Financial Influence

Disproportionate Operational Capital Allocation to Democratic Counties (AZ)

Arizona, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Maricopa County, United States /

Established Fact Of approximately $6.8 million in total CTCL grants deployed across nine Arizona counties, $5.16 million — roughly 75.8% — went to the four counties that voted for the Democratic presidential candidate (Maricopa, Pima, Coconino, and Apache), including $1.84 million to Maricopa County alone. This operational funding underwrote expanded staffing, ballot processing equipment, and […]

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Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan (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 /

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)

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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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Two-Tiered Voting Access via Drop Box Density (PA)

Delaware County, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, United States /

Established Fact CTCL distributed approximately $25 million to Pennsylvania jurisdictions for the 2020 election, with a single grant of $10,016,074 going to Philadelphia alone — a city that delivered over 80 percent of its votes to the Democratic presidential candidate. The geographic distribution of the resulting election infrastructure was strikingly asymmetric. In heavily Democratic Delaware

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MCELA-CEIR “Voter Education” as De Facto GOTV (MI)

Election Operations Bias, Financial Influence, Michigan, Reasonable Inference, United States /

Reasonable Inference Michigan’s Center for Election Law and Administration (MCELA), founded by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, received a multi-million-dollar CEIR grant for “voter education” and outreach, including direct communications to voters and digital targeting. The national report documents that this messaging was geared toward boosting participation among “Biden profile” demographics and that Michigan’s own

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Private Infrastructure and Mobile GOTV Trailers (MI)

Detroit, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Michigan, Muskegon County, United States, Wayne County /

Established Fact Detroit received $7,436,450 from CTCL for the 2020 election — by far the largest grant in Michigan — which funded 23 satellite voting centers, 30 dedicated drop-box sites, and a near-tripling of poll-worker pay from $175 to $500 per day. City Clerk Janice Winfrey stated that “pretty much all” of the behind-the-scenes operational

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State Data Monetization for Partisan Outreach via ERIC-CEIR (GA)

Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Georgia, United States /

Established Fact Over 94% (42.4 million dollars) of CTCL funds in Georgia went to 17 Biden-won counties. In parallel, Georgia used ERIC to generate “Eligible but Unregistered” (EBU) lists, then transferred those lists to CEIR, which produced targeted mailing and GOTV lists and sent them back to state officials for deployment. The combination of privately

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Disproportionate CTCL Capital Allocation in Biden-Won Counties (AZ)

Arizona, Election Operations Bias, Established Fact, Financial Influence, Maricopa County, United States /

Established Fact Arizona’s Auditor General documented CTCL grants of approximately $6.8 million to nine of the state’s fifteen counties for the 2020 elections. The four Arizona counties carried by the Democratic presidential candidate that received CTCL funds — Maricopa ($2,995,921), Pima ($950,446), Coconino ($614,691), and Apache ($598,700) — received a combined $5.16 million, representing approximately

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Asymmetric Legal Defense Funding – One-Sided Legal Representation (US)

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Reasonable Inference The Election Official Legal Defense Network (EOLDN) — a project of the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), which received $69.5 million from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2020 — provided free pro bono legal counsel to election officials facing legal exposure related to their administration of the 2020 election. EOLDN connected

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WisVote/BadgerBooks Data Sharing with CTCL Partners (WI)

Established Fact, Financial Influence, NGO Funding, United States, Wisconsin /

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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