CCTA ACTION ALERT--VOTER ID

ACTION REQUEST

PHOTO VOTER IDENTIFICATION

ACT TODAY!

 If you concur with those talking points, please help the cause by taking these specific action steps before 1 PM Tuesday if at all possible.
1. Call Speaker Thom Tillis at 919-733-3451 AND send email to Thom.Tillis@ncleg.net

2. Call and email your local Representative. (They say that 20 calls to a local Rep from his/her local constituents can rattle their cage.

We need them so concerned that they will go to Tillis and ask for amendments.

3. Forward this to as many like-minded friends as you can by early Tuesday, 4/23. We need calls and emails to be received Monday afternoon and evening and Tuesday all day (preferably before the House meets at 1 PM).

TALKING POINTS - READ BEFORE CALLING OR CONTACTING REPRESENTATIVES!  

The problem with using expired licenses is discussed in detail in the document that follows these points:

1. Homeland Security regulations require an unexpired ID for financial transactions and for air travel. The ballot box deserves the same level of security.

2. Proof of US citizenship is required for all NCDLs issued after February 2006, but any license that expired before then and was not renewed is probably tied to an undocumented alien who has no right to vote in this country. The law should prevent that type of voter. This law would encourage them to return to NC and to vote.

3. While we could support expired licenses for elderly people who never intend to drive again, granting the same exception to every person invites fraud.

4. A simple solution would be to eliminate all forms of ID other than an unexpired NCDMV product, a US passport or a military ID card and let all other voters file an affidavit with a biometric (photo or fingerprint) just as larger banks already require.

5. Could we at least set a standard as high as that of Mexico and every other developed nation when it comes to "real" voter ID?
6. House Leadership is out of touch with the voters if they are not willing to fix this bill.

Thanks again for supporting this vital issue. Other than our 2nd Amendment rights, we cannot think of anything more fundamental to our state's freedom, so the time to apply pressure is upon us.

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This is an important message from Jay DeLancy, the head of Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina.

Thank you for your continued support and encouragement of this issue, that is so near and dear to our organization.

By now, you've probably heard news that the NC House is on the verge of passing a voter ID bill (HB 589), but we've been watching the bill and it has severe problems that need the right kind of pressure on Legislators in order to motivate corrective behavior. For example, the current voter ID bill has provisions that will facilitate fraudulent voting in two major ways.

We first need to have our State House amend the legislation to deny use of expired NCDMV products of any ID cards produced beyond DMV or the Federal government.

Specifically, the law says:

"§ 163-166.13. (e) As used in this section, "photo identification" means any of the following that contain a photograph of the registered voter:

(1) An identification card that bears either a date of expiration or a date of issuance and that is not more than 10 years beyond the date of expiration or issuance, whichever is later, issued by a branch, department, agency, or entity of the United States, this State, or any other state, such as any of the following:

a. A North Carolina drivers license issued under Article 2 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes, including a learner's permit or a provisional license.

b. A special identification card for nonoperators issued under G.S. 20-37.7."

c. A United States passport.

d. An employee identification card.

e. A United States military identification card.

f. An identification card issued by The University of North Carolina or its constituent institutions.

g. An identification card issued by a North Carolina community college.

h. An identification card issued to a fireman, EMS, hospital employee, or law enforcement officer.

i. An identification card issued by a unit of local government, public authority, or special district, all as defined in G.S.159-7.

j. An identification card issued for a government program of public assistance.  

Jay N. DeLancy, LtCol, USAF (Ret)

Executive Director

Voter Integrity Project of NC

(Office) 919.429.9039

(Cell) 919.332.4129

Twitter: @VoteChecker

jay@.VoterIntegrityProject.com

www.VoterIntegrityProject.com

VIP-NC is a trans-partisan, volunteer organization that works for "free and fair elections" by bringing more transparency to the process in order to ensure that no voters are disenfranchised. The group uses database analysis to detect irregularities in the voting records that could suggest patterns of fraud. Their research has included embarrassing the NC State Board of Elections with a discovery of almost 30,000 deceased persons still on the voter rolls; more than a hundred people who voted in the 2008 election and then later proved to the Wake County Clerk of Courts that they were not US citizens; and (most recently) 33 people who appeared to have voted in both Florida and NC for the 2012 November election-five of whom were identified by election officials for prosecution.

    MORE CONTACT INFO: 
Governor Pat McCrory, (919) 733-4240, governor.office@nc.gov Lt. Governor Dan Forest, (980)-395-5184, Dan@DanForest.com  

House Speaker Pro Tem Paul "Skip" Stam, (919) 733-2962, Paul.Stam@ncleg.net
House Speaker Thom Tillis, (919) 733-3451, Thom.Tillis@ncleg.net
NC Rep. John Bell, Dist. 10,  (919-715-3017)  john.bell@ncleg.net
NC Rep. Michael Speciale, Dist. 3, (919) 733-5853 michael.speciale@ncleg.net
and his Legal Assistant, Hazel Speciale, specialela@ncleg.net)
NC Rep. Susan Martin, (919) 733-3023, Susan.Martin@ncleg.net
NC Rep.Brian Brown, (919) 733-5757, Brian.Brown@ncleg.net

NC Senator Norman Sanderson, (919) 733-5706, Norman.Sanderson@ncleg.net
NC Senator Bill Cook, (919) 715-8293, Bill.Cook@ncleg.net
NC Senator Don Davis (D), (919) 715-8363, Don.Davis@ncleg.net
NC Senator Louis Pate, (919) 733 - 5621, Louis.Pate@ncleg.net
Senate Majority Leader Phil Berger, (919) 733-5708, Phil.Berger@ncleg.net