The Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) hopes to set up a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss safeguarding the integrity of the election process.
“We believe we need a town hall,” said Linda Paine, president of the EIPCa, at a recent meeting with Los Angeles County supporters. “We’d like to ask Californians to help us call upon President Trump to hear us.”
The ruling required state and county officials to remove as many as 1.5 million inactive registered names from the voter rolls in Los Angeles County alone.
This is far from the only issue discovered by the organization, but the initial success has caught the attention of similar groups elsewhere. Paine said she has received calls from other states asking how the organization was able to win the lawsuit and how they can do the same thing. She hopes a national meeting will help rally people around the country to get more involved in election integrity.
“From the time [Trump] started the Commission on Election Integrity and Voter Fraud, we attempted to get our research and report directly to him,” said Paine.
Paine said EIPCa was strongly against AB-1921, which legalized ballot harvesting, and the group wrote a position paper opposing the measure because of the potential for vote by mail ballots to be manipulated.
“We’re very concerned about the law. We think it should be repealed,” she said.
“This 2018 election made it very clear that something went terribly wrong,” said Paine. “It has to be fixed soon.”
Prior to that, the agency was found in September to have mishandled about 23,000 voters’ registration information, including giving people the wrong political party preference and sending nonqualified people’s information to the secretary of state.