Milwaukee

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

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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Election Results Manipulation – Ryan Chew 4:07 A.M. Email – Private Contractor Election Night Communication to Milwaukee Election Director (WI)

Reasonable Inference At 4:07 a.m. on November 4, 2020, Elections Group employee Ryan Chew emailed Milwaukee Election Director Claire Woodall-Vogg, writing (per Gableman Report, App. 610): “Damn Claire, you have a flair for drama, delivering just the margin needed at 3:00 a.m. I bet you had those votes counted at midnight and just wanted to

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Ryan Chew 4:07 A.M. Email – Private Contractor Election Night Communication to Milwaukee Election Director (WI)

Established Fact At 4:07 a.m. on November 4, 2020, Elections Group employee Ryan Chew emailed Milwaukee Election Director Claire Woodall-Vogg. The Gableman/OSC Second Interim Investigative Report (March 1, 2022) reproduces the exchange verbatim (App. 610): Chew wrote, “Damn Claire, you have a flair for drama, delivering just the margin needed at 3:00 a.m. I bet

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

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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Manipulation of Election Results – Elections Group Operative Email on Election Night References “Delivering the Margin” (WI)

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – As to operational significance] At 4:07 AM on November 4, 2020 – during ongoing vote counting – Elections Group employee Ryan Chew emailed Milwaukee election official Claire Woodall-Vogg, writing that “she delivered just the margin needed at 3:00 a.m.” This private contractor, embedded via CTCL funding, was in active communication

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Elections Group Operative Email on Election Night References “Delivering the Margin” (WI)

Established Fact [Established Fact – As to the email’s existence and content] At 4:07 AM on November 4, 2020 – during ongoing vote counting – Elections Group employee Ryan Chew emailed Milwaukee election official Claire Woodall-Vogg, writing that “she delivered just the margin needed at 3:00 a.m.” This private contractor, embedded via CTCL funding, was

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

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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Per-Voter Grant Disparity Demonstrates Structural Bias Favoring Democratic Strongholds (WI)

Established Fact A June 2021 analysis by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) — based on open-records data from 196 municipalities — calculated CTCL funding per 2016 voter for each of Wisconsin’s ten largest cities. Among the five CTCL-targeted cities, Milwaukee received $13.82 per voter, Green Bay $36.00 per voter, and Racine $53.41

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

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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