Um, does anyone else have a problem w/tote bags full of absentee ballots being carted off in white vans via a Biden-promoted scheme in Madison, WI, which has received $2M in "election integrity" grants from Obama/Zuckerberg-tied group? Cuz @vickimckenna & I have a problem w/it! pic.twitter.com/erIPxccEA7
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 29, 2020
Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyarâs Democracy Fund.
Conservative talk radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA.
âLast week on my radio program, we played Biden campaign ads,â she told me. âThey were all about something called âDemocracy in the Park.â It was an advertisement about how Madison, Wisconsin, would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events.â The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were âpaid for by Joe Biden for President.â
Madison's illegal ballot harvesting in 200 Madison parks Saturday had "poll workers" collecting ballots in entirely unsecured ZIPPER TOP red bags. @wisgop @SenFitzgerald @speakervos @realDonaldTrump @MattBatzel pic.twitter.com/RJAEfJBWvG
— Vicki McKenna (@VickiMcKenna) September 28, 2020
On Saturday, Sept. 26, as advertised by the Biden campaign, Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots, even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day, according to Wisconsin state election law. Several of McKennaâs listeners showed up to photograph the city government workersâ activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign. The poll workers stuffed ballots into âred zipper bags with no security whatsoever. The poll workers witnessed peopleâs (blank) ballots, just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot, threw them in the red zipper bags, and we donât know whatâs become of these ballots since,â McKenna told me.
Imagine sheaves of ballots carelessly stuffed into cheap, canvas, pizza delivery-style totes. Then imagine them being carted away by unknown drivers to unknown locations for unknown reasons. Observers captured photos of several stuffed red bags being loaded into an unmarked white van parked outside Madisonâs municipal government building.
âItâs clear from legal analysis: this is not legal and does not comport with Wisconsin election law,â McKenna argues. âThereâs some serious questions about (Democratic) campaign coordination with the city of Madison.â
Now, enter a shady entity called the âCenter for Tech and Civic Life.â It just so happens that this nonprofit âelection reform advocacy group,â based in Chicago and founded in 2012, has showered more than $6 million in the five largest cities in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin. In July, using COVID-19 as a pretext to boost mail-in and absentee voting, the center released the following amounts to governmental grantees:
âCity of Milwaukee: $2,154,500.
âCity of Madison: $1,271,788.
âCity of Green Bay: $1,093,400.
âCity of Kenosha: $862,779.
âCity of Racine: $942,100.
There is nothing ânonpartisanâ about this enterprise. The Centerâs top staff (many of them Barack Obama campaign tech gurus) come from a now-defunct liberal nonprofit called the New Organizing Institute, whose far-left donors include George Sorosâs Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. CTCL director Tiana Epps-Johnson is a former Obama Foundation fellow. The center received $250 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Cha n. Trump-bashing Google is a top corporate partner. Other donors include the According to the Center for Tech and Civic Lifeâs website, they fielded over 1,100 applications from across the country for their purported âCOVID-19 Response Grant Programâ to âprovide funding to U.S. local election offices to help ensure they have the critical resources they need to safely serve every voter in 2020.â Grants are to be used to encourage alternatives to in-person voting, âvoter education and outreach efforts,â âearly in-person votingâ and vote by mail â all tactics being deployed by anti-Trump, âcolor revolutionaryâ forces to drag out the election long past Election Day.
Chicago political activist Jay Stone has filed a legal complaint against CTCL, alleging that its grant scheme âartificially inflates Democrat Joe Bidenâs statewide Wisconsin vote total and enhances Joe Bidenâs chances of winning Wisconsinâs 10 electoral votesâ by targeting private funds to Democratic-run cities under the guise of enhancing pandemic safety and election integrity. In addition to Wisconsin, Democratic-run jurisdictions in battleground state Pennsylvania that have received CTCL infusions include Delaware County ($2.2 million) and Philadelphia (a whopping $10 million).
McKenna warns that the alarm-raising âDemocracy in the Parkâ scheme in CTCL-subsidized Madison, Wisconsin, will be back in action on Oct. 3. I reached out Monday to CTCL to confirm whether its grants are being used for the tote bag ballot-harvesting program touted by the Biden campaign. No reply. Maybe Iâll get a reply to these questions:
If, as it plainly appears, private big tech and left-wing philanthropic funding are being used to rig the election process in the most important battlegrounds of our country, where the heck are the Justice Department and Attorney General Bill Barr?
And finally: Is this what the âpeaceful transfer of powerâ is supposed to look like in America?