Oct 29, 2020 (Raleigh) With the election just days away, we’ve got enough on our plate in North Carolina, but this foolish measure in Virginia absolutely must be addressed. If you know anybody in the Old Dominion, you might want to forward this to them before Tuesday, because their Republican party has handed Democrats the …
Nov 8, 2019 (Raleigh) Voter Integrity Project has always steered clear of the fight over redistricting because we trust the self-serving political parties to hold each other in check. That all changed when a significant number of Republican lawmakers joined forces with enough Democrat lawmakers to craft HB 140, a bill that would cave to …
[Official comments from Jay DeLancy, Founder of Voter Integrity Project – NC, North Carolina’s oldest constitutional election watchdog group.] Sept 13, 2019 (Raleigh) — For years, Voter Integrity Project has stayed out of the redistricting fight, dismissing it as a “partisan” matter. We have always viewed the VIP mission as that of a non-partisan election watchdog …
While we stand by the gist of the article that was mistakenly posted at this URL on Dec 18, the report was posted in error, before our internal vetting process was complete. We regret the error and will have more to say about the idea of redistricting by commission (instead of by Legislators) at a …
Sep 26, 2023 – Beyond keeping it in Legislative hands, we’ve been agnostic on the question of redistricting. By that, I mean we’ve strongly opposed any sort of “nonpartisan” redistricting commissions, but otherwise trust the lawmakers to fight it out in an effective way. Democrats and Republicans will engage in a tug of war over …
*unless lawmakers can stop them. Feb 3, 2022 (Sanford, NC) Not to rant about the past, but we all remember how election officials in numerous states used the “emergency” excuse to weaken as many election integrity laws as they could, just before the 2020 elections. In North Carolina, our state’s chief election officer surprised everybody …
Dec 1, 2012 Now that legislatures have finished planting their brand-new redistricting maps into the ground, the people in battleground states like North Carolina are starting to yield an early crop of lawsuits. Yesterday, the first judicial ruling came down in favor of the NC General Assembly (NCGA) over the rules they used in drawing …
. . . and how you can stop them. October 5, 2021 Today’s podcast (linked at the bottom) covers two topics, in this order: a) The warnings and indicators that Virginians should watch out for in their upcoming statewide elections; and b) How to beat the “nonpartisan” redistricting map makers as they find ways to …
Yesterday, I asked folks to fight racial gerrymandering by engaging with people after studying Pro Publica’s account of how the Democrats fooled California’s “nonpartisan” redistricting commission. Talking politics with people can be fun, but it can also be dangerous. We might avoid the subject at church, unless somebody brings it up, never let fear stop …
[Note: Today is the third day of a video podcast series that features Voter Integrity Project co-founder, Jay DeLancy. The plan is to produce one each day, beginning with a live feed (currently) on DeLancy’s Facebook page, which features the audio narrative accompanying a series of screen shots, which are shown in the video, that’s …
Links and show notes to Jay DeLancy’s daily (Mon-Fri) video podcast on election integrity in NC and abroad. (This page is an archive of our video podcasts. You will find our most recent podcasts on the website’s front page. At either page, simply click on the image accompanying each day’s program notes). Oct 23, …
Apr 18, 2021 (Waynesville, NC) Voter Integrity Project is proud to announce that Scott Walter, President of Capital Research Center, will address the audience at our Apr 24 Voter Integrity Bootcamp, addressing his organizations investigation into the impact of “Zuck Bucks,” (i.e. Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s private infusion of cash) into certain NC jurisdictions during …
Feb 24, 2020 (Raleigh) What-if games are for children, but how many lawsuits would have hit President Trump, had he delayed the Census long enough to overcome SCOTUS objections to returning a citizenship question to their survey? Can we all agree that the Left would have spent millions in court until they could get a …
[Note: This is one of a series of posts on the Left’s battle to take the Legislature’s constitutional authority on redistricting.”] Nov 8, 2019 (Raleigh) Ask any 4-year-old child what “fair” means and you will usually get an honest answer: “Fair means I get what I want. A Leftist organization, called “All on the Line,” …
Nov 8, 2019 (Raleigh) While all eyes are again on North Carolina over the court’s continuing assault of our Legislature’s explicit duty to draw the political boundaries, there are a few things the voters will learn. As George Will so eloquently wrote, “The practice the court . . . consider[s] is ‘partisan gerrymandering.’ This modifier, …
Nov 8, 2019 (Raleigh) Voter Integrity Project has learned of a “Bill Summary,” the Legislative Bill Drafting section released Thursday, Oct 24, suggesting renewed interest in the quietly stalled House Bill 140, a bipartisan measure to take redistricting authority away from the Legislative branch of state government and surrender it to the Judiciary, under the …
