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The Citizens Election Research Center (CERC) is a project of the Election Integrity Network and was established to research, expose, thwart, and ultimately stop the activities of the progressive and biased US Alliance for Election Excellence (USAEE). The "Alliance" is a project of the Center For Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) that seeks to influence election administration and impact election results. A team of citizen researchers, working with experienced researcher and CERC director, Ned Jones, will monitor and report the activities of the USAEE with emphasis on key states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin
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Initially, the Citizens Election Research Center work will be focused on the activities of the US Alliance For Election Excellence in four states, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.
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Recalcitrant Local Officials
Join us today as CERC Director Ned Jones gives a video presentation concerning Recalcitrant Local Officials.
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Dec, Mon, 2024
Media Plan
Please join CERC Director Ned Jones for a brief video presentation on CERC’s Media plan!
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Media Plan
Please join CERC Director Ned Jones for a brief video presentation on CERC’s Media plan!
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Dec, Mon, 2024
Engagement with Local Officials
CERC Director, Ned Jones gives a brief presentation on insight when engaging with Local Officials.
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Engagement with Local Officials
CERC Director, Ned Jones gives a brief presentation on insight when engaging with Local Officials.
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Dec, Wed, 2024
Capital Research Center: States Banning or Restricting “Zuckbucks”
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Article: States banning or restricting outside/private funding in elections.
Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden.
The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million into one sleepy nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL then distributed grants to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
Despite its claims that the grants were strictly for COVID-19 relief, not partisan advantage, the data show otherwise. CRC research into grants distributed in key states—Arizona and Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia—has documented their partisan effects. We have also catalogued our major findings at InfluenceWatch.
Or download the .pdf below.
Warning: The article is neither owned nor written by the Citizens Election Research Center. The provided .pdf is only for the purposes of ease of viewing.
Capital Research Center: States Banning or Restricting “Zuckbucks”
Note: the link(s) on this page may send you to another site’s page that may/may not still be present depending on age of the post.
Article: States banning or restricting outside/private funding in elections.
Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden.
The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million into one sleepy nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL then distributed grants to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
Despite its claims that the grants were strictly for COVID-19 relief, not partisan advantage, the data show otherwise. CRC research into grants distributed in key states—Arizona and Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Wisconsin, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia—has documented their partisan effects. We have also catalogued our major findings at InfluenceWatch.
Or download the .pdf below.
Warning: The article is neither owned nor written by the Citizens Election Research Center. The provided .pdf is only for the purposes of ease of viewing.
Nov, Thu, 2024
Clark County, Nevada Acceptance of 1.5M Election Grant from the Institute for Responsive Government
This PDF Includes the County Board of Commissioners Meeting and the Grant Agreement.
Clark County, Nevada Acceptance of 1.5M Election Grant from the Institute for Responsive Government
This PDF Includes the County Board of Commissioners Meeting and the Grant Agreement.
Nov, Wed, 2024
The Shasta Scout – Article: County Board is Still Discussing a Nearly Three-Year-Old CTCL Election Grant
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Article: Shasta county still discussing controversial election grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life
In December 2022, the Shasta County Elections Office received good news: a national funding organization known as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) had offered a $1.5 million grant to Shasta County. Conditions for using the grant required that it support election administration and that it not be used to replace normal budgeted expenses.
The source of the funding was controversial. CTCL has come under fire because much of the money distributed before the 2020 election came from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While concerns have been raised about whether CTCL funds might have been used to influence the 2020 election, the six-member Federal Election Commission, which includes an equal mix of Republicans and Democrats, has unanimously concluded that no evidence of such interference exists.
Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters (ROV) Cathy Darling Allen knew about the controversy related to CTCL when she brought forward a proposal to accept the grant funds a few months later, in February 2023. In a presentation to the Board, Darling Allen said she thought if the Board wished to accept the funds it would be extremely important to use them only for a purchase that could not possibly be connected to partisan purposes.
Or download the .pdf below.
Warning: The article is neither owned nor written by the Citizens Election Research Center. The provided .pdf is only for the purposes of ease of viewing.
The Shasta Scout – Article: County Board is Still Discussing a Nearly Three-Year-Old CTCL Election Grant
Note: the link(s) on this page may send you to another site’s page that may/may not still be present depending on age of the post.
Article: Shasta county still discussing controversial election grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life
In December 2022, the Shasta County Elections Office received good news: a national funding organization known as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) had offered a $1.5 million grant to Shasta County. Conditions for using the grant required that it support election administration and that it not be used to replace normal budgeted expenses.
The source of the funding was controversial. CTCL has come under fire because much of the money distributed before the 2020 election came from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. While concerns have been raised about whether CTCL funds might have been used to influence the 2020 election, the six-member Federal Election Commission, which includes an equal mix of Republicans and Democrats, has unanimously concluded that no evidence of such interference exists.
Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters (ROV) Cathy Darling Allen knew about the controversy related to CTCL when she brought forward a proposal to accept the grant funds a few months later, in February 2023. In a presentation to the Board, Darling Allen said she thought if the Board wished to accept the funds it would be extremely important to use them only for a purchase that could not possibly be connected to partisan purposes.
Or download the .pdf below.
Warning: The article is neither owned nor written by the Citizens Election Research Center. The provided .pdf is only for the purposes of ease of viewing.