EIPCa Pursues Federal Legislation For National Election Reform: Will Host Six Ventura County Events Between July 23-26

News/Elections

By Michael Hernandez, 7-14-25

CALIRED NEWS–Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) is pursuing federal legislation that will bring about national election reform because “the current electoral system in numerous states lacks the safeguards to guarantee citizens that their rights are protected and their voice is heard.”

California elects 12 percent of the members of the House of Representatives, the highest number of any state and controls 10 percent of the Electoral College votes. As a result, “California’s suspect election results impact every American. In the last 20 years, California has been at the forefront of national reforms that weaken election laws and reduce election integrity,” according to EIPCa.

California election laws have been implemented in multiple states since 2015 and “have led the way to a reduction in state and federal election security nationwide. Such electoral incompetence, at best, or corruption, at worst, impacts the entire nation and subverts the civil rights of all U.S. citizens, regardless of where they reside” states EIPCa.

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate the manner of House and Senate elections. According to EIPCa, “Congress has the constitutional authority and duty to both override the detrimental law that produces corrupt election results and simultaneously cut off dangerous trends in election laws nationwide.”

EIPCa is submitting to Congress a Proposal for a Federal Election Integrity Bill with 17 key points which include:

Require absolute transparency of the entire election process.
Require proof of citizenship to register to vote where the voter lives in the country or overseas.
Require government-issued Photo Voter ID to register to vote, apply for and submit absentee/mail-in ballots, vote in person, or vote from overseas.
Resolve the inconsistencies regarding voting from overseas.
Update the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 passed under President Bill Clinton.
Update the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 authored by Christopher Dodd and signed into law by President George W. Bush to include consequences for noncompliance “teeth” into its mandates to ensure compliance and monitor proper use of federal funds by state election officials, particularly for proper training of poll workers and ballot processors.
Create a federally managed program, such as a merged voter database of all 50 states, with citizen oversight to ensure no voter is able to be registered or to vote in more than one state or vote while ineligible.
Prohibit Top-Two (jungle) primaries.
Prohibit Rank-Choice voting.
Limit the number of days of walk-in early voting to a maximum of seven days before Election Day.
Eliminate no-excuse voting by mail.
Prohibit most election technology and return to in-person voting with paper ballots and supervised hand-counting at the precinct level.
Protect the security of the paper ballot by requiring a watermark that cannot be replicated, making it impossible to reproduce extra paper ballots.
Prohibit “Same Day” registration.
Prohibit ballots arriving after Election Day from being accepted or counted.
Prohibit Ballot Harvesting and monitor ballot drop boxes.
Prohibit pre-registration of minors.

All 17 points are listed in a 38-page proposal that includes over 100 citations. EIPCa provided a draft of the proposal to the U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson at the end of May for review. EIPCa has now completed the herculean effort and will be providing the proposal to a Congressional Committee this week. This will be followed up with a release of the legislative proposal to 50 state legislatures.

At the same time, a request for a Congressional hearing concerning California elections will be made that focuses on 14 years of research of the voter rolls at the state and county level resulting in legal actions, as well as the observation of California’s electoral process by over 20,000 citizens in 43 out of 58 counties.

The Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) is a nonpartisan group of U.S. citizen volunteers seeking “to fulfill our duty to actively participate in the governing of our state/country, a government of, by, and for the people, by helping to ensure the integrity of that part of our Republic through which citizens exercise our most fundamental right ~ the right to choose our representatives by fair and honest elections.

“The specific purpose of this corporation is to defend, through education, research and advocacy (including legal action and providing and funding the training of election observers), the civil rights of U.S. citizens to fully participate in the election process under federal and state law.

“California is one of fewer than 30 states with laws protecting the rights of citizens to observe the election process as individuals separate from any efforts associated with a political party. As a result, EIP/EIPCa is able to research the evidence without political influence.”

In 2017, EIPCa retained Judicial Watch to sue the California Secretary of State and the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters for violation of federal voter roll maintenance laws, resulting in the cancellation of millions of ineligible registrations from 2019 to present. In the same year, EIPCa retained the Landmark Legal Foundation.

Landmark Legal filed four briefs with the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security and in 2020 a legal brief went to the U.S. Supreme Court to assist Arizona in winning its case to retain their anti-ballot harvest law in a 6-3 vote. During the same year, EIPCa challenged 4.5 million vote-by-mail ballots being mailed to addresses of deceased or relocated individuals.

