MALDEFs 50th Anniversary San Antonio Awards Gala Friday, September 28, 2018 The Westin Riverwalk 420 W Market Street San Antonio, TX 78205, MALDEFs 50th Anniversary Los Angeles Awards Gala Thursday, November 8, 2018 JW Marriot at L.A. Live 90 West Olympic Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90015, Friday, September 28, 2018 The Westin Riverwalk 420 W Market Street San Antonio, TX 78205, 50th Anniversary Kick-off with Panel Discussion, Washington, D.C. 50th Anniversary Awards Gala. A district court and the en banc Ninth Circuit, on a 9-2 vote, conclude in 2011 that the ordinance is unconstitutional. MALDEF is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, with regional offices throughout the United States. Lies by Dominion legal team not withstanding, I don't have $1 millionnot even in the same ballpark. And when they dont, even if its off only by one, that precinct is not subject to a recount. Thank you so much to all who are supporting us in this battle for the truth! I take that word very seriously. They never had a tally. Colbeck noted that vote tallies were supposed to be posted on red boards on the wall next to green boards containing initial zero tallies for each machine. Indeed, this is so important, not so much because one election hangs in the balance, but because our democracy, itself, hangs in the balance. You always want to make sure that you can trace that breadcrumb through. Dominion threatened to sue Colbeck if he did not retract his statement about the company. The company filed a $1.3 billion lawsuit against Trump's former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a similar suit against lawyer Sidney Powell, and a $1 billion suit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. Thankfully, some of the state started to demand investigations independent of federal agencies. 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Colbeck pointed out that it is especially important to have a witness in the case of counting military ballots, because there is a different procedure involved, where duplication of ballots is required. In 1970, MALDEF challenged the Texas legislature for carving up voting districts to keep Latinos and other people of color out of power. A state court rules for the first time in New Mexicos history that education is a fundamental right under the state constitution. And Im saying, Id like to have verification that the computer isnt connected to the internet., And he said, Youre just gonna have to trust me. Subscribe to our email list and bookmark LifeSiteNews.com to continue getting our news. He is referring to the lawsuit which the state of Texas has filed against Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia in the Supreme Court over changes thosestates made to their election rules,claiming theyviolated the U.S. Constitution in the process. For general inquiries contact: (213) 629-2512, or info@MALDEF.org. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) opened its doors on August 1, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. Our first legal victory came soon after our founding in 1968. Dominion Voting Systems has sent a cease-and-desist letterto a former Michigan state senator who the company says ismaking false claims about its products and the 2020 election to drive donations to his personal business. That was kind of the crystallizing moment for me. And that interference did not start on election day, November 3 it started well before that.. But we still believe that the DoJ needs to use its enormous fact-finding resourcesto help resolveallegations of election fraud. These devices are commonly used to regulate the output of a system to achieve a desired setpoint. Still, a lawsuit related to the Dominion machines used in that small county is ongoing. Additional expenses are incurred for private investigators, expert witnesses, travel, and other expenses necessary to make an effective legal defense. Inspired by the civil-rights era legal battles mounted on behalf of the African American community and knowledgeable of the pervasive discrimination against Latinos, lawyers and community activists throughout the southwestern United States launched efforts to create a legal organization to serve the Latino community. He can be reached at [emailprotected]. MALDEF files a lawsuit that halts implementation of the 1994 California ballot measure Proposition 187. And the rationale that they used was that we were over our limit due to covid. MALDEF files a lawsuit in April 2014 on behalf of parents and families seeking to ensure New Mexicos poor and at-risk children receive a sufficient education. But some of the chief election officials seemed to be intent on interfering with actual oversight activities of our officials, which is blatantly against the law. I got a phone call saying, Theyre starting to count the military ballots. Keep in mind, the military ballots have been kept up on this stage all night long and there were times when the poll workers were completely idle, but they chose not to count the military ballots during that time frame., When they did choose to count the military ballots, it coincided with when the election officials decided they were going to katy bar the door and keep any poll challengers who were outside from coming back in to witness the [counting of] the military ballots. Some people are more important than others apparently because they get two votes, the rest of us only get one.. Your support of MALDEF will immeasurably help our cause for the fair treatment of Latinos in the classroom, workplace, and the courtroom. So what they were doing was, in many cases, whenever they were processing a ballot or ballot envelope or signature, rather than giving us an opportunity to verify the data on that, because they were 6 feet back, they would immediately flip it over on the side so that you couldnt read what you needed in order to verify the integrity of the process. Most Americans want to kick that box too. With guidance from Jack Greenberg, Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, attorney Pete Tijerina meets with Bill Pincus from the Ford Foundation to discuss funding a new organization. The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the case in 2012. February 17, 2023. