Cleta Mitchell, who leads Election Integrity Network, served on Trump’s legal team during his attempts to overturn the 2020 election result.

Since 2022, EIN has promoted becoming a poll worker,
directing people to “become part of the election apparatus” in their communities.

EIN affiliates in Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin have made efforts to recruit and train poll workers in 2024.

Mitchell and another EIN leader did not respond to calls and emails seeking comment.

During a June livestream on the video-sharing platform Rumble,
former Trump Homeland Security official #Ken #Cuccinelli directed an audience of about 10,000 to EIN’s website to sign up as poll workers.

What “can make the most difference without changing the laws,” Cuccinelli said,
“is getting more of our folks inside the polling places,
not as poll watchers,
but as election officials,
the ones who actually sign people in in the poll books,
the ones who actually count the ballots.”

Reached by phone, Cuccinelli said he takes every opportunity to encourage people to become poll workers and often refers them to EIN for training.

His remarks came during regular “election security” livestreams hosted on Rumble by Florida businessman and local Republican Party leader #Steve #Stern.
Stern declined an interview.

In April, #Christina #Norton, director of election integrity for the Republican National Committee, told the livestream audience that
its poll watchers and workers were the “heart of this mission.”

When they encounter problems on Election Day, Norton said,
they should “immediately report that issue back to the Republican headquarters,
back to our war rooms,
and then we are able to answer, mitigate or escalate these problems
to resolve them in real time.”

An RNC spokesperson said Norton meant that only observers should contact the war room
but did not respond to requests for clarification and whether the request asked workers to break the law.

#Cuccinelli repeatedly dodged questions about why DHS's Intel and Analysis group routinely produced reports in the days leading up to potential protests by left-wing or Black groups — Louisville, Kenosha — but produced no such reports in the days leading up to #January6th.

The implication is clear; DHS devoted a lot of time to monitoring "those people" but not so much time monitoring "our kind of people," even in the face of numerous direct violent threats posted publicly to social media.