ALERT: 2024 General Election is in Jeopardy!

As Act for America patriots helped pass a Zuckerbucks and Private Funding of Elections bans in nearly half the country, we learn that Big Tech-Dark Money Groups are testing our resolve as they strategically test a work around in ten counties!  

Alliance of Big Tech, Dark Money Groups Partners With Counties in State That Bans ‘Zuckerbucks’ for Elections

Fred Lucas | January 27, 2023 | The Daily Signal | Condensed

The group that distributed most of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial election grants in 2020 has designated at least two Utah counties as part of a new effort, despite a state ban on private money funding election operations. 

The two local jurisdictions are Cache County, with a population of 137,00, and Weber County, population 267,000.

The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a group launched by the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other left-leaning organizations (partner organizations are funded by the left-wing, “dark money” groups Arabella Advisors and the Democracy Fund), designated the Utah counties as participants in its plans for 2024.

In 2022, the Utah Legislature passed and Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed into law SB 219. The measure says simply: “This bill prohibits an election officer from soliciting, accepting, or using funds donated for an election by a person other than a government entity.” The law took effect last May.

The alliance previously announced the participation of 10 other jurisdictions, which each got known grants ranging from $500,000 to $3 million. 

UPDATED: Federal + All States

The Utah law likely would prohibit any election-related grants, Cache County Deputy Clerk Bryson Behm told The Daily Signal.

“I would expect that would exclude us from that and we are not searching for any grants,” Behm said in a phone interview. “This is just a networking opportunity to connect with other election officials about the best ways to secure elections.” 

Behm said he learned from a conversation with Weber County officials that Weber County also was designated by the alliance as a “Center for Election Excellence.”

Weber County Clerk Ricky Hatch is a member of the advisory committee for the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which launched the election alliance. 

The Alliance for Election Excellence’s membership agreement for participating jurisdictions says: “To accomplish these goals, the Alliance will develop and establish a nonpartisan, nationwide certification program so that jurisdictions meeting certain performance standards may hold themselves out as Centers for [Election] Excellence.” 

For jurisdictions that participate, the fee is $1,600 for basic membership in the alliance and $4,800 for premium membership. In some cases, the alliance says, it waives membership fees through “scholarships.” 

“They [the Alliance for Election Excellence] want to expand from these 10 jurisdictions with an influence campaign and gain access to the data and inner workings of election offices,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.

“Even if a place can’t accept the scholarships under the Zuckerbuck bans, membership is as low as $1,600 to have access to these resources,” Snead said. “They are playing the long game.”

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