An Election Denial Group Has Spent Months Compiling ‘Suspicious Voter’ Lists in North Carolina

“We bash not inquire radical whether they enactment with groups,” Richards says.

The NCEIT is affiliated with the nationwide Election Integrity Network (EIN), whose members allege without grounds that the US is plagued with elector fraud. The EIN was created by Cleta Mitchell, Donald Trump’s erstwhile lawyer who was contiguous connected the 2020 telephone telephone successful which Trump asked the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” him astir 12,000 votes.

When EagleAI Network was created successful the aftermath of the 2020 election, it reportedly received ineligible assistance and strategy proposal from Mitchell—though Richards has insisted that Mitchell has nary “official relationship” with EagleAI Network. The institution has courted contracts with nationalist predetermination boards successful at slightest 3 states (Georgia, Texas, and West Virginia), and it has information astir voters that person precocious moved from astatine slightest 9 states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas), but the full fig of states EagleAI Network has been utilized successful is unclear. Notably, North Carolina is absent from some publically disposable lists.

The NCEIT’s run to people “suspicious voters” could disproportionately interaction Hispanic people. Jim Womack, NCEIT laminitis and president and Lee County Republican Party chair, said successful a caller video obtained by CBS News that erstwhile generating suspicious elector lists, NCEIT members should people radical with “Hispanic-sounding” past names.

"If you've got folks that you, that were registered, and they're missing accusation … and they were registered successful the past 90 days earlier the election, and they've got Hispanic-sounding past names, that astir apt is, is simply a suspicious voter," Womack says successful the video. "It doesn't mean they're illegal. It conscionable means they're suspicious."

The emails don’t item precisely however the “suspicious voter” instrumentality from EagleAI Network works. However, the company’s instrumentality for automating elector registration challenges, a akin process, are well-documented. While elector registration challenges person to beryllium filed nary less than 90 days earlier an election, elector challenges tin beryllium filed up to 5 days aft an predetermination successful North Carolina.

EagleAI Network’s tool for filing elector registration challenges fundamentally centralizes the process. It allows users to hunt for radical who they fishy person issues oregon mistakes successful their elector registrations, utilizing information from a operation of nationalist and backstage sources. A hunt could aboveground voters who, say, unrecorded astatine a peculiar address, oregon stock demographics similar age.