key reforms in D.C., and protects\u00a0political\u200b speech,\u201d according to\u200c a press release<\/a> from \u2063House\u200d Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, a Wisconsin \u2062Republican. <\/p>\n
Cleanup at the State Level <\/h2>\n
Warner \u200dhasn\u2019t just made election\u2062 integrity a priority on the national scale. Since he was elected in 2016, West Virginia has cleaned up its\u2063 voter rolls, removing more \u200bthan \u2062400,000 names of voters \u2062who died, moved, were convicted felons, or showed up multiple times in voter registration records<\/a>, Warner \u2063 told<\/a> the West Virginia\u2064 Record\u2019s readers. When he entered\u200d office, Warner said, he heard from county clerks about the bloated voter rolls, including \u200cfour counties\u2064 where there were \u2063more registered\u200c voters than \u200bpeople\u200d registered to vote. <\/p>\n
Last year, West Virginia joined a growing\u200c list of \u200cstates in rejecting the controversial\u200b Electronic Registration Information Center \u2062(ERIC). The interstate voter list \u201cmaintenance\u201d organization has come under fire<\/a> for its mission creep voter \u2063registration efforts and its leftist leadership, including ERIC founder and Democrat operative David \u2063Becker<\/a>. In \u200chis column<\/a> for the West Virginia \u200bRecord last June, Warner noted ERIC\u2019s usefulness has \u201csignificantly decease[d].\u201d Data-sharing agreements with bordering states will \u201cprove more effective,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n
One \u200dof Warner\u2019s opponents in the governor\u2019s \u2062race praised the \u200dsecretary of state\u2019s leadership on securing the state\u2019s elections. <\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that if every state would conduct their elections \u200dlike we \u200cdo here, we wouldn\u2019t be having this discussion,\u201d Moore Capito, son of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito<\/a>, said during a December debate<\/a> in which the moderator demanded\u2064 the\u2063 Republican candidates answer whether\u200b they believe the 2020 election was \u201cstolen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attorney and \u200delection law expert Cleta Mitchell called Warner a \u201cnational hero and\u200d a treasure.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHe speaks the truth \u2014 he is a true patriot and I only wish we\u2064 had 50\u2063 state election\u2064 officials just like him,\u201d Mitchell told The Federalist. <\/p>\n
Warner appreciates the kind words, but he\u200d says he\u2019s just doing his job. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just want good \u2063and fair elections,\u201d he recently told The Federalist. <\/p>\n
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\u2064How has Secretary of State Mac Warner worked to clean up West Virginia’s voter rolls and protect elections?<\/h2>\n
West Virginia Secretary of\u200c State, Mac Warner,\u200d has been actively \u200bensuring the integrity of\u2064 elections in his state as well as nationally. In his second term \u200das the top election official \u200cin West Virginia, Warner has made significant efforts to clean up the state’s \u200bvoter rolls and protect elections from unfair meddling.<\/p>\n
Even \u2063Warner’s political opponents have praised his efforts\u2064 in \u200bmaking West Virginia elections secure. As \u200ca \u200bRepublican candidate for governor in the upcoming election, Warner has been vigilant and dedicated to safeguarding the democratic processes. His commitment\u2063 to election integrity has\u200c been acknowledged by various individuals,\u200b including \u200cRetired Lt. \u200dGeneral\u2063 Michael Flynn, a \u2064war hero\u200b and former \u200bnational security adviser\u2064 for\u2062 President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
However, Warner’s \u200dcrusade for election integrity has also\u2062 drawn criticism from corporate media outlets, which often act as public-relations agents for the Democratic\u200d Party. These outlets have labeled Warner as an\u2063 “election \u2063denier”\u200b for his outspoken views \u2063on federal \u200dintelligence agencies’ alleged meddling in the controversial 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n
One agency\u2063 Warner has \u200cvehemently called out is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). He has been one of the few \u200bvoices among his peers to\u2063 criticize\u2063 this agency’s censorship operation. Warner has expressed concern about federal agencies lying to \u2064the American \u2062people and interfering with elections.<\/p>\n
CISA, established in 2018, was\u200b initially meant to \u200bprotect critical infrastructure and guard against cybersecurity\u2062 threats. However, it has been accused of engaging\u2063 in information management and partnering with Big Tech to silence \u2062speech it deems as disinformation or misinformation. Warner’s concerns\u200d regarding CISA’s\u200c censorship and interference with elections are\u2062 supported by its history \u200dand \u2064actions.<\/p>\n
During a West Virginia \u2064Republican\u200b gubernatorial \u2064candidates’ debate, Warner asserted \u2063that the 2020 election had been stolen and specifically \u2063pointed to\u200b the CIA’s involvement. He\u200c referenced\u2064 Acting CIA Director Michael Morell’s\u2062 testimony under oath, which revealed that\u200b Biden campaign \u2064adviser Antony Blinken had reached out\u2064 to Morell after a damaging story\u2064 sourced to Hunter Biden’s laptop broke. Warner accused Morell and Blinken of collaborating\u2064 to sell\u2062 a lie to the American people in the\u200b weeks leading up to the election.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Warner highlighted the unprecedented use of “Zuckbucks” by Facebook\u200c founder Mark Zuckerberg to influence swing state elections in 2020. He has courageously spoken out\u200c against such alarming practices and various forms of election interference.<\/p>\n
Warner also \u2064prioritizes \u200celection integrity at the state level. \u2062Since his election in 2016, West Virginia has made\u200b significant progress in cleaning\u2062 up its voter rolls. This cleaning process involved removing names of deceased individuals, those who moved, convicted felons, and individuals\u200b who appeared multiple times in voter\u2063 registration records. Warner \u200chas been proactive in \u200daddressing\u2064 the issue of bloated voter rolls and ensuring \u200dthat the number of registered voters aligns with \u2062the eligible population.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, West\u200d Virginia decided to reject \u2064the Electronic \u2064Registration Information Center (ERIC), which has faced criticism for its voter registration efforts<\/a> and \u2063leftist leadership. Warner’s decision aligns with other states that\u200b have withdrawn from ERIC \u2064due to concerns about its\u2063 mission creep and partisan nature.<\/p>\n
Mac \u200cWarner’s dedication\u2064 to election integrity is commendable. His efforts at both \u2064the national and \u2064state level demonstrate his commitment to preserving the democratic process and ensuring fair elections. \u200dAs he continues\u200b his political career and runs for governor, Warner’s advocacy for election integrity remains a crucial aspect of his platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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