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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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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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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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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Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (WI)

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)

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

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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