'Dark Money' Groups Target Election Integrity, House GOP Watchdogs Say

Dark money groups on the left that seek to control local election offices across the country could further undermine confidence in American elections, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., the co-chairwoman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, told The Daily Signal, when asked about two organizations in particular

Dark money liberal advocacy groups will stop at nothing to inject partisan funds into election administration efforts

• Run for Something, a Democrat-aligned political action committee, established a "Clerk Work" program to help get election clerks elected.
• Improving confidence in elections won't come from partisans seeking a leg up
• Propping up partisan operatives to serve as election clerks will not solve our election integrity issues, and it definitely will not restore confidence in our electoral system on either side of the aisle
• It's going to take careful consideration and deliberate debate on these matters to improve election integrity and bolster faith in our elections."

The Alliance for Election Excellence

• It 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 voter turnout.
  1. Separately, the Center for Tech and Civic Life—which distributed $350 million in election administration grants from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan in the 2020 cycle—launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence to train election officials.
  2. Run for Something established its Clerk Work project with the goal of electing clerks, election supervisors, registrars, recorders, and other local officials charged with running elections.
  3. “Propping up partisan operatives to serve as election clerks will not solve our election integrity issues, and it definitely will not restore confidence in our electoral system on either side of the aisle,” Garcia told The Daily Signal in a written statement.
  4. Left-wing activist groups seek to stack the electoral deck in their favor by recruiting like-minded candidates to run for what are supposed to be the nonpartisan offices of election clerk and voter registrar.
  5. 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 voter turnout.

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