Back in 2019, EIPCa filed legal action in Fresno County in order to review the 2018 ballot envelopes and the remade ballots. In 2020, EIPCa filed legal action against Ventura County for implementing election policies and procedures that superseded California laws allowing citizens to observe elections and make challenges to actions that do not comply with state and federal laws.

In 2021, EIPCa filed legal action against the California Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and 13 Registrar of Voters (ROVs). This case went to the 9th Circuit of Court of Appeals in 2022. In 2023 and 2024, EIPCa opposed and testified against Califonria’s entrance into the ERIC (Electronic Registration Information Center).

Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa) is hosting six Ventura County events over four days (July 23-26) with the first two events in Oxnard followed by events in Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Santa Paula and Fillmore. EIPCa states their goal: “every lawfully cast vote accurately counted.”

The six EIPCa Ventura County events include:

Wed. July 23 (11 a.m.): Corinthian Pacific Yacht Club, 2600 Harbor Blvd., Oxnard, CA 93005. Reservations: (805) 266-7940 ex 801. Lunch available. Rolando Chinea/Gloria Kerbaugh.
Wed. July 23 (6 p.m.): Knights of Columbus #750, 632, South D St., Oxnard, CA 93030. Rosary for America: 6 p.m. followed by Election Integrity Executive Order discussion. Bring your own snacks and water. Free Admission. Gloria Massey Chinea/Rolando Chinea.

Thurs., July 24 (10 a.m.-12 noon): The Junkyard, 2585 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, CA 93065. Brunch available. Brian Kane/Rolando Chinea.
Thurs., July 24 (6:30-8:30 p.m.) Thousand Oaks Inn, 75 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. Michelle Spencer/Gloria Kerbaugh.

Sat., July 26 (10-12 noon): Flight 126 Cafe, Santa Paula Airport, 824 E. Santa Maria St., Santa Paula, CA 93060. Meet and Greet. Limited seats available. Maria Hernandez/Gloria Massey Chinea.
Sat., July 26 (1:30-3:30 p.m.): R&Q Kitchen, 1024 Ventura St., Fillmore, CA 93015. Meet and Greet. Maria Hernandez/Gloria Massey Chinea.

All Ventura County EIPCa events will feature EIPCa founder, president and CEO Linda Paine.

June newsletter: https://www.eip-ca.com/newsletter/EIPCa_bulletin_June182025.pdf.

For newsletter subscription go to: https://www.eip-ca.com/signup/. The California EIPCa office is located at 27943 Seco Canyon Rd. #521, Santa Clarita, CA 91350. The EIPAz office is located at 1042 Willow Creek Rd. #A101-479, Prescott, AZ 86301.

Phone: 661-313-5251. Email: [email protected]. Website: https://www.EIP-Ca.com.

EIPCa originally began work as Election Integrity Project® Inc. (EIP), founded by Linda Paine and Ellen Swensen on December 28, 2010. The Election Integrity Project®California (EIPCa) was founded on July 21, 2017.

According to Linda Paine, the movement to pursue federal legislation was precipitated by challenges created by judges blocking lawsuits and EIPCa election integrity efforts.

A U.S. election integrity scorecard released June, 2025 by the Heritage Foundation showed California listed with an overall ranking of 50th based on voter identification implementation, accuracy of voter registration lists, absentee ballot management, vote harvesting/trafficking restrictions, access of election observers and verification of citizenship. Listed in a tie for first was Arkansas and Tennessee.

(See https://www.heritage.org/electionscorecard/pages/all-state-scores.html.)

Gloria Massey Chinea

EIPCa County Coordinator/ BOD Member

[email protected]

805.236.6626 (text or voice)

Rolando Chinea

Assistant County Coordinator / BOD Member

[email protected]

805.807.3150

Thanks for spreading the word.

Editor’s note: You might be wondering why we are running this article about a California Elections watchdog organization and trend-setter. We are because they have done some breakthrough work that has applicability here in Florida, as well. Mr. Hernandez regularly publishes in Citizens Journal Florida, too.

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Michael Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and writes for Citizensjournal.net and MountainTopMedia.com. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com and “Prayer Over News Daily” and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and other columns. Mr. Hernandez mentors citizen journalists/podcasters and can be contacted at [email protected].