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• Legislative Research and Outreach
• Voter Rolls – List Maintenance and Election Results Data Analysis
• Chain of Custody Documentation and Analysis
• Election Officer Outreach
• Poll Watcher Management and Operations
• Equipment Research and Reporting
• Media and Communications
  

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• To volunteer as a Poll Watcher in the November 2024 General Election, email Barbara Tengs,  Fairfax GOP Poll Watcher Team Lead, at pollwatchers@fairfaxgop.org
• To volunteer as a Republican Election Officer, apply at the Fairfax County Office of Elections website for Election Officers HERE.  After you have submitted your application to Fairfax County Office of Elections, contact Andi Bayer, Fairfax GOP Election Officer Outreach Lead, at electionofficers@fairfaxgop.org. Andi will review and approve your application to serve as a Republican Election Officer. Election Officers are employed by the Fairfax County Office of Elections, and are asked to choose which political party they choose to represent on Election Day.

• We  began investigating voter roll maintenance and documenting processes used in the 2020 election.
• We greatly expanded county-wide Poll Watcher operations for the 2021 Governor’s race and recruited more Election Officers.
• We exposed a decision by the 2021 Registrar, Scott Konopasek, not to require the final four Social Security numbers on absentee ballot applications, a voter integrity measure which was  required by law. A lawsuit against Fairfax County was filed by the Public Interest Law Foundation to require the county to comply with the law, later dismissed for lack of standing. However, in April 2022, the new Fairfax Registrar Eric Spicer began requiring the Social Security Number on all absentee ballot applications, restoring an important tool to verify the absentee ballot applicant’s identity.

• In the 2022 election, over 700 Republican Election Officers served across Fairfax’s 264 precincts on Election Day, including Republican Chiefs in every precinct.
• Over 400 Poll Watchers worked as observers and reporters, gathering chain of custody information in polling places for Early Voting and Election Day, the Central Absentee Precinct, the Hand Counts pre-processing, Logic and Accuracy Testing of equipment, voting materials drop-off locations, final tabulations, Canvassing and Provisional Ballot adjudication.
• The Chain of Custody team scanned over 70,000 undeliverable mailings for comparison to voter registration and voter history lists, as well as thousands of images of other election documents.
• The Data Analysis Team submitted lists of selected registration records for further investigation.
• Through Freedom of Information Requests, the Legislative Research team collected all Virginia Department of  Elections administrative Guidances from 2018 to the present day, which will shortly be made available online (and regularly updated) for all voters at EPEC.info. They also worked closely with statewide coalitions in the 2023 Legislative Assembly session to block bills that would damage election integrity.
• The Equipment Research team submitted a whitepaper on the potential risks of the KNOWiNK Poll pads to the State Board of Elections and a whitepaper on the CCP-associated Konnech software program to the Fairfax County Electoral Board in September 2022. The Fairfax County Office of Elections stopped using the Konnech application a month later, followed by other Virginia counties.

2024:

In 2024, we’re organizing to take our operations to the next level. Join us and help make it easy to vote – and hard to cheat – in Virginia elections.

The March 5 Presidential Primary has started as of January 19, 2024. Apply to work as an Election Officer in the Presidential Primary.

The Fairfax Republican Committee is not legally permitted to schedule poll watchers in primaries. To poll watch, contact the candidates to obtain an authorized representative letter. A sample March 5 sample ballot is here.

The 2024 legislative session is underway. See the 2024 Legislation Updates here for information on good and bad bills and House of Delegate and Senate contact information.

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