Patrick Colbeck

Asymmetric Legal Defense Funding – One-Sided Legal Representation (US)

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Reasonable Inference The Election Official Legal Defense Network (EOLDN) — a project of the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), which received $69.5 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2020 — provided free pro bono legal counsel to election officials facing legal exposure related to their administration of the 2020 election. EOLDN connected

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WisVote/BadgerBooks Data Sharing with CTCL Partners (WI)

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Established Fact The Gableman Office of Special Counsel (OSC) Second Interim Report found that the Zuckerberg-5 cities shared WisVote voter-file data with CTCL and its private partners in ways that violated Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) security policies, which do not authorize non-governmental parties to receive WisVote data outside the formal public-access process. In at least

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USAID/GEC‑Linked Funding Streams into Domestic “Disinformation” NGOs (US)

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Reasonable Inference The Global Engagement Center (GEC) — a State Department entity statutorily mandated to counter foreign propaganda — provided grants and contracts to NGOs that later participated in domestic “election misinformation” work, including as members or stakeholders of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). GEC funded the Disinfo Cloud platform (via a $3 million contract

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CTCL “Zuckerberg 5” Grants and Election‑Bribery Exposure (WI)

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Reasonable Inference In Wisconsin, CTCL provided approximately $8.8 million to the five largest cities — Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha — representing roughly 86% of all CTCL funds distributed in the state. The grants were conditioned on adherence to the “Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan,” a detailed operational framework that included claw-back provisions requiring

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CTCL Concentration in Philadelphia and Delaware County (PA)

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Established Fact Pennsylvania received approximately $25 million in CTCL grants, with $10,016,074 flowing to Philadelphia alone and $2.2 million to Democratic-leaning Delaware County — the latter among the first counties in the state to receive funding, awarded before most jurisdictions were even informed the grants existed. The Delaware County grant was used to deploy fifty

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MCELA–CEIR Grant for “Voter Education” as In‑Kind GOTV (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Jocelyn Benson founded the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), a nonprofit that received no material revenue until September 2020, when it was awarded an $11.9 million grant from CEIR — the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Election Innovation and Research — nominally for “voter education.” MCELA directed 99% of those funds —

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ERIC–CEIR Data Pipeline and CTCL‑Funded GOTV (GA)

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Established Fact In Georgia, over 94% of CTCL funds — approximately $42.4 million — flowed to 17 Biden-won counties, while Trump-won counties (26 of 128) received less than 6% of statewide grant dollars., Simultaneously, Georgia participated in ERIC, which generated lists of “Eligible but Unregistered” (EBU) individuals from state voter roll and DMV data. Documents

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Disproportionate CTCL Drop Box Funding and Chain-of-Custody Breakdown (AZ)

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Established Fact CTCL distributed approximately $5.1 million across Arizona jurisdictions for the 2020 election, with the vast majority flowing to counties carried by Joe Biden. Biden-won counties received approximately $3.9 million — roughly 75% of all CTCL grants in the state — while Trump-won counties received just under $671,000, or approximately 13% of the total.

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CTCL Clawback Provisions Created Ongoing Private Control Over Governmental Election Administration (US)

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Established Fact Across CTCL grant jurisdictions for which agreements have been made publicly available, grant documents included enforceable contractual clawback provisions authorizing CTCL to discontinue, modify, withhold, or request the return of all or part of grant funds upon CTCL’s determination that grant conditions had not been met. The standard CTCL grant form used in

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Extortive Clawback Clauses Dictating Election Operations as Condition of $10 Million Private Grant (PA)

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Established Fact “Philadelphia accepted a $10,016,074 CTCL grant that contractually required the city to ‘work to secure 800 or more in-person polling places on Election Day’ and to pay election judges and poll workers using private grant funds — $851,500 in hazard pay for 8,515 poll workers was budgeted directly within the grant agreement. The

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