RITE Files Amicus Brief in United States Supreme Court to Support Virginia’s Right to Remove Noncitizens from its Voter Rolls

Washington, D.C. – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today filed an amicus brief, or a “friend of the court” brief, in the United States Supreme Court in support of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s effort to remove self-identified noncitizens from its voter rolls. Recently, […]

RITE Sues Montgomery County, Pennsylvania for Illegal Lack of Transparency in Deploying Voter Services Van

Norristown, Pennsylvania – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”), a non-profit organization which supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today sued Montgomery County, Pennsylvania for failing to follow state law when debuting its voter services van. Pennsylvania law requires counties to post notices of the exact times and locations of their voter registration […]

RITE Requests Virginia Elections Officials Take Action to Enforce State Laws that Protect Against Non-Citizen Voting

Richmond, Virginia – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”), a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect election integrity and ensure elections officials follow the law, has written Virginia elections officials requesting immediate action to stop Prince William County from ignoring a Virginia law that safeguards the Commonwealth’s elections from non-citizen voting. Under Virginia […]

RITE Asks NC Court To Prevent Non-Residents from Voting in November Election

Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today asked a North Carolina court to act immediately to prevent people who have never lived in the state from voting in November’s election. Earlier this month, RITE filed suit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (“NCSBE”) to […]

RITE Puts Virginia on Alert for Voter Registration Act Violations

Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), in support of nonprofit Electoral Process Education Corporation (“EPEC”),  has notified Virginia election officials they are violating federal law by withholding information critical to efforts to verify the accuracy of the Commonwealth’s voter rolls. Virginia is violating the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”) and a 2012 court order by […]

RITE Acts to Ensure Only Eligible Citizens Vote in North Carolina Elections

Washington, DC – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today filed suit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections (“NCSBE”) to ensure that only eligible citizens can vote in North Carolina elections. North Carolina’s Constitution specifically requires individuals to reside in the […]

RITE files amicus in Montana case on Election Day voter registration

Washington, DC – September 26, 2024 – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court” brief, with the U.S. Supreme Court in a Montana case regarding the right of the state legislature to regulate […]

RITE Statement on Victory in PA Supreme Court on Undated Mail Ballots

HARRISBURG, PA, September 13, 2024 – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today issued the following statement regarding a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that undated mail-in ballots will not be counted. RITE President Derek Lyons issued the following statement: “RITE […]

RITE Statement on New York Court of Appeals Ruling on Mail Voting

ALBANY, NEW YORK – August 20, 2024 – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, today issued the following statement regarding a ruling from the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, that undermines election integrity and disenfranchises more […]

Complaint Filed Alleging Unlawful Retention of Voter Data by Leftwing Non-Profits in North Carolina

CHARLOTTE, NC – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) has filed a complaint with the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) outlining how voter registration organizations are violating North Carolina election law when by collecting and retaining personally identifiable information from voter registration applications.  “North Carolina rightly protects its citizens from unscrupulous organizations harvesting personal information […]

Andrew C. McCarthy

Bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy is a contributing editor at National Review, a senior fellow at National Review Institute, and a Fox News contributor. He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included 

the 1993 World Trade Center  bombing and a plot to  bomb New York City landmarks. After working on other national security cases, including investigations in Africa after the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, he helped supervise the Justice Department’s command center near ground-zero in lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks. During his 20-year career as a prosecutor, he received numerous honors, including the Justice Department’s highest awards. He taught trial advocacy at New York Law School, and constitutional issues in criminal law at Fordham Law School. Andy speaks and writes widely on law and national security, radical Islam, politics, and culture. He has testified before Congress as an expert on issues of constitutional law, counterterrorism, and law-enforcement. In addition to his regular columns at National Review, Andy writes frequently for other major national publications. His most recent New York Times bestselling book is Ball of Collusion(Encounter Books, 2019), about the Russiagate controversy (an updated version was published in 2020). His other books include Willful Blindness (2008), The Grand Jihad (2010), Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2012), and Faithless Execution (2014). He has also written several pamphlets in the Broadside series published by Encounter Books, most recently Islam and Free Speech (2015).

