Category: Reports

Washington DC – Today, Look Ahead America’s Research Group released a report analyzing HB 1300, the Pennsylvania State Legislature’s attempt at voter integrity reform that was vetoed by the governor.

HB 1300 was a massive bill and it moved through the legislature faster than the Research Group was able to complete the analysis. Because the legislation may eventually be the starting point of future efforts or a ballot initiative/state constitutional amendment, LAA believes there is value in sharing the analysis.

Three of Look Ahead America’s six public policy objectives are found in some form in the legislation:

• Requiring the use of the NCOA database to exclude voters who are no longer eligible to cast ballots.

• Requiring the use of open source voting equipment.

• Requiring the equal distribution throughout the state of private donations.

However, the bill also had some weaknesses. Namely, it did not require an ID to vote in person. An individual wishing to vote in person without any form of ID could cast a ballot by making up the last four digits of a Social Security number, and there was no requirement that election officials confirm that the numbers were correct.

And while it could do a better job implementing LAA’s objectives and had a lot of room to improve, it is a good start.

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View PDF of this press release here.

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Washington DC – Today, Look Ahead America (LAA) Research Group released an expanded list of over 900 attempts to pass dangerous elements of HR1 through state legislatures.

Matt Braynard, Executive Director of LAA, made the following statement:

While H.R.1, the dangerous and unconstitutional so-called “election reform” bill has been blocked in the US Senate, our Research Group made a startling discovery: progressives in state legislatures are introducing hundreds of bills that mimic H.R.1.

We are rallying our volunteers and fellow patriots to make sure their state representatives know that attempts to tamper with election integrity by passing H.R.1 through the back door isn’t going unnoticed.

Some noteworthy examples in this round include:

ARIZONA: Upon release, persons convicted of a felony will have their voting rights automatically restored. Citation: S.B.1439

CALIFORNIA: Establish permanent, no-fault mail-in voting for all registered voters for every election. All registered voters will automatically receive a vote-by-mail ballot without requesting one. Citation: A.B.37

MASSACHUSETTS: Persons convicted of a felony, age 16 or older, shall be automatically pre-registered to vote with the office of correction, which becomes a voter registration agency. The convicted felon automatically becomes a registered voter upon their release, whether they’re on probation or not. Citation: S.450

NEW JERSEY: Comprehensive changes all in one bill, including early voting, automatic registration, permanent no-fault mail-in voting for every election, under-18 registration of voters and ballot harvesting (for up to 10 voters). Citation: S.B. 94

NEW YORK: Gives voters the ability to maintain vote at any residency that they maintain a continuous connection to, including vacation or second homes, which weakens the voter roll residency requirements. Citation: A.B.6482

To support LAA’s efforts, please contribute at https://www.lookaheadamerica.org/donate.

View PDF of this press release here.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana— LAA Executive Director Matt Braynard released the following statement on Louisiana’s Senate Bill 221.

“We initially were very hopeful about Senate Bill 221 opening the door for the State of Louisiana to make the right choice on spending over $100 million of taxpayer money on voting equipment. However, the latest version of the bill replaces any meaningful substance it might have had with a puppet show that assumes the citizens of the state are too stupid to understand what the legislation does. Specifically:

1. The legislation creates a Voting Specification Committee and a Voting System Proposal Evaluation Committee. Despite expending a lot of detail on who will serve on these committees, their recommendations only carry the weight of suggestions that the Secretary of State can ignore. A previous version of this legislation made their recommendations binding.

And while creating these committees in the first place is a massive punt on important decisions from the elected leaders to an unelected panel, that panel is now the modern equivalent to the old Soviet show trials: meaningless displays which the (Secretary of) State will ignore.

2. The bill calls on the SOS to hire experts to examine voting equipment to confirm it meets the specifications the SOS determines. Earlier legislation required these experts to be “independent,” but now the legislation only requires that they be “certified” by the SOS with no specification on what that certification entails, opening the door for “certification” to be entirely subjective.

3. It pretends to prohibit a foreign power from having an ownership of a voting machine vendor. However, it still allows a foreign government to own up to a quarter of a voting equipment vendor and allows a wholly owned foreign company to win a contract. The restriction on foreign government ownership is also effectively meaningless because foreign government equity and control of a foreign company is easy to obscure. The only solution is requiring a voting equipment vendor to be 100% American owned.

4. Despite the provisions to limit access to voting machines during an election, the exceptions listed are so broad such that almost any access to the machines could be justified under those exceptions. Further, since the state does not have access to the software code or hardware schematics, it has no way of confirming any of this.

You can bet the legislators are patting each other on the back, congratulating each other for doing such a great job “solving” this issue. But this is all a fraud meant to get angry patriots in the Pelican State to shut up and leave them alone.

And it’s up to the citizens of the state to let the legislature know what they think of this charade.

I also encourage everyone to review LAA’s FAQ on Black Box Voting versus Open Source Voting.”

The directory of LA House members can be found here: https://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/H_Reps_FullInfo

The State Senate director can be found here: https://senate.la.gov/Officers.

LAA’s FAQ on Black Box versus Open Source can be found here: https://www.lookaheadamerica.org/blackbox.

To join the fight, visit https://www.lookaheadamerica.org to learn more about volunteering or donation opportunities. ABOUT LOOK AHEAD AMERICA.

