CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Over the next few days, a national public interest law firm plans to file multi-jurisdictional lawsuits centering around the involvement of a self-described nonpartisan group, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), in the administration of the presidential elections.
Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project of the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, said that CTCL’s funneling tens of millions donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to local elections officials under the guise of protecting voters from the coronavirus played out exactly as they feared: the money - $350 million donated by the two - targeted heavily Democratic areas in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (states that President Trump had won with slim margins in 2016) to fund drop boxes, mail-in ballots, poll worker training and other get-out-the-vote efforts that tipped the election illegally for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Private funding money in the administration of elections is illegal in most states.
“Instead of transparency in the election process we had a billionaire’s money steering the outcome,” Kline told Legal Newsline.
Kline said that in Detroit thousands of ballots were illegally completed, or even filled out entirely, by Democratic election observers.
“If it wasn’t clear, for instance, who the mail in vote was for they made it clear that it was Biden,” he said.
In Philadelphia, he said Republican observers were barred from a counting room and ballots were “cured,” or fixed, by the Democrats.
Attorney Jerome Marcus, who sued in federal court in Philadelphia on the president’s behalf, wrote in The Federalist that he personally observed “dozens of Trump campaign volunteers being barred from the counting room even though they’d been properly registered as observers.”
And he wrote that “the handful of Republican observers who could get into the room weren’t being allowed up to the barrier set at six feet from the closest tables where work was being done. So even though they were in the room where it was happening, they had no way to tell what was happening. If there’s no fraud, why is the Democrat-controlled Board of Elections unwilling to let people get close enough to actually see what its people are doing?”
Kline said that in neighboring, heavily Democratic Delaware County, there was a “Zuckerbox” (dropbox) every four-square miles. In more Republican areas in Pennsylvania there was a drop box ever 1,100 square miles.
He said that the infusion of private funds into the administration of elections undermines the entire election process.
“The voters should decide the results in American election, not the media and the high-tech industry,” Kline said.