Election Integrity Network leader says their activists are “everywhere” trying to “suppress the people who are trying to vote unlawfully”

Kerry Toloczko: “We have activists, grassroots activists, so we're handing these out in churches, in parking lots, in voting centers.”

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From the October 16, 2024, Rumble livestream of the Election Security Call with Steve Stern and Raj Doraisamy

KERRI TOLOCZKO (ELECTION INTEGRITY NETWORK): We have a sign that says if you are not a citizen of the United States, it is illegal for you to vote and there's the code. Our activists are using these everywhere. We have one in red too if you like red better than you like yellow. We have a bunch here as well. You can see that's in English. Stop, you can't vote here if you're not a citizen. And we have that in Spanish.

We have activists, grassroots activists, so we're handing these out in churches, in parking lots, in voting centers. Please, please make sure you know your state and local law on how far you can get away from the voting station before they start yelling at you and then add another 10 feet to that.

This goes back to what I was saying earlier about these people being taken advantage of and abused. Number one, on one side of the equation, we don't want noncitizen voting. I mean, this is like the hugest given in this whole call. The second part of it is they don't - they shouldn't be doing it either because it really harms them. And so our position is, you know, we're here to protect you against these things.

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So, no matter what you're accused of in this noncitizen thing, number one, you're protecting noncitizen from themselves and not having them commit a felony that can come back and bite them later. You are protecting lawful citizens because if I - I live in Collier County Florida, if I have a noncitizen come in here and vote not the way I vote, guess what happens to my vote, it's gone. Right?

So, it's protecting lawful voters to make sure that their votes and their political voices are not, canceled out and you know, the notion that it's somehow racist and suppressionist is just ridiculous. We joke often that it is suppressionist. We're trying to suppress the people who are trying to vote unlawfully.

As Media Matters previously reported on Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network:

Mitchell is an election denier and former Trump attorney who leads the Election Integrity Network — which is a “coalition” of right-wing, election-denying activists that has reportedly recruited and trained poll watchers to seemingly monitor elections for alleged fraud. According to The Intercept, Mitchell “played a central role in the effort to stop the certification of the election in Georgia and beyond.”