December 1, 2023 BYEMAIL: FOIA@elections.virginia.gov VirginiaDepartment of Elections- State Board

This request is for public records in the possession of the Virginia Department of Elections, which includes its employees, agents, representatives, and any individual or entity acting on behalf of the Virginia State Board of Elections, regardless of the location of those records Speciically, CREW requests all communications from January 15, 2022 to the date this request is processed between the V. [...] By way of background, in 2021 conservative activist group Virginia Fair Elections (“VFE”) wrote amemo titled The VirginiaModel, laying out ways for states to “subtly influence the voting systems” under the guise of protecting election integrity.1VFE has used thismodel to influence the outcome of elections by the deployment of poll watchers and themanipulation of election boards and general registr. [...] Mitchell’s involvement in the development of the VirginiaModel led to the establishment of the Election Integrity Network (“EIN”), a project of the Conservative Partnership Institute, which has sought to push the VirginiaModel as a blueprint for “election integrity eorts” nationwide. [...] The requested records will provide transparency into the training of over 4,500 poll watchers and oficials that covered over 85% of shifts in registrar's ofices and polling places in Virginia,and the role of the partners, experts, and fundersmentioned in the request.6 Given that nearly all groups in the VFE coalition are linked to eorts to subvert the 2020 election results, this request will provi. [...] If it is your position that any portion of the requested records is exempt from disclosure, please provide an index of records or categories of records that have been withheld and the reasons the records or categories of records have beenwithheld.