{"id":2329816,"date":"2024-08-23T07:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elias-group-tarnishes-watchdog-to-keep-bad-voters-on-nv-rolls\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T11:26:14","slug":"elias-group-tarnishes-watchdog-to-keep-bad-voters-on-nv-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elias-group-tarnishes-watchdog-to-keep-bad-voters-on-nv-rolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Elias Group Tarnishes Watchdog To Keep Bad Voters On NV Rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felias-group-tarnishes-watchdog-to-keep-bad-voters-on-nv-rolls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2329816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text \u2063discusses the activities of Marc Elias, a prominent \u2064Democratic lawyer known for his involvement in \u200delection\u2064 law changes\u200b during the \u2064COVID-19 pandemic. He has been pivotal in implementing measures like\u2063 automatic\u200d mail-in voting and vote harvesting in Nevada. The article critiques Elias and his organization, Democracy Docket, \u2062for their \u200cportrayal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paxton-urges-gop-state-lawmakers-to-tighten-election-integrity-laws\/\" title=\"Paxton Urges GOP State Lawmakers to Tighten Election Integrity Laws\">election integrity efforts<\/a>\u200d as deceptive. A specific focus is placed on a blog post by\u2063 Matt Cohen, which claims that right-wing groups are attempting to remove millions of voters. The\u2062 author counters that their submission of over 1,000 names\u200b of potentially inactive voters was a\u200b legal, responsible \u200daction\u2063 to maintain accurate voter\u200c rolls, not\u2063 an attempt to disenfranchise legitimate voters. The author also addresses misconceptions from a New York Times article, clarifying their collaborative and \u200blawful approach to verifying voter\u200d registrations \u200cthrough authorized data and community engagement, emphasizing their commitment \u2062to election integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Among active election integrity groups, Marc Elias is a household name.&nbsp;He&rsquo;s the Democrat super-lawyer and Russia hoax architect who used Covid as an excuse to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/coronavirus-has-made-the-2020-election-a-perfect-storm-for-voting-rights-lawsuits-224859902.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAKX9nNjLq6HNS2t9XvSWjyXG3nX2lBBLop56IU8DpGrzU4JUGTlGMVVyWYgoMzM4OemohpetL66jelnyyA2u7AvQbNIfIOVWxIwToLyEWSlzlnokQxRDXHYnszzV84B8D4SNGn6ret9B6lzY7sIMdjorAlcoRBGpErISQh_fTB8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rewrite<\/a> election laws all across the country. <\/p>\n<p>That includes Nevada, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/cases\/nevada-covid-19-election-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped<\/a> ensure the implementation of automatic mail-in balloting and vote harvesting. Now this pirate is working feverishly to protect his ill-gotten booty &mdash; and telling the truth certainly isn&rsquo;t part of his game plan.<\/p>\n<p>His Democracy Docket blog and podcast regularly skewer groups and organizations who are working to protect the security and integrity of our elections &mdash; including my group, Pigpen Project.&nbsp;And he&rsquo;s at it again.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 20, one of his bloggers, Matt Cohen,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/analysis\/these-right-wing-groups-are-trying-to-remove-millions-of-voters-around-the-country\/\">scribbled a post<\/a>&nbsp;headlined: &ldquo;These Right-Wing Groups Are Trying to Remove Millions of Voters Around the Country.&rdquo; He starts off with:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In June, a nascent right-wing group in Nevada sent more than a thousand names to 10 county clerks and registrars in an attempt to get them purged from the state&rsquo;s voter registration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it&rsquo;s true that we submitted more than 1,000 names of suspicious voters, but this wasn&rsquo;t an attempt to get legitimate voters &ldquo;purged&rdquo; &mdash; a scare tactic word used to undermine our efforts &mdash; from the voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>The names were of voters who appear to have moved out of Nevada and re-registered in another state who, if true, simply should no longer be on Nevada&rsquo;s voter rolls.&nbsp;All that our submissions did was trigger a verification postcard mailing from election officials to ensure the accuracy of our information, exactly as the law requires.