Established Fact During the Arizona State Senate’s 2021 forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results, both Maricopa County and its election system vendor Dominion Voting Systems refused to comply with Senate subpoenas for administrative passwords, security tokens, and routers used in the election. The county informed Senate liaison Ken Bennett on May 3, 2021 […]
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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Established Fact Philadelphia accepted millions in CTCL funds under agreements with claw-back provisions that, in practical effect, made noncompliance with CTCL’s specified operational model (including drop-box deployment, staffing, and outreach) “not an option.” Local officials described the terms as binding, and the grant documents empowered CTCL to demand repayment for deviations, granting a Chicago-based NGO
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Established Fact Detroit’s CTCL grant (approx. 3.5-7.4 million dollars depending on tranche) included a clause granting CTCL the right, “in its sole judgment,” to demand return of funds if Detroit did not adhere to the grant’s conditions (e.g., implementing specified satellite offices, drop boxes, and staffing models). This placed core questions of compliance with election-administration
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Established Fact Georgia counties including Fulton and DeKalb accepted multi-million-dollar CTCL grants in 2020 — Fulton County $6,309,436 and DeKalb County approximately $4.7 million for the general election plus an additional $4.6 million for the December runoff — and used the funds to operate voting locations, hire election staff, purchase processing equipment, and deploy drop
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Reasonable Inference Unlike Wisconsin, Arizona courts did not issue a definitive pre-certification ruling on the legality of drop box placement and operational standards under CTCL-funded plans. The election was thus administered under unverified private-grant-driven drop box protocols while no judicial or statutory framework governed collection schedules, two-person collection requirements, or surveillance coverage mandates. Citations Arizona
Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to Hatch Act nexus] Across CTCL grant jurisdictions reviewed, grant agreements included enforceable contractual clawback provisions authorizing CTCL, in its sole judgement, to demand the return of all or part of disbursed funds if recipients failed to comply with the grant’s conditions. In the Wisconsin five-city agreement, this provision
Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – As to functional governmental subordination] Across all CTCL grant jurisdictions reviewed, grant agreements included enforceable contractual clawback provisions authorizing CTCL, in its sole discretion, to demand the full return of disbursed funds if recipients failed to comply with CTCL’s programmatic directives. This financial penalty regime – operating over duly sworn
Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant
Established Fact The Michigan Department of State, under Secretary Jocelyn Benson, established API contracts granting Rock the Vote and approximately 25,000 partner organizations direct remote access to Michigan’s Qualified Voter File (QVF), which contains voters’ Personally Identifiable Information (PII), including partial Social Security Numbers and driver’s license numbers. These access agreements were executed without NIST-compliant
