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 Wisconsin law prohibiting election bribery” under Wis. Stat. § 12.11, which prohibits giving anything of value to cause an election official to perform their duties. The grants were conditioned on recipient cities implementing election administration practices specified in the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan, including expanded absentee voting, voter outreach programs, poll worker recruitment, and ballot curing operations; CTCL reserved the right to claw back funds from any city that failed to comply.<sup>,</sup> The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), conducting a comprehensive analysis through open records requests to all 200+ grant recipient municipalities, found that areas receiving CTCL grants saw a statistically significant increase in turnout for Democrats, estimating a potential electoral impact of more than 8,000 additional votes in the direction of Biden statewide, while the corresponding effect on Republican turnout did not reach statistical significance. The Zuckerberg 5 received approximately 86% of all CTCL funds distributed in Wisconsin despite representing five municipalities out of the more than 216 that received any CTCL funding; per-voter funding among the five largest cities ranged from $53.41 per 2016 voter in Racine to $0.00 in Oshkosh.
Citations
Election Oversight Group Report (EOG Report), finding on Fulton County SHA hash file destruction: report concludes that Fulton County “selectively and willfully destroyed roughly 130,000 electronic ballot image authentication hash files.”
VoterGA, How Georgia 2020 Election Results Were Electronically ManipulatedHow Georgia 2020 Election Results Were Electronically Manipulated (March 2022), p. 6, 9: “Only 16,034 SHA files exist for 148,318 TIF ballot images. IMPACT: 132,284 Fulton mail-in ballot images cannot be authenticated.” Available at: https://voterga.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/How-Georgia-election-results-were-electronically-manipulated-legislators.pdf
VoterGA, Election, Fraud, Errors and Irregularities Abound in GeorgiaElection, Fraud, Errors and Irregularities Abound in Georgia (September 2023): “A VoterGA analysis of the 148,318 original Fulton Co. mail-in ballot images showed clear, direct signs of electronic tampering. 132,284 of those images were missing their corresponding SHA authentication files and thus, could not be authenticated.” Available at: https://voterga.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WHO-SAYS-THERE-WAS-NO-2020-GEORGIA-ELECTION-FRAUD.pdf
VoterGA, How Georgia 2020 Election Results Were Electronically ManipulatedHow Georgia 2020 Election Results Were Electronically Manipulated (March 2022), p. 6, 8: “All 374,128 in-person ballot images for the original count are missing. IMPACT: None of the 374,128 in person votes cast can be authenticated.” See alsoSee also VoterGA (September 2023): “374,000 original in-person ballot images were also destroyed.” Available at: https://voterga.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/How-Georgia-election-results-were-electronically-manipulated-legislators.pdf
AuditEngine / Citizens Oversight (COPS), 2020 Election Ballot Image Audit of Fulton County, GA2020 Election Ballot Image Audit of Fulton County, GA (Narrative Report), pp. 1, 11–12, 56: “380,458 images of ballot sheets were deleted and unavailable” — representing 72% of all ballots cast. Available at: https://copswiki.org/w/pub/Common/M1986/GA%20Fulton%2020201103%20Narrative%20Report.pdf
Search Warrant Affidavit (unsealed February 10, 2026), filed in connection with DOJ investigation of Fulton County 2020 election records, pp. 9–10: witness “stated the missing SHA files were a red flag to her that someone had manipulated the data. She believed the removal of the SHA files was an intentional act by someone.” At p. 6, 10: Fulton County admitted it “does not have scanned images of all the 528,777 ballots counted during the Original Count” and “has not preserved the majority of ballot images from in-person voting for the November 3, 2020, Original Count.” Available at: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2026-02-10-Unsealed-Affidavit.pdf
VoterGA Press Release, VoterGA Announces 74 Georgia Counties Unable to Produce 2020 Ballot ImagesVoterGA Announces 74 Georgia Counties Unable to Produce 2020 Ballot Images (November 9, 2021): “74 Georgia counties have been unable to produce all the original ballot images from the November 2020 election. The team obtained admissions from 56 counties that most or all of the images created automatically by the Dominion voting system for results tabulation have been destroyed.” Available at: https://voterga.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Press-Release-VoterGA-2020-Election-Ballot-Images-Destroyed-11-09-21-1.pdf