LAA’s Matt Braynard Statement on 2nd Anniversary of January 6th

Washington, D.C. – Look Ahead America (LAA)’s Executive Director Matt Braynard made the following statement on the second anniversary of January 6th.

Two years ago today, our federal government, in cooperation with state-aligned media and American-last politicians, made the decision to politically persecute hundreds of innocent Americans as “domestic terrorists” in order to construct a false narrative of an “insurrection.”

This false narrative was weaponized against patriots across the country whether they were serving in our military or speaking out at school board meetings, or had ever asked aloud if election integrity could be improved.

As of today, 933 Americans have been arrested for participating in the protests at the U.S. Capital on January 6th, and the FBI has the goal of arresting an additional 1,000.

Our organization condemns all political violence in our great nation, and insists on fair and speedy justice for all those who committed violence on that day.

And yet nearly everyone arrested is facing charges of nonviolence that would have resulted in same-day release and a $50 fine during previous disruptive protests at the US Capital.

Nobody has been charged with the felony of “insurrection,” and, despite our nation’s top law enforcement officer lying as recently as yesterday about police officers killed as a result of January 6th, nobody has been charged with murder, homicide, manslaughter, or anything related to the death of any officer.

Despite two years passing, of the nearly 1,000 arrested so far, only 349 have had their cases resolved. There are forty-four serving in prison, including nine individuals who were not convicted of any violent acts.

There are sixty-five sitting in prison now in pre-trial detention, including ten who have been charged with nonviolent offenses. All in a country where murders, attempted murders, and truly violent criminals with long wrap sheets are granted bail.

Among those charged were three patriots who were driven to suicide, none of whom were charged with violence: Matthew Perna, Mark Roderick Aungst, and Chris Stanton Georgia.

And we cannot forget the deaths of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland at the hands of Capital and DC Police officers – deaths that have received no public investigation or accountability.

But as long as Look Ahead America exists, we will not let this ongoing crime against our fellow citizens be forgotten or ignored.

We’ve been leading this fight since January of 2021. We’ve held over seventy rallies and vigils all over the country. We’ve held federal candidates accountable to take action. We’ve published a podcast series documenting the treatment of these individuals. We’ve built the most comprehensive database of those arrested. And we’ve launched a jobs program to help those who’ve served time and lost their livelihood to reenter society and regain their personal dignity.

And thanks to our advocacy, public opinion now agrees with us. New members of Congress, including Mike Collins of Georgia who spoke at our rally at the US Capital, will demand due process and transparency from the Biden Justice Department, the FBI, and the US Capital Police.

And we will continue to shine the spotlight on the mistreatment of these prisoners and the unfair, un-American treatment of them by the justice system, elected officials, and the media.

Two years ago, our justice system was weaponized against law-abiding Americans to further a great “insurrection” lie. Look Ahead America will not rest until the truth of that day and our government’s actions are exposed and names of those victimized by it are restored.

America First, America Forever.

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Limited Review Finds 3,496 Likely Illegal Ballots Cast in Georgia’s General Election

Atlanta, GA – Following up on Look Ahead America’s recent analysis revealing over 289,914 likely illegal voters on the Peach State’s voter rolls, a limited analysis shows that 3,496 ballots were cast in their names in the November General Election.

This analysis was limited to voters who moved out of state within the last three years, which is the limit of the US Postal Services’ National Change of Address lookup. Excluded from this were any ballots that were sent to military bases.

Our earlier audit of voter rolls confirmed that 80% of voters who matched to the NCOA database were no longer legal residents and no longer eligible to vote.

LAA Executive Director Matt Braynard made the following statement:

Despite removing 100,000 NCOA matches using this method a year ago, Georgia’s Secretary of State has allowed nearly 300,000 of these likely illegal voters to remain on their rolls and at least 3,500 cast ballots that could have an impact on the outcome of elections. This number is likely several times higher given that we were unable to detect illegal ballots from those who filed permanent moves more than three years ago.

Despite our disappointment in how the state has failed to protect the integrity of the elections, we are still providing this raw data to the Secretary of State’s office and the Attorney General. It’s now up to the voters in Georgia to demand a higher standard from their government officials.

LAA clarifies that while an illegal ballot may have been cast in someone’s name, it does not mean that individual necessarily cast the ballot. While LAA cannot make the data publicly available due to privacy/doxing concerns, we will review it with journalists and other interested parties.

View PDF of this press release here.

