While there are dozens of ongoing election integrity issues, a newly released report from a watchdog group lists the top 50 election threats that the U.S. is facing with less than three weeks until the presidential election.
In a report released by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) on Wednesday, it details the top 50 election threats and breaks them down into five categories: “‘Dark money’ such as ‘Zuckerbucks’ that is used for public election administration; Lawfare operations that use taxpayer resources to weaponize the justice system against challengers to incumbents; ‘Get Out the Vote’ operations that use nonprofit status to target voters from a preferred political party; Vote Fraud by people who double-vote, fraudulently vote someone else’s ballot, or vote without being eligible to vote; and Election Fraud that seeks to fix elections by illegal activities that take place during the counting or collection of ballots.” Below are threats included in each of the above categories: The “dark money” category includes President Biden’s March 2021 Executive Order 14019, often referred to by critics as “Bidenbucks.” The term alludes to "Zuckerbucks," the approximately $400 million coming from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and widely alleged to have been funneled through left-leaning nonprofits to turn out the Democratic vote in the 2020 presidential election.
Election integrity has has a spotlight shined on it since the contentious aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and although some states have made improvements, many issues still remain.
In Connecticut, after alleged ballot harvesting occurred during the September primary election last year and resulted in a court-ordered "redo" election, Democratic Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas advised voters to cast their ballots in person ahead of the Bridgeport mayoral redo primary election in January.
According to the Executive Order, “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation,” including "soliciting and facilitating approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.” “With no agency publicly releasing its strategy to increase voter participation, EO 14019 lacks transparency and obfuscates how these agencies are conducting themselves,” according to the GAI report.
"Vote by mail is, however, likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections in other states, where the population is more mobile, where there is some history of troubled elections, or where the safeguards for ballot integrity are weaker," the commission also said.
In June, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil subpoenaed 15 Biden cabinet officials for their agencies’ strategic plans to implement the executive order.
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