Andrew C. McCarthy

Bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy is a contributing editor at National Review, a senior fellow at National Review Institute, and a Fox News contributor. He is a former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and led the terrorism prosecution against the “Blind Sheikh” (Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists for conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included 

the 1993 World Trade Center  bombing and a plot to  bomb New York City landmarks. After working on other national security cases, including investigations in Africa after the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, he helped supervise the Justice Department’s command center near ground-zero in lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks. During his 20-year career as a prosecutor, he received numerous honors, including the Justice Department’s highest awards. He taught trial advocacy at New York Law School, and constitutional issues in criminal law at Fordham Law School. Andy speaks and writes widely on law and national security, radical Islam, politics, and culture. He has testified before Congress as an expert on issues of constitutional law, counterterrorism, and law-enforcement. In addition to his regular columns at National Review, Andy writes frequently for other major national publications. His most recent New York Times bestselling book is Ball of Collusion(Encounter Books, 2019), about the Russiagate controversy (an updated version was published in 2020). His other books include Willful Blindness (2008), The Grand Jihad (2010), Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (2012), and Faithless Execution (2014). He has also written several pamphlets in the Broadside series published by Encounter Books, most recently Islam and Free Speech (2015).

Bobby Burchfield

Bobby R. Burchfield is a co-founder, with Karl Rove, of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, Inc., and currently serves as RITE’s Chairman. Before retiring from the practice of law in March 2021, after serving as a partner in three international law firms, Bobby was a trial and appellate  lawyer who tried cases before judges and juries and argued appeals throughout the United States. His cases addressed a broad  range of subjects  including antitrust, commercial  disputes, constitutional law,  election law, and class action issues. Bobby argued two important First Amendment cases

in the Supreme Court of the United States (McConnell v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC), as well as two dozen appeals in the lower courts. Over a 40-year career, Bobby never lost a jury trial. Among other recognitions, he was listed for many years in Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers Partners rated Bobby highly for Commercial Litigation and for Election Law. Bobby is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington Law School, teaching a seminar entitled “Fundamentals of Free Speech as Applied to Contemporary Issues.” He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest University, is Vice President for Finance for the Executive Board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts (NCAC), is Chair of two Super PACs, and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the George Washington Law School. A graduate of Wake Forest University (BA 1976 with distinction in Economics and Political Theory) and the George Washington Law School (1979 with high honors), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, Bobby clerked for the Hon. Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as General Counsel of President George H.W. Bush’s Re-Election Campaign in 1992, by appointment of President George W. Bush on the Antitrust Advisory Commission (2005-07), and at the request of President Donald J. Trump as Ethics Advisor to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust (2017-2021).

Bobby Burchfield

Bobby R. Burchfield is a co-founder, with Karl Rove, of Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, Inc., and currently serves as RITE’s Chairman. Before retiring from the practice of law in March 2021, after serving as a partner in three international law firms, Bobby was a trial and appellate  lawyer who tried cases before judges and juries and argued appeals throughout the United States. His cases addressed a broad  range of subjects  including antitrust, commercial  disputes, constitutional law,  election law, and class action issues. Bobby argued two important First Amendment cases

in the Supreme Court of the United States (McConnell v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC), as well as two dozen appeals in the lower courts. Over a 40-year career, Bobby never lost a jury trial. Among other recognitions, he was listed for many years in Best Lawyers in America, and Chambers Partners rated Bobby highly for Commercial Litigation and for Election Law. Bobby is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington Law School, teaching a seminar entitled “Fundamentals of Free Speech as Applied to Contemporary Issues.” He also serves on the Board of Trustees at Wake Forest University, is Vice President for Finance for the Executive Board of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts (NCAC), is Chair of two Super PACs, and serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the George Washington Law School. A graduate of Wake Forest University (BA 1976 with distinction in Economics and Political Theory) and the George Washington Law School (1979 with high honors), where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, Bobby clerked for the Hon. Ruggero J. Aldisert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as General Counsel of President George H.W. Bush’s Re-Election Campaign in 1992, by appointment of President George W. Bush on the Antitrust Advisory Commission (2005-07), and at the request of President Donald J. Trump as Ethics Advisor to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust (2017-2021).