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, after Nevada&rsquo;s June primary, election officials in all 17 of Nevada&rsquo;s counties <a href=\"https:\/\/nevadacurrent.com\/briefs\/150k-nevada-voters-may-soon-be-set-to-inactive-status-sos-announces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mailed<\/a> approximately 150,000 such postcards to suspicious voters and, as a result, more than 100,000 of them had their status <a href=\"https:\/\/www.8newsnow.com\/news\/politics\/more-than-100k-las-vegas-area-voters-moved-to-inactive-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">changed<\/a> from &ldquo;active&rdquo; to &ldquo;inactive&rdquo; earlier this month. That means election officials confirmed&nbsp;that they didn&rsquo;t belong on Nevada&rsquo;s voter rolls and won&rsquo;t be automatically receiving a mail-in ballot for the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>According to the New York Times, the group [Pigpen Project] is working with EIN, True the Vote and Vote Ref &mdash; another unreliable database of semi-public voter information &mdash; to identify voters.&nbsp;By Muth&rsquo;s own admission, the group is also engaging in &lsquo;boots on the ground&rsquo; to canvass door-to-door in the Silver State to confirm voter registrations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/pigpen-project-targeted-in-nyt-hit-piece-on-voter-file-clean-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunked<\/a>&nbsp;the NYT hit piece way back in March.&nbsp;While it&rsquo;s true we are a member of the Election Integrity Network (EIN) of groups working on this issue nationally, we have absolutely nothing to do with True the Vote or Vote Ref and only use official data from election departments and the U.S. Postal Service. One of the sources we use is Nevada&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-counties-sued-for-duplicate-voter-registrations\/\" title=\"Minnesota Counties Sued for Duplicate Voter Registrations\">statewide voter registration list<\/a>, which the secretary of state&rsquo;s office has authorized us to access. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&rsquo;ve had volunteers going door-to-door to verify our information before submitting suspicious voters to election officials.&nbsp;Current residents have been signing official &ldquo;Non-Resident Reports&rdquo; confirming that a suspicious voter no longer lives where the suspicious voter is registered.&nbsp;We submit those signed reports to the county clerk or registrar to trigger the official verification postcard mailings.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>That&rsquo;s called &ldquo;responsible.&rdquo;&nbsp;We don&rsquo;t just make wild allegations.&nbsp;Our volunteers have proven that our information and data are accurate and reliable.<\/p>\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/nevada-launches-statewide-unified-voter-registration-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate blog post<\/a>&nbsp;about Nevada&rsquo;s new VREMS (Voter Registration and Election Management Solutions) system on Aug. 20, Cohen claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Right-wing &lsquo;election integrity&rsquo; groups like the Pigpen Project have recently tried to bring voter roll challenges to a number of counties in Nevada, using incomplete data from VoteRef, an online database of semi-public voter information that&rsquo;s proven unreliable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, that&rsquo;s simply a flat-out&nbsp;lie. We have&nbsp;never&nbsp;used VoteRef.&nbsp;We have always used nothing but official government records and data.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>We&rsquo;re challenging voters who are reasonably believed to no longer be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nick-saban-co-signs-letter-to-manchin-backing-election-bill-but-not-scrapping-filibuster\/\" title=\"Nick Saban Co-Signs Letter to Manchin Backing Election Bill, But Not Scrapping Filibuster\">legally eligible<\/a> to vote in Nevada.&nbsp;And we&rsquo;re conducting our efforts &ldquo;by the book.&rdquo; There is absolutely nothing wrong with following the laws, processes, and procedures to make sure only legally eligible voters vote in Nevada&rsquo;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder why anyone would lie to keep people on Nevada&rsquo;s voter rolls who no longer live in Nevada.&nbsp;What could possibly be their motivation? I think we all know the answer to that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is <a href=\"https:\/\/pigpenproject.