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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced on September 1 that they were providing $300 million in funding to support non-profits to provide assistance to city and county election offices, with $250 million going to CTCL and $50 million going to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR).
According to a press release, CTCL used the $250 million to support the following at the local level:
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• Poll worker recruitment, hazard pay, and training
• Polling place rental
• Temporary staffing support
• Drive-through voting
• Equipment to process ballots and applications
• Personal protective equipment (PPE) for poll workers
• Nonpartisan voter education from cities and counties

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Prior to the September 1 announcement, CTCL had announced various grants it was making to city and county election offices, but without specifying the source of the funding for this activity. In July 2020, CTCL announced it would provide $6.3 million in grants to five cities in Wisconsin to support their administration of the November 2020 elections.

In August, CTCL announced that it was preparing an additional round of election administration assistance grants for rural counties.

In August, CTCL signed a grant agreement with the City of Philadelphia to provide it with $10 million in election assistance. CTCL also provided $2.2 million in election assistance to Delaware County.

Several counties in Georgia, including DeKalb, were also working with the National Vote at Home Institute and CTCL to support their election administration.

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In August, CTCL signed a grant agreement with the City of Philadelphia to provide it with $10 million in election assistance. CTCL also provided $2.2 million in election assistance to Delaware County.

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In August, CTCL signed a grant agreement with the City of Philadelphia to provide it with $10 million in election assistance. CTCL also provided $2.2 million in election assistance to Delaware County.

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Why would the City of Philadelphia need $10M in election assistance? What valid reason exists for this? I'm really not getting it...

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Let's not forget that liberals have been consumed by a fixation with removing Donald Trump from office for longer than he's actually been in office. The sordid story of the 2020 election heist begins all the way back in January 2017, when Barack Obama's former campaign manager and senior advisor, David Plouffe, took a job leading the policy and advocacy efforts of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a "charitable" organization established by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.

Earlier this year, just as it was becoming clear that Joe Biden would be the Democratic Party's nominee for president, Plouffe published a book outlining his vision for the Democrats' roadmap to victory in 2020, which involved a "block by block" effort to turn out voters in key Democratic strongholds in the swing states that would ultimately decide the election, such as Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Minneapolis.

The book was titled, A Citizen's Guide to Defeating Donald Trump, and it turned out that the citizen Plouffe had in mind was none other than his former boss, Mark Zuckerberg. Although Plouffe no longer officially managed Zuckerberg's policy and advocacy efforts at that point, the political operative's influence evidently remained a powerful force.

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Under the pretext of assisting election officials conduct "safe and secure" elections in the age of COVID, Zuckerberg donated $400 million as much money as Congress appropriated for the same general purpose to nonprofit organizations founded and run by left-wing activists. The primary recipient was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which received the staggering sum of $350 million. Prior to Zuckerberg's donations, CTCL's annual operating expenses averaged less than $1 million per year. How was Zuckerberg even aware of such a small-potatoes operation, and why did he entrust it with of the money he was pouring into this election cycle, despite the fact that it had no prior experience handling such a massive amount of money?

Predictably, given the partisan background of its leading officers, CTCL proceeded to distribute Zuckerberg's funds to left-leaning counties in battleground states. The vast majority of the money handed out by CTCL especially in the early days of its largesse went to counties that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Some of the biggest recipients, in fact, were the very locales Plouffe had identified as the linchpins of the Democrat strategy in 2020.

Zuckerberg and CTCL left nothing to chance, however, writing detailed conditions into their grants that dictated exactly how elections were to be conducted, down to the number of ballot drop boxes and polling places. The Constitution gives state lawmakers sole authority for managing elections, but these grants put private interests firmly in control.

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Amistad Project lawyers tried to prevent this unlawful collusion by filing a flurry of lawsuits in eight states prior to Election Day. Unfortunately, judges were forced to put those lawsuits aside without consideration of their merits because the plaintiffs had not yet suffered "concrete harm" in the form of fraudulent election results. The law had no remedy to offer because the left's lawless schemes had not yet reached fruition.

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In the meantime, CTCL continued splashing Zuckerberg's cash only now, the organization was intent on finding Republican-leaning jurisdictions to give its donations a veneer of bipartisanship. Of course, the number of votes in play in those counties paled in comparison to those in the liberal counties. Philadelphia County alone, for instance, projected that the $10 million grant it received from CTCL would enable it to increase turnout by 25-30 percent translating to well over 200,000 votes.

The left didn't put all of its eggs into the CTCL basket, though. High-ranking state officials simultaneously took significant steps to weaken ballot security protocols, acting on their own authority without permission or concurrence from the state legislatures that enshrined those protections in the law.

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In Wisconsin, Democrat Secretary of State Doug La Follette allowed voters to claim "indefinite confinement" in order to avoid having to provide a photocopy of their ID when requesting an absentee ballot. The exemption was intended for legitimate invalids, but COVID offered a convenient excuse for circumventing the law, despite the fact that Wisconsin had no pandemic-related lockdown rules that would have rendered anyone "indefinitely confined." The impact was far-reaching. About 240,000 voters claimed the exemption in 2020, compared to just 70,000 in 2016.

In Michigan, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unilaterally voided the legal requirement that voters provide a signature when requesting an absentee ballot, establishing an online request form. She then took things a step further by announcing that she would "allow civic groups and other organizations running voter registration drives to register voters through the state's online registration website," granting partisan groups such as Rock The Vote direct access to Michigan's voter rolls.

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In Pennsylvania, election officials in heavily-Democratic counties that received CTCL funding allowed flawed mail-in ballots to be "cured" that is, altered or replaced prior to Election Day. In other counties, officials rightly interpreted this as a flagrant violation of state law. On the night before Election Day, less than 24 hours before polls were due to close, Democrat Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar sought to imbue this illegal practice with the appearance of validity by issuing a statement authorizing counties to contact voters who had cast improper ballots. Even if Boockvar had the statutory authority to do this, which she did not, the timing of her memo made it impossible for rural counties to take advantage of it to nearly the same extent as urban counties.

In numerous states, officials also absurdly consolidated the vote-counting and ballot-curing process in sporting arenas and other large venues, rather than the ward- and precinct-level offices that normally handle the job. This made absolutely no sense as a pandemic-related safety measure, but that didn't stop the officials from citing COVID as their rationale.

Consolidating the vote-counting tied the other efforts together. Instead of a manageable number of ballots being transported to small offices and counted in the immediate presence of observers from both parties, truckloads of ballots were brought to a single location, inevitably resulting in confusion and commingling of ballots from various sources. Securing those ballots from the time they left voters' hands to the time they were officially counted should have been the top priority of election workers, but it's not even clear whether there were logs kept identifying which ballots were delivered by which trucks and when. If such logs even exist, they have not been disclosed.

At the same time, election officials could claim that they were adhering to legal requirements that observers be "in the room" during the counting process while using COVID as an excuse for relegating those observers to the "penalty box," far from the actual counting and curing.

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These election workers, it should be noted, were paid directly by CTCL's grants. These supposedly impartial arbiters of our electoral process are supposed to work for the people, but they were on Zuckerberg's payroll.

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