How the left hopes to seize control of local election offices this November

Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead

• Run for Something, a political action committee founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, aims to elect clerks, election supervisors, registrars, recorders, and other local officials charged with running elections
• The PAC says it will promote thousands of election administrators in the future, but for 2022, it reports endorsing 11 candidates competing in races in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee
• According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, county-level election officials are elected in 22 states, and elected officials appoint members to a local board of elections in 10 states
• Another 18 states divide election administration duties between two or more offices
• Donating to specific candidates to oversee elections could directly or indirectly affect who holds these positions

Election Clerk Controversies

• The Clerk Work project is new this year, but politicization of election officials has been a growing controversy for years
• In 2019, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removed Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes, a Democrat, who admitted in a 2017 lawsuit that the county had more registered voters than eligible voters, and that noncitizens and ineligible felons may have voted in past elections

Soros Prosecutors Provide Model

• Run for Something's $80 million Clerk Work project, which began in April, is set to span three years and encompass 35 states.
• The project closely resembles one by Soros, a Hungarian-American billionaire, to elect district attorneys across the country who would take a progressive approach to prosecutions.

'Influence... Who is Administering Elections'

• In 2017, former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Amanda Litman founded Run for Something as a 527 political action committee aimed at winning down-ballot races, endorsing candidates, and helping to fund their campaigns
• The organization's Clerk Work project specifically aims to elect liberal election workers
• Recruiting registered Democrats or Republicans as poll workers and poll watchers is different than a well-financed effort to place party activists in election supervisory posts

Election Excellence

• The Alliance for Election Excellence is a five-year, $80 million project made up of seven nonprofit organizations aimed at advising local election offices on how to run elections in their jurisdictions
• In 2020, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gave $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning group that distributed grants to mostly Democrat-dominated precincts, driving up the vote
• Critics suspect the recommendations it will promote will be suggestions that tend to help Democrats

 

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