RFP Staff
♦ Voter Integrity Project is becoming active in North Carolina. According to their website VoterIntegrityProject.com:
“The Voter Integrity Project of NC was founded in 2011 by John Pizzo, a retired quality engineer with a “Six Sigma Black Belt” from private industry and myself, Jay DeLancy, a former subscriber to the Mother Jones mindset who became an adult convert to Christianity and later dropped out of a PhD program at Regent University in order to finish a career in the US Air Force when it became an either-or decision. By God’s grace, I finished that latter goal, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2011, and immediately founded the Voter Integrity Project of NC with John. We share the common desire for open and honest elections…something we eventually realized was nonexistent in North Carolina.
The original plan was for us to work as a non-profit corporation; but harassment from all corners of government against groups like ours discouraged that idea. We preferred to spend money on data storage space and not on lawyers. So, we formed as a private corporation under NC law. While it meant we’d never get any big tax-deductible contributions, it also meant that people who supported us would have complete anonymity (a fact that annoys the Progressives more than anything) and there are no limits to the amount of money they can give. We even accept cash (which we gleefully report as income), but please do not give us any money until you’ve read this entire page. Trust me on this.
Our plan was simple: Mine public data, follow that data and let the evidence speak for itself. Rather than swerving out of our way to avoid hitting a Republican or to deliberately run over some Democrat, we strove to be truth merchants in at a time when truth was mostly ignored. It has been a real hoot watching the light bulb come on among our more partisan friends and opponents when they finally “get it.”
Starting with a “voter density” study of North Carolina’s 100 counties, we began publishing our research results on-line and sharing it with peer organizations in other states. Next, copying the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of the Miami Herald, we obtained jury disqualification data of persons who evaded jury duty by telling the courts they were not US citizens and we matched those records against Wake County’s 660,000 registered voters.
While our challenges were denied in a Wake County BOE kangaroo court, we actually found 130 people who had voted before they ducked their jury duty. I was amazed and angered when the Democrat-controlled Board of Election showed utter contempt for our efforts and Progressive Propagandists (like Democracy NC and the Brennan Center began to lie about our work, even calling us “racists” in their effort to discredit us, but we endured. (Eventually, I’ll post more links to these claims; but for now, you can browse our site for the details or read my WSJ letter paraphrasing our efforts).”
For more information about the Voter Integrity Project:
http://voterintegrityproject.com/
