{"id":168500,"date":"2021-02-24T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168500"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:22:21","slug":"stacey-abrams-voting-rights-pac-helped-group-that-pushed-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-voting-rights-pac-helped-group-that-pushed-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams\u2019 Voting Rights PAC Helped Group That Pushed Voter Fraud Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-voting-rights-pac-helped-group-that-pushed-voter-fraud-conspiracy-theories%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Stacey Abrams\u2019 voting rights initiative, Fair Fight Action, promoted a group that aggressively pushes conspiracy theories about voter fraud in Georgia, including suggesting that Dominion Voting Systems machines could have been rigged.\u00a0Dominion has been the target of several unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, especially in the wake of the 2020 election, and has filed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/23\/dominions-lagainst-mypillow-lindell-is-definitely-not-the-last-ceo-says.html\">$1.3 billion lawsuits<\/a> against multiple individuals who have leveled allegations against the company.<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action, the advocacy arm of Abrams\u2019 voting rights group Fair Fight 2020, teamed up with and appears to have helped fund the work of a nonprofit called the Coalition for Good Governance, which has filed multiple lawsuits challenging various aspects of Georgia\u2019s voting system since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, @fairfightaction has been a generous contributor to our litigation. Actually, they have been the largest single contributor to date,\u201d CGG Executive Director Marilyn Marks wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarilynRMarks1\/status\/1089748383357681664\">tweet<\/a> on January 27, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks later, Marks touted Fair Fight Action\u2019s support in the group\u2019s report on voting discrepancies in the 2018 lieutenant governor\u2019s race in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud that Stacey Abrams\u2019s Fair Fight Action organization has been a generous donor to advance our efforts that benefits voters and Fair Fight\u2019s far-reaching voting rights lawsuit as well,\u201d Marks wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/voterga.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/coalition-good-gov-127000-missing-votes.pdf\">report<\/a> released on February 8, 2019. Later that year on November 14, Marks thanked Fair Fight Action for their \u201csupport\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarilynRMarks1\/status\/1195191505176158208\">tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-24-at-9.55.00-AM2-300x152-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In July of 2019, the Friends of Coalition for Good Governance <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriendsOfCGG\/status\/1152215874465673216\">tweeted<\/a> that Fair Fight Action would be hosting an online fundraising event and match donor contributions to support CGG\u2019s work, specifically the group\u2019s lawsuit demanding hand-marked paper ballot elections in Georgia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-24-at-9.53.45-AM2-238x300-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CGG sued the state of Georgia in 2017 demanding the use of hand-marked paper ballots for elections. That case, Curling v. Kemp, alleged that Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp knowingly allowed the use of an unsecure voter registration database.<\/p>\n<p>The ActBlue donation page linked in CGG\u2019s tweet promoting the fundraising match event noted that, \u201cYour contribution will benefit Fair Fight.\u201d FEC records show that Fair Fight Action frequently uses ActBlue to process contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of @fairfighaction\u2019s matching, our funds go twice as far! Please help if you can,\u201d Marks tweeted later that week. The next month in August, she tweeted that CGG has a \u201cclose working relationship\u201d with Fair Fight Action.<\/p>\n<p>Also in July, 2019, Fair Fight Action promoted an event calling for supporters to \u201cpack the courthouse,\u201d apparently meaning swarm a federal courthouse, to show support for CGG\u2019s paper ballots lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Both Fair Fight Action and CGG solicited donations relating to the \u201cpack the court\u201d event using the same ActBlue link.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, the Friends of the Coalition for Good Governance called on their Twitter followers to \u201cPack the room!\u201d during an upcoming Georgia State Election Board meeting on August 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The flyer for that event called the Dominion voting equipment \u201cunauditable and unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an email, CGG claimed its filings in a newer case, Curling v. Raffensperger, which deals with the 2020 election, show \u201cserious problems with the Dominion voting system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dominion has refuted those conspiratorial claims, noting that audits of its machines are subject to oversight by all political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Dominion systems are capable of producing paper records and are 100% auditable, with testing, reviews, audits, and recounts subject to oversight and verification by all political parties,\u201d the electronic voting hardware and software company\u00a0said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominionvoting.com\/election2020-setting-the-record-straight\/\">statement<\/a> refuting various conspiracy theories and rumors about its machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA hand recount of all paper ballots in the State of Georgia completed on November 19 verified that machine vote totals were reliable and accurate. Certified results in Arizona, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, plus other states all validate the accuracy of official tallies,\u201d\u00a0Dominion said in response to fraud allegations in multiple states.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Dominion CEO John Poulos said that the lawsuits the company has filed against former President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, former Trump\u00a0lawyer\u00a0Sidney Powell, and\u00a0Trump supporter Mike Lindell\u00a0are \u201cdefinitely not the last lawsuits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking a very measured, evidence-based approach as to what we file next. And we are not ruling anyone out,\u201d Poulos said.<\/p>\n<p>CGG\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/coalitionforgoodgovernance.org\/mission-statement\/\">mission statement<\/a> says it is committed to \u201cconstitutional liberties and the individual rights of citizens\u201d as well as \u201cgovernment transparency and accountability, open records and open meetings, due process, and equal protection of the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"https:\/\/coalitionforgoodgovernance.org\/current-projects\/\">litigation summary<\/a> on the group\u2019s website reiterates its claims of systems-based \u201canomalies\u201d and \u201cmisprogramming.\u201d \u201cTo date, the Georgia Secretary of State has obstructed all efforts to conduct forensic examination of these voting system anomalies,\u201d the group alleges. \u201cHowever, the Coalition is committed to finding the answers through the Georgia federal lawsuit to ensure that such misprogramming can be prevented in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several years, the group has frequently suggested that Georgia\u2019s election system is unsecure and even corrupt\u00a0\u201cGA Dems brought in this dangerous system against the warnings of many experts (including Rs) at the time,\u201d Marks said of the state\u2019s electronic voting system in a December 23, 2018 tweet.\u00a0\u201cThen R\u2019s took control and weaponized it. That is the danger of a party trying to take partisan advantage of the system thinking that they can keep the advantage. Doesn\u2019t work. It becomes a game of who can rig the system the best,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a Twitter user who suggested that politicians may have been bribed to flip votes away from Democrats, Marks wrote in the same thread, \u201cWait a min. Dems selected and insisted on this system and insisted on stripping away oversight powers of citizens and county officials. Insisted on grabbing the power and choosing un-auditable system. This is a bi-partisan problem!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of Georgia\u2019s use of the Dominion machines, Marks tweeted in January, \u201cNo other state outsources their elections this way to an unaccountable corporation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair Fight Action did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the CGG\u2019s concerns about Georgia\u2019s voting system, the legitimacy of both President Joe Biden\u2019s November victory in the previously deep red state as well as the wins of Senators Raphael Gamaliel Warnock and Jon Ossoff, which cemented Democratic control of the Senate, hinged on the system\u2019s reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams herself has since hailed the Democratic victories in her state many times and attributed them partly to her own efforts to fight voter suppression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know absolutely in Georgia that there was a sea change because we were able to push back against some of the most egregious voter suppression in the nation,\u201d she said in an interview with PBS NewsHour.\u00a0\u201cAnd the result was that we were able to deliver 16 Electoral College votes for a Democratic nominee for the first time in 28 years, and, a few weeks later, we were able to flip two U.S. Senate seats,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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