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Dear Oregon Republican Party State Central Committee (SCC) Members,

Someone within the ORP recently conducted an audit of the ballots stored for the March National Committeewoman elections without Chairman Justin Hwang's authorization and found a "missing ballot" from that election. 

The missing ballot had been ruled an abstention by the Chair, Presiding Officer ORP Vice-Chair Angela Plowhead, at the SCC meeting. Now having found this "missing ballot," the abstention was changed to a vote for Helen.  Apparently, the ORP Executive Committee made this decision last Saturday, May 5 during a closed Executive Session. This meeting was held without Chairman Hwang who was out of the country but was due to return from his three-week trip on May 6.  It was also held without National Committeeman Solomon Yue who was also scheduled to return the next day.

During that closed executive session, a decision was made to ask the SCC body whether or not to conduct a second-round run-off vote as a continuation of the March 16 NCW election.  This decision was made without full disclosure.  For example, delegates were never informed that Umatilla Chair Suni Danforth had challenged the election to the RNC on March 31, 2024, providing testimony of election fraud from candidate Rejeana Jackson’s observer, Linda Dill, from inside the counting room. 

The following nine questions were not answered regarding the audit.

1. Who authorized the audit?

2. Who requested the audit?

3. Who conducted the audit?

4. Who observed the audit other than Secretary Perkins and Margie Hughes, who was Tracy Honl’s observer?

5. Why didn't Secretary Perkins invite other candidates' observers for the audit?

6. Who had access to the area where the ballot was found, prior to it being found?

7. What date was the audit conducted?

8. Where was the audit conducted?

9. Why couldn't the Vice Chair, Secretary and National Committeewoman wait for two more days to call the Executive Committee meeting to deal with the missing ballot?

10. Had the ballots indeed been stored at Margie’s home, thereby allowing Tracy Honl’s election team unsupervised access to the ballots and tally sheets, between the election and the audit?
    

Other issues concerning the conduct of the NCW election of March 16, 2024, surfaced. In the last two days, candidate Helen Heller’s observer, Todd Morrill, has also come forward to challenge the election integrity of the NCW election.

Summary of major Election Integrity issues:

1. Tracy’s observer, Margie Hughes, selected a head teller who couldn’t perform her duties. Margie then assumed those duties herself. This is a violation. Margie also served as Rules Chair so she interpreted whether or not she was following the rules she had also written.

2. Margie handled the ballots. This is a violation.

3. Three separate counts were done, and the totals were never the same twice. Margie declared Tracy the winner on the first count to the consternation of those in the counting room. Tracy’s total on no count ever reached 50%+1, so on the final count suddenly a ballot disappeared. This disappearance put the winning tally needed at a lower threshold. The suddenly missing ballot was declared, with no evidence, an abstention. This ruling was objected to during the election, and now ORP has proven that it was never an abstention.

4. Margie wrote on the tally sheets. This is another violation. (She crossed totals out and wrote in her own total based on the number she said her candidate, Tracy Honl, needed to win.)

5. One ballot had Helen’s name crossed out and Tracy’s penciled in. Was this a valid vote?

6. The ballots were divided up in a tight space, so no observer was ever able to watch all the ballots counted at the same time.

The only body that can overrule a decision by the SCC Presiding Officer is the State Central Committee.  As of now, the "missing ballot" is still technically an abstention by ruling of the Presiding Officer.  There is no way to correct this mistake after the election meeting has ended.  The only way for this problem to be corrected is for a re-vote election to be held, which  is what should have happened at the March 16 meeting.

Roberts Rules of Order 46:49 (c) Contesting an Election: " If the votes of the nonmembers or absentees affect the result action has been taken in violation of the fundamental principle of parliamentary law that the right to vote is limited to the members of the organization who are actually present at the time vote was taken."

The declaration by the Chair to declare the "missing ballot" an abstention and subsequent changing of that vote abrogated the right to vote of the delegate who cast the ballot.

See the attached statements from Todd Morrill and Linda Dill more detail.

Both Todd Morrill and Linda Dill have established potential ballot tampering as well as an unauthorized ballot audit. To restore trust and confidence in ORP election integrity, we have decided to petition for a meeting on July 6, 2024, to conduct the re-vote. If you agree, please print, sign, and return the enclosed petition.

19 SCC delegate signatures from 19 different counties are required to complete the petition.

Thank you,

Joel Pawloski LTC(R)

Chair

Marion County Republican Party

Suni Danforth

Chair

Umatilla County Republican Party

Clint Carlson

Chair

Morrow County Republican Party

Gabe Buehler

Chair

Washington County Republican Party