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LAA Scores Another Victory for Election Transparency in Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C. – Look Ahead America (LAA) increased transparency once again in Pennsylvania’s voter data.

After Look Ahead America identified important missing information in Pennsylvania’s voter database, the state’s Office of Administration made another update to remedy the problem. The email acknowledging the change can be found here: https://lookaheadamerica.org/pacleanup2.

Ian Camacho, Director of Research, made the following comment:

In 2020, one reason people had an issue with the election results in Pennsylvania was due to a lack transparency and officials’ statements that conflicted with the official records.

To the credit of Jere Ilene Matthews, the Open Data Officer of the Office of Administration, she incorporated our follow up request to explain all the mailing codes and the UOCAVA types.

LAA’s earlier Pennsylvania Report highlighted the issues regarding the lack of transparency in 2020, and we know that our work moving forward will help all researchers better understand the outcome and results of Pennsylvania’s elections without having to guess.

Read the full details of LAA’s Pennsylvania Report, which identified the missing information, at this link: https://lookaheadamerica.org/pennsylvania/.

To read the original press release about the first dataset clean up from Pennsylvania’s Office of Administration, please do so here: https://lookaheadamerica.org/paupdate/.

Support Look Ahead America’s efforts by contributing at https://LookAheadAmerica.org/Donate. To volunteer with Look Ahead America, please visit: https://lookaheadamerica.org/volunteer/.

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Limited Review Finds 903 Likely Illegal Ballots in Arizona’s General Election

Phoenix, Arizona – Following up on Look Ahead America’s recent analysis revealing over 55,000 likely illegal voters on the rolls, a limited, subsequent analysis reveals 903 of these voters were marked as having voted in the 2022 General Election. Also notable is that 321 of these voters had been marked by the Secretary of State as being on inactive status as a result of mail bouncing back.

This analysis was limited to voters who moved out of state within the last three years, which is the limit of the US Postal Services’ National Change of Address lookup. This analysis did not include those who cast early ballots that arrived on or after November 7th, the last day early voting records were made available.

Our earlier audit of the voter rolls confirmed that 80% of voters who matched to the NCOA database were no longer legal residents of Arizona and no longer eligible to vote.

LAA Executive Director Matt Braynard made the following statement:

We are disappointed that the state of Arizona did not heed the warning we’ve been giving them over the last two years that there are real problems with their voter rolls. As an outside organization with limited access, we were still able to find a significant number of ballots that were likely cast illegally.

We again encourage the people of Arizona to hold their election officials accountable and demand they apply rigorous hygiene to their voter rolls using all available resources.

LAA clarifies that while an illegal ballot may have been cast in someone’s name, it does not mean that individual necessarily cast the ballot. While LAA cannot make the data publicly available due to privacy/doxing concerns, we will review it with journalists and other interested parties.

LAA is sending the complete analysis, including voter data, to the Arizona Secretary of State and the Arizona Attorney General. For purposes of independent authentication, we are also sending the data to ABC 15 journalist Garrett Archer.

Read our earlier audit analysis here: https://lookaheadamerica.org/az2022pr/.

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Thanks to LAA, Long Lines in Cherokee County for Sunday Voting

Cherokee County, GA – Long lines stretched around the block during Sunday voting hours in Cherokee County yesterday thanks to Look Ahead America’s success in establishing Sunday voting there earlier this year.

Look Ahead America Executive Director Matt Braynard made the following statement:

We set out a year ago to give rural, patriotic Georgians the same voting rights as urban progressive voters by pressuring county Board of Elections in the rural counties to allow Sunday voting just like it’s allowed in progressive counties.

One of our success stories was Cherokee County where we got county officials to agree to allow Sunday voting and where we’ve reached out to pastors and religious leaders to encourage their congregants to vote.

I was personally heartened to hundreds of voters lined up around the block in that county yesterday, and this should motivate all patriots in Georgia to demand these voting rights for themselves in all the rural counties of the state.

Read more about Look Ahead America’s Patriotic Souls to the Polls effort here: https://lookaheadamerica.org/pspannounce/.

View PDF of this press release here.

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LAA Challenges Remove 43 Illegitimate Voters from Rockdale County Georgia

Washington D.C. – Look Ahead America (LAA) has confirmed from the Rockdale County Supervisor of Elections that all 43 voters that LAA volunteers found illegally registered at the USPS, the UPS Store, and at PostNet have been successfully removed or corrected from the voter rolls.

