Wyoming’s votes chief is sounding the alarm that a left-wing party renowned for its 2020 election antics is attempting to influence the state’s 2024 challenge, The Federalist has learned.
Secretary of State Chuck Gray warned the Cowboy State weeks before the Nov. 5 election that the Center for Tech and Civic ( CTCL ) has a foothold in the Cowboy State in a letter sent to county clerks on October 2.
” I have severe problems with CTCL’s presence and with its call of state clerks”, Gray wrote.
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, CTCL is one of two organizations that dumped hundreds of millions of dollars from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into local election agencies. These” Zuckbucks” were used to grow unsecure election procedures and heavily skewed toward Democrat-majority regions, essentially making it a large, privately funded Democrat get-out-the-vote activity.
Wyoming is one of two states ( the other being West Virginia ) that did not appear to have received any” Zuckbucks” during the 2020 election cycle, according to the Capital Research Center.
In his letter, Gray told Wyoming staff he was “deeply troubled” to know of CTCL’s appearance “at the Wyoming Association of County Officers gathering in Rock Springs next week”, and that the group’s appearance at the occasion “only demonstrates that they are targeting Wyoming” ahead of the 2024 election. He particularly expressed his concern with the announcement of the” 2024 Rural and Nonmetro Election Infrastructure Grants” by CTCL.
As my colleague Logan Washburn reported, the new , program’s grants , are directed at “eligible remote and nonmetro election offices” and” can be used for’ key people, natural, and industrial assets ‘ the Department of Homeland Security considers’ necessary to conduct elections.'” The offers were provided to state where it is acceptable to fund private elections.
While arguably one of the “reddest” areas in the country, Wyoming has failed to follow the lead of 28 different states in banning or restricting the use of” Zuckbucks” in primaries. In a separate letter from last year, Gray requested that Wyoming’s legislatures quickly pass legislation to ban private election money during the country’s 2024 funds program.
While the GOP-controlled House Corporations Committee voted to board the estimate in an apparent act of retaliation by the GOP formation against members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus earlier this year, despite receiving majority assistance during its introduction.
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Gray noted in his Oct. 2 statement that Republican legislators ‘ failure to pass a” Zuckbucks” restriction into laws, combined with CTCL’s “evolving methods”, makes Wyoming “particularly susceptible” for election meddling by private companies. He also raised questions about “funding streams linked to possible international actors,” quite as Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss federal who has dumped cash into American elections through left-wing black money groups.
Wyoming’s current vulnerability and CTCL’s troubling presence “demystify the need for continuing vigilance and the need to take action to ban these groups attempting to influence our elections,” Gray wrote in support of legislation that would ban the private funding of election administration. ” Should any third-party entity or organization solicit county clerks to fund election administration, I ask that you please notify me immediately for further investigation”.
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The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood