Why Aren’t Legacy Media Freaking Out Over Democrat Election Officials’ Plans To Attend A Summit Held By A Left-Wing, Dark Money Elections Group?
Legacy Media Targets Republican Election Official for Attending Conference on Election Integrity
It’s no surprise that legacy media targeted Republican Donald Palmer earlier this month, given their history of orchestrating coordinated attacks against Republican election officials. Palmer, a Trump-appointed member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), attended a private February conference co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Honest Elections Project, and the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The event focused on different aspects of election integrity and featured numerous speakers, including prominent election integrity advocates and GOP congressional staffers. Several Republican secretaries of state also attended the conference.
Leftist Media Falsely Accuses Conference Participants of Spreading “Election Denial Lies”
Leftist media outlets The Guardian and Documented falsely accused the participating groups of spreading “election denial lies and advocating for restrictions on voting rights.” Other corporate press venues directed their malicious attacks at Palmer. In an April 14 article published by States Newsroom, democracy reporter Zachary Roth attempted to gin up controversy over Palmer’s decision to attend the February conference by quoting predictably critical, so-called “election experts” to give the impression that Palmer violated EAC protocol.
One of these quoted “experts” is Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a highly-partisan Democrat who’s refused to remove thousands of dead registrants from her state’s voter rolls. Benson lamented how “[e]lection professionals across the spectrum are deeply disappointed” in Palmer’s decision to attend the conference. She also baselessly claimed the EAC commissioner “abused the trust we placed in his ability to be professional and unbiased in supporting election administration.”
“His inappropriate and poor judgment calls into question his ability to continue in his role in the future,” Benson whined.
Don’t Believe the Hype
Don’t believe the hype from leftist media outlets and partisan Democrats like Benson. Palmer attended a conference on election integrity, which is well within his purview as an EAC commissioner. The attacks on him are just another attempt to silence conservative voices and undermine election integrity efforts.
- Fact: Palmer attended a private conference on election integrity.
- Fact: The conference featured numerous speakers, including prominent election integrity advocates and GOP congressional staffers.
- Fact: Several Republican secretaries of state also attended the conference.
- Fact: Leftist media outlets falsely accused conference participants of spreading “election denial lies.”
- Fact: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is a highly-partisan Democrat who’s refused to remove thousands of dead registrants from her state’s voter rolls.
It’s time to stand up to the leftist media and their attempts to silence conservative voices. We must continue to fight for election integrity and the truth.
Media Outrage Over GOP Conference Attendance
The media’s outrage over a U.S. elections official attending a GOP conference is not surprising. What is surprising is their silence over prominent Democrat election officials planning to attend a left-wing, dark money elections group summit. The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), one of the two major nonprofits that funneled $419 million in grant funds from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to government election offices during the 2020 election, is hosting an invite-only “Summit on American Democracy” in Washington, D.C. on May 8-9. The summit is marketed as nonpartisan, but a quick look at the speakers’ list tells a different story.
- David Becker, the founder of CEIR and a far-left Democrat activist, is among the speakers. He also founded the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a widely used voter-roll management group that inflates voter rolls by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered residents to register to vote.
- CEIR enjoys an active relationship with ERIC, which transmits the voter-roll data it receives from states to CEIR. Upon receiving the data, CEIR “then develops targeted mailing lists and sends them back to the states to use for voter registration outreach.” This means that CEIR is creating lists of potential (and likely Democrat) voters for states to register in the lead-up to major elections.
It’s clear that the rules apply to the GOP but not to the Democrats. The media’s selective outrage is telling.
Leftist Double Standards on Display at Election Conference
The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is hosting a conference featuring several Democrat secretaries of state, including Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, and Harris County, Texas’ elections administrator Cliff Tatum, whose incompetence led to disenfranchised voters. CEIR also invited so-called “Republican” election officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and Maricopa County, Arizona’s board of supervisors chair Bill Gates, both of whom oversaw chaotic and mismanaged elections in their respective jurisdictions and openly criticized Americans concerned about election integrity.
It’s not hypocrisy but hierarchy that drives the media’s selective outrage over election officials meeting with partisan groups. Leftists believe they shouldn’t have to play by the same rules as conservatives and will turn a blind eye to their political allies’ shady actions. For the left, achieving their objectives is all that matters. Everything else is just noise.
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