Taxpayers Will Be Paying Democrat Get-Out-the-Vote Drives This Election Season

Ben Weingarten for RCP:

Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers' expense, RealClearInvestigations has found.

The methods include voter registration and mobilization campaigns by ostensibly nonpartisan charities that target Democrats using demographic data as proxies, and the Biden administration's unprecedented demand that every federal agency "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process."

In other words: They're not allowed to target registered Democrats as independents.

So instead they're using socioeconomic data like race and socioeconomic class as very strong predictors of who the Democrats are.

We're not targeting Democrats! We're just trying to register 150% of the black population of blue cities in red states!!!

The full Detroit, in other words.

A dizzying array of overwhelmingly "democracy-focused" entities with ties to the Democratic Party operating as charities and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars from major liberal "dark money" vehicles are engaged in a sprawling campaign to register the voters, deliver them the ballots, and figuratively and sometimes literally harvest the votes necessary to defeat Donald Trump.

These efforts, now buttressed by the federal government, amplify and extend what Time magazine described as a "well-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies," who had worked behind the scenes in 2020 "to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information" to defeat Trump and other Republicans. The "shadow campaigners," Time declared, "were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it."

Heading into 2024, "there is not a 'shadow' campaign," said Mike Howell, executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project. "There is an overt assault on President Trump and those who wish to vote for him occurring at every level of government and with the support of all major institutions."

By contrast, Republican Party stalwarts lament that no comparable effort exists on their side. The GOP's turnout and messaging efforts seek to thread a difficult needle by encouraging early and absentee voting and ballot-harvesting -- pandemic-era measures that Trump and supporters blame for his 2020 electoral defeat -- while the party simultaneously fights the mainly blue-state laws that made the practices possible. The party's position is further complicated by its standard-bearer's warnings of a rigged election bigger than in 2020, which some speculate could turn off moderate swing voters.

The IRS permits tax-exempt nonprofit groups to engage in voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives so long as they do not "refer to any candidate or political party" nor conduct their activities "in a biased manner that favors (or opposes) one or more candidates prohibited."

These entities have become magnets for funds not only from wealthy donors, who can contribute without traditional campaign finance limits -- and get a tax break to boot-- but also abundantly endowed private foundations that are prohibited from engaging in partisan activities.

In recent years, dozens of progressive-oriented 501(c)(3)s, now pulling in upwards of $500 million annually, have engaged in purportedly neutral efforts to impact elections, according to Hayden Ludwig, director of Policy Research at the election integrity-focused advocacy group, Restoration of America.

In practice, critics like Ludwig argue, left-leaning charities flout the law by registering and mobilizing demographics that tend to vote disproportionately Democratic behind a veil of non-partisan democracy promotion.

During the 2020 election, for example, the Voter Participation Center solicited millions of ballot applications in swing states -- many of them prefilled for respondents. This nonprofit, like its peers, is clear that it isn't targeting just any voters, but what it and progressive activists have dubbed a "New American Majority" of "young people, people of color and unmarried women."

Tom Lopach, a longtime Democratic Party operative and the center's president and CEO, told RCI in a statement: "We do the work that state election officials typically do not do -- seeking out underrepresented voting-eligible Americans Tom Lopach ... This is difficult but necessary work that brings democracy to eligible Americans' doorsteps."

In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan showed how supposedly neutral efforts can have a partisan impact when they funneled some $400 million through two progressive-led but purportedly nonpartisan nonprofits into election offices across the country.

That money disproportionately went to jurisdictions that Joe Biden won in the pivotal battleground states that delivered his victory, often flowing to left-leaning nonprofits to whom election offices outsourced the administration of sometimes critical functions.

And that effort continues now, with a whole new range of "Zuckerbucks" payments to turn out the Democrat vote.

And you're paying for it.

Read the whole thing. We're not ahead; we are desperately behind.

And most Republicans refused to do anything about this because they're not-so-secretly on the other side.

And because Trump, and MAGA people in general, apparently have "cooties" that these faggot liberals-in-GOP-clothing are afraid to catch.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM

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