Privatized Election Operations

ACLU Volunteers Deputized as Registrars with E-Net Access – Unauthorized Partisan Access to Voter Registration System (GA)

Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States /

Established Fact The ACLU of Georgia was engaged by Fulton County to recruit attorneys as volunteer Deputy Registrars for Election Day 2020, assigned to manage absentee ballot cancellation at Fulton County polling locations through county election software. FOIA records subsequently disclosed that approximately 255 ACLU workers were deputized as registrars with access to the ENET […]

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Third-Party Usurpation of Fulton County Poll Worker Hiring – Partisan Filtration of Applicants (GA)

Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States /

Established Fact The Fulton County Department of Registration and Elections delegated poll worker hiring to third-party organizations rather than directly hiring from candidate lists submitted by political parties — an arrangement the FCBRE, the body vested with statutory authority under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-40, never formally authorized. In a 2024 lawsuit, the Republican National Committee alleged

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Unauthorized Private Operatives in Maricopa County Election Administration (AZ)

Arizona, Maricopa County, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, Reasonable Inference, United States /

Reasonable Inference CTCL-affiliated operatives and private partner organizations were embedded in Maricopa County election operations without legislative authorization, mirroring the model deployed in Wisconsin and Georgia. Their presence created a parallel, unaccountable decision-making structure operating alongside – and in some instances superseding – the statutory county election authority. The Cyber Ninjas audit subsequently identified chain-of-custody

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Intent to Influence Outcome Enabled by CTCL Grant Operational Control – Private Supervisory Authority Over Five Wisconsin Cities (WI)

Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, Reasonable Inference, United States, Wisconsin /

Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference — As to intent to influence outcome] CTCL grant conditions required recipient cities to implement CTCL’s Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan and report on spending; failure to comply triggered full clawback. The WILL statistical analysis found CTCL grants produced an estimated Biden vote advantage of approximately 41 votes per municipality on average,

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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 /

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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Spitzer-Rubenstein Ballot Curing and Counting Decisions – Usurpation of Statutory Election Functions (WI)

Brown County, Established Fact, Green Bay, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States, Wisconsin /

Established Fact Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, Wisconsin State Lead for the National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) acting under CTCL authority, exercised substantive election administration authority in Green Bay that is exclusively vested by Wisconsin statute in municipal clerks: he assigned poll workers, performed check-in and supervision duties, developed Central Count procedures, directed ballot transport logistics, supervised

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Chris Thomas – Former State Elections Director Given Operational Control of Detroit Elections as a Private Consultant (MI)

Detroit, Established Fact, Michigan, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States, Wayne County /

Established Fact Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey retained Chris Thomas — former Director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections for 36 years under both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state — as a senior election consultant for the 2020 general election, as part of a partnership with the Michigan Secretary of State’s office. Thomas possessed

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ElectionSource – Simultaneous Multi-County EMS Access Across 26+ Michigan Counties (MI)

Established Fact, Michigan, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States /

Established Fact Dominion Voting Systems’ authorized service provider, ElectionSource (operating as MC&E, Inc., of Grand Rapids, Michigan), was documented to have had access to project files for at least 22 Michigan counties on the Antrim County election management system server, including Alcona, Alger, Alpena, Arenac, Berrien, Calhoun, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Gogebic, Houghton, Iosco, Isabella, Keweenaw, Manistee,

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CTCL-Funded Former State Officials Deployed as Election Advisors in Major Cities (GA)

Fulton County, Georgia, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, Reasonable Inference, United States /

Reasonable Inference CTCL grant agreements in Georgia and other battleground states funded the deployment of private election consultants — including former federal and county election officials working through CTCL-affiliated NGOs — in operational roles inside local election offices. In Fulton County, Georgia, the consulting firm The Elections Group, founded by former Democratic county election officials,

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The Elections Group – Unauthorized Embedded Personnel with No Executed MOU (GA)

Established Fact, Fulton County, Georgia, Operational Control, Privatized Election Operations, United States /

Established Fact The Elections Group (TEG) personnel were embedded inside Fulton County election operations with daily access to absentee ballot request data, drop box planning, tabulator programming, and Logic and Accuracy (LA) testing – despite no executed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between TEG and the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (FCBRE), the sole

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