Posted on 03/14/2023 5:41:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats and their progressive allies are vastly expanding their unprecedented efforts, begun in 2020, to use private money to influence and run public elections.
Supported by groups with more than $1 billion at their disposal, according to public records, these partisan groups are working with state and local boards to influence functions that have long been the domain of government or political parties.
Registering and turning out voters - once handled primarily by political parties – and design of election office websites and mail-in ballots are being handed over to those same nonprofits, which oare staffed by progressive activists that include former Democratic Party advocates, organized labor adherents and community organizers.
Republicans have opposed such efforts, passing legislation in 24 states since 2020 curbing the private financing of elections. But the GOP does not have a comparable, boots-on-the-ground effort to influence election boards and workers, and the private-funding bans haven’t proved absolute in some states.
“There is a cottage industry of 501c3s in public policy and in the political arena, trying to shape the future of immigration or education or any other topic,” said Kimberly Fiorello, a former Republican state representative in Connecticut. “Increasingly they are about elections, election administration, election technology, ballot design, and all with big funding. These groups seem innocuous, but they aren’t innocuous because they are funded by one political side.”
Many of the progressive groups seeking to influence elections are connected to Arabella Advisors, a Washington-based, for-profit consulting company founded and led by Eric Kessler, a White House appointee during the Clinton administration.
Arabella’s projects, which include the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund and Secure Democracy USA, had combined revenues of $1.3 billion between 2020 and 2021, tax filings show.
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This should be illegal.
This began before 2020.
Election fraud, what it is, is illegal.
I wonder how much of this is taxpayer money laundered back to them. Probably quite a bit. IOW, they are using our money against us.
Right, “private” money, earned legitimately by Marxists. Follow it back to its printing and see how the donating private parties supposedly got it.
Republicans still clueless if they let this happen. The failure to secure election integrity and to demand state election laws be followed will be the death of the Republic.
Just a billion more reasons why President Trump was correct
Making vote procurement into a business.
There should be laws against any out of state funding used for local elections regardless of where it comes from.
This is half of what concerns me.
The other half is that the biden administration has weaponized every department of the federal government to get out the vote for democrats.
Unless republican have answer for this—it doesn’t really matter who is nominated.
Republicans will lose.
So far I have seen nothing from any candidate to suggest that they understand the scale of the problem they face.
OMG. We’re in the Twilight Zone. Get us off the 13th Floor!
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