These 43 voters were removed prior to the 2022 General Election and prevented from voting.

Ian Camacho, Director of Research, made the following comment:

This is additional validation of the work found by LAA’s volunteers. While State Senator and failed Secretary of State candidate Bee Nguyen attacked our work, it has been vindicated by a 100% success rate when county election officials actually consider the evidence.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger never bothered to address this evidence himself, despite us providing it to him on a statewide basis two years ago.

Look Ahead America will continue to be an active watchdog on behalf of election integrity.

To read the email from the clerk and the sanitized voter list, please visit https://lookaheadamerica.org/gavoterwins/

To volunteer with Look Ahead America, please visit: https://lookaheadamerica.org/volunteer/

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LAA Announces Voter Challenge Wins from Volunteers

Washington DC – Look Ahead America’s (LAA) initiative to empower and educate volunteers living in nine states (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin) on challenging ineligible voters recently concluded.

After sending volunteers their county’s potentially ineligible voters – based on public data from the United States Postal Service, which provides permanent address moves, minus military bases and families – LAA requested that these same volunteers share their successes.

Allegheny County, PA – Successfully challenged a voter using parent’s address.

A volunteer’s parents received a mailing at their address for a man who never lived there; the family has continuously occupied the home since the 1950s, and before them a couple with a different last name. When the volunteer inspected the voter roll, he found that the man has a mailing address in Canada and suspected that he was a UOCAVA [Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act] voter. Although he had cast a mail-in ballot for the 2022 Primary, the volunteer’s parents successfully challenged his ballot in the 2022 General. The volunteer asked: “How many more cases like his are there out there?” 

Douglas County, NV – Removed a voter who moved to CA and had died in 2015. 

This volunteer’s challenge occurred outside the legal window, however, because he had a copy of the voter’s California death certificate which shows the last four Social Security numbers, the clerk informed the volunteer that this voter’s record will be flagged for any activity and promptly removed after the election. (The voter list remains locked for thirty days after the challenge window by law.) Since the death certificate came from California, which is not an ERIC member, the clerk thinks that this explains why the county missed it.

Gwinnett County, GA – Submitted ~10,000 names with personal knowledge of three. 

A volunteer in Gwinnett County, Georgia submitted a challenge of approximately 10,000 voters based on the list provided by LAA. The head of the county elections confirmed receipt and explained that he will submit the challenge to the board of elections. The volunteer reviewed the list for voters on his street and has personal knowledge that three had in fact permanently moved out of state. He remarked, “Keep up the good work, LAA!”

Yorktown County, VA – Became an Election Officer, running for Board of Elections. 

The volunteer received training and swore in as Officer of Election in October. She will apply for appointment to an open Board of Election seat for three-year term starting January 2023. She credited LAA’s efforts to empower her. 

Miami County, OH – With the help of volunteer friends in Michigan & Washington, the volunteer confirmed that ERIC isn’t flagging double registrations with clerks.

After consulting with a peer in Michigan, the Ohio volunteer found at least ten voters double registered in an active status in both states. The Ohio volunteer then reached out to a Washington State researcher, and of the five movers to Washington from Miami County, they confirmed one registered and remains active in both Washington State and Miami County. The volunteer noted that all three states are ERIC participants, and wrote “The implications of this is mind blowing, if other counties have the same or similar data… [these states have] SERIOUS problems following the rules […] Thank you for your efforts!” 

Guilford County, NC – Challenged twenty-four voters registered in other states, educated the Director of Elections on challenge procedures.

The volunteer submitted the voter challenge forms with property deed records and voter registrations in other states to the Director of Elections. The volunteer remarked, “The Director of Elections of Guilford County acted like he had never seen one of these forms before and didn’t seem to know if this type of documentation was enough to remove these voters from the voter roll. He kept referencing the term ‘court order’ as if this Voter Form was going to be reviewed by some type of court/judge. Even though I was able to address just a small number of voters prior to the deadline, I wanted to see it to the end, so it would give me a better understanding of how this works.” This is one example of volunteer education helping officials in the real world.

Barron County, WI – Sent lists to clerks for further review.

The volunteer submitted 365 names on the active voter list to the Barron County clerk and the municipal clerk that had permanently moved, as well as an indefinitely confined list as well. Regardless of the outcome, the volunteer noted that the approach in the challenges mattered: “I’m trying to be quite congenial in our discussions to let them know we are watching things closely without making them defensive, for as we know our 2024 election will be as important as this one and I don’t want to burn any bridges. Thank you very doing this important work.”

