New Lawsuit on Big Tech Censorship!



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LA COUNTY REMOVES 1.2 MILLION INELIGIBLE VOTERS IN JUDICIAL WATCH
LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT

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Good news for voters and elections in California. Los Angeles
County removed 1,207,613 ineligible voters from its rolls since last
year under the terms of a settlement agreement
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in a federal lawsuit
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we filed in 2017 (_Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et
al._
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(No. 2:17-cv-08948)).

We sued on behalf of four lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles
County and the Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public
interest group involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement
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Los Angeles County sent almost 1.6 million address confirmation
notices in 2019 to voters listed as “inactive” on its voter rolls.
Under the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), voters who
do not respond to the notices and who do not vote in the following two
federal elections must be removed from the voter rolls. The settlement
also required an update to the state’s online NVRA manual to make it
clear that ineligible names must be removed and to notify each
California county that they are obliged to do this.

In the most recent of a series of progress reports
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to us,
Los Angeles County confirmed that 1,207,613 ineligible and inactive
voters were recently removed from the rolls. Los Angeles County
confirmed last year that more than 634,000 of its inactive voters
hadn’t voted in at least 10 years.

We previously detailed
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that Los Angeles County had allowed more than 20% of its registered
voters to become inactive without removing them from the voter list.

This long overdue voter roll clean-up is a historic victory and means
California elections are less at risk for fraud. Building on this
success, we will continue our lawsuits and activism to clean up voter
rolls and to promote and protect cleaner elections.

We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. We
have assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys
who have stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up
voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other
achievements
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We recently settled
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a federal
election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the city
removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and promised to
take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter registration
lists.

Kentucky
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also removed hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it
entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.

In February 2022, we settled
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a
voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its
counties after North Carolina removed over 430,000 inactive
registrations from its voter rolls.

In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor
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of our challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme”
congressional gerrymander.

In May 2022, we sued
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Illinois on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered
Illinois voters to stop state election officials from extending
Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.

Robert Popper, Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads our election law
program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil
Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting
rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements
in dozens of states.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES DHS FOR RECORDS ON ELECTION CENSORSHIP

We’re back in court in our continuing quest to unearth the federal
government’s election-related censorship. The more we learn, the
more concerning it becomes.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records of communication
related to the work of the Election Integrity Partnership
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(EIP) that could
detail coordinated censorship activities (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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_(No. 1:23-cv-00384)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), a component
of the Department of Homeland Security, failed to comply with an
October 27, 2022, FOIA request for:
1. All emails, direct messages, task management alerts, or other
records of communication related to the work of the Election Integrity
Partnership sent via the Atlassian Jira platform between any official
or employee of the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency and
any member, officer, employee, or representative of any of the
following:

* The Election Integrity Partnership
* The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public
* Stanford University’s Internet Observatory
* The Center for Internet Security
* The Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center
* The National Association of Secretaries of State
* The National Association of State Election Directors
* Graphika
* The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Laboratory
* Any social media company

2. All memoranda of understanding, guidelines, or similar records
related to the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency’s use
of the Atlassian Jira platform for work related to the Election
Integrity Partnership.
Based on representations from the Election Integrity Partnership
(see here
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and here
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the federal
government, social media companies, the EIP, the Center for Internet
Security
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(a non-profit organization funded partly by DHS and the Defense
Department
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and numerous other leftist groups communicated privately via the
Atlassian
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software platform
called Jira
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In a February 8, 2023, hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep.
Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed information
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about federal agencies, social media companies, nonprofits and other
organizations communicating “their version of misinformation using
Jira.” Luna pointed out to Yoel Roth
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then-Twitter’s head of trust and safety who helped suppress the
Hunter Biden laptop story:

> On this chart, I want to annotate that the Department of Homeland
> Security, which has a following branches, cybersecurity and
> infrastructure security agency, also known as CISA Countering
> Foreign Intelligence Task Force … [were] used against the American
> people. The Election Partnership Institute or Election Integrity
> Partnership, EIP, which includes the following, Stanford Internet
> Observatory, University of Washington Center for Informed Public,
> Graphika and Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. And
> potentially according to what we found on the final report by EIP,
> the DNC, the Center for Internet Security, CISA- a nonprofit funded
> by DHS, the National Association of Secretaries of State, also known
> as NASS and the National Association of State Election Directors,
> NASED.

> And in this case, because there are other social media companies
> involved, Twitter, what do all of these groups though, have in
> common? And I’m going to refresh your memory. They were all
> communicating on a private cloud server known as Jira. Now, the
> screenshot behind screenshot behind me, which is an example of one
> of thousands shows on November 3rd, 2020, that you, Mr. Roth, a
> Twitter employee, were exchanging communications on Jira, a private
> cloud server with CISA, NASS, NASED, and Alex Stamos, who now works
> at Stanford and is a former security of security officer at Facebook
> to remove a posting. Do you now remember communicating on a private
> cloud server to remove a posting? Yes or no?

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> Well, I’m going to tell you right now that you did and we have
> proof of it.
The Elon Musk ‘Twitter Files’ are the tip of the iceberg, as the
federal government ran a massive, secret censorship op against the
American people. That the DHS is hiding these censorship records in
violation of FOIA law shows the agency still has something to hide.

We have been quite active in exposing unlawful election interference.

