Some Republican-led states have joined forces to try to quit the Biden administration’s taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote equipment to choose Democrats.  ,
However, much of the damage from” Bidenbucks” may already be done with less than three weeks until early voting  starts and a contentious ballot collection season kicks off.  ,
Giant Vote Participation Device
On Tuesday, lawyers basic from nine says— Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota— filed a federal complaint asking a U. S. district judge in Wichita, Kansas, to shut down an executive order that is using governmental agencies to file and organize left-leaning voters, with the assistance of White House-approved communist organizations. The complaint asserts that the Biden administration has usurped the appropriation authority of Congress by not granting the executive branch the authority to finance the unheard of GOTV initiative.  ,
” We wo n’t sit back and let the federal government become a massive voter turn-up machine for Democrats.” In an interview this week, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told me,” We’re going to make sure you follow the law.” You have a far greater executive branch than what has been given to them. This is something that’s never been done before at the federal level” . ,
That’s because, as the AGs argue in the federal lawsuit,  , the executive branch cannot “take money Congress allocated and reuse it for improper purposes”. And they must do so without adhering to the laws that establish rules set forth by Congress. Biden and crew also ca n’t encroach on the state’s sovereign rights over the administration of elections, including registering voters.  ,
According to the lawsuit,” President Biden has attempted to turn the federal bureaucracy into a voter registration organization and to turn every interaction between a federal bureaucrat and a member of the public into a voter registration pitch.” ” That exceeds any authority executive entities have under federal law, violates the Constitution, threatens States ‘ attempt to regulate voter registration, and thus ultimately undermines the voter registration systems set up by the States” . ,
In doing so, the states charge, Biden’s Executive Order 14019, signed at the beginning of his term, turns federal agencies into” a voter-registration outfit to register voters for State and local elections as well as federal elections”.
Building on the Pennsylvania Complaint
Similar to Pennsylvania state lawmakers ‘ legal battles, the lawsuit is. The U.S. Supreme Court declared it would not consider the appeal until it returned in late September, ending its most recent term without considering the challenge. By that point, early voting will be well underway in many states, and Election Day will be in less than a month.  ,
Pennsylvania State Representative in charge. Dawn Keefer, the lawsuit alleges the executive order violates the state’s constitutional right to establish the time, place, and manner of elections. Further, it contends that the federalization of voter registration “violates the state legislature’s constitutional rights” under the Electors Clause and the Elections Clause.
Critics of the executive order call it” Bidenbucks”, a nod to” Zuckbucks”, the hundreds of millions of dollars Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg poured into local elections — particularly the all-important swing states — in the 2020 election. The funds were used primarily to turn out left-leaning voters in Democrat-led cities, ostensibly to promote safe elections during the pandemic.  ,
As The Federalist has reported, Bidenbucks is making Zuckbucks look like chump change. The administration refuses to turn over requested documents about the initiative because no one in Congress is aware of how much taxpayers are to be held accountable. We are aware that the leftist group Demos pushed Biden’s legally questionable executive order.  ,
The day Biden signed the Executive Order, Demos wrote on Twitter ( now X ) that “it represents a significant step forward on an initiative that Demos promoted as a priority for the Biden-Harris administration during the presidential transition” and that “has been a focal point of our work for years.”  ,
‘ Overt Political Activities ‘ ,
The multi-state lawsuit details several ways that Bidenbucks is influencing the election. For instance, the U.S. Department of the Treasury stated that direct deposit campaigns for people who receive Social Security, Veterans Affairs, and other federal benefits would include “information about registration and voter participation.” The Internal Revenue Service encourages its Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication ( SPEC ) partners to “provide]voter registration ] information to taxpayers at their local VITA/TCE sites either during the filing season or throughout the year” . ,
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, meanwhile,” will communicate with public housing authorities ( PHAs ) — more than 3000 authorities, managing approximately 1.2 million public housing units”. Friendship letters will provide “useful information to PHAs about permissible ways to inform residents of non-partisan voter registration information and services.”
Under the weight of the facts, any pretense of a “non-partisan” voter registration initiative crumbles: Bidenbucks is targeting traditional Democrat voters, and leftist organizations are collaborating with federal agencies to turn out the voters. There’s not a conservative group in the mix assisting in the effort, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.  ,
According to Knudsen, Bidenbucks is kept under control by Montana’s conservative majority in both the state legislature and the executive branch. However, swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania, which are left-led states, are welcoming the federal-led GOTV initiative with open arms.  ,
” When you walk into the Federal Housing Administration, you’re not there to sign up and make sure they got your voter registration, too”, the attorney general said. ” This is more of the overt political activities of the Biden administration leading up to an election, just like student loan forgiveness, designed to drive out a vote and try to get]Vice President ] Kamala Harris” elected president.  ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
