Established Fact The WEC issued a memo on August 19, 2020 — signed by Administrator Meagan Wolfe and her assistant administrator, but never voted on by the Commission — authorizing unstaffed absentee ballot drop boxes in contravention of then-existing Wisconsin law. The Wisconsin Assembly’s Office of the Special Counsel (OSC) documented that this guidance was […]
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
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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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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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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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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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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Established Fact In Greenville, Wisconsin, local media accurately reported an incident of discarded absentee ballots. EIP analysts, citing that reporting, categorized the story as part of a “mail dumping” disinformation narrative and pushed platforms to deprioritize or label related content. Rather than correcting any specific factual error, the operation treated accurate but politically inconvenient reporting
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Established Fact Wisconsin Elections Commission Chairperson Ann Jacobs issued a public press release on October 28, 2021, affirmatively stating that no WEC member had broken the law in connection with the nursing home absentee voting directives that the WEC had issued in 2020. This statement was made with knowledge of, or reckless disregard for, the
Established Fact [Established Fact – Gableman findings issued and media characterization documented] When Wisconsin Special Counsel Michael Gableman released findings indicating that the Wisconsin Legislature retained plenary authority under Article II to decertify the election, and that common law fraud vitiates election results, major media outlets characterized the findings as partisan and without legal merit.
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