The CEO of Facebook paid hundreds of millions of dollars to enable community groups to take control of voter lists, to dictate how the election was to be conducted, down to the number of ballot boxes and polling places.
Zuckerberg wants to keep his grand government protection racket where Facebook can filter and censor the news but pretend not to be a publisher at the same time. The power that comes from being the unofficial Ministry of Truth is worth billions, and Trump was obviously a threat to that.
Blackwell: The Greatest Electoral Heist in American History
First, this is who Ken Blackwell is:
Ken Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, is the Distinguished Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance, at the Family Research Council. He served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Commission from 1990-1993.
The Centre for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) got $350 million from Zuckerberg, which was $349 million more than their normal budget.
Under the pretext of assisting election officials conduct “safe and secure” elections in the age of COVID, Zuckerberg donated $400 million — as much money as Congress appropriated for the same general purpose — to nonprofit organizations founded and run by left-wing activists. The primary recipient was the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), which received the staggering sum of $350 million. Prior to Zuckerberg’s donations, CTCL’s annual operating expenses averaged less than $1 million per year. How was Zuckerberg even aware of such a small-potatoes operation, and why did he entrust it with ⅞ of the money he was pouring into this election cycle, despite the fact that it had no prior experience handling such a massive amount of money?
That money went to Democrat precincts in swing states:
Predictably, given the partisan background of its leading officers, CTCL proceeded to distribute Zuckerberg’s funds to left-leaning counties in battleground states. The vast majority of the money handed out by CTCL — especially in the early days of its largesse — went to counties that voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Some of the biggest recipients, in fact, were the very locales Plouffe had identified as the linchpins of the Democrat strategy in 2020.
How is it that elections in the USA are not run and managed solely by accountable officials?
Zuckerberg and CTCL left nothing to chance, however, writing detailed conditions into their grants that dictated exactly how elections were to be conducted, down to the number of ballot drop boxes and polling places. The Constitution gives state lawmakers sole authority for managing elections, but these grants put private interests firmly in control.
Lawyers tried to stop this but couldn’t because no harm had yet been suffered.
A $10m grant to one county was projected to increase voting by 200,000 people. Is that something like paying people $50 to vote?
Philadelphia County alone, for instance, projected that the $10 million grant it received from CTCL would enable it to increase turnout by 25-30 percent — translating to well over 200,000 votes.
There were other strategies too. Ballot security was weakened. In Wisconsin, an extra 170,000 voters claimed they were “indefinitely confined” which meant they didn’t even have to provide a photocopy of their ID. Did those voters exist?
In Michigan Civic groups were allowed to manage “voter registration”. Signatures were not required. Partisan groups got access to the voter rolls.
In Michigan, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unilaterally voided the legal requirement that voters provide a signature when requesting an absentee ballot, establishing an online request form. She then took things a step further by announcing that she would “allow civic groups and other organizations running voter registration drives to register voters through the state’s online registration website,” granting partisan groups such as Rock The Vote direct access to Michigan’s voter rolls.
Precincts that got Zuckerberg money were able to take advantage of dubious rules to “cure ballots” in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, election officials in heavily-Democratic counties that received CTCL funding allowed flawed mail-in ballots to be “cured” — that is, altered or replaced — prior to Election Day. In other counties, officials rightly interpreted this as a flagrant violation of state law. On the night before Election Day, less than 24 hours before polls were due to close, Democrat Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar sought to imbue this illegal practice with the appearance of validity by issuing a statement authorizing counties to contact voters who had cast improper ballots. Even if Boockvar had the statutory authority to do this, which she did not, the timing of her memo made it impossible for rural counties to take advantage of it to nearly the same extent as urban counties.
Did curing the votes create votes for Biden — no outside observers were allowed to see. They were in the room but forcibly kept too far away to be able to see.
All of this sounds like the stuff of fiction — the sort of thing one would expect from a cinematic thriller or a spy novel. Sadly, it’s the reality that our country is faced with…
The USA was evidently wide open to sabotage and from so many angles. The first question is whether any of this particular dubious activity can be subject to meaningful legal steps and in time to matter to the outcome of the election. Unless the blocking of observers can be pinned down as illegal in court, it looks like the rest will flow.
The second deeper question is why was the USA so wide open, and for so long. So many people must have known yet did nothing to prevent this?
h/t Bill C