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<div data-element-id="elm_niA5FmkhQ_ew5YyT9jMV-A" data-element-type="text" class="zpelement zpelem-text "><style> [data-element-id="elm_niA5FmkhQ_ew5YyT9jMV-A"].zpelem-text { border-radius:1px; } @media (max-width: 767px) { [data-element-id="elm_niA5FmkhQ_ew5YyT9jMV-A"].zpelem-text { border-radius:1px; } } @media all and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width:991px){ [data-element-id="elm_niA5FmkhQ_ew5YyT9jMV-A"].zpelem-text { border-radius:1px; } } </style><div class="zptext zptext-align-center " data-editor="true"><div style="color:inherit;"><div style="color:inherit;"><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;">Stand for Health Freedom with the help of NC health freedom organizations, including HEALNC, published a North Carolina health freedom voter guide for the 2024 primary election.&nbsp;Fifty percent of the health freedom candidates won the primary!&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;">Now it's time to prepare for the general election, and we'd like to help Stand for Health Freedom expand its health freedom voter guide to include <span style="font-weight:700;">school boards </span>and<span style="font-weight:700;"> county commissioners</span> whose leadership during Covid had a huge impact (for better or worse) on our quality of life at the county level.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><br></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;">And, wouldn't it be amazing if we could hear from candidates for all 170 NC State senate and house candidates who create NC law!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;">For that reason, we need your help vetting local and regional candidates.&nbsp;It's pretty simple!</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><br></span></p><ul><li style="text-align:left;"><span>Step 1:&nbsp;Email candidates who are running for office in your county or precinct and ask them to complete the Stand for Health Freedom <a href="https://standforhealthfreedom.com/vote-for-health-freedom/survey/">survey</a>.&nbsp;(We will provide you with email addresses and a pre-written email you can copy and paste.)</span></li><li style="text-align:left;"><span>Step 2:&nbsp;We will notify you of those candidates that respond favorably and need further vetting. You will then review the candidate's website, voting record, and articles written about them to determine if their words and actions are in alignment with their answers to the survey.</span></li><li style="text-align:left;"><span>Step 3:&nbsp;Submit the results of your research to HEALNC.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align:left;"><br></div><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;">We expect that the entire process will take you only 4-5 hours over the course of a month. And, you will be protecting your family's, friends' and neighbors' freedoms in the process.</span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><br></span></p><span style="font-size:18px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:inherit;">If you would like to help vet candidates, please fill out the form linked below. (Thank you to those who have already completed the survey!)&nbsp;We will contact you with everything you need to know so you can help SHF survey the candidates in your area and create an extensive voter guide for NC citizens.</span></div></span></div></div></div>
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