What is a Citizen Auditor?
A post-election citizen auditor audits publicly available election records, makes a report, and uses findings to improve security and integrity in our elections at the County Commissioner’s Court, the County Executive Election Commission, and the County Election Board. If you get three out of five votes on those commissions and boards, you can secure your voting system, and other constitutional rights, in times of State and Federal overreach.
There are thousands of citizen auditors, aka as ‘Election Deniers,’ that are stepping up to help Texas in her time of need.
The citizen auditor can use their findings to petition and file complaints with the Attorney General, the Texas Secretary of State, their State Legislature, and other political parties and civic organizations interested in security, accuracy, and transparency in our election systems.
For now, your County Commissioners Court is the final authority on what voting system your County will be using. The Secretary of State and Attorney General decide if a voting system meets the standards of voting system cerification set forth in TEC 122.001 (a) (1-10), but your County Commissioners Court could decide to use only hand marked paper ballots in the voting precinct model.
What is the County Commissioners Court in Texas?
From THSA online:
TSHA | County Commissioners' Court (tshaonline.org)
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' COURT.
During the Republic of Texas the county board was composed of the chief justice (county judge) and the justices of the peace of the county; under the constitutions of 1845, 1861, and 1866, it was composed of the chief justice and four elective commissioners; and under the Constitution of 1869, of any three of the five justices of the peace of the county. The county commissioners' court or county board, as established by the Constitution of 1876, was composed of the county judge, as presiding officer, and four commissioners elected from precincts for two-year terms. A constitutional amendment adopted in 1954 changed the term of office to four years. The commissioners' court has none of the functions of a court but is the general governing body of the county. It establishes a courthouse and jail, appoints numerous minor officials such as the county health officer, fills vacancies in the county offices, lets contracts in the name of the county, builds and maintains roads and bridges, administers the county's public welfare services, performs numerous duties in regard to elections, sets the county tax rate, issues bonds, adopts the county budget, and serves as a board of equalization for tax assessments.
The last 2+ years Citizen Auditors have submitted public inforamtion act requests to audit their election records and found evidence of malfunction and manipulation that can’t be found in Risk Limiting Audits or recounts.
Over the next few weeks, we will teach you how to audit your County Election and Department using publicly available data. Please share with all friends and family regardless of political affiliation. We are confident when voters look at their election records, they will conclude we must get the machines out of our elections.
The data we request, and audit, is the data our elected officials and neighbors need to understand that every issue from rising property taxes, porn at local school boards, to the defense of our Texas border, ALL great representation depends on our election system being secure, accurate, and transparent.
We hope that Election Administrators in Texas will post election records and results on the County Election Department websites so all voters may perform post election audits of their records; until then, most counties will require Citizen Auditors to file Texas Public Information Act request to request records.
WHAT ELECTION RECORDS?
In September 2021 the Texas Secretary of State released a two-page comprehensive list of election records that would be reviewed as part of the four-county audit the 87th Legislature passed in 2021.
As, you can see Texas Election Code Section 1.012 clearly states that ALL of this information is available to the public. Page 2 of the above list is what you will want to request, along with all emails to and from your Election Administrator, the SOS, and with key words. We will do a Substack specifically on requesting your representatives’ emails in a couple of weeks. For now, let’s get those election records first!
YOU DO NOT NEED AN AUDIT BILL
Thanks to great Texas representatives of yesteryear, they thought the people of Texas are the owners of their elections. They made sure Texans have a RIGHT to transparent elections and have a RIGHT to examine election records. You do not need an audit bill to get passed to audit your elections! That is great news!
SUBMIT YOUR PIA REQUESTS
So, this Citizen Auditor thing is sounding awesome; are you are ready to file your first PIA? We have you covered. Here is the Public Information Act Poster with important information to read about your rights to information:
Below is a sample PIA Request that you can use to start your post-election citizen auditor adventure.
Date
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Re: TEXAS PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT REQUEST for <Insert County> Election Records
To whom it may concern:
I, ______________________________________, reside in the County of ___________________________and request the following records be provided to me pursuant to relevant Texas Election and Government Codes and request all fees be waived as this matter is for the public good and benefit.
Please provide the following information for the <Insert Election Date> in <County> for Early Voting in Person period and Election Day in Person period pursuant to Texas Election Code 1.012:
1. Logic and Accuracy Testing Records for voting machines:
-all test ballots voted
-test deck records
-testing media
2. Early Voting and Election Day Materials:
-Qualified Voter File
-Daily Early Voting Rosters for in-person voting
-Chain of Custody forms that document the seals on the Ballot Boxes
-Chain of Custody delivery and pick up of equipment at voting sites
-Statements of Residence
-Reasonable Impediment Declarations
-Limited Ballot Applications
-Audit Logs from applicable Voting System Devices
-List of Rejected Provisional Ballots and reason for rejection
Cont’
-Ballot and Seal Certificates:
-Register of Ballot Forms for Early Voting with Tally sheets and Election Day in Person
-Hand delivery of a Ballot by Mail Roster and Forms
-Receipts of sealed Early Voting Ballot Boxes
-Poll List of Ballot By Mail Voters
-Notice of rejected carriers and reasons for Ballot by Mail
3. Central Counting Station Plan
4. All Training materials, poll worker and poll watcher handbooks
5. All Incident Management logs, tech support hotline logs, error logs, or reports
6. All Contracts between County and Voting system companies
7. E pollbook Check in logs
8. All Central Counting station equipment logs for central tabulators, election management systems, and users logs
9. All Standard Affidavit Forms filled out during the Early Voting in Person and Election Day in person period.
10. Mandatory Precinct by Precinct level report for Early Voting in Person and Election Day in Person
Please fulfill this request quickly and if you have any questions, or I may be of assistance, please contact me above.
Thank you for your time and assistance in fulfilling my request for information.
For Texas,
Name
Phone
It may take a few weeks to receive your records, so go learn about your elections by taking the Texas Secretary of State poll worker training course online at https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/onlinepollworker.shtml
You do not have to be a poll worker to take the course. This is a fantastic resource the Texas SOS recently released and will help you learn about your elections.
Once you file your PIA Request, or before, sign up at CAUSEOFAMERICA.ORG to get connected with other citizen auditors in your County.
You can also sign up with other organizations working to restore integrity like Texasfirst.org, True the Vote, True Texas Project, County Citizens Defending Freedom, and others.
We will spend some time introducing these efforts in another post.
If you want to help get the machines out, Causeofamerica.org is best place to start for Texans.
Once you receive your records, and you wonder where do I start?
Send us an email at texascitizenauditor@gmail.com
or find us on telegram at https://t.me/projectgtmo or on
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Start with November 2022 Election to get your feet wet and see what you get back. Break it up into multiple requests if they try to charge you more than 50 dollars.
Such great info. Looking forward to more. So the 22 months requirement, should we be requesting this info from the ‘22 election or is this for info for upcoming election.