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The Federalist – Article: Dark Money-Fueled Group Strategizes to Target Dem Voting Blocs

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Article: Inside one dark money-fueled group’s strategy session to “reshape the electorate in as many states as possible”

In 2015, the Wyss Foundation — a project of Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss — put forth a plan to “fundamentally change the composition of the [American] electorate” in a way that another leaked memo indicated would help “achieve the foundation’s policy goals.” Last week, one of the organizations the Wyss Foundation channels money to held a conference plotting how to do just that.

The Wyss Foundation’s plan, mapped to run from 2015 to 2020 and projected to cost $105 million to $210 million, aimed to “reshape the electorate in as many states as possible” by expanding voter registration. A follow-up memo indicated these efforts would be directed at “low-income populations who tend to be reliably progressive” such as “[u]nmarried women, youth, and people of color.”

At its 15th annual State Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, left-wing nonprofit America Votes brought together public officials and activists to strategize about reaching just such voters. The conference included discussions about how to “create more lifelong voters” from a “diverse coalition” that, based on the conference topics, includes college students, pro-abortion voters, anti-Second Amendment activists, LGBT activists, racial minorities, and “progressive Christians.”

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Missouri – The Federalist – Article: Scotland County Ditches USAEE Membership

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Article: Scotland County, Missouri Becomes Latest Locality To Ditch ‘Zuckbucks 2.0’ Group

Scotland County, Missouri, has exited a left-wing dark-money organization that aims to influence local election administration, The Federalist has learned.

Scotland County Clerk Batina Dodge confirmed to The Federalist that the locality did not renew its membership with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence for 2024. As The Federalist previously reported, the Alliance is an $80 million venture launched in 2022 by left-wing nonprofits such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to “systematically influence every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices.

According to Ballotpedia, Scotland County was one of several localities named as part of the Alliance’s 2023 cohort. Notably, neither Scotland County nor Boone County — another Missouri jurisdiction participating in the Alliance — were included in the coalition’s November 2022 announcement of participating localities.

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CTCL Grant: Spending Options- Shasta County, CA
The Federalist -Article: States Banning or Restricting “Zuckbucks”—UPDATED 4/10/2024

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Article: States Banning or Restricting Zuckbucks (WI Update)

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.

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North Carolina – The Brunswick Beacon – Article: Board of Elections Leaves Alliance

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The Brunswick County election office has withdrawn membership from The US Alliance for Election Excellence.

The Brunswick County election office has withdrawn its membership from The US Alliance for Election Excellence.

Elections Director Sara LaVere told the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners of the decision during the county’s goals workshop. The workshop is designed for county departments to share their successes, shortfalls, goals and needs.

In April 2023, the Brunswick County Board of Elections voted to remain in the Alliance after county commissioners asked the county elections office to withdraw, citing concerns that membership in the Alliance would bring partisan funding to the board of elections and as well as the organization’s alleged connection to Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

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US Alliance For Election Excellence Centers – 2023
US Alliance for Election Excellence Announcement
Honest Elections Project/Locke Report January2023
Honest Elections Project Report April 2023
Center for Tech and Civic Life 2020 Form 990