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. The lawsuit leads to the election of Gloria Molina, the first Latina and first woman on the board in more than 115 years. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voids Proposition 200 in 2010. Ann Marie Tallman named president and general counsel of MALDEF. MALDEF successfully moves to intervene in January 2015 in a lawsuit filed by Texas and 26 other states to President Obamas November 2014 announcement of Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), and the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. DOMINION ANNOUNCES $1.6 BILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST FOX NEWS, OUTLET CALLS CLAIMS 'BASELESS'. MALDEF files suit in 2011 in response to maps enacted by the Texas Legislature that failed to reflect Latino growth in the state through the creation of new Latino-majority districts. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is the leading civil rights voice of the Latino community. Patrick J. Colbeck is one of the most fascinating people analyzing our elections. The MPMC building also serves as a unique professional environment primarily for other non-profit organizations that provide assistance to minority and other underserved communities. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. Mario G. Obledo is named president and general counsel of MALDEF. His technical expertise is vast and includes Microsoft Certification as a Small Business Specialist. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) opened its doors on August 1, 1968 in San Antonio, Texas. Copyright 2023 NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Death Row USA: Death Penalty Cases and Statistics by State. All Rights Reserved. Like the problematic nature of having SQL Server software tools installed on an election server. 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He explained that separate poll books were generated for Michigan voters which allowed them to vote with both an absentee ballot, and in person at the polls. The 1977 lawsuit leads to the landmark 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the constitutional right to a free K-12 public school education for all children regardless of immigration status. Ste. Biden won Michigan in November, four years after the state narrowly went for former President Trump in 2016. If you are interested in a broad introduction into the topic of election fraud, this link will take to you a compendium of posts on the topic. He was the Vice-Chair of Elections and Government Reform. Theyre supposed to be reconciled against the pollbook. While most all Americans believe in playing by the rules,we alsoknow that some very devious, politically-motivated operatives have been trying to harm the Trump administration from before he even took the oath of office. They have been successful at silencing our voice in the media. So I was very curious, I was like, how the heck are they doing this?, So I went back to Mr. Thomas repeatedly, kind of like the kid in the backseat on the way to Disneyworld, who says, Are we there yet? In the meantime, you may still sign this petition. Here is the central partof the argument: if Texas were to allowpossiblevoter fraud to go unchecked in Michigan,Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, it would beakin to committing fraud upon the people of Texas, who cast their ballots within the framework of the law. Campaign Created by: Patrick Colbeck The funds from this campaign will be received by Patrick Colbeck. The organization, formed by civil rights attorneys and community members, dedicates all of its resources to fight discrimination on the job, in schools, and to increase Latino participation in the political process while denouncing racist actions by law enforcement and the courts. Colbeck went on to describe the second important point to safeguard the poll book which is used to verify the identity of anyone who casts a vote in an election. LifeSite supports President Trump with this petitionbecause we believe he is trying to defend the Constitution, ensuring that electoral fraud does not taint the result of the 2020 general election. The chip was found on the small mother board inside the ES&S DS200 ballot scanner & tabulator. Our commitment is to protect and defend the rights of all Latinos living in the United States and the constitutional rights of all Americans. A federal judge rules in 2018 that the plan unlawfully denies Latinos the right to elect candidates of their choice, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, leading to a settlement on a new districting plan. The case marks the first VRA lawsuit filed in California in more than a decade. What we indeed found in this election is that theres a lot of people that have lived a very healthy life here in Michigan, he quipped. And while there I diagrammed out the election processes so I could identify potential failure points, what are the areas we really need to safeguard, said Colbeck. And that opened the door to a lot of people putting prefabricated ballots into the dropbox that are unmonitored and pushed through the system. But, for decades the clusters of men seeking work outside home repair stores or gathered on street corners in Southern California have been largely from Mexico and Central America. Our efforts to strengthen equal voting and representational access were bolstered again in 2006 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in LULAC v. Perry, a lawsuit brought by MALDEF, that the Texas Legislatures 2003 redistricting plan denied Latino voters the opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.