This PDF Includes the County Board of Commissioners Meeting and the Grant Agreement.
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.
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The Daily Signal – Article: The Left Lauded Voting by Mail in 2020, but Now It’s a Bipartisan Concern
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Article: Democrat and Republican election officials are raising concerns about whether the U.S. Postal Service is prepared for mail-in ballots.
In the 2020 presidential election, the Left staunchly promoted voting by mail and scoffed at critics of the option. In 2024, however, Democrat and Republican election officials, as well as an inspector general, are raising concerns about whether the U.S. Postal Service is prepared for mail-in ballots.
Last week, election officials from both major parties expressed concern about mail-in ballots, the same week the National Letter Carriers Association—which represents 290,000 active and retired mail carriers—endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president. In July, the American Postal Workers Union, representing 200,000 Postal Service employees, endorsed Harris.
Earlier this year, the Postal Service Office of Inspector General expressed concern about the “risk of delays in the processing and delivery” of election-related mail as well as “operational changes that pose a risk of individual ballots not being counted.”
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The Federalist – Article: ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Coached Madison Clerk On ‘Combating Election Misinformation’
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Article: City clerk in major swing state Wisconsin received training from a “Zuckbucks” group on “combating election misinformation”
The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) funneled hundreds of millions of dollars from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to public election agencies in 2020, favoring left-leaning areas in key swing states and boosting Democrat turnout. The group launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence in 2022 to coordinate with other leftist groups and “systematically influence every aspect of election administration in target offices,” as revealed in an Honest Elections Project report.
The office of Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl has a history of involvement with both CTCL and the Alliance. After participating in a CTCL training aimed at “combating” so-called “election misinformation,” Witzel-Behl continued to participate in the group’s “misinformation” programming in the months leading up to the 2024 election, emails obtained by The Federalist in a Freedom of Information Act request suggest. Meanwhile, Witzel-Behl’s office recently sent out more than 2,200 duplicate ballots to residents last month.
Witzel-Behl “previously participated in [the group’s] Combating Election Misinformation training,” according to a June 11 email from Andrea Abbate, a CTCL associate director and communications manager. Sophie Lehman, a CTCL associate director, also sent the clerk an email on July 10 promoting an upcoming webinar on “Combating Election Misinformation.”
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Wisconsin – The Federalist – Article: WI City at Center Of ‘Zuckbucks’ Scandal Looks To Tap Leftist Lawfare Groups Ahead of Election
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Article: Green Bay has earned a dubious election integrity reputation thanks to Democrat Mayor Eric Genrich and his election law-smashing city clerk.
The leftist-led Wisconsin city at the epicenter of the 2020 “Zuckbucks” scandal is again looking to enlist the assistance of far left lawfare firms ahead of November’s election.
A deeply divided Green Bay City Council last week voted 7-4 to retain the services of outside legal counsel to assist the city attorney in the expected litigation surrounding Green Bay’s administration of the contentious election. There’s good reason to expect litigation.
Wisconsin’s third-largest city isn’t just the home to a world-class NFL franchise and award-winning cheeses. Green Bay has earned a dubious election integrity reputation thanks to highly partisan Democrat Mayor Eric Genrich and his election law-smashing city clerk. Now, Genrich and crew — accused of spying on their political enemies among other troubling allegations — appear to be doubling down on Green Bay’s soiled elections reputation with the move to hire left-wing law firms.
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FOIA Request Response: Navajo County, AZ
Correspondence between Navajo County Department of Elections officials and/or employees of the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
Wisconsin – The Federalist – Article: Left-Wing Nonprofit Interfering In Milwaukee’s 2024 Elections Got $750K From Soros Group
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Article: Soros gave $750K to group interfering in Milwaukee elections
A Democrat-friendly dark money group bankrolling Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s 2024 elections previously received $750,000 from an organization founded by leftist billionaire George Soros.
Earlier this month, Urban Milwaukee revealed that the Democrat stronghold — in a county Joe Biden won by nearly 40 points in the 2020 election — was offered a $786,500 election grant from Cities Forward, a virtually unknown nonprofit organization that markets itself as a “nonpartisan effort focused on helping cities around the country make participation in the democratic process a priority.” According to Claire Woodall, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, the funds will be used to purchase new election equipment such as voting machines that print paper ballots and ballot tabulators, among other items.
The Milwaukee Election Commission and the Milwaukee Public Library also accepted a $250,000 grant from Cities Forward. Just the News reported that the grant will go towards a supposedly “non-partisan public education campaign … to increase civic connection among residents” that includes “Encourag[ing] ALL residents to register to vote, sign up to vote by mail, vote early, and update their state ID/driver’s licenses.”
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CTCL Newsletter
The Center for Tech and Civic Life asks citizens for their “support to persuade congress to allocate $400 million dollars for election infrastructure.”