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The Wisconsin Purchase
ウィスコンシン・パーチェス
マーク・ザッカーバーグの巨額の資金とCenter for Technology and Civic Lifeがいかにして2020年にウィスコンシンを青くしたか。
民主党は、2020年に勝つために使ったのと同じ戦術を採用しなければ、国政選挙に勝てないことを知っているようです。ステイシー・エイブラムスが設立した「New Georgia Project」のCEOであるNsé Ufot氏は、「2020年11月に起きたことを繰り返す方法がなければ、我々はお手上げだ」と述べています。
2020年に起きたことは、高度に調整された民間資金によるジョー・バイデンの「影のキャンペーン」が、選挙制度自体の正式な構造の中で行われたことでした。マーク・ザッカーバーグとプリシラ・チャンの資金4億1900万ドルがCenter for Technology and Civic Life（CTCL）とCenter for Election Innovation and Research（CEIR）を通じて洗浄され、プロの左派は、アリゾナ、ジョージア、ミシガン、ペンシルバニア、ウィスコンシンなどのスイングステートの主要地域で、名目上は無党派だが明らかにイデオロギー的な非営利団体や活動家による、歴史的にも前例のない政府の選挙事務所の買収を指揮したのである。
私たちの調査によると、ウィスコンシン州でのCTCLの支出は、ジョー・バイデンが2020年に同州の選挙人団に勝利するのに十分な票を生み出しました。ウィスコンシン州におけるCTCLの支出は、ジョー・バイデンに65,222票を追加購入させ、それがなければドナルド・トランプが44,540票で同州を制していただろうと推定しています。
CTCLとCEIRは無党派の501(c)(3)法人として設立されていますが、私たちの調査によると、2020年に行われた4億1,950万ドルのCTCLとCEIRの支出は、その分配において非常に党派的であり、その効果においても非常に党派的であったことがわかります。CTCLとCEIRの狙い撃ちされた支出は、共和党票よりも民主党票が組織的に有利になるような構造的なバイアスが組み込まれた「影の」選挙システムを構築する上で決定的な役割を果たしました。
CTCLとCEIRの多額の資金は、伝統的な選挙資金、メディア購入、ロビー活動など、費用がかさむ現代の選挙に関連する費用とは無関係である。むしろ、市や郡レベルの選挙事務所に民主党の活動家が入り込み、その事務所をプラットフォームにして、優先的な管理手法や投票方法、投票用紙の収集作業、データ共有契約を実施したり、集中的なマルチメディア・アウトリーチ・キャンペーンや、民主党の有権者が多い地域に外科的にターゲットを絞ったコンシェルジュ・レベルの投票活動を行ったりするための資金を提供していたのです。
CTCLの浸透により一部の地方選挙事務所に偏りが生じたことで、ウィスコンシン州の2020年の選挙全体に構造的な偏りが生じた。これは、特定の有権者や投票方法を他の有権者よりも優遇し、他のクラスの有権者や投票方法を不利にすることで、CTCLが好む有権者や投票方法が最終的な選挙結果に大きな影響を与えるというものでした。ウィスコンシン州における2020年の選挙結果は、確立された選挙法、有権者の平等な扱い、行政の中立性に基づいて選挙が行われていた場合の結果ではありません。
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The Wisconsin Purchase
How Mark Zuckerberg’s millions and the Center for Technology and Civic Life turned Wisconsin blue in 2020.
Democrats seem to know that they cannot win a national election without employing the same tactics that they used to win in 2020. As Nsé Ufot, CEO of the Stacey Abrams-founded New Georgia Project, said “If there isn’t a way for us to repeat what happened in November 2020, we’re f—ed.”
What happened in 2020 involved a highly coordinated and privately funded “shadow campaign” for Joe Biden that took place within the formal structure of the election system itself. Through the injection of over $419 million of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s money, laundered through the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), the professional left presided over a targeted, historically unprecedented takeover of government election offices by nominally nonpartisan, but demonstrably ideological, nonprofit organizations and activists in key areas of swing states such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Our research shows that CTCL spending in Wisconsin generated enough votes for Joe Biden to secure him an Electoral College win there in 2020. We estimate that CTCL spending in Wisconsin purchased Joe Biden an additional 65,222votes,without which Donald Trump would have won the state by 44,540 votes.
Although CTCL and CEIR are chartered as non-partisan 501(c)(3) corporations, our research shows that the $419.5 million of CTCL and CEIR spending that took place in 2020 was highly partisan in its distribution, and highly partisan in its effects. Targeted CTCL and CEIR spending played a decisive role in building a “shadow” election system with a built-in structural bias that systematically favored Democratic votes over Republican votes.
Big CTCL and CEIR money had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, media buys, lobbying, or other costs that are related to increasingly expensive modern elections. Rather, it had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by Democrat activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, ballot harvesting efforts, and data sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive multi-media outreach campaigns and surgically targeted, concierge-level get-out-the-vote efforts in areas heavy with Democratic voters.
