could collectively generate an addi- tional 3.5 million voter registration applications per year.” “‘Nonpartisan’ and ‘charitable’
voter registration and get-out-the-vote groups are the Democratic Party’s electioneering super-weapons,” says Parker Thayer, an analyst with the conservative Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C. “This is a coordinated effort from left-leaning third parties and the Biden administration to use executive power and taxpayer resources for the purpose of federalizing elections and taking power away from the states,” says Chase Martin, legal affairs direc- tor at the Foundation for Government Accountability. The Biden effort must be viewed in
light of two other attempts by liberal groups to tilt the 2024 elections. In 2021, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi
introduced the Biden-backed For the People Act. It sought to run roughshod over state election laws and effectively end the ability of states to pass effec- tive voter ID laws or limit fraud-prone mail-in voting. The measure passed the House
without a single dissenting Democrat vote but was blocked when Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona refused to set aside Senate filibuster rules and allow it to become law on a party-line vote. The other was an effort to expand
on the activities of what an admiring Time magazine cover story called a “well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideolo- gies,” who worked behind the scenes in 2020 “to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage, and control the flow of information” to defeat Donald Trump and other Republicans. Mollie Hemingway, author of Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, scoffs at such puffery and claims it masked the use of the COVID-19 lockdowns “as a pretext to maximize absentee and early voting.”
“The president is acting unconstitutionally, the agencies are acting unlawfully, and they’re doing so with taxpayer money with
next-to-zero transparency for the taxpayer.” — David Craig, senior legal fellow
One tech billionaire, Facebook
at the Foundation for Government Accountability The disturbing prospect of having
founder Mark Zuckerberg, was the leading player in this effort. He spent $419 million in 2020 to help finance grants to nearly 2,500 county govern- ment election offices in an effort to influence that year’s elections. Hans von Spakovsky of The Heri-
tage Foundation, former member of the Federal Election Commission, said the Zuckerberg grants were “a care- fully orchestrated attempt to convert official government election offices into get-out-the-vote operations for one political party, and to insert politi- cal operatives into election offices in order to influence and manipulate the outcome of the election.”
‘No Way They’re Neutral’
T
he defeat of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s For
the People Act and the state curbs on “Zuckerbucks” have prompted Democrats to substitute the resources of the federal government as they work to influence the 2024 election. Mike Howell, executive director of The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, scoffs at public claims of neutrality by the voting groups that the Biden administration is partnering with. “If they were truly interested
in an informed, participatory, constitutional republic, they would have an even-handed approach to registering voters,” he told RealClearInvestigations. “Call me when they show up to
a NASCAR race, Daughters of the American Revolution event, or a gun show.” — J.F.
private money influence the priorities of government election offices has led 28 states so far to ban “Zuckerbucks”- style electioneering, the most recent being Wisconsin. In March, a clear majority of voters
in a statewide referendum voted in favor of such a ban. There is a strong legal case against
the Biden order and its opaque alliance with left-wing pressure groups. “The president is acting unconstitu-
tionally, the agencies are acting unlaw- fully, and they’re doing so with taxpay- er money with next-to-zero transparen- cy for the taxpayer,” says David Craig, senior legal fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Mississippi Secretary of State
Michael Watson sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking it to stop enforcing the Biden order because it is being used to register ineligible con- victs and illegal immigrants. Watson pointed out that fed-
eral agencies are being misdirected “from their historical missions of law enforcement to voter registration and get-out-the-vote operations.” Unfortunately, just as in the 2020
election, any efforts to thwart the Biden executive order are likely to be ruled on only after the voting is finished. For conservatives who are deter-
mined to win this November, they will simply have to use the Biden adminis- tration’s poor record and hard work to counter the disparity in resources the left has to work with. The old adage of machine poli-
tics used to be “Vote early and vote often.” To that, the Biden admin- istration is adding: “and with your taxpayer dollars.”
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