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Election integrity watchdog calls on WI lawmakers to investigate Wisconsin 5’
Group describes how five cities invited unlawful private meddling in 2020 elections MADISON, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ An attorney for The Amistad Project, the leading election integrity watchdog, is delivering testimony today before the Wisconsin State Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections. Erick Kaardal will brief lawmakers on complaints he has filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) on behalf of residents of Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay, as well as forthcoming complaints against Milwaukee and Madison. The complaints detail how those cities – collectively known as the “Wisconsin 5” – received roughly $6.3 million in election funding from a private organization, the left-leaning Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). In exchange, they accepted outside conditions governing the administration of their
Election integrity watchdog calls on WI lawmakers to investigate Wisconsin 5’
Group describes how five cities invited unlawful private meddling in 2020 elections MADISON, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES, May 6, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ An attorney for The Amistad Project, the leading election integrity watchdog, is delivering testimony today before the Wisconsin State Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections. Erick Kaardal will brief lawmakers on complaints he has filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) on behalf of residents of Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay, as well as forthcoming complaints against Milwaukee and Madison. The complaints detail how those cities – collectively known as the “Wisconsin 5” – received roughly $6.3 million in election funding from a private organization, the left-leaning Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). In exchange, they accepted outside conditions governing the administration of their
5 May 2021
The Republican-controlled Louisiana House of Representatives voted 69 to 35 on Tuesday to ban the private funding of election administration in the state. The bill now goes to the Louisiana State Senate for consideration.
Several states, including Arizona, Georgia, and Idaho have recently enacted laws to ban the private funding of election administration. The Florida State Legislature passed a bill banning the private funding of election administration last week, and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is expected to sign that bill into law this week.
The language of House Bill 20, the bill passed on Tuesday by the Louisiana House, most closely resembles the language of the recently enacted Arizona law, which Phill Kline, executive director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm, says is by far the strongest of the laws enacted so far in 2021 to ban the private funding of election administration:
27 Apr 2021
Gov. Brad Little (R-ID) signed a bill into law on Thursday that is designed to ban the private funding of election administration in Idaho.
But Phill Kline, executive director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm, told Breitbart News the new Idaho law misses the mark in a major way.
“The law fails in that it actually allows exactly what occurred in 2020, creating a two-tiered election system favoring one voter demographic over the other. In 2020 all of this private money flowed through city and county local appropriations, or through the Secretary of State in several states,” Kline told Breitbart News.