If you are interested in sponsoring the Gala, please click HERE. You can also support this event in several other ways: donating wine to our wine auction, or by donating an item for our event auction!

Efforts are under way for recruiting poll watchers and election judges, sign up today to ensure fair and transparent elections! Want to get involved or have us to do a training in your county? Please reach out to our Election Integrity Director at [email protected]

We also examined the voting records of all of the commissioned Republican election judges in the City of Chicago and in suburban Cook County. It is apparent that far too many Republican election judges actually have a history of voting in Democratic primaries. We simply must do a better job of filling our Republican election judge positions with actual Republicans. If we do not fill these positions, the Democrats will. I encourage any Republican who lives in Cook County to take the extra step in participating in the electoral process by becoming an election judge. We need you! Please contact CJ, our Election Integrity Director for more information. 

In case you have recently moved or just wish to check your registration status go to https://ova.elections.il.gov/RegistrationLookup.aspx to make sure that your voter registration is up to date ahead of the crucial 2024 election cycle.

To find out how you can help save Illinois, go to the Illinois Election Integrity Program website at ieip.org. Volunteer for as little or as much as you are able! Volunteers can help by joining the Illinois Election Integrity Program. Please reach out to CJ, our Election Integrity Director for further assistance.

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The Center for Election Confidence (CEC) released an academic study by Princeton Professor Nolan McCarty on ranked-choice voting (RCV). This paper is significant as it is the first academic statistical study using voting data and written by a mainstream academic from a nonpartisan perspective on the harmful racial impact of RCV. His conclusions include that RCV effectively disenfranchises minorities, including African-American and Native Alaskan voters, via ballot exhaustion at higher rates than white voters and diminishes minority electoral participation and influence. 

You can read the executive summary here, and the whole study here.  We hope this will be useful to all of you in your efforts to fight against RCV.

What is the Center for Election Confidence?  We used to be called Lawyers Democracy Fund! We changed our name for two reasons: (1) confusion with the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund ("LDF"), which is anti-election integrity, and (2) we see “confidence” in our elections as an important issue that needs to be addressed and that encompasses all of the election issues we all care about - integrity, security, transparency, trust, fairness, clear standards and processes, etc. 

• Strengthening voter ID laws = more confidence in elections.
• Cleaner voter registration lists = more confidence in elections.
• Allowing observers at every step of the process = more confidence in elections.
• Not changing the rules governing the election close to the election = more confidence in elections.
• Election officials following clear rules and processes and publishing those rules for easy access by the public = more confidence in elections.
• Transparent and easy to understand election systems (not RCV, star voting, etc.) = more confidence in elections.

CEC is a rebranding and not a change in mission. We hope your new year is off to a great start and look forward to continuing to work with all of you to promote confidence in our election systems and outcomes!

Chairman's Newsletter Spotlight: 

https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/post/what-i-learned-after-visiting-the-border-the-u-s-government-facilitates-human-trafficking-part-1

Chairman's Podcast Highlight:

Patrick Pfingsten of theillinoize.com sits down with Ray Long of the Chicago Tribune to discuss crime, corruption, the criminal trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, and more. 

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5saWJzeW4uY29tLzQzMTY2MS9yc3M/episode/MDg0MTNhNDAtYmQ2MS00NjdlLTk2MWUtODM3OWFhMWE1ZWUx?ep=14

Chairman's satire: 

Thank you for all you do and for supporting the Illinois Republican Party.

Sincerely,

Don Tracy

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