ENTITIES TRYING TO TAKE DOWN OUR ELECTIONS

 

The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) now promises that it will refrain from funding midterm elections in the fall. HOWEVER, CTCL also announced (April 1, 2022) that its “nonpartisan collaborative” will “help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.

The Centers newest initiative is called the US Alliance for Election Excellence. It is a 5 year, $80 million dollar program that is open to every election department in the nation.  They have invited all US election departments to be a US Center for Election Excellence.

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      Center for Tech and Civic Life

Better Informed Voters

We connect Americans with the information they need to become and remain civically engaged, and ensure that our elections are more professional, inclusive, and secure.

Make sure that Elected officials are more reflective of their constituents

 

On Thursday, April 21, the Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Obama Foundation co-hosted a symposium, “Challenges to Democracy in the Digital Information Realm” on the Stanford campus. The event featured panel discussions from leaders in academia, technology, and policy on ways to defend democracy amid disinformation in a digitized world.  In his keynote address, Obama spoke about the threat that disinformation poses to democracy, and potential solutions to combat it.

 

Some Uses of Grant money:

We implemented a robust voter education and outreach campaign

We utilized paid media such as radio and TV ads, as well as earned media such as newspaper ads and speaking engagements. We believe this effort contributed to record voter participation in this county.

 

Grantee Budget Disparities

There can be radically different levels of funding, even when jurisdictions have roughly the same number of eligible voters.

 

Election Officials / April 11, 2022

CTCL Launches the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence that is open to every election department in the nation. The Alliance is bringing together bipartisan election officials to rally around a set of common values and standards, support each other, and keep their skills fresh. These offices will be recognized as U.S. Centers for Election Excellence.

Launch partners include:

Center for Tech and Civic Life: The Center for Civic Design works with elections offices and advocates across the country, using research, design, accessibility, and plain language to remove barriers in the voter journey and invite participation in democracy.   The Elections Group: The Elections Group partners with state and local election officials looking to implement new programs or improve processes for voters and stakeholders. Their team of election experts works quickly to provide guidance, resources, and direct management support for jurisdictions.   Center for Secure and Modern Elections: The Center for Secure and Modern Elections aligns bipartisan, pro-voter campaigns in states across the country that modernizes the voting system, making elections more efficient and secure.   Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University: U.S. Digital Response:    Prototyping Systems Lab at UC Davis.

Partners and supporters of CTCL:

Google; Faceboook; Center for Civic Design; Center for Democracy and Technology; Women Donors Network; The Voting Information Project: Rock the Vote: Rockefeller Brothers Fund: Knight Foundation: Democracy Fund.

 

Center for Secure and Modern Elections

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Automatic Voter Registration to replace outdated paper-based registration with secure, modern, electronic systems.  Our registration and voting system generally works well, but in the age of computers, modernizing our outdated, paper-based voter registration system is just common sense.

Center for Secure and Modern Elections aligns pro-voter campaigns that modernizes the voting system and works directly with local partners and lawmakers who lead in-state activities.

• Elevate local voices: That’s why our pro-voter efforts exclusively assist local leaders who want to modernize their elections for the 21st century.

• Provide support: Whether it’s a rural farmer who needs to get to the capitol to testify before a committee, a citizen who works 2 jobs and needs automatic voter registration to help with their busy schedule, or a hunting license holder who wants to ensure that their voter registration is automatically updated when they fill out government forms.

• Advance policy changes: We work with community members to identify the right modernization policies for a specific state. Our policy solutions adapt to state needs.  It’s important to make sure that eligible voters are automatically added to the rolls.  In some states, registration rules need small updates that ensure registration follows voters when they move. In all cases, CSME advances policies that ensure all eligible voters can have their voice heard.

 

Center for Civic Design

A tool kit of designs for scaling up voting by mail

Designs for ranked choice voting

Anywhere Ballot IE cell phone, and home computer

Vote at home envelopes and materials workbook

Remote ballot marking.  Print your own blank ballot

Voter guides “in words they understand”

Field Guides to ensuring voter intent

“To us, Democracy is a design problem”

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Key supporters and partners

Democracy Fund;  Barr Foundation;  William and Flora Hewlett Foundation;  Center for Secure and Modern Elections;  Knight Foundation;  Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center;  The James Irvine Foundation;  CZ;  The National Science Foundation;  MacArthur Foundation

 

The Elections Group

How We Help

Our efforts focus on assisting jurisdictions – large and small – with adapting to the modern landscape of elections administration. Our guidance has included but is not limited to:

• Mail/Absentee Ballot Processing

 

Rock the Vote

 

Rock the Vote Action Fund (RTVAF) is a 501c4 organization dedicated to building the political power of young progressives and leveraging that power for action on issues that affect their lives. It is the sister organization to Rock the Vote, a 501c3.

They do not list their donors or partners.

 

The Knight Foundation

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Nine universities and nonprofits awarded more than $1.2 million from Knight Foundation to combat disinformation in communities of color.

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“Recent scholarship shows that communities of color are often targeted to discourage participation in our country’s civic and political life,”

 

Since 2019, Knight has committed more than $55 million for independent research and policy insight that can improve the quality of information online and foster informed engagement in the democratic process.

 

We are social investors who support a more effective democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once published newspapers.  The Knight brothers believed that a well-informed community could best determine its own true interests and was essential to a well-functioning, representative democracy.

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DEMOS

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Biden has hired this company to overwrite election law.

For the people act Executive Order 14019

All government agencies to develop a plan to get out the vote for the Dems. Third party non government agencies will be hired for voter registration. Who are these organizations (see the groups above).  Biden is using federal orders to interfere in “times, places, and means of elections” which is against Federal Law.  This will strip states of their ability to run elections. The Foundation for Government Accountability (Naples, FL) is using the Freedom of Information Act to combat this.

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