Brennan Center: Big Money behind "Election Integrity" groups deployed across the nation

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Big Donors Working to Overturn the 2020 Election Are Backing Election Denial Candidates in 2022


https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/big-donors-working-overturn-2020-election-are-backing-election-denial

Prominent national financial supporters of false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Donald Trump are spending big in races across the country for Congress and state offices, including positions that will play key roles in running or certifying the 2024 elections.

The same sources have reportedly spent at least $64 million on efforts to overturn President Biden’s win — like lawsuits, the ballot review in Arizona’s Maricopa County, and the January 6 insurrection — or manipulate election processes for this year’s races — such as mass voter registration challenges in some counties and efforts in several states to recruit poll monitors and workers sympathetic to election denial.

Election Challenge Activity Spending
Uihlein gave $1.25 million to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which employs Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who worked on the Trump campaign’s lawsuit to “set aside and disregard the election results” in Georgia over alleged fraud and participated in the phone call in which Donald Trump demanded state election officials “find” 11,780 votes for him. The Republican National Committee has relied on Mitchell and the Conservative Partnership Institute for an “election integrity” operation to recruit and train thousands of Republican poll workers in battleground states. Uihlein has given to groups involved in the January 6 insurrection, including $4.3 million to the Tea Party Patriots, $200,000 to the Federalist Society, and $30,000 to Turning Point USA.

If you have a chance to be a polling place observer, ballot processing observer, or to monitor ballot drop boxes, please step up. They are out in force all over the country looking for issues that they can sue over to disrupt the elections.

Here is their training manual:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21195360-citizens-guide-to-building-an-election-integrity-infrastructure-november-2021

I apologize for posting this multiple times, but it is really important that we understand and stand up to this group at the local level. They are out in force everywhere.

[dalton99a]

1. Their 20-page "citizens guide" is a must read

[jmbar2]

2. It is indeed

Cleta lives off of phony lawsuits and dark funding. She loses most of her suits. Apparently winning is not the goal - just undermining people's faith in election integrity.

We need to engage with the grassroots foot soldiers as much as possible, and with kindness. They have been duped and don't know it.

I spent a couple of hours chatting with one at the ballot observing shift, and will be returning there with some articles. Probably won't do any good, but I'll feel like I did my duty to debunk.

No Evidence of Voter Fraud
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2103619118

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/Report_HeritageAnalysis_Final.pdf