{"id":2234277,"date":"2024-05-01T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-states-are-using-taxpayer-money-to-turn-out-democrat-leaning-young-voters\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T06:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:10:40","slug":"swing-states-are-using-taxpayer-money-to-turn-out-democrat-leaning-young-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-states-are-using-taxpayer-money-to-turn-out-democrat-leaning-young-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing states fund efforts to mobilize young Democratic voters with taxpayer money"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fswing-states-are-using-taxpayer-money-to-turn-out-democrat-leaning-young-voters%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=2234277&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>Election officials in Arizona \u200band Nevada are utilizing taxpayer resources to engage young Democratic voters for the\u200d upcoming 2024 election. Democrat Secretary of State Fontes launched the &#8220;Arizona Campus Voting Challenge&#8221; with ALL IN Campus Democracy. This initiative aims to boost \u2063voter engagement in universities. Similar efforts are seen in other \u2062states, part of a \u200cbroader strategy targeting \u200dyoung voters\u2062 nationwide.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Democrat election officials in Arizona and Nevada are using taxpayer resources to register and turn out Democrat-favorable young voters ahead of the 2024 election. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/news\/526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that his office is partnering with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/organization\/all-in-campus-democracy-challenge-all-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge<\/a> to launch the \u201cArizona Campus Voting Challenge.\u201d According to an office press release, this allegedly \u201cnonpartisan initiative\u201d is designed to increase voter engagement among students attending accredited universities throughout the state. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1612041460\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9236ced7c8e534069882f769283588bd fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9236ced7c8e534069882f769283588bd\"><\/div>\n<p>Young voters (18-29) broke for Democrat House candidates over Republican ones by a <a href=\"https:\/\/circle.tufts.edu\/latest-research\/millions-youth-cast-ballots-decide-key-2022-races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 2-to-1 margin<\/a> during the 2022 midterms, according to estimates by the Center for Information &#038; Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.<\/p>\n<p>Participation in the Arizona Campus Voting Challenge is free and allows participating colleges to become \u201celigible for awards based on voter turnout and registration rates on their campuses for the November 5, 2024 election.\u201d Federal law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">makes<\/a> it illegal to \u201cmake[] or offer[] to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students who join will also be \u201cprovided guidance and tools to create an action plan for increasing student engagement on their campus,\u201d according to Fontes\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy signing up for the Arizona Campus Voting Challenge, all accredited, degree-granting higher education institutions across the state can improve, measure, and celebrate efforts to institutionalize nonpartisan civic learning, political engagement and informed voter participation,\u201d the presser reads. \u201cInstitutions that sign up for the Arizona Campus Voting Challenge will also be automatic participants in the nationwide ALL IN where awards are issued for highest voter turnout, most improved voter turnout, and highest rate of voter registration. As well as state-specific awards for meeting objectives mapped out in an institution\u2019s nonpartisan democratic engagement action plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6220eb4eee0a9e8fbee51a6050555ea9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6220eb4eee0a9e8fbee51a6050555ea9\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite being marketed as \u201cnonpartisan,\u201d the initiative appears to be anything but. As I previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/18\/how-joe-biden-used-taxpayer-money-to-buy-young-voters-in-the-2022-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in these pages, ALL IN is an enterprise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/civic-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Civic Nation<\/a>, a left-wing nonprofit headed by Valerie Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. The initiative has previously produced Democrat talking points, such as the baseless claim that \u201cstrict voter ID requirements\u201d are \u201cbarriers\u201d to voting.<\/p>\n<p>ALL IN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/allinchallenge.org\/about\/our-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leadership team<\/a> is also comprised of Democrats. Founding advisory board member Alicia Kolar Prevost, for example, previously served in the Clinton administration and worked at the Democratic National Committee. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not Democrats\u2019 First Rodeo <\/h2>\n<p>Fontes is hardly the only left-wing election official using his office to turn out a demographic favorable to Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, also a Democrat, announced his office would be accepting applications to join his \u201cYouth Advisory Task Force\u201d to engage young voters ahead of the 2024 election. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/sos\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/3458\/309?backlist=%2Fsos%2Fhome%23:~:text=The%20Nevada%20Secretary%20of%20State,last%20for%20one%20calendar%20year.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">office press release<\/a>, the task force\u2019s priorities include \u201cidentifying and proposing programs that support participatory democracy and solutions to any problem concerning the level of participatory democracy of young voters,\u201d and \u201csupporting projects \u2026 that encourage and advance participatory democracy of young voters.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-be8dd375c87d9b08609fb362ac509104 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-be8dd375c87d9b08609fb362ac509104\"><\/div>\n<p>Task force members were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/sos\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/3484\/33\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appointed<\/a> by Aguilar earlier this month and include \u201chigh school and college students, as well as non-students, between the ages of 17 and 24.