City of Madison and Five Wisconsin Cities Refused WEC Oversight of CTCL Operations (WI)

Brown County, Dane County, Featured, Green Bay, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Madison, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Racine County, Reasonable Inference, United States, Weaponization of Government, Willful Neglect of Duty, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Reasonable Inference The Cities of Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha accepted CTCL (“Zuckerbucks”) grants and embedded private personnel in government election operations without authorization from statutorily responsible officers. WEC, which had the authority and duty to investigate and correct this privatization of government election functions, took no action despite documented violations of the […]

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Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein – Private CTCL Operative as De Facto Election Night Director in Green Bay (WI)

Brown County, Established Fact, Green Bay, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, an operative of the National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) acting under CTCL authority — without any governmental appointment, statutory authority, or executed agreement with the City of Green Bay — exercised operational control over Green Bay’s election night environment on November 3, 2020. He was designated on the hotel contract

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CTCL Grant Operational Control – Private Supervisory Authority Over Five Wisconsin Cities (WI)

Brown County, Dane County, Established Fact, Green Bay, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Madison, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, Racine County, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact [Established Fact — Grant conditions] CTCL grant agreements with the “Zuckerberg 5” Wisconsin cities (Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, Racine) required recipient cities to implement CTCL’s Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP) or face clawback of all disbursed funds. As a condition of receiving the grant, CTCL required cities to report how the money

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Spitzer-Rubenstein Ballot Curing and Counting Decisions – Usurpation of Statutory Election Functions (WI)

Brown County, Established Fact, Green Bay, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, Wisconsin State Lead for the National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) acting under CTCL authority, exercised substantive election administration authority in Green Bay that is exclusively vested by Wisconsin statute in municipal clerks: he assigned poll workers, performed check-in and supervision duties, developed Central Count procedures, directed ballot transport logistics, supervised

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Zuckerberg 5 “Safe Voting Plan” Contractual Penalties (WI)

Established Fact The five “Zuckerberg 5” cities — Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha — together requested and received $6,324,527 in CTCL grants in July 2020 to implement the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan, a document the cities themselves submitted to CTCL specifying drop box locations, staffing increases, poll worker recruitment, and voter outreach programs.

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Subordination of Municipal Clerks to Private CTCL Operatives – De Facto Takeover of Election Night Operations (WI)

Brown County, Established Fact, Green Bay, Privatized Election Operations, Privileged Access, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact CTCL embedded operatives from the National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI), specifically Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein (a Brooklyn-based attorney), into Zuckerberg 5 municipal election offices. Spitzer-Rubenstein: managed absentee ballot transportation; took physical possession of keys to the Green Bay central count facility; formally requested direct API access to the WisVote statewide voter database; directed ballot

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Private CTCL Operative Exercised Physical Control Over Election Night Ballot and Machine Environment, Including Drop Box Processing (WI)

Brown County, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Featured, Financial Influence, Green Bay, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, Privileged Access, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, a Brooklyn-based CTCL “grant mentor,” gained physical control over Green Bay’s election night facility – including control of the secret Wi-Fi access point to which all ESS voting machines were connected. He wrote to the City Attorney at 9:29 PM on November 3, 2020, making a dispositive legal determination that late-arriving

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CTCL Grant Conditions Constituted Contractual Subordination of Public Officials to Private Directives; Facially Implicates Election Bribery Statute (WI)

Brown County, Dane County, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Featured, Financial Influence, Green Bay, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Madison, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Racine County, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact CTCL’s grant conditions were enforceable contractual obligations with claw-back provisions. Cities were required to: (a) use funds exclusively per the WSVP; (b) maintain existing municipal budgets; (c) obtain CTCL’s approval before deviating from the WSVP’s planned expenditures; and (d) submit full compliance reports to CTCL by January 31, 2021. Kenosha, for example, was

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Illegal Drop Box Infrastructure Mandated by CTCL Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP); Ruled Unlawful by State Courts (WI)

Brown County, Dane County, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Green Bay, Kenosha, Kenosha County, Madison, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Racine County, United States, Wisconsin / Patrick Colbeck

Established Fact The Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WSVP) — a grant agreement executed between CTCL and Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay — allocated $216,500 specifically for absentee ballot drop boxes across the five cities. The Waukesha County Circuit Court in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (written order January 20, 2022) subsequently ruled that

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CTCL Grant Scheme Found to Facially Violate Wisconsin Election Bribery Statute (WI)

Established Fact The Office of Special Counsel (OSC), led by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and authorized by the Wisconsin State Assembly, formally concluded in its Second Interim Investigative Report (March 1, 2022) that CTCL’s $8,800,000 grant program with the Zuckerberg 5 — Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay — “facially violates

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