St. Lucie County, FL – Contacted voters by phone to get confirmation of ineligibility.

The volunteer called two voters on the list to find out their residency status. The first voter, a Republican, told the volunteer that she changed her license and had thought that it would have taken her off the voter rolls, and the other, an Independent, said that on the back of her change of address she cancelled her voter information. The volunteer will continue working; thus far she has found one more voter, a Democrat, who voted by mail this year but left in 2019 and has no military, student, federal, or overseas exemptions.

Lancaster County, PA – Sent to Board of Elections and raised awareness/flagged.

The volunteer spoke with the Chief Registrar for the Lancaster County Board of Elections. The registrar informed the voter that they were unable to perform any voter list maintenance in the ninety days before an election, but did offer to accept the list of challenges and would attempt to contact the voters if any of them applied for a ballot.

 Franklin County, OH – Came away feeling Ohio and Franklin County had cleaned the voter rolls and checked as they did deep dives on double registered voters.

The volunteer sent the Deputy Director of the Franklin County Board of Elections eleven names of people registered in two states requesting absentee ballots. Despite being past the thirty-day window for an official challenge, the Deputy Director assigned a staff attorney to research the findings. After many phone calls, the voters were contacted and corrected. The volunteer wrote in a follow up email, “Ohio cleaned up the rolls. This is some evidence of that vigilance working. Thank you for allowing me to participate in an important activity for a citizen.”

Pinellas County, FL – Three volunteers teamed up and submitted seventy-one cases.

Three LAA volunteers joined up and submitted seventy-one potentially ineligible voters to the clerks, including a voter who moved to New York permanently in 2020, registered to vote there in 2021, and requested a vote by mail ballot. They stated that the county clerk gave them a difficult time and said that it would take four years to remove the voter, even with sufficient evidence that the voter is ineligible to vote in Florida. They have not given up on challenging this voter and are considering taking legal action against the clerk.

Pinal County, AZ – Got the list to the district GOP for “official” submission.

The Pinal County Recorder called the volunteer and stated that she said she was supportive of the effort from LAA and the volunteer. Although the recorder stated that her office can’t accept non-verified outside information, she put the volunteer in touch with the Republican Party chair for the district that the volunteer resides in, and the chairperson agreed to accept the database. Since that is a “trusted source” according to the Recorder’s Office, that was how the challenges made their way through the system.

To volunteer with Look Ahead America, please visit: https://lookaheadamerica.org/volunteer/.

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LAA’s Braynard Statement on Discord Server Shutdown, Defamation Lawsuit

Washington DC – Look Ahead America’s Executive Director Matt Braynard made the following statement in an email to supporters this weekend regarding Discord’s slanderous defamation of LAA.

As you may have heard, our Discord server was shut down.

This is unfortunate because it had been a thriving online community of thousands of America First conservatives as well as international supporters. We had a book club, movie nights, a forum for job seekers, and discussions about everything from video games to arts and crafts to recipes.

We never violated any Discord rules. However, as a woke corporation in San Francisco, they didn’t really need a reason to shut us down.

However, in the process of shutting us down they sent an email to every registered user on our server telling them that we had engaged in making fraudulent claims about elections, attempted to suppress voters, and tried to prevent elections from occurring. I’ve attached the message they sent out.

We believe this email blasted out to the whole world was false and defamatory, and we’ve taken the first steps of legal action against Discord, Inc., by retaining the same firm that helped us with our response to Dominion Voting Equipment’s scare letters, Dhillon Law headed by Harmeet Dhillon.

The initial phase of this process involves research into the likelihood of success which has a price tag of $10,000. IF you’d like to help us fund this first step, please contribute at https://LookAheadAmerica.org/Donate.

You can also mail a check to:

Look Ahead America, 722 12th Street NW, Suite 538, Washington DC 20005.

In the meantime, we have started a Guilded server which seems more tolerant of dissident political viewpoints. You can find it here: https://guilded.gg/LookAheadAmerica.

Yet Guilded is still hosted by a corporation that may be hostile. Our long-term goal is to build an online community using a self-hosted solution. If you have a platform to recommend, please send an email to our research director, Ian Camacho at ian.camacho@lookaheadamerica.org.

Thank you for your support.

America First, America Forever.

Matt Braynard

Executive Director

Look Ahead America

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