We are suing
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the DHS for all records of communications between the CISA and the
EIP, which was reportedly
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active during the 2022 midterm elections. Among the news outlets
flagged by EIP were websites for _Just the News_, _New York Post_,
_Fox News_, _Washington Examiner_, _The Washington Times_, _The Epoch
Times_ and _Breitbart._

We recently sued
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the DOJ for
records of communications between the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) and social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections,
as well as the Hunter Biden laptop story.

In September 2022, we sued
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the
Secretary of State of the State of California for having YouTube
censor a Judicial Watch election integrity video.

In May 2022, YouTube censored a Judicial Watch video about Biden
corruption and election integrity issues in the 2020 election. The
video
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titled “Impeach? Biden Corruption Threatens National Security,”
was falsely determined to be “election misinformation” and removed
by YouTube, and Judicial Watch’s YouTube account was suspended for a
week. The video featured an interview with me. We continue to post our
videos
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on its Rumble channel
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In April 2021, we published
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documents
revealing how California state officials pressured social media
companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about
the 2020 election.

In May 2021, we revealed
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documents
showing that Iowa state officials pressured social media companies
Twitter and Facebook to censor posts about the 2020 election.

In July 2021, we uncovered
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records
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which
revealed that Facebook coordinated closely with the CDC to control the
COVID narrative and “misinformation” and that over $3.5 million in
free advertising given to the CDC by social media companies.

BIDEN ISSUES SECOND ORDER TO ‘FURTHER’ ADVANCE GOVERNMENTWIDE
RACIAL EQUITY

The Left’s use of the word “equity,” meaning equal outcomes for
different groups, is reminiscent of Karl Marx’s “From each
according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” And
Marxist “equity” is the official policy of the Biden
administration, as our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog reports
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> Although the U.S. has already implemented a governmentwide plan to
> advance racial equity and support underserved communities under a
> 2021 Biden executive order
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> the president has issued a second directive
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> to strong arm federal agencies into launching more initiatives that
> will further tax Americans. Under the recently issued mandate
> government agencies have 30 days to establish an “Agency Equity
> Team” and conduct proactive engagement with members of underserved
> communities through culturally and linguistically appropriate
> listening sessions. Biden is also creating a White House Steering
> Committee on Equity composed of senior officials who will coordinate
> the government’s sweeping efforts to promote his leftist agenda.
>
> “By advancing equity, the Federal Government can support and
> empower all Americans, including the many communities in America
> that have been underserved, discriminated against, and adversely
> affected by persistent poverty and inequality,” Biden writes in
> the new document, adding that “equitability” will rebuild trust
> in government. “This order builds upon my previous equity-related
> Executive Orders by extending and strengthening equity-advancing
> requirements for agencies, and it positions agencies to deliver
> better outcomes for the American people,” according to the
> president. As examples the commander-in-chief offers building a
> strong, fair, and inclusive workforce and economy, investing in
> communities where federal policies have historically impeded equal
> opportunity, mitigating economic displacement, rooting out
> discrimination in the housing market, advancing equity in health,
> environmental justice and ending “unjust disparities” in the
> nation’s criminal justice system.
>
> Additionally, the director of the White House Office of Management
> and Budget (OMB) will update directives to “support equitable
> decision-making, promote equitable deployment of financial and
> technical assistance, and assist agencies in advancing equity, as
> appropriate and wherever possible,” the new executive order says.
> This is important because OMB plays a pivotal role in government by
> developing and executing the federal budget, overseeing federal
> agencies and executive branch operations, and coordinating all
> significant federal regulations. The new order also includes a
> blueprint to make equity part of the official federal budget process
> and specifically prevent discrimination based on gender identity and
> sexual orientation. “My Administration has embedded a focus on
> equity into the fabric of Federal policymaking and service
> delivery,” Biden writes, bragging that his presidency is the most
> diverse in our nation’s history.
>
> This month’s executive order is part of a robust movement by the
> administration to incorporate racial equity across all federal
> agencies. The president launched the plan on his first day in office
> with the lengthy executive order to advance racial equity and
> support for underserved communities through the government. The 2021
> document claims that “entrenched disparities” in laws, public
> policies, and private institutions have denied equal opportunity to
> individuals and communities and that the health and climate crises
> have exposed inequities while a “historic movement for justice has
> highlighted the unbearable human costs of systemic racism.”
> Therefore, the original order states, the federal government should
> pursue a “comprehensive approach to advancing equity for all,
> including people of color and others who have been historically
> underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent
> poverty and inequality.” It further says that “by advancing
> equity across the Federal Government, we can create opportunities
> for the improvement of communities that have been historically
> underserved, which benefits everyone.”
>
> Many key federal agencies have taken major steps to implement racial
> equity plans as per Biden’s first mandate. The Department of
> Justice (DOJ) has formulated a strategy to “advance equity for
> marginalized and underserved communities
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> that, among other things, directs federal prosecutors to ignore
> maximum sentencing under the law to “avoid unwarranted
> disparities.” The Department of Labor has dedicated $260 million
> to promote “equitable access” to government unemployment
> benefits by addressing disparities in the administration and
> delivery of money by race ethnicity and language proficiency. The
> Treasury Department named its first ever racial equity chief, a
> veteran La Raza official who spent a decade at the nation’s most
> influential open borders group. The Department of Defense (DOD) is
> using outrageous anti-bias materials that indoctrinate troops with
> anti-American and racially inflammatory training on diversity
> topics. The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created an equity
> commission to address longstanding inequities in agriculture. The
> nation’s medical research agency has a special minority health and
> health disparities division that issued a study declaring COVID-19
> exacerbated preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities
> and marginalized communities.
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Until next week …





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