April 30, 2026

Elections protest bill H3556 heads to the governor for approval.  Last chance to try stopping it by calling the governor's office and asking him to VETO the bill! 
April 19, 2026

CALL YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS AND TELL THEM TO STOP H3556!  This bill creates more blockades for candidates who feel they were cheated during an election.  It moves all election protests to the state level party executive committee, allows the winner of an election to take the oath of office and begin serving before a protest is decided, and forces appeals to go to the supreme court rather than a circuit court - AND BASED SOLELY ON THE RECORD OF THE HEARING PROVIDED BY THE STATE PARTY.

House Reps have one last chance to amend the bill on Tuesday, April 21st before it goes to the governor.  Tell them to amend the bill and fix the disastrous problems that would further weaken the power of the people and remove transparency.

Watch this video for an update on the battle for election transparency.  You can find more detail about the AG opinion by Alan Wilson, now running for governor, and the lawsuit below:


Explanation of Judge Daniel Coble's decision on the dismissed CVR lawsuit: Video Explanation
Judge Daniel Coble dismissed the case so that it would not go to trial and then, at the bidding of the State Election Commission (SEC), ruled in their favor.  His summary judgement was that CVRs and CVR reports are not subject to FOIA and that the SEC acted in good faith when they denied these records to the public.  The ruling was based upon these opinions: 
  • The judge doesn't have to admit evidence from the plaintiffs or hold court to make the decision because the case does not require the services of a fact finder. p. 6
  • The services of a fact finder are unnecessary because the AG wrote an opinion already on the issue and his opinion is as good as gold. p. 7
  • The General Assembly did not intend for CVRs or CVR Reports to be subject to FOIA p.7-8 (CVRs are included in the list of records which are "required by law to be closed to the public".  This is a complete fabrication.)
  • In his opinion, IF the General Assembly had wanted voted ballots included in FOIA when it passed in 1978, it would have expressly said so. p. 8,9 (This argument, if it stands, can be used to block every FOIA request.)
  • Even if CVRs are "public record" under FOIA, (appears he is waffling on his prior conviction) they are exempt because of privacy laws. p. 9-10 (He based this judgement upon the AG opinion and the depositions of HOWARD KNAPP, DATABASE SUPERVISOR JAMES POSEY AND PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER CHRIS WHITMIRE, each one of whom testified that releasing CVRs for public inspection could result in an individual elector's votes being identified.)
  • all other FOIA requests subject to the SEC's counterclaim resulting in this judgement are also not subject to FOIA because they are overly broad, unduly burdensome, vague, repetitive and submitted for an improper purpose. p. 11-12


If this judgement is allowed to stand, we have indeed lost our Republic and no effort made to protect SC from complete incorporation into the New World Order by the lords of the United Nations will prevail.  Even if we were to wake up the sleeping masses, we fail to be a free nation if we give our courts the ability to strip us of our constitutional right to a free and fair election.  This "court" is declaring fealty to the SC Constitution's provision that the ballots be cast in secret while admitting that it is not secret; that even the general public, without the technological savvy of the CIA, DHS and CIS, can identify who cast which ballot. At the same time, the court is COMPLETELY ignoring the second part of Article II Section I - that the ballots cannot be counted in secret.
When a group of Spartanburg residents canvassed about 800 homes in 2021, they not only found ineligible voters but missing voters on the voter rolls.  People were aghast that their participation in the 2020 general election was not recorded!  

Discuss these ideas on how to rectify the situation with your state legislator:
  • On page 3 of the AG Opinion from September of 2020, a case is clearly documented where the outcome of an election was declared null and void by the SC Supreme Court because the voter could be identified by the ballot.  Therefore, it is reasonable to ask that all elections decided by the use of our current election system which does not provide for the secrecy of the ballot - by the SEC Director's own admission - should be declared null and void.  I am guessing the plaintiff must have sufficient standing, which should include anyone elected to office or any elector using the system. The plaintiffs of the CVR case and grassroots donors contributed about $100K to never be actually heard by the court.  At this point, it is clear that any chance at a prevailing lawsuit would come from the legislature.
  • The SEC is correct about personal identification on the CVRs, the SEC should be sued for allowing elections to be conducted without providing for the secrecy of the ballot and for the transparency of the counting.
  • The SEC should be sued for providing CVRs with personally identifiable information to Clear Ballot - a private auditing company in Boston, Massachusets.
  • FOIA  law should be strengthened in SC to prevent continued denial of records requests ... this is happening across the board.
  • Bills, budgets, and regulations should NOT be passed which further limit public involvement in the audit of the vote or centralize control of elections.
  • Have the Legislative Audit Council actually present the results of the audit to the general assembly.
  • Pass a bill to close the backdoor to county election records via Albert sensors through CIS EI-ISAC. Our very own Marci Andino serves as Sr. Director at CIS EI-ISAC.   The effort to allow early tabulation of early voting results could be used to control election day voting outcomes.  Once these early voting results are uploaded onto the internet, the federal Center for Internet Security will have access to them, the electronic poll books, and tabulators.
  • Pass a bill to demand transparent, random hand count audits of election results in SC along with easy, inexpensive public access to Cast Vote Records and Voter Rolls such as the Election Transparency Act introduced late in the last session.​

What's the Big Deal with Cast Vote Records?

SC Constitution Article II, Section I "All elections by the people shall be by secret ballot, but the ballots shall not be counted in secret."
"...what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how." - Joseph Stalin

Updates

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​regarding elections in SC.

CALL, TEXT AND WRITE YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE ABOUT SPONSORING H4935 - THE SAVE (SECURE, ACCURATE, AND VERIFIABLE ELECTIONS) ACT.  Go to https://www.scsafeelections.org/updates/action-alert/ for more information.
Print and deliver or email this document plus a personal letter requesting support for legislative actions to protect the integrity of our elections to your state representative, senator, and governor.   
Why should we concerned about the safety of electronic voting?