Tuesday 25th June 2024
AGENDA
9:30AM
Registration Opens
10:15AM
Host Welcome - Speaker intros, days agenda, topics covered, objectives for the day
10:30AM
Bill & Barbara Eames – NJ Legislative Update on Election Laws
Bill & Barbara Eames will present an overview of key legislation proposed in the NJ legislature around Election laws, including the OPRA bill, the MVC auto registration bill, the Voter Convenience Act and others... and discuss the impact.
11:30AM
Break
11:40AM
Dana Wefer – Legal Opportunities and Impediments to Challenging NJ Election Law
Dana Wefer will discuss the interaction between the Federal and State election laws and discuss strategies for closing key gaps in election laws in areas such as non-citizens voting.
Dana will also discuss her Mercer County lawsuit.
12:40PM
Lunch/Lunch Sessions
Lynne Lippincott and Mark Flaherty discuss the weekly Election Integrity calls hosted byC4NJEI and make a plea for more participation as poll workers, poll challengers and election observers.
Kathy Havardansky and Mark Demo review the need for internal controls in the voting process around a few key reconciliations that could easily be performed.
1:40PM
Dave Carver – An Overview of NJ Voter Registration Trends & Data Quality Issues
Dave Carver will review key NJ state-wide voter registration, party affiliation and participation trends.
Dave will provide insight into NJ Voter Registration data quality issues and reveal how effective each of the counties are in managing these data quality issues.
2:40PM
Break
2:50PM
Q&A with CountyElection Official.
Donald Katz (Middlesex BOE) joins us for a robust discussion on the role of the Board of Elections in the elections process and shares his views and experience on numerous subjects including current election legislation, the accuracy and security of the vote and many more relevant topics.
4:00PM
Wrap Up
Bill Eames Bio
Bill’s journey into civics and public policy began at Kent State University in Ohio. As news director of the university's radio stations, he was smack in the middle of the turmoil and riots that left 4 Kent State students dead in 1970.
He went on to work as news director of several radio stations, then became Executive Director of the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, and Senior VP at the Newark (NJ) Chamber of Commerce.
Bill was executive director of the New Jersey Tooling & Manufacturing Association, and after 30 years in the business world, went on to teach middle school Social Studies.
In recent years, he has been a national instructor for the Center for Self-Governance, and he and his wife, Barbara, are co-founders of the "Working Together for New Jersey" coalitions.
Barbara Eames Bio
Barbara is a retired music educator and a nine-year member of the Hanover Twp. Board of Education. She ran for County Commissioner in Morris County in 2013.
She and Bill have two grown children. She and Bill founded the Morris Patriots in 2009. In 2020, they founded Working Together for NJ, a volunteer citizen coalition that focuses on issues concerning Election Integrity, Education, and Life.
Since the 2020 election, they have worked to build a coalition in NJ to advocate for securing elections, including cleaning voter rolls, and building relationships with County officials to validate election results. We proudly partner with Citizens for NJ Election Integrity, particularly on the lawsuit that has been filed in Mercer County regarding the 2022 election debacle.
Contact us if you are interested in helping in YOUR county to help us build teams throughout the state.
Dana Wefer Bio
Dana Wefer is a NJ litigator devoted to the Constitution and the preservation of privacy and liberty. Her 2010 NJ Supreme Court case Mazdabrook Commons v. Khan resulted in an expanded interpretation of the right to free speech under the NJ Constitution.
Since 2020, she has been litigating cases related to covid tyranny including State v. French, in which she secured an appellate division decision reversing the conviction of a NJ citizen who was convicted of violating Governor Murphy's "lockdown order." She has pending cases against Governor Murphy and President Biden challenging their covid shot mandates and against Governor Murphy concerning his testing mandate.
She is also active in the areas of parental rights, home education, and election integrity.
Ms. Wefer was a fellow at the Eagleton Institute of politics. She holds a J.D. from Rutgers University, a B.A. in philosophy and political science from Rutgers University, and an M.S. in Biotechnology.
Dave Carver Bio
Dave Carver, a seasoned pharmaceutical executive, transitioned to a remarkable mission after an accident left him a quadriplegic: ensuring the accuracy of New Jersey’s voter rolls.
His expertise in data analysis and anomaly detection led him to meticulously evaluate state voter registration data uncovering inconsistencies and identifying trends.
His introduction to voter data came in 2008 when he was asked to join a local mayoral campaign. Over the next decade, he became an expert at the local level working with multiple candidates for council. In 2020, he worked with the Morris County Republican Committee on the analysis of the county GE2020 vote by mail results. For the past 3 years, he has been working on detailed analysis and understanding of the entire NJ voter data with a group of volunteers from across the state. In 2023, he was asked to Chair the Election Integrity Network’s weekly Voter List Management Zoom Meeting teaching teams across the US how to understand and analyse their states voter data. He believes that citizens should have the same expectations of how the state manages voter data as the government’s expectations of his organizations management of their regulated business operations.
Dave’s multi-partisan team collaborates with local election officials, resulting in the removal of inaccurate registrations.
His dedication serves as a beacon for improving election integrity nationwide.
Dave grew up in Haddonfield, NJ. He has a BS in Accounting from the University of Tennessee and an MBA in Economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Since returning from Australia in 1992, Dave, and his wife Penny, have lived in Madison New Jersey.
Donald Katz Bio
Don, the longest-serving State Committeeman on the NJ Republican State Committee, has served as Counsel to the MiddlesexCounty Republican Organization for almost 40 years and has presented numerous seminars on Election Day challenging and other election law matters, (including vote-by-mail), for almost 45 years. He is the author of the Middlesex CountyRepublican County Committee Handbook, now in its 11th Edition. Don has been involved in election law since he attended his first recount in 1970 as a college student. He was appointed by Governor Kean to the NJ Election LawAdvisory Council in 1989 in recognition of his election law expertise.
Don has been a Commissioner of the MiddlesexCounty Board of Elections since 2004 and has been active with the RepublicanParty in New Jersey since he first started as a teenager in 1964 passing out literature for Barry Goldwater in the Jewish sections of Perth Amboy. Over the years, he has held many different positions such as a campaign manager for a congressional and an assembly campaign, as a municipal party chair, candidate for county office, etc. He has chaired many Middlesex County “Lawyers For” groups and election day challenger operations for numerous Republican candidates form any different offices, including for Governors Kean, Whitman, and Christie, and served as part of the leadership of many statewide “Lawyers for” Groups and was also the Middlesex County Chair for the Statewide Kean-Florio Recount in1981.
