Calls Grow For Georgia Officials To Investigate DeKalb County’s Acceptance Of Shady Election Funding

A Georgia elections group joined a growing chorus calling for Georgia’s top GOP officials to investigate the acceptance by a Democrat-friendly County of grant money from a leftist organisation that aims to reform local election administration in advance of the 2024 election.

In a series letters, the Honest Elections Project asks the Georgia State Election Board, Secretary Brad Raffensperger and Attorney General Chris Carr to investigate DeKalb’s acceptance by the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) a $2 Million grant. It is most notable for its involvement in siphoning Hundreds of millions of dollars Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, travelled to local election offices in support of Democrats during the run-up to the 2020 elections. CTCL provided the grant as part the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.

As The Federalist Previously reportedThe Alliance has a budget of $80 million Venture left-leaning non-profits trying to copy CTCL’s 2020 strategy in advance of the 2024 elections.

HEP alleged that DeKalb accepting the grant was a violation to Georgia’s laws in its letters to top Georgia officials. Existing ban DeKalb is asked to return any outside funds for election administration if it is proven to be true. “any funds received in violation of Georgia law.”

“DeKalb County’s shameless violation of Georgia’s duly enacted outside funding ban only serves to undermine voters’ confidence in the election process and further embolden radical activists seeking to reshape America’s election system for partisan gain,” Read the documents. “The Election Board, along with the Secretary of State and Attorney General, should investigate this violation and work to restore the public’s confidence in Georgia’s election process.”

Although Georgia law prohibits local election officials from accepting private funds to manage elections, DeKalb County officials seem to have tried to skirt the statute by having the finance department apply to the Alliance grant. The Federalist obtained emails that show that one of DeKalb County’s Republican election board members wasn’t given the application for the Alliance grant prior to the announcement by the election board.

“[The Alliance is] giving the $2 million to [DeKalb’s] finance office and then the county is going to send the money to the elections department. So, they’ve essentially created this almost money laundering scheme to evade state law,” The Federalist spoke with Jason Snead (HEP Executive Director). “The people of Georgia and the people of DeKalb County deserve to understand who came up with this idea, who identified this, and who decided to actually make this attempt to evade the state’s prohibition on private funding of elections.”

The Alliance does not seek to give private funds directly to electoral offices like CTCL in 2020. skirt Existing “Zuckbucks” Interdictions or restrictions imposed by 24 states By providing election offices “scholarships” To cover the cost of membership. These scholarships can then be used to cover membership costs. “instantly converted into ‘credits’ that member offices can use to buy services from CTCL and other Alliance partners.”

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