IN WISCONSIN, RITE HELPS PRESERVE SANITY IN ABSENTEE VOTING

WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday, Wisconsin’s Waukesha County Circuit Court handed a massive win to the rule of law in Kormanik v. Wisconsin Elections Commission. The court ruled that the Wisconsin Elections Commission cannot permit election clerks to run a “re-voting” scheme, where clerks allow people to endlessly alter their submitted votes until the election […]

RITE DEFENDS MONTANA’S PROHIBITION ON DUPLICATE VOTER REGISTRATION FROM ACTIVIST ATTACK

WASHINGTON, DC – RITE filed a brief on Monday opposing Marc Elias-backed activists who are attempting to undermine democracy by attacking Montana’s law forbidding voters from purposefully maintaining duplicative registrations in multiple states. “Too many voters stay home, convinced their state is not set up to run a smooth or fair election. That worry is […]

RITE DEFENDS WISCONSIN’S ABSENTEE VOTING LAWS AGAINST MARC ELIAS-BACKED CHALLENGE 

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, RITE filed a brief to prevent Marc Elias-backed plaintiffs from upending Wisconsin’s absentee voting laws. The Elias-backed plaintiffs are arguing in federal court that Wisconsin’s law requiring that a witness attest that the voter is casting the ballot appropriately and without outside intimidation, violates the Voting Rights Act and the Civil […]

Hillsborough Superior Court Upholds New Hampshire’s Voter Identification Laws

New Hampshire residents deserve basic safeguards to confirm citizenship WASHINGTON, DC – One year before New Hampshire votes for President and just months before New Hampshire’s First in the Nation presidential primary, the Hillsborough Superior Court decided in favor of RITE PAC, the New Hampshire GOP, the RNC, and New Hampshire’s secretary of state and […]

FLORIDA COURT HALTS ELIAS’S CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE STATE ELECTION LAW

WASHINGTON, DC – RITE PAC, alongside the Florida Secretary of State and the RNC, have secured a major victory in the Northern District of Florida, where the court on October 30 dismissed a complaint lodged by activists represented by Elias Law Group. The complaint falsely alleged Florida’s voter registration process violates the Civil Rights Act. […]

NEW YORK COURT HEARS INITIAL ARGUMENTS IN CHALLENGE TO EARLY MAIL VOTER ACT

WASHINGTON, DC – A New York court heard arguments today on whether to grant a preliminary injunction to halt the implementation of the Early Mail Voter Act, New York’s activist law that attempts to circumvent the state’s constitutional limits on absentee voting. A RITE-backed coalition argued the state constitution does not grant the legislature authority […]

RITE SUPPORTS CHALLENGE TO ILLINOIS’ LAW EVISCERATING FEDERALLY MANDATED ELECTION DAY 

WASHINGTON, DC – RITE submitted an amicus brief this week in support of challengers to Illinois’ illegal and reckless election rules that allow ballots to be collected two weeks after Election Day.   RITE’s brief highlights a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that all actions required to finalize the selection of an officeholder must be completed by […]

RITE TELLS FEDERAL COURT THAT ELIAS’S CRUSADE AGAINST VOTER ID IS A LOSER

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, October 6, RITE asked the court to rule against activist plaintiffs in Northeast Ohio Coalition v. LaRose who failed to identify a single voter burdened by Ohio’s election integrity reforms. The motion for summary judgment points out that the activists, represented by Marc Elias’s law firm, do not identify any […]

RITE PUTS MARYLAND ON ALERT FOR VOTER REGISTRATION ACT VIOLATIONS

WASHINGTON, DC – On behalf of two Maryland residents, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) has issued a litigation notice to the Maryland State Board of Elections highlighting violations of the National Voter Registration Act, the First Amendment, and state law. In particular, the State Board of Elections has adopted illegal policies that block […]

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).