Americans are still largely unaware of a comprehensive executive order that Joe Biden signed earlier in his administration and could win the election in his favour in the months leading up to the 2024 presidential election. New bomb documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reinforce that is exactly the place of the law — and the administration is working in cahoots with remaining- wing activist groups to obtain it.
President Biden signed an” Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting” in March 2021. Difficulty from like-minded but actually nonpartisan nongovernmental organizations cheered the administration’s signing of the directive, which is obviously the brainchild of leftist think-tank Demos.
As I have been reporting at RealClearInvestigations, Executive Order 14019 mandates that every individual federal agency file and organize voters with the express purpose of increasing vote participation among minority groups that tend to vote overwhelmingly Democrat. In order to” solicit ] and facilitate]e ] nonpartisan third-party organizations… to provide voter registration services on agency premises” in order to pursue its objectives, the order directs organizations.
The straight, who believe the leftist organizations that support the order, who may be violating some laws, was coordinate with organizations to implement it, and increase voter registration for Democrats alone, has alarmed with that language.
For an energy may also prove decisive. According to a since-destroyed but archived Demos study, the attempt could result in 3.5 million new or updated vote registrations each year if fully implemented, which is a significant figure given that recent presidential elections have been decided by only a few thousand votes in a few states.
Bombshell Memo
Details from a July 2021 listening session the Department of Justice ( DOJ) conducted with leftist activists about implementing the order, revealed for the first time in a May 1 Oversight Project memo, suggest fears of collusion between federal agencies and leftist activist groups are more than merited. A DOJ lawyer took a number of unredacted information and provided the details.
Biden administration leaders listened to activists ‘ voices largely from the left during those discussions. According to its assessment of the listening program squad, the Oversight Project found that” Every student whose party affiliation or political payment history may be identified by the Oversight Project was identified as a Democrat except for one Green Party part”.
The unnamed Justice Department official referred to some of their recommendations as follows:
- The Sentencing Project’s Keeda Haynes emphasized that those in pretrial custody also have the right to vote, noting that eligible voters who are incarcerated “have been left out of voting.” Haynes proposed a variety of ways the Federal Bureau of Prisons ( BOP) could provide voter registration information during prisoner admission, orientation training, and various other touch points with prison personnel. She also suggested that local authorities “provide in-person voting options, such as voting machines,” at places where “eligible voters” reside. The DOJ attorney recorded that “voter suppression is felony disenfranchisement.”
- Dana Paikowsky of the Campaign Legal Center indicated a desire to “develop infrastructure in jails and prisons and also help people understand their eligibility after they are released”. She stated that her organization was unconcerned with BOP’s focus on ME, VT, and DC voter registration. In Puerto Rico, criminals have the option to cast ballots. In Mississippi, do n’t lose right to vote for federal convictions, and AL also has some eligibility. Those who have been convicted of federal misdemeanors are typically eligible to cast.
- Terry Minnis of Asian Americans Advancing Justice pushed for “voter registration info required at naturalization ceremonies” as well as creating multi-lingual materials for organizations.
- Michelle Bishop of the National Disability Rights Network reportedly called on increasing the access to vote for people in long- term care facilities — without any apparent concern suffering patients could be taken advantage of by partisan operatives.
- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s Nik Youngsmith appeared to understand that noncitizens could vote under the order, noting that” Federal employees need to know who should be properly registered and not.” Do n’t want someone to be held accountable for providing false information when they register.
The documents obtained by the Oversight Project date back to a July 2021 meeting, yet represent something of a major revelation in May 2024. That demonstrates just how secretive this endeavor has been.
Administration collaborating with leftist organizations
Although the Biden administration has stonewalled congressional Republicans over the strategic plans each agency was to develop in accordance with the order, evidence has slowly emerged through primarily conservative media reportage and watchdog groups ‘ Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, suggesting the administration took the groups ‘ suggestions to heart.
In connection with the executive order, BOP “has partnered with and regularly consults on voting issues with the League of Women Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Campaign Legal Center, and the Washington Lawyers ‘ Committee,” according to The Daily Signal in January. A number of these organizations represented by the listening session in July 2021. A BOP spokesman claimed that the bureau had collaborated with these organizations to hold” civics education classes” and “voter registration drives” at various correctional facilities across the country.