The injection of bias into select local election offices through CTCL infiltration introduced structural bias into Wisconsin’s entire 2020 election. This involved favoring certain voters and voting practices over others, and disfavoring other classes of voters and voting practices, giving CTCL’s preferred voters and voting methods an outsized impact on the final election results. The outcome of the 2020 election in Wisconsin is not the outcome that would have occurred if the election had been conducted on the basis of established election laws, equal treatment of voters, and administrative neutrality.
CTCL In Wisconsin: Ground Zero For CTCL’s Nationwide Effort
CTCL’s Safe Elections Project in Wisconsin was not the result of a grass roots clamor for greater election funding among money-starved municipalities desperately seeking additional election funding. It was entirely a top-down endeavor, initiated by CTCL operatives, and funded by a massive inflow of money from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who cultivated connections among “Wisconsin Five” mayors and other city officials, incentivized the first grant applications, and provided funds and advice to aid in their completion.
CTCL involvement in Wisconsin’s election began in Racine. In late May, CTCL issued a $100,000 grant to the southeast Wisconsin city to “recruit other Wisconsin cities to join the ‘Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan.’” Racine Mayor Cory Mason spoke to his fellow liberal mayors in Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Kenosha about accepting CTCL’s grants—with the proviso that there would be strings attached.
CTCL authorized the City of Racine to distribute from its initial $100,000 grant, $10,000 to each of the four recruited cities (keeping $10,000 for itself), as an incentive for them to participate with Racine in applying for the larger CTCL conditional grants.
Emails obtained through public records requests show Mason’s office in May 2020 setting up numerous virtual meetings with the four other mayors three months before CTCL publicly announced the first round of grants to the “Wisconsin 5” on July 7, 2020. The Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan, and CTCL involvement in Wisconsin’s election was the culmination of a collaborative effort between CTCL’s activist directors and election officials in Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine. These cities would soon come to be referred to in CTCL inner circles as “The Wisconsin 5.”
At least 10 other cities in areas that were important to Democratic efforts to retake Wisconsin would eventually seek to become part of the plan by applying for and accepting significant CTCL grants considerably in excess of the minimum $5,000 offered to non-urban election offices throughout the state.
CTCL And “The Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan” to Infiltrate Wisconsin’s Election System
The Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan—which would emerge out of a collaboration between high level CTCL Advisors, several representatives of the Pierre Omidyar funded National Vote at Home Institute, and Milwaukee’s City Clerk office during Summer, 2020—was the lynchpin of CTCL’s involvement in Wisconsin’s 2020 election. Fulfilling its major objectives was a condition for CTCL funding. City officials among The Wisconsin 5 signed off on “clawback provisions” that allowed CTCL to reclaim their grant money if it was not used to further the objectives contained in the plan.
For example, the CTCL contract that Green Bay approved warns that the grant was to be used “only for” safe and secure election administration, “and for no other purposes,” which means under the ambitious terms they set forth in their portion of the WSVP. The grant’s clawback provision stated that “CTCL may discontinue, modify, withhold part of, or ask for the return of all or part of the grant funds if it determines, in its sole judgment, that (a) any of the above conditions have not been met or (b) it must do so to comply with applicable laws or regulations.”
How The Wisconsin 5 Sought to Implement CTCL’s Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan: Bonfire of the Inanities
The Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan lists CTCL’s four major strategic objectives.
First, to “encourage and Increase Absentee Voting (By Mail and Early, In-Person),” mainly through providing “assistance” in absentee ballot completion and submission, and the installation of ballot drop boxes
Second, to “dramatically expand strategic voter education & outreach efforts, particularly to historically disenfranchised residents.”
Third, to recruit new election workers, mainly from among paid young activists who would replace the usual, older election day volunteers.
A distant fourth, both in emphasis and level of funding, was the funding of Covid-19 related safety measures.
CTCL funded election offices in Wisconsin seemed particularly intent on courting a demographic favored by the activists at CTCL—a loosely defined “New American Majority” coalition—to replace the working-class voters who had abandoned the party in droves in 2016, and who formerly made up a significant part of the old Democratic “Blue Wall” in the industrial upper Midwest.
This coalition encompasses people of color, single women, young people, and is often extended to include members of the LGBTQ community. Two of the non-profits most closely affiliated with CTCL, the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information, are at the forefront of proponents of this electoral strategy. According to Democracy Docket, “In the 2020 election, VPC and CVI overcame unprecedented challenges to help engage voters from the New American Majority.”
Addressing these challenges would involve a large commitment of financial and human resources in Wisconsin. There was therefore considerable anguish expressed in the Wisconsin Safe Voting plan about the “hand holding” level of assistance that such voters required in order to cast valid votes, even under greatly relaxed absentee ballot standards during Covid-19 afflicted 2020. To meet this need, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine together budgeted over $540 thousand of their CTCL grant money toward various forms of “non-partisan voter education” alone.
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