Thread by @honestelections

🚨MUST READ:

We partnered with the @JohnLockeNC Foundation to release a report exposing a HUGE left-wing dark money scheme aimed at influencing our elections.

🧵 Thread detailing the findings

In April 2022, the left-wing Center for Tech and Civic Life & other nonprofit/companies formed an $80 million initiative called the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence — targeting local election offices, offering participants grants, trainings, resources, and consulting.

In November of 2022, it announced its first ten member offices—dubbed “Centers for Election Excellence”—that included two counties in North Carolina, Brunswick and Forsyth.

The Alliance’s claim of being nonpartisan is completely dishonest.

The documents we revealed show that the Alliance is actually designed to systematically influence every aspect of election administration in target offices and to push progressive voting policies.

In fact, the left-wing organization Democracy North Carolina praised Brunswick and Forsyth counties for joining and linked it to their push for “progressive changes to election laws and procedures.”

The Alliance is merely a continuation of Center for Tech and Civic Life’s (CTCL) scheme to use private funding to impact election policy nationwide.

FLASHBACK:

In 2020, CTCL was at the heart of the liberal effort to use $400 million provided by Mark Zuckerberg to influence the way election offices functioned and to steer funds disproportionately to jurisdictions that voted for Democrats.

The Alliance members are backed by a network of liberal dark money groups, including:

eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund & Arabella Advisors’ New Venture Fund.

They’re also led & staffed by people with deep ties to the Democratic Party and progressive organizations.

How it works:

Local election offices receive access to funds from CTCL they can spend exclusively on services provided by left-wing companies and nonprofits, entirely outside normal public funding channels.

But it’s a two-way street:

In exchange for receiving those grants and services, local election offices are expected to provide CTCL and its partners substantial in-kind contributions, at taxpayer expense.

Members are expected to work with the Alliance to develop and implement an “improvement plan” that reshapes the way each office functions. And grants issued by CTCL come with SIGNIFICANT strings attached.

So how do we stop this to maintain the integrity of our elections?

✅Ban private election funding.

✅Vigilant oversight by lawmakers.

✅Enact rigorous reporting requirements.

✅Ensure total transparency from election offices.

However, as of December 2022, just 24 states have enacted bans or restrictions on private funding of local election offices.

These laws are essential safeguards against the dangerous influence of dark money-funded programs like the Alliance for Election Excellence.

Unfortunately, states like North Carolina have Governors like @RoyCooperNC who veto commonsense private funding bans — leaving their offices exposed to the influence of special interests and left-wing organizations like the Alliance for Election Excellence.

If we’re going to restore trust in our election system and make it easier to vote and harder to cheat — states need to take action ahead of the 2024 elections to rein in the corrupting influence of dark money-funded programs like the Alliance for Election Excellence.

Read our full report👇

honestelections.org/wp-content/upl…