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 unduly influence and manipulate election administration and 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 an emphasis on the key states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.
In response to the numerous state bans of corrupting “Zuckbucks” (monies donated directly to election offices by Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation), The Center For Tech and Civic Life, and their partners, created the USAEE as an alternative in April, 2022 with funding from their billionaire donors. In states without a “Zuckbucks” ban, and in some cases even in states with a ban, USAEE offers grants and membership in the Alliance to the local election offices, focusing much of their efforts on Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.
These grants and memberships allow USAEE’s to insert activist vendors into election offices. The USAEE Membership Agreement is designed, not to ensure that voters are protected and election laws are followed, but to influence election administration and procedures in ways that will produce specific election results that meet USAEE’s partisan agenda.
CERC director, Ned Jones, will monitor and report the activities of the USAEE beginning with an emphasis on Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin. A coalition of citizen researchers, conservative partners, conservative media and other like-minded groups and individuals will collaborate through CERC to expose USAEE and educate about its corrupting activities while working to enhance or preserve election integrity.
Citizens will be deployed locally to put pressure on relevant city (or county) governing bodies and election offices to push for withdrawal of engagement with the USAEE. Public pressure has already successfully impacted, and in some cases stopped, USAEE activities with some original USAEE grantees in Shasta, CA; Greenwich, CT; Kane, IL; Ottawa, MI; and both Brunswick and Forsyth, NC.
The ultimate goal of this project is to educate about the dangers of USAEE and exert substantial public pressure, particularly in the target states, so that officials will refuse to approve grants/membership offers from the Alliance and protect voters from its undue biased and agenda-driven influence.