America First Legal (AFL) and other conservative activist groups continue to uncover evidence that federal government agencies plot with high-tech to manipulate elections in favor of progressive candidates, starting on a grand scale with the election of Joe Biden in 2020.
Internal documents obtained by AFL through a lawsuit filed in 2022 against the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reveal the agency was aware that the massive use of mail ballots pushed by the left during the pandemic greatly enhanced the opportunity for fraud. According to court documents, the agency failed to report these concerns to the public until the Friday before the General Election through a media tour, during which time mainstream media outlets downplayed the threat.
The documents also show that CISA knew the rationale for promoting mail ballots was itself a fraud— that in-person voting would spread COVID-19. In addition, the agency contracted with accounting and consulting giant Deloitte to identify and squash claims to the contrary, particularly those on social media. Other conservative groups, including the Washington D.C.-based Capital Research Center (CRC), have uncovered similar sophisticated government/high-tech schemes to steer election results.
Through open records requests, AFL found that by September 2020, CISA officials knew there was no evidence to support the claim that in-person voting “increase[d] the spread of COVID-19” and were “aware that mass ‘vote-by-mail’ schemes” presented difficulties to election officials. Among the “major challenges” highlighted by the agency were the “process of mailing and returning ballots,” “high numbers of improperly completed ballots,” and “the shortage of personnel to process ballots in a prompt manner.”
“Common sense dictates that ballots submitted via mail are inherently less secure than verified, in-person voting by a citizen who shows identification before casting his or her ballot,” Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice President and General Counsel, said in a statement. “CISA received reporting and was aware of the risks associated with mass mail-in voting schemes, yet it simultaneously was engaged in an unprecedented censorship campaign to mislead the American people about the truth and about a great number of other things, like Hunter Biden’s laptop. The American people were lied to, and there must be accountability.”
What’s more, AFL found that CISA urged big-tech platforms to censor posts warning of the risks associated with the massive use of mail-in ballots. The documents show that CISA relied on Deloitte to “report on ‘Daily Social Media Trends’ relating to the U.S. Election and to flag specific social media posts for CISA’s awareness and attention.”
Examples cited by AFL include:
- Twitter flagged President Trump’s post that there are “big problems and discrepancies with Mail-in Ballots.”
- “A conservative online activist claimed that Twitter is censoring his tweets about voter fraud to help the Democratic presidential nominee.”
- President Trump “retweeted a political pundit who accused a Democratic Congressional candidate of ‘election fraud’ after thousands of ballots were mistakenly sent to his district.”
- “The Governor of Texas quoted an article from a local news outlet on the state’s recent history of voter fraud convictions and claimed that it reveals “Mail ballot vote fraud in Texas.”
- “A conservative pundit accused Twitter of ‘SUPPRESSING’ a story about the Democratic presidential nominee’s son to help the nominee win the election.”
- “A conservative online activist accused Twitter of censoring her posts about voter fraud she is ‘witnessing here in Nevada,’ and expressed her frustration with Twitter’s disclaimers stating that mail-in ballots are secure.”
“Take Wisconsin, where 90 percent of the $10 million CTCL bundled statewide went to 20 cities, all of which voted for Joe Biden,” Hayden Ludwig, former Senior Investigative Researcher with CRC and now Director of Policy Research at Restoration of America, wrote in American Greatness. “Per person, CTCL grants averaged just $0.55 in Trump counties versus $3.75 in Biden counties. That was probably enough to give the state to Biden, considering his margin in Wisconsin was 20,682 votes.”
The post-election reports of millions of “Zuck-Bucks” meddling in the election prompted 27 states to restrict or outright ban election officials from accepting private funds to administer elections. But, as Ludwig writes, CTCL birthed another one of its self-described good government groups, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, to “fortify” our election offices. The group is actually a coalition of “progressive” policy shops, Ludwig writes.
"One of them is the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, a front for the largest “dark money” machine in the world, headed by the infamous Arabella Advisors," Ludwig writes. “Similarly, the Center for Civic Design aims to remake our ballots to make them easier for likely Democratic voters to read—think non-native English speakers, recent immigrants, and DEI-indoctrinated Millennials. Conveniently, it also recommends making vote-by-mail permanent everywhere."
The Biden Administration is only doubling down on its efforts to monitor and censor information not in line with the progressive agenda, and ALF, CRC and other conservative groups could be targeted, according to a recent report by the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
“In the name of combatting alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 election, NSF [National Science Foundation] has been issuing multi-million-dollar grants to university and non-profit research teams,” a statement released by the subcommittee said. “The purpose of these taxpayer-funded projects is to develop AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others.”
“From legal scholars to conservative journalists,” the statement continued, “NSF tracked any public criticism of its work in funding misinformation projects. NSF went so far as to develop a media strategy that considered blacklisting certain American media outlets because they were scrutinizing NSF's funding of censorship and propaganda tools.”