Dec. 21, 2020 - Epoch Times
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| The Amistad Project held a press conference on December 16th to release a report exposing 10 non-profit organizations funded by five foundations. | |
| The group alleges that hundreds of millions of dollars were injected into the election, with $500 million coming from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. | |
| The funds were used to purchase voting machines, set up ballot boxes, and buy up local elections officials, according to the report. | |
| Phil Kline, the former Attorney General of Kansas, hosted a national press conference on December 16th. | |
| Kline is currently the director of Amistad Project, a subsidiary of the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm. | |
| This report and the evidence we're going to share today demonstrates that Mr. | |
| Zuckerberg's funds flowing through charities paid for the election judges, paid for the satellite offices to turn out the vote, paid for the machines. | |
| And dictated the policies that undermine state law. | |
| Kline released a 39-page report at the press release, which accused Zuckerberg of buying up election officials and influencing American voters to turn out the vote for the benefit of Joe Biden. | |
| The Amistad Project began to monitor digital loopholes in the electoral system in each state in the spring of 2019. | |
| According to the report, Zuckerberg donated most of the funds to the Center for Tech and Civil Life, CTCL, a nonprofit organization. | |
| CTCL claims on its website that we connect election officials with tools and trainings so they can best serve their communities. | |
| We provide information the public needs to develop lifelong civic habits. | |
| Klein cited the various ways CTCL intervened in the election. | |
| Earlier this year, the organization began sending agents into states to recruit certain Democrat strongholds to prepare grants requesting monies from it. | |
| For example, the center gave $100,000 to Corey Mason, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, to recruit four other cities to develop a plan and request a larger grant from it. | |
| Those five cities submitted a Wisconsin Safe Election Plan, We're good to go. | |
| The provision of Zuckerberg CTCL funds allowed these Democrat strongholds to spend roughly $47 per voter, compared to $4 to $7 per voter in traditionally Republican areas of the state. | |
| Moreover, this recruiting of targeted jurisdictions for specific government action and funding runs contrary to legislative election plans and invites government to play favorites in the election process, the report states. | |
| Klein also pointed out local governments did not need the infusion of private funding to help them run the elections this year. | |
| On March 27, 2020, the Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security CARES Act to help each state with pandemic control, including election-related costs from COVID-19. | |
| This privatization of elections cannot be allowed to stand. | |
| It allows billionaires into the counting room and undermines the integrity of the election, Klein said. |
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