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Pennsylvania Governor Withholds CARES Act Funds from Lebanon County (PA)

Disputed Fact, Election Operations Bias, Financial Influence, Pennsylvania, United States /

Disputed Fact On September 2, 2020, the Pennsylvania Department of State broadcast a communication to all county commissioners announcing that CTCL had made its grant program available to all local election jurisdictions nationally — a notice that came one day after Zuckerberg and Chan publicly announced their $250 million donation to CTCL. Emails obtained under

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Former State Elections Director Hired as Private CTCL-Funded Advisor to Largest City (MI)

Detroit, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Michigan, United States, Wayne County /

Established Fact Detroit’s CTCL-funded partnership with the Michigan Secretary of State included the engagement of Christopher Thomas — former Michigan Bureau of Elections Director and 40-year state elections official under both Republican and Democratic administrations — as a senior advisor to Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey from September 3 through December 12, 2020. Thomas, a

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Pennsylvania Department of State Used Official Communications to Direct Counties to CTCL Grants (PA)

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Established Fact On September 2, 2020, the Pennsylvania Department of State issued a broadcast communication to all county commissioners announcing that CTCL had made its grant program available to all local election jurisdictions nationally — a communication that came one day after Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan publicly announced a $250 million donation to CTCL

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Privatization of Poll Worker Hiring and Inflation of Compensation Through CTCL Grants (MI)

Detroit, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Michigan, United States, Wayne County /

Established Fact Detroit utilized its $7.4 million CTCL grant – which nearly doubled its Department of Elections budget of $10.5 million – in part to fund the hiring of up to 2,000 temporary election workers through a private staffing firm linked to an associate of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (convicted on 24 federal felony counts).

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Unauthorized Embedding of Elections Group Personnel in Government Election Operations (GA)

Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Fulton County, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact The Elections Group LLC, an election consulting firm, was embedded inside Fulton County election operations for the 2020 general election pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding carrying a nominal consideration of $1.00. The MOU was approved by the Fulton County County Attorney’s Office and County Manager’s Office, rather than voted on by the

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Disproportionate Operational Capital Allocation to Democratic Counties (AZ)

Arizona, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Maricopa County, United States /

Established Fact Of approximately $6.8 million in total CTCL grants deployed across nine Arizona counties, $5.16 million — roughly 75.8% — went to the four counties that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate (Maricopa, Pima, Coconino, and Apache), including $1.84 million to Maricopa County alone. This operational funding underwrote expanded staffing, ballot processing equipment, and

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Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WI)

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Reasonable Inference [Established Fact – Funding pattern and terms] The five Democratic-plurality “Zuckerberg 5” cities (Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, Kenosha) received 8.8 million dollars in CTCL grants bound by the “Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan.” Funds paid for “voter navigators,” geo-fenced targeting, and specific demographic outreach (e.g., Latinx and African American communities) rather than neutral

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Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan and Election Bribery (WI)

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Reasonable Inference The five Democratic-plurality “Zuckerberg 5” cities — Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha — received a total of $8.8 million in CTCL grants, all conditioned on implementation of the “Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan,” a joint election operations framework developed by those cities at CTCL’s direction. Grant funds were contractually bound to that

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Two-Tiered Voting Access via Drop Box Density (PA)

Delaware County, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, United States /

Established Fact CTCL distributed approximately $25 million to Pennsylvania jurisdictions for the 2020 election, with a single grant of $10,016,074 going to Philadelphia alone — a city that delivered over 80 percent of its votes to the Democratic presidential candidate. The geographic distribution of the resulting election infrastructure was strikingly asymmetric. In heavily Democratic Delaware

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MCELA-CEIR “Voter Education” as De Facto GOTV (MI)

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Reasonable Inference Michigan’s Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), founded by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, received a multi-million-dollar CEIR grant for “voter education” and outreach, including direct communications to voters and digital targeting. The national report documents that this messaging was geared toward boosting participation among “Biden profile” demographics and that Michigan’s own

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