Election Operations Bias

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

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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 and CEIR Operated as Unregistered Partisan Turnout Apparatus Through Drop Box and Infrastructure Funding (US)

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Established Fact The WILL Report found a statistically significant increase in Biden votes — estimated at more than 8,000 additional votes in Wisconsin alone — attributable to CTCL grants in the state. The OSC concluded that CTCL’s real motive was to “facilitate increased in-person and absentee voting” in targeted areas among voters fitting a “Biden

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

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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)

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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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WEC Issued Unauthorized Drop Box Guidance Without Majority Vote at Noticed Public Meeting (WI)

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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

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

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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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Butler County Formally Rejected CTCL Funding on Election Integrity Grounds, Documenting Partisan Design (PA)

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Established Fact The Butler County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners formally declined CTCL funding, with Commissioner Kimberly Geyer documenting in an official narrative submitted to the United States Department of Justice that acceptance would compromise election integrity by subjecting county operations to the influence of “a private/public entity.” The same document, co-signed by Commissioner Leslie Osche

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judicially Authorized Drop Boxes Not Provided in Act 77; Administrative Overreach Compounded Private Funding Disparity (PA)

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Established Fact On September 17, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that county boards could accept hand-delivered mail-in ballots at locations other than official offices — including drop boxes — a provision absent from Act 77 as enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature. This judicial modification, combined with CTCL’s private funding of drop box infrastructure concentrated

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Extreme Geographic and Per-Voter Drop Box Density Disparity Creating Two-Tiered Voter Access (PA)

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Established Fact CTCL’s more than $22.5 million investment in Pennsylvania created a constitutionally suspect two-tiered system of voter access. In heavily Democratic Delaware County, private funding established 50 drop boxes — one for every 3.7 square miles and one for every approximately 8,500 registered voters. Across the 56 counties carried by Donald Trump in 2016,

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CTCL Grant Funding Concentrated in 2016-Clinton Jurisdictions; Rural Areas Excluded (MI)

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Established Fact Of Michigan’s 135 CTCL grant recipients above the $5,000 minimum, 90 were jurisdictions won by Joe Biden in 2020 — receiving $14.6 million, or 86 percent of all CTCL funds distributed in the state — while the 45 Trump-plurality recipients received just 14 percent. The largest awards went to urban centers with strong

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