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson wrote a letter in March to Attorney General Merrick Garland raising concerns that under Executive Order 14019, the U. S. Marshals Service was being directed to “modify agreements with jails” to mandate that they “provide voter registration materials and facilitate voting by mail”, on top of requiring the DOJ” to facilitate voter registration and mail voting for individuals in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons”. This, in Watson’s opinion, could encourage noncitizens, including illegal aliens, to register to vote without authorization.
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is attempting to register voters for naturalization ceremonies. Other agencies ranging from the Departments of Housing and Urban Development to Labor and Agriculture have also been executing plans to register voters who favor Democrats.
The Foundation for Government Accountability ( FGA ), which sued the Biden administration to find documents and communications related to the order, filed an amicus brief in connection with a federal lawsuit challenging the order brought by 27 Pennsylvania state legislators.
One thing about the federal agencies that FGA has identified as taking active steps to implement EO 14019 is that they offer government welfare benefits and other services to voters who have traditionally voted Democrat.
The House Small Business Committee recently subpoenaed the Small Business Administration ( SBA ) over its stonewalling regarding an agreement the agency came to with all- important swing state Michigan to “promote civic engagement and voter registration” — including through allowing state officials to engage in in- person voter registration efforts at SBA’s business outreach events.
Fox News reported that:” Consistent with the FGA’s brief:
According to a study conducted by the House Small Business Committee, 22 out of 25 of these outreach events took place in counties where the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) target population was highest.
Meanwhile, 11 of 15 Michigan counties that showed the largest , voter , registration , increase over the last year have ranked highest in population of young voters and Black voters, according to the committee — two of the left’s most- sought voting blocs.
This would echoe Democrats ‘ efforts to use nonprofit organizations to achieve the same result as the Biden administration is using the full resources of the federal government to turn out Democrat voters under the ostensibly nonpartisan guise of expanding the franchise to allegedly underrepresented groups. At least one significant Democrat Super PAC has written to donors, as I recently reported at RealClearInvestigations:
501 ( c ) ( 3 ) voter registration focused on underrepresented groups in the electorate would be the’ single most effective tactic for ensuring Democratic victories’ –’ 4 to 10 times more cost- effective’ on after- tax basis at’ garnering additional Democratic votes ‘ relative to alternatives like’ broadcast media and digital buys.’
Democrats ‘ fat cats and dark-money organizations have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to left-leaning, state-based voter registration organizations that target demographics who frequently vote Democrat in crucial states in recent election cycles. These organizations ‘ “nonpartisan” electioneering activities are targeted at populations that are likely to vote blue, which is arguably infringed IRS regulations on charities that engage in political activity.
As reported, at least two recipients of grants under the Everybody Votes Campaign— the left’s preferred vehicle for driving out voters via 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) s — were listed on an email as participants at the July 2021 listening session.
Legal Challenge’s Need for Time
Pennsylvania’s legislative challenge to the Biden administration’s executive order has become more pressing as the election is quickly approaching and the Biden administration’s executive order is being implemented. Several weeks ago a district court judge dismissed the case on standing grounds. The legislators requested that the Supreme Court move the case along with a petition for writ of certiorari on April 23.
The legislators contend that the executive order, which was passed in response to concerns about the influence of” Zuckerbucks,” a private funding of the 2020 election from the Zuckerberg-Chen Foundation, has violated state laws prohibiting the influence of outside organizations in election operations. In their motion urging the Supreme Court to swiftly take up the case, the legislators explain that Congress neither authorized the executive action nor appropriated funding for it, and that Pennsylvania law therefore bars such voter registration activities.
The sponsor’s memo stated that the relevant law must be amended to “explain the necessity of public officials from working with third party non-governmental organizations” to prepare voters, administer elections, or conduct elections in this Commonwealth.
The President, who is also a candidate in the 2024 election, has now facilitated exactly what the legislators sought to prevent through their law-making authority, according to the legislators, who stands to gain from the executive action personally.
Time will tell whether the Supreme Court will hear their case, rule that they do in fact have standing, and thereby give them a chance to seek an injunction that would halt the executive order before voting begins. Even so, a lot of harm will have already been done.
RealClearInvestigations ‘ editor in chief is Ben Weingarten. He is a senior contributor to The Federalist, columnist at Newsweek, and a contributor to the New York Post and Epoch Times, among other publications. Subscribe to his Weingarten newsletter. Follow him on Twitter at @bhweingarten and subscribe to Substack .com.