\u201d There are roughly 118,000 students enrolled in Nevada colleges, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univstats.com\/states\/nevada\/student-population\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Univstats<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Michigan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/sos\/resources\/news\/2023\/10\/05\/secretary-benson-names-30-young-leaders-to-michigan-collegiate-student-advisory-task-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-globalize-the-intifada-an-incitement-to-violence-columbias-anti-semitism-task-force-wont-say\/\" title=\"Is 'Globalize the Intifada' an Incitement to Violence? Columbia's Anti-Semitism Task Force Won't Say\">similar task force<\/a> in October. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Democrats Use Taxpayer Dollars to Target Young Voters<\/h2>\n<p>At the same time Democrat officials like Fontes and Aguilar target young voters with taxpayer dollars in their respective states, President Joe Biden is weaponizing the federal government to take these efforts nationwide. <\/p>\n<p>Signed in March 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/03\/07\/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Executive Order 14019<\/a> directed hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in state and local election administration by using taxpayer funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-using-tax-dollars-to-boost-democrat-registration-and-turnout\/\" title=\"Biden Using Tax Dollars to Boost Democrat Registration and Turnout\">boost voter registration<\/a> and get-out-the-vote activities. Agencies were instructed to collaborate with so-called \u201cnonpartisan third-party organizations\u201d that have been \u201capproved\u201d by the White House to provide \u201cvoter registration services on agency premises.\u201d Of course, many of these \u201cnonpartisan\u201d groups have been identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/08\/report-biden-is-coordinating-with-aclu-other-left-wing-groups-to-interfere-in-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extremely left-wing<\/a>, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/american-civil-liberties-union-aclu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACLU<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/demos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Demos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of its compliance with the \u201cBidenbucks\u201d order, the Department of Education issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/fsapartners.ed.gov\/knowledge-center\/library\/dear-colleague-letters\/2024-02-26\/use-federal-work-study-funds-voter-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memo<\/a> in February announcing that Federal Work-Study funds \u2014 which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/fws\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-joe-biden-used-taxpayer-money-to-buy-young-voters-in-the-2022-midterms\/\" title=\"How Joe Biden Used Taxpayer Money To Buy Young Voters In The 2022 Midterms\">provide part-time campus jobs<\/a> to help students with tuition costs \u2014 may be used to employ students by government agencies for work such as \u201csupporting broad-based get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-will-pay-students-your-tax-dollars-to-help-reelect-biden-in-latest-bidenbucks-scheme\/\" title=\"Students will receive financial assistance from the government to support Biden's reelection campaign, funded by taxpayers, in the new 'Bidenbucks' initiative\">providing voter assistance<\/a> at a polling place or through a voter hotline, or serving as a poll worker.\u201d The agency also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/27\/bidenbucks-laundered-through-education-department-target-likely-biden-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/documents\/press-releases\/student-voter-toolkit.pdf?emci=4c608cc8-ded4-ee11-85f9-002248223794&#038;emdi=0e9b3148-f0d4-ee11-85f9-002248223794&#038;ceid=3370209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">toolkit<\/a>\u201d that included guidelines for universities on how to increase voter registration and turnout on their campuses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Nationwide Strategy<\/h2>\n<p>Through the use of these taxpayer-funded GOTV operations and voter registration drives <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/09\/report-democrats-are-weaponizing-nonprofits-to-run-partisan-voter-registration-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conducted<\/a> by left-wing nonprofits such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/voter-participation-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voter Participation Center<\/a>, Democrats are hoping young voters can make the difference for Biden in the battleground states needed to win the presidency this November. <\/p>\n<p>In the 2020 election, for example, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/results\/state\/arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won<\/a> Arizona by less than 11,000 votes, or 0.4 percent. The Grand Canyon State also experienced close <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/24\/republican-candidates-for-arizona-governor-and-ag-appeal-election-integrity-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elections<\/a> in the 2022 midterms, in which Democrat Kris Mayes defeated Republican Abe Hamadeh in the attorney general\u2019s race by just <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/10\/what-you-need-to-know-about-next-weeks-court-hearing-on-arizonas-2022-ag-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">280 votes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Given these slim margins and college students\u2019 history of (mostly) backing Democrats, it\u2019s no surprise Biden and Co. have made them a major focus of 2024 GOTV operations. With many students living near or on university grounds, campuses make for the perfect Democrat Party registration hubs and offer the party an opportunity to expand their chances of electoral success. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c9c7dd6fa2f1565bb75f6786fc555ead fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c9c7dd6fa2f1565bb75f6786fc555ead\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona and Nevada election officials allocate taxpayer funds to register and mobilize young Democratic voters for the 2024 election. Arizona&#8217;s Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, collaborates with the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge to kickstart the &#8220;Arizona Campus Voting Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2234278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pexels-george-pak-7972949.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pexels-george-pak-7972949.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234277","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}