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-another-left-wing-hit-piece-on-pigpen-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">republished<\/a> from Pigpen Project, with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chuck Muth is the president of the Citizen Outreach Foundation. Pigpen Project was launched in January 2023 and is a project of the Citizen Outreach Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the prominent groups focused on election integrity, Marc Elias is a well-known figure. He is a Democratic attorney recognized for his role in the Russia investigation and for leveraging COVID-19 to alter election laws nationwide. In Nevada, he played a key role in establishing automatic mail-in voting and vote harvesting practices. Currently, he is actively trying to safeguard these controversial changes, with honesty not being part of his strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Elias runs the Democracy Docket blog and podcast, where he frequently criticizes organizations dedicated to maintaining election security and integrity, including my own group, Pigpen Project. Recently, on August 20th, one of his contributors, Matt Cohen, published an article titled \u201cThese Right-Wing Groups Are Trying to Remove Millions of Voters Around the Country.\u201d The piece begins by stating that a newly formed right-wing group in Nevada submitted over a thousand names to county clerks in an effort to have them removed from voter registration lists.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s accurate that we provided more than 1,000 names of questionable voters for review, this was not an attempt to unjustly remove legitimate voters\u2014an exaggerated term used to discredit our actions\u2014but rather aimed at identifying individuals who may have moved out of Nevada and re-registered elsewhere. If true, these individuals should no longer be listed as active voters in Nevada. Our submissions simply prompted election officials to send verification postcards as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>Following Nevada&#8217;s June primary elections, officials across all 17 counties mailed around 150,000 postcards to verify suspicious voter registrations; subsequently over 100,000 statuses were changed from &#8220;active&#8221; to &#8220;inactive,&#8221; confirming they were no longer eligible voters who would receive mail-in ballots for the upcoming November elections.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen further claims that according to the New York Times (NYT), Pigpen Project collaborates with EIN (Election Integrity Network), True the Vote and Vote Ref\u2014another questionable database\u2014to identify voters. However we clarified back in March that while we are indeed part of EIN&#8217;s network addressing this issue nationally; we do not work with True the Vote or Vote Ref but rely solely on official data from electoral authorities and USPS records\u2014including access granted by Nevada\u2019s Secretary of State office.<\/p>\n<p>Yes\u2014we have volunteers canvassing neighborhoods door-to-door verifying our findings before reporting suspicious registrations; current residents fill out official \u201cNon-Resident Reports\u201d affirming that certain registered individuals no longer reside at their listed addresses. We then submit these reports so county clerks can initiate verification postcard mailings\u2014a responsible approach rather than making baseless accusations. Our volunteers have demonstrated that our data is both accurate and trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>In another blog post about Nevada\u2019s new VREMS (Voter Registration and Election Management Solutions) system dated August 20th Cohen asserts: \u201cRight-wing \u2018election integrity\u2019 groups like Pigpen Project have recently attempted voter roll challenges using incomplete data from VoteRef.\u201d This statement is entirely false; we do not utilize VoteRef at all but strictly adhere only to government records when challenging those believed no longer eligible under state law\u2014and conduct our efforts within legal frameworks established for ensuring only qualified voters participate in elections.<\/p>\n<p>One must question why anyone would misrepresent facts justifying keeping individuals on voter rolls who are no longer residents of Nevada\u2014what could their motivation possibly be? The answer seems clear enough.<br \/>\nThis article has been republished from Pigpen Project with permission.<br \/>\nChuck Muth serves as president of Citizen Outreach Foundation which launched Pigpen Project in January 2023 as part its non-profit initiatives under section 501(c)(3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3386,"featured_media":2329817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/nejc-soklic-n0zXSVXH5c-unsplash-e1724360343284.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[32644,39052,5592,19656,6056],"class_list":["post-2329816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-election-integrity","tag-elias-group","tag-nevada","tag-voter-roll","tag-watchdog"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/nejc-soklic-n0zXSVXH5c-unsplash-e1724360343284.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}