{"id":1723365,"date":"2022-11-03T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1723365"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:18:46","slug":"thought-the-private-takeover-of-government-election-offices-was-just-for-2020-think-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thought-the-private-takeover-of-government-election-offices-was-just-for-2020-think-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought The Private Takeover Of Government Election Offices Was Just For 2020?\u00a0Think Again"},"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%2Fthought-the-private-takeover-of-government-election-offices-was-just-for-2020-think-again-2%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=1723365&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>When all the dust settled after the 2020 election, many Americans were horrified to learn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private takeover of government election offices by leftist billionaires<\/a> (commonly known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/how-mark-zuckerberg-helped-swing-the-electorate-in-the-2020-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>\u201c) that funded get-out-the-vote efforts in Democratic areas of swing states. <\/p>\n<p>Some 24 states listened to their constituents\u2019 concerns and <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/states-banning-zuck-bucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">passed bans or restrictions<\/a> on private funding of election offices. Six Democrat governors, however, vetoed such legislation, including the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina. Despite Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/12\/us\/politics\/mark-zuckerberg-midterms-elections-grant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no longer fund such election grants<\/a>, the private infiltration of these offices is still ongoing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-tech-and-civic-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Center for Tech and Civic Life<\/a> (CTCL) was one of two left-leaning nonprofit groups that funneled roughly $328 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/for-profit\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chan Zuckerberg Initiative<\/a> to government election offices \u2014 particularly blue counties of key swing states \u2014 to help fund Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts, buy election equipment, and instate other election shakeups deemed \u201cnecessary\u201d under the cover of the Covid-19 \u201cemergency.\u201d Such a massive influx of private funding into government election offices was unprecedented, and it arguably swung the election in then-candidate Joe Biden\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>But CTCL\u2019s infiltration is not isolated to the 2020 presidential election. According to the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) \u2014 a good-government group that has been tracking email communications between local election officials and leftist special interest groups \u2014 CTCL\u2019s goal is to infiltrate more than 8,000 local election departments by 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Per a September 2021 email between CTCL advisers and an election official in Madison, Wisconsin \u2014 a state whose Democrat governor vetoed legislation banning \u201cZuckbucks\u201d <em>twice<\/em> \u2014 CTCL advisers discussed the agenda of an upcoming Sept. 29 meeting unveiling CTCL\u2019s \u201cstrategic plan.\u201d This scheme included setting local election standards, \u201csupporting select [election] departments with grants and technical assistance,\u201d keeping up \u201cpartner endorsements and hundreds of grants for implementation,\u201d and \u201cadvocate[ing] for increased government funding.\u201d The email states that while CTCL has already \u201csupported nearly 3,000 departments though our trainings, resources, and 2020 grant-making,\u201d its goal is to have such standards implemented nationwide by 2026 to \u201creach over 8,000 local election departments.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A left-wing special interest group communicating with a Wisconsin election official about its \u201cstrategic plan\u201d to take over government election offices sets off alarm bells reminiscent of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just Wisconsin CTCL is targeting. In a December 2021 email to CTCL, the director of the Dauphin County Bureau of Registration and Elections in Pennsylvania discussed grant opportunities from CTCL to fund drop boxes and other election-related \u201cinfrastructure.\u201d Then a March 2022 email covered \u201cnew programs\u201d that would go hand-in-hand with said infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple emails between election officials in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and CTCL focus on the latter\u2019s new project, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a coalition of leftist nonprofits focused on infiltrating local election offices under the guise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/u-s-alliance-for-election-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bolstering election security<\/a>. Included in the emails are briefings titled \u201cElection Infrastructure Initiative Partner Toolkit\u201d and \u201cRedistricting Resources for Election Officials.\u201d Leigh County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Tech and Civic Life was one of two groups that infiltrated government election offices in 2020 \u2014 and they&#8217;re doing it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1723371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}