[ April 25, 2024 ]
They just don’t stop. And nothing and no one stops them.
Inside Democrats’ Newest Election Takeover Scheme: Report Unmasks ‘Dark Money’ Group You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
The report reveals how the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is a venture by left-wing nonprofits to ‘influence every aspect of election administration.’
By: Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, January 21, 2023:
Story continues below advertisementAfter flooding local election offices with private money to alter election operations in key battleground states ahead of the 2020 presidential contest, Democrat-aligned groups have been looking for new ways to take over America’s future elections — and a new bombshell report reveals just how they plan to do it.
Released by the Honest Elections Project (HEP) and the John Locke Foundation, the shocking report reveals how the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence — a self-professed “nonpartisan collaborative” claiming to bring together election officials for the stated goal of developing “a set of shared standards and values” — is actually a venture by left-wing nonprofit groups to “systematically influence every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices across the country.
The Alliance’s efforts are similar to those orchestrated by groups such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which, after receiving $400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, poured millions of dollars into local election offices to change how elections were administered in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election. As The Federalist previously reported, these “Zuckbucks” were used to expand unsecure election protocols like mail-in voting and the use of ballot drop boxes. To make matters worse, the grants were heavily skewed towards Democrat-majority counties, essentially making it a massive Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.
Unsurprisingly, CTCL is one of the main groups partnered with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.
While CTCL’s actions in the 2020 election were intrusive enough to provoke 24 states to pass laws banning or restricting Zuckbucks, the Alliance seeks to take CTCL’s election-interfering tactics a step further. According to membership and grant agreements obtained by HEP, the Alliance’s “unusual and complex structure” appears to be “designed to thwart meaningful oversight and accountability.”
“For instance, after the Alliance had recruited its first cohort of members it announced plans to begin charging offices to join. However, the Alliance also created ‘scholarships’ to cover those membership costs, which are instantly converted into ‘credits’ that member offices can use to buy services from CTCL and other Alliance partners,” the HEP report reads. “As a result, offices receive access to funds they can spend exclusively on services provided by left-wing companies and nonprofits, entirely outside normal public funding channels.”
In other words, existing Zuckbucks bans wouldn’t necessarily prevent local election departments from contracting with the Alliance to obtain services ranging “from ‘legal’ and ‘political’ consulting to public relations and guidance on recruitment and training.”
Such services are already being utilized in places such as Brunswick County, North Carolina, where the locality’s board of elections director used “talking points and hyperlinks provided by the Alliance” to push back against criticism of the county’s acceptance of CTCL funds. In a series of emails obtained by HEP via public records requests, Board of Elections Director Sara LaVere is documented defending the acceptance of the grants and admitting that The Elections Group — an Alliance partner — assisted her in writing articles published during the 2022 election cycle.
“I have personally worked with the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Democracy Fund, Elections Group, and the Center for Civic Design in the past,” LaVere wrote. “The two election columns I published for this election? Those were written with assistance from the Elections Group. Most of my social media posts during the general election came from templates provided by the Elections Group.”
Legislation banning Zuckbucks and other types of private funding in North Carolina’s elections successfully passed the Republican-controlled legislature in 2021, but was vetoed by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper.
But Alliance doesn’t provide its “benefits” to local election offices without expecting something in return. As described in the report, election departments that become Alliance members “are expected to work with the [coalition] to develop and implement an ‘improvement plan’ that reshapes the way each office functions.” This requirement allows the Alliance to gather significant data on the internal operations of participating offices.
“No matter what it claims to be, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is nothing more than a dark money-fueled scheme to push liberal voting policies and influence election administration in key states and localities,” said HEP Executive Director Jason Snead in a statement. “Nobody should be able to manipulate the democratic process for partisan gain. … This report should make clear that a private funding ban, vigorous oversight, and complete transparency from officials are essential to restoring trust in our election system and making it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”
To date, the Alliance-connected CTCL has committed to distributing $80 million to 10 counties (including Brunswick) over the next five years in states such as Nevada, Wisconsin, and Michigan, among others.
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14 Comments
1 year ago
Someone or something do something about this corruption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE CAN’T KEEP LETTING OUR GOVERNMENT DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
D
1 year ago
Reply to
Staff Sgt Chaos
I don’t believe that it is our government as much as it is the criminal politicians. There are millions in the government services.
1 year ago
Reply to
PatD
…… and if those ‘millions’ go along with the corruption ….. THEY ARE JUST AS GUILTY.
1 year ago
Reply to
Staff Sgt Chaos
It is NOT “our government” …. it is “the government” ….. the Biden Crime Syndicate.
1 year ago
When it comes to Vote Fraud, The progressive commie demos are way ahead of everyone else. Until everything is done to stop it, the elections will not be fair,
D
1 year ago
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Snowedin
And the obiden stated that they had the most intensive fraud system set in place.
D
1 year ago
If they have/had the big “D” then they are liars and criminal cheats!!!!! Nothing new here.
Last edited 1 year ago by patd
1 year ago
We, now, find ourselves with the only resolution left our Founders…… I pray the same result!
I want my Republic back (No, it IS NOT a ‘democracy’) and it seems the 762 resolution is the only one being left to us.
1 year ago
The elite have become rabid.
1 year ago
Sooo! The fellow who is a Dem on Leader in Congress, follows the Goebbels – Big Lie -. I think his name is Durban; Paraphrasing: ” The hero standing in line, to receive Tax-Payer approbation- should realize that Mr.President Donald J. Trump’s Administration- is responsible for 25% of the Deficit “. _ Guess Durban is the next Dem on in line to become President- situ ‘as a – fool for a tool- of the C.C.P. or any other Entity needing an Example of His one-time ‘ Private Stash ‘ of Confidential Documents. _ Let’s review the situation; – POTUS #45 was beset upon by a crowd of Armed F.B.I. Hustlers- and President- situ was provided with Tax-payer funded lawyers to carry boxes; delay reports, similar to situ’s Son’s International need for 1st class examples of Confidential Documents._ While the doofus starts His climb to Dem on situ chance by blaming POTUS # 45 for 25% of costs!_ Which means the Dem ons must claim 75% of the Deficit. _ Presumably created by POTUS #44 without returning the reported much larger Stash of Confidential Documents? _ Please advise this octogenarian if I have brought forward some sense of consistency. _ MikeSr.
1 year ago
Dark money? You mean like what the Republicans get from Thiel, the Kochs,…
D
1 year ago
Funny how Suckberg got away with “donateing” all that money 100’s of millions and Dinesa O’sousa went to jail because he did not record $20000 just the right way.
