Cleta Mitchell delivers remarks on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment. | The White House
Cleta Mitchell delivers remarks on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment. | The White House
Cleta Mitchell brought her touring Election Integrity Summit to Harrisburg last week where the state’s leading conservative activists met at the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference.
The summits are a way of playing catch-up with the left, she told Keystone Today, whose millions in dark money have been meddling in election procedures for at least the 10 years, the Capital Research Center states.
“We can’t match their money,” said Mitchell, senior legal fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) in Washington, told Keystone Today. “What we can do is mobilize volunteers.”
Mitchell’s goal is to create election integrity task forces in all 67 Pennsylvania counties to get volunteers, some as poll watchers, “to know the election laws and voting procedures.”
The effort in Pennsylvania and other battleground states in the 2020 general election is to counter what conservatives view as unsecure election procedures ushered in during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former President Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes in 2020.
A special focus for Mitchell is to clean up voter rolls.
In Pennsylvania an Indianapolis-based public interest law firm focused on election laws, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which Mitchell chairs, has successfully sued the state over getting thousands of deceased voters removed from the voting rolls.
More recently, a federal judge ruled that PILF is entitled to view documents from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, documents that reveal the department has allowed foreign nationals to register to vote for decades.
On a national level, Mitchell cites the efforts of Democrats in Congress to federalize the nation’s elections through sweeping voting laws, each of which have been narrowly stymied in the Senate. In response, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to use federal agencies to increase voter registration and turn out.
“It’s not the job of a government agency to be concerned about voter turnout,” she said. “Biden is trying to make federal agencies an organ of the Democratic Party.”
The Constitution gives Congress the right to set all rules and procedures for elections involving national office holders.
Mitchell suggests visiting www.whoscounting.us to learn more about the Election Integrity Network, and how to become involved locally.
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