Look Ahead Arizona On April 26, 2021, Look Ahead America launched Look Ahead Arizona, a voter registration and
community organizing effort. It received a $2 million pledge from
Jim Lamon for funding. Look Ahead Arizona also held a series of
Town hall meetings featuring former
AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennett. The meetings were focused on the results of the
2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit. An article published September 11, 2023 by the Arizona Daily Independent states that Look Ahead America has accused Arizona Attorney General
Kris Mayes of ignoring evidence of 69 double voters submitted by the group. Most of the ballots in question were cast in the 2020 and 2022 General Elections. In a more recent article from the Arizona Globe dated September 14, 2023, the group stated that they will refile the original 69 challenges in 6 months, in accordance with Arizona filing rules, and will add additional cases that have been discovered.
New Jersey After extensive meetings between Look Ahead America's local volunteers and
New Jersey State Senator Joseph Pennacchio, the senator introduced bill S-4162, which would require all elections in the state to use
open source voting equipment. proposed one day of Sunday voting to
Cherokee County election officials. In turn, they passed a bipartisan motion opting for a trial run on Sunday, October 23, 2022, with a follow-up cost/benefit analysis. On January 4, 2022, Sims discussed a similar proposal with
Hall County, Georgia election officials, resulting in two days of Sunday voting from May 2 through May 20, 2022, with an additional two dates on October 22 and 23 for the Georgia General Election. The same proposal was discussed and approved in
Forsyth County, which held its first day of Sunday Voting on May 15, 2022, for the General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election. On February 8, 2022, Look Ahead America officially launched its
get-out-the-vote effort "Patriotic Souls to the Polls," as a follow-up on prior activities. The initiative was launched in order to give rural churches the same opportunity to organize Souls to the Polls available to urban churches in municipalities such as
Fulton County and
DeKalb County, with the goal of increasing equitable voting access to citizens irrespective of socioeconomic status, party affiliation, or geographic location. In March 2022, Sims presented the Sunday voting proposal to
Bartow County officials but the motion did not pass.
Wisconsin On May 31, 2022, the
Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) sent a letter to its municipal clerks stating that "clerks may have received communications from out-of-state groups Look Ahead America and the Voter Integrity Project" On July 14, 2022, Look Ahead America representatives claimed that "some
district attorneys are reviewing cases with others pending litigation. Other non-resident registrations the organization uncovered were forwarded to the Fraud Unit of the Wisconsin
Department of Motor Vehicles." The Look Ahead America Research Director, Ian Camacho, objected to allegations that the complaints were "frivolous" and affirmed that all filed complaints included ample primary source documentation to substantiate the claims. Despite the WEC responses, in some cases, municipal election clerks acted on the complaints after completing their own investigations. A press release published by WisPolitics on September 27, 2022, stated Look Ahead America (LAA) successfully filed cases involving P.O. Box registrations and double voters with the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC), despite its warnings about LAA and The Voter Integrity Project. One Wisconsin LAA volunteer has also successfully challenged 365 ineligible voters in Barron County as well. According to a press release published by WisPolitics on November 21, 2023, the WEC will refer six voters registered at P.O. Boxes to the Dane, Kenosha, Marinette, and Waukesha County District Attorneys for prosecution based on complaints from three Look Ahead America (LAA) Wisconsin volunteers.
Pennsylvania On December 6, 2022, citizens in the Lycoming County Patriots organization sued
Lycoming County officials regarding the county results of the 2020 election and are requesting a forensic audit. They cited that Look Ahead America had provided 11 potential fraudulent registrations to director of elections Forrest K. Lehman, who is alleged to have admitted that six of these in fact were. As of December 27, 2022, the county is seeking to dismiss the suit. On July 5, 2023, County Judge Eric R. Linhardt dismissed the complaint against Lycoming County. It is unclear at this time, whether the plaintiffs will pursue an appeal to Commonwealth Court. It was reported on July 30, 2023 that an appeal has been filed in this case. An August 23, 2023 report states that Judge Eric R. Linhardt again refuses a forensic audit. It is expected that the case will be sent to the Commonwealth Court.
South Carolina In
Aiken County, South Carolina, Lori Boddy got involved with Look Ahead America due to its work advocating for cleaned-up voter rolls. She served as South Carolina state coordinator and later organized the county GOP poll watchers during elections in 2021 and June 2022. In July 2022 Boddy was appointed to the board of elections. Boddy also advocated for the January 6 prisoners, having organized a
Justice for J6 rally in the city of
Aiken, South Carolina on September 25, 2021, and Wisconsin. Although it was reported that no challenges were received in Ohio, the Montgomery County, Ohio Board of Elections reported receiving 15 challenges although only 2 are being considered for a possible hearing. Challenges have also been made in Nevada and Georgia by citizens of those states.
Voter fraud cases On April 17, 2023, a voter in
Bradley County, Tennessee by the name of Emily Jessop Bowers pled
nolo contendere to three counts of voter fraud in the 2020 and 2022
United States presidential primary elections and the
2020 United States Presidential Election. The conviction of Bowers resulted from information that Look Ahead America’s Director of Research, Ian Camacho submitted to Tennessee authorities in February 2021 regarding the 2020 General Election, and again in 2022 to
Volusia County,
Florida. On May 11, 2023, Look Ahead America issued a press release indicating that the County Attorney of Yuma County, Arizona has declined to prosecute a case of double voting involving Arizona and Wisconsin. The case was originally reported to the Yuma County sheriff's office by LAA in November 2021 and was one of 16 opened for investigation by the Yuma County sheriff. The stated reason for the decision is that there is still "insufficient evidence" to pursue the case. It also has cases open and referred to election authorities in Texas, Georgia, Wisconsin and other states. Twenty-two Georgia counties removed ineligible voters from the rolls based on information reported by Look Ahead America. The State Elections Board also referred LAA's case of the woman who voted in Georgia after moving to South Carolina to the attorney general's office. On November 7, 2023, the
Hamilton County, Indiana Election Board unanimously voted to send a case of voter fraud to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's office. The information came from Camacho, who testified that the double voter was found after checking a
National Change of Address filed in September 2022, voter registration records, and voting records. There was probable cause to believe the voter had double voted in both
Mesa, Arizona and
Carmel, Indiana in the 2020 General Election during early voting, and that the voter had voted first in Arizona and then in Indiana. In December 2023, a 2-part article was published concerning the efforts of LAA to identify and report questionable ballots. As of December 4, 2023, the organization has identified and referred a total of 281 cases of suspected voter fraud to law enforcement. States involved include Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan. == References ==