Black Swans, Orchestrated Chaos, and November 5
True the Vote the first citizen voter integrity group in the 21st century, was started by Catherine Engelbrecht in 2009. At the time, she had been managing a manufacturing plant that supplied parts to the oil and gas industry in Texas for eleven years. Interviewed last month Patriots with Grit, she explained, “I had never been interested in politics, but after ‘09, I found government was everywhere, my kids school, health care, oil and gas, regulations out of control. How could citizens engage?”
Engelbrecht hasn’t been out of court one day since 09, and the pretty blond country club woman today has the stripped down looks of a real fighter.
“We took so much for granted. So I decided to get involved. They needed poll workers? Ok. So a bunch of us signed up for poll watching. Most of the elections were fine, but 25% of the group came back to say, you would not believe what we saw.”
They saw voters who were told their vote had already been cast. They saw people come in and say, “I can’t remember who I am supposed to vote for”, and the election judge would walk them over to the machines and coach them.
“Then, a group who came into town who said they were going to register a massive number of new voters. We investigated, caught them and turned them over to the county.
“We started True the Vote, and soon enough people from all over the country were calling us to say, ‘Hey, we heard you are doing this kind of work, can we work with you?’ That was the beginning.
Within two months I’d been sued twice and over the next 18 months, I went through 23 audits and investigations by five different government agencies and it didn’t stop until I spoke before Congress. I sued the IRS in 2013, beat them in 2019, and the whole undercurrent of election integrity went forward, and in 2019, I began to hear about changes to process.
Engelbrecht is working with hundreds of thousands of voters now, in precincts all across the country, at the ground level. She and her team have developed tools for citizens to use to check the voter rolls. She has 35,000 volunteers working on just one of the apps below, IV3, and at any one time, 7,000 people are on line helping voters.
work 16 hour days, six days a week, and I don’t see an end to it.
“In 2019, the rip cord was pulled and everything you could possibly imagine, from the half a billion from Mark Zuckerburg directly to counties to put in
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