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 was spent. These conditions transformed CTCL into a de facto supervisory authority over governmental election administration decisions in five of Wisconsin’s largest cities. The WILL statistical analysis found CTCL grants produced an estimated Biden vote advantage of approximately 41 votes per municipality on average, with a potential statewide impact exceeding Wisconsin’s certified margin of victory.
Citations
Center for Tech and Civic Life, Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan 2020 (approved grant proposal, July 2020) (detailing the four programmatic commitments cities were required to implement as a condition of CTCL funding: expand absentee voting, voter outreach, poll worker recruitment/training, and safe Election Day administration; claw-back provision conditions the return of funds on compliance with programmatic directives), available at: https://www.techandciviclife.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Approved-Wisconsin-Safe-Voting-Plan-2020.pdf.
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), “Finger on the Scale: Examining Private Funding of Elections in Wisconsin” (June 2021) (statistical regression analysis finding CTCL grants produced an estimated 41 additional Biden votes per municipality on average, with a potential electoral impact exceeding 8,000 votes statewide; CTCL required communities to report how grant money was spent and to hold to the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan or face clawback), available at: https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WillLawFINGER-ON-THE-SCALE.6.pdf.
WEC Complaint (Final Draft), ¶86 (sub-grant to NVAHI/Spitzer-Rubenstein made without prior written CTCL approval, violating grant condition prohibiting sub-grants without approval), available at: https://fox11digital.com/PDFs/WEC-Complaint-FINAL-Draft-4.pdf.
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), “Finger on the Scale” (2021) (CTCL required recipients to report how funds were spent and to implement the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan; failure to comply would trigger clawback of all or part of grant funds), available at: https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/WillLawFINGER-ON-THE-SCALE.6.pdf.
CTCL Partners with 5 Wisconsin Cities to Implement Safe Voting Plan: https://www.techandciviclife.org/wisconsin-safe-voting-plan/ | Center for Tech and Civic Life
The Wisconsin \”Zuckerbucks\” Problem: New Data Reveals Private Funding Favored Democrat Strongholds: https://thefga.org/research/the-wisconsin-zuckerbucks-problem/ | Foundation for Government Accountability