{"id":37231,"date":"2020-11-18T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37231"},"modified":"2020-11-18T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:39:07","slug":"heres-why-so-many-secretaries-of-state-colluded-to-fix-the-vote-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37231","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why so many Secretaries of State colluded to fix the vote against Trump!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2006 George Soros Funded a Project to Elect Progressive Liberals to Secretary of State Offices — Now You Know Why<\/h1>\n

By Shipwreckedcrew<\/p>\n

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The \u201cSecretary of State Project\u201c<\/b>\u00a0was an American non-profit, progressive 527 political action committee focused on electing reform-minded progressive Secretaries of State in battleground states,<\/sup>\u00a0who typically oversee the election process. The Project was funded by\u00a0George Soros\u00a0and members of the\u00a0Democracy Alliance.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>In 2008, Democrat House Organ\u00a0Politico ran a story<\/a>\u00a0about the Obama campaign, calling the Secretaries of State the \u201cDemocrat firewall.\u201d<\/p>\n

In anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election,\u00a0Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The bulwark consists of control of secretary of state offices in five key states\u00a0\u2014 Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio\u00a0\u2014 where the difference between victory and defeat in the 2004 presidential election was no more than 120,000 votes in any one of them.<\/p>\n

With a Democrat now in charge of the offices,\u00a0<\/strong>which oversee and administer their state\u2019s elections, the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance traditional Democratic interests \u2014such as increasing voter registration and boosting turnout \u2014 rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 a development that could benefit Barack Obama if any of those states are closely contested on Election Day.<\/p>\n

The effort began in 2006 when a group of liberal California activists created an independent 527 group designed to elect secretaries of state.<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State Project ran independent ads of its own and ensured that donors \u2014 many of whom were affiliated with\u00a0Democracy Alliance<\/strong>, a network of wealthy fundraisers that channels money to liberal causes across the country \u2014 knew which candidates deserved donations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Members of the Democracy Alliance are required to contribute at least $200,000 a year to groups the Democracy Alliance vets and recommends. As of 2014, the Alliance had helped distribute approximately $500 million to liberal organizations since its founding in 2005. Members of the Democracy Alliance include billionaires\u00a0George Soros\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Steyer.<\/sup>\u00a0In 2017 and 2018 alone, Democracy Alliance Members spent $600 million on various liberal causes.<\/sup><\/p>\n

The President of Democracy Alliance is\u00a0Gene LeMarche<\/a>, a long-time Soros friend.<\/p>\n

Before joining Atlantic in 2007, he served as Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Foundations (OSF), launching the organization\u2019s pivotal work on challenges to social justice and democracy in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a\u00a0link to the Board<\/a>\u00a0of Democracy Alliance, the Chairman of which, John Stocks, is a Senior Advisor to the NEA \u2014 the nation\u2019s largest union representing 3 million teachers.<\/p>\n

The Secretary of State Project is said in some places to have folded, but the goal and efforts of groups like the Democracy Alliance went on unabated.\u00a0 Note that an early success of the Project was getting liberal Democrat Mark Ritchie elected as Minnesota Secretary of State in 2006.\u00a0 Ritchie then used his authority as Secretary of State to keep the vote count open in the razor-close contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken in 2008.\u00a0 On November 14, 2008, two weeks after the election, with all the votes counted Coleman looked to be the winner by 215 votes.\u00a0 A mandatory hand-recount of all ballots then took place, and with a willing Ritchie overseeing the effort, canvassing boards in liberal Minnesota decided that nearly 1000 absentee ballots had been wrongly rejected as part of the initial vote count, and when those ballots were included, Al Franken, and not Norm Coleman, was certified as the winner by Ritchie.<\/p>\n

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So let\u2019s pause to consider the two individuals who are the Secretaries of State in Michigan and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The Michigan Secretary of State is Jocelyn Benson, a 43-year-old Harvard educated attorney.\u00a0 Noteworthy is a professional life of liberal and progressive activism on voting rights issues.<\/p>\n

Before going to law school, Benson earned a Master\u2019s at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom, conducting research into the sociological implications of white supremacy and neo-Nazism.\u00a0 Upon returning to the US, she lived and worked in Montgomery, Alabama, where she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center as an investigative journalist, researching white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations. She also worked as a summer associate for voting rights and election law for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.<\/p>\n

At Harvard Law School she was editor of the\u00a0Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review<\/i>.\u00a0 From 2002\u20132004, she served as the Voting Rights Policy Coordinator of the Harvard\u00a0Civil Rights Project, a non-profit organization that sought to link academic research to civil rights advocacy efforts.<\/p>\n

When elected in 2018, she became the first Democrat to occupy the Secretary of State\u2019s Office in Michigan since 1994.<\/p>\n

It was in Detroit where election observers were kept at a distance, and their ability to watch the vote counting was obscured by paper placed in windows.<\/p>\n