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The “Secretary of State Project“ was an American non-profit, progressive 527 political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State in battleground states, who typically oversee the election process. The Project was funded by George Soros and members of the Democracy Alliance.
Members of the Democracy Alliance are required to contribute at least $200,000 a year to groups the Democracy Alliance vets and recommends. Two very well known names are members of the organization; George Soros and Tim Styer.
In 2008, the Obama Campaign named Secretaries of States the “Democrat firewall.”
Politico ran a story saying the following,
“In anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election, Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states.
The bulwark consists of control of secretary of state offices in five key states — Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio — where the difference between victory and defeat in the 2004 presidential election was no more than 120,000 votes in any one of them.
With a Democrat now in charge of the offices, which oversee and administer their state’s elections, the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance traditional Democratic interests —such as increasing voter registration and boosting turnout — rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud.
Perhaps more important, in those five states Democrats are now in a more advantageous position when it comes to the interpretation and administration of election law — a development that could benefit Barack Obama if any of those states are closely contested on Election Day.
The effort began in 2006 when a group of liberal California activists created an independent 527 group designed to elect secretaries of state.
The Secretary of State Project ran independent ads of its own and ensured that donors — many of whom were affiliated with Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy fundraisers that channels money to liberal causes across the country — knew which candidates deserved donations.”
Two of the most prominent states in contention are Michigan and Pennsylvania.
The Secretary of State in Michigan, Jocelyn Benson, has a track record of progressive activism, leaning heavily in the area of voting. She was elected in 2018 and the first DemonRat in the position since 1984.
Detroit is where election observers were kept at a distance. Their ability to watch vote counting was obscured by paper placed over the windows.
The Pennsylvania Secretary of State is Katherine Bookvar — also elected in 2018. Are we able to believe there a “free and fair” election in Philadelphia in the hands of a woman who said the following about him only 6 weeks after he took office in 2017.
“Using the title ‘President’ before the word ‘Trump’ really demeans the office of the presidency…”
This is the playbook for how DemonRat political machines generate vote totals. The political leadership has no interest in respecting the legitimate right to vote. Further, they have no problem with validly cast votes being canceled out by invalidly cast votes.
This is a prime example of how not completing research on candidates in state/city/county elections will adversely impact voters. Down ballot candidates can, and does, have serious implications.