Look Ahead America is an America First 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to standing up for patriotic Americans who have been forgotten by our government. That means deploying our R.E.T. (Register, Educate, Turnout to Vote) field programs across the country. It means leading Patriot Actions and training citizens to lobby their state and local governments for America First causes. And it means ensuring voter integrity by investigating cases of illegal ballots and advocating for election reform to prevent them from being cast in the first place.

View PDF of this press release here.

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Today, the Look Ahead America (LAA) Research Group released a list of over 563 attempts to pass dangerous elements of HR1 through state legislatures.

Matt Braynard, Executive Director of LAA, made the following statement:

While H.R.1, the dangerous and unconstitutional so-called “election reform” bill has been blocked in the US Senate, our Research Group made a startling discovery: progressives in state legislatures are introducing hundreds of bills that mimic H.R.1.

We are rallying our volunteers and fellow patriots to make sure their state representatives know that attempts to tamper with election integrity by passing H.R.1 through the back door isn’t going unnoticed. 

Some noteworthy examples include:

MASSACHUSETTS: Mandatory voting for all state citizens, with a $15 tax penalty for not voting.   Citation: H 765

WEST VIRGINIA: Remove felonies as a reason to disqualify voting. Citation: H.B. 2864

TEXAS: Under 18 Registration and Inmates Voting. Citation: S.B. 1899

ARIZONA: Removes penalties for ballot harvesting. Citation: S.B. 1671

ALABAMA: Inmate identification card valid form of ID to vote absentee, Sec. 17-9-30 amended. Citation: H.B. 38

VIRGINIA: Constitutional amendment (first reference) 16-year-olds permitted to vote in local elections. Citation: HJR 551

Download PDF of this report here.

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Today, Look Ahead America’s Research Group released reports on two pieces of voter integrity legislation, Texas H.B. 3080 and Kansas H.B. 2183.

The report made the following conclusion about Texas’s effort:

Texas House Bill 3080 aims to remedy voter fraud vulnerabilities in the current mail-in ballot process. While this bill only addresses one of the six Look Ahead America policy objectives for voter integrity reform, it likely will become part of a larger voter integrity reform bill which the Research Group will subsequently evaluate. Therefore, the Research Group only graded it on that area it addresses and awarded it a B for being a good start and leading the nation on a vital reform. Adding a thumbprint to the ballot is a great first step, although much work remains to bring this score up to an A+.

Download PDF of this report here.

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This was the conclusion regarding Kansas’ effort:

While Kansas’ House Bill 2183 aims to do something to address voter integrity, it only addresses one of the six Look Ahead America policy objectives for voter integrity reform. The fact that the Kansas legislators have introduced even one of these policy objectives seems promising, but more work remains to actually restore voter confidence and reform existing election laws for increased security. As with FL S.B. 90, while it does something, which beats nothing, Kansas’ voters deserve much better from their state government. Overall, H.B. 2183 scores a D- in terms of overall effectiveness. Passing, but barely.

Download PDF of this report here.

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Today, LAA’s Research Group published the initial release of the Voter Integrity Legislation Tracking Report. From the report:

We documented a total of 1,143 bills related to election reforms across all fifty states. Both Democrats and Republicans introduced these bills in their state houses and state senates. We had initially used the Brennan Center’s state voting bills tracker as our guide, although we improved upon their findings by including the bills’ sponsors, the sponsors’ political parties, status of the bill (including as of date), and the link to the actual bill.

Download PDF of this report here.

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Today, Look Ahead America released its first VISAGE report designed to analyze voter integrity reforms. The subject of this report is Florida’s Senate Bill 90.

The Voter Integrity Summary, Analysis, Grading and Evaluation (VISAGE) Report has four major components: Summarizing the overall bill, Analyzing each section of the bill, Grading each section of the bill using Look Ahead America’s six objectives for voter integrity reform, and Evaluating the overall bill.

Per the report, SB 90 got Ds and Fs by most of the VISAGE measures except for one area: it bans outside funding for election operations with the exception of allowing the use of a location for a polling location, such as a church or a social organization donating their premises.

The report concludes:

While FL S.B. 90 does something to address voter integrity – arguably better than doing nothing – the voters of Florida are deserving of higher standards from their elected officials in addressing voter fraud and election integrity.

Download PDF of this report here.

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On July 30, LAA’s Voter Integrity Project revised the report based on helpful feedback from outside groups that reviewed our data, provided at the bottom of this announcement.

Today Look Ahead America released the long-awaited Georgia Report documenting the illegal ballots cast in that state’s 2020 General Election.

A non-redacted version is being made available to government officials and select journalists and other individuals upon request.

Matt Braynard, Look Ahead America’s executive director and founder of the Voter Integrity Project made the following statement:

We are very glad to release this report and I could not be prouder of my team at Look Ahead America that produced it. This effort is the result of hundreds of hours of work of over forty individuals and nearly $100,000 in crowd-sourced funding.

Our conclusion remains: We prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the deserved winner of the state of Georgia’s presidential electoral votes in the 2020 General Election is unknowable.

We look forward to releasing similar reports for Wisconsin and Arizona in the coming month.

I also look forward to this summer when our research group will turn its attention to identifying ineligible individuals in the voter databases of states that have elections this year: Louisiana, New Jersey, and Virginia.

I am grateful to our donors who made this possible and encourage our supporters to continue to contribute and volunteer to help us in our effort to complete this work.

To support Look Ahead America, please go to https://lookaheadamerica.org/donate.

Download PDF of this report here.

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