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January 22, 2021 (LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 Though Joe Biden was officially sworn in and is already hard at work on a\u00a0hard-left<\/a>\u00a0reset<\/a>\u00a0of American society, he isn\u2019t a duly elected president any more than he was last week. Democrats may have gone through the motions, but the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday didn\u2019t do anything to resolve their wide-ranging crimes that corrupted last year\u2019s presidential race.<\/p>\n The Democrats\u2019 2020 election heist included unlawful mega-grants from Big Tech; extra-statutory, selectively-applied rule changes; and at least one left-wing vote-buying scheme \u2014 little of it remedied in court or otherwise.<\/p>\n Most importantly, as the Amistad Project, an election watchdog,\u00a0unveiled<\/a> late last year, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, improperly injected $400 million into election processes across the country in 2020, largely benefiting Democrats. Grants in swing states tracked by the Amistad Project went almost exclusively to counties won by Hillary Clinton in 2016.<\/p>\n State and local officials in heavily Democratic cities and counties \u201ccontracted with Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make election plans against ones legally provided for by state legislatures under federal statutes,\u201d the Amistad Project\u00a0said in a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from December.<\/p>\n For example, their report outlines how four Wisconsin cities organized their election processes with the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), devising the \u201cWisconsin Safe Election Plan\u201d to receive millions in grant money from the nonprofit. This plan \u201cwas not authored by the state\u201d and \u201cundermines the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), which requires state election plans to be submitted to federal officials and approved,\u201d the Amistad Project noted.<\/p>\n \u201cThe provision of Zuckerberg-CTCL funds allowed these Democrat strongholds to spend roughly $47 per voter, compared to $4 to $7 per voter in traditionally Republican areas of the state,\u201d the group continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThe disparate impact of Zuckerberg funding is also present in the analysis of CTCL funding in Pennsylvania,\u201d the Amistad Project said. Thanks to CTCL, \u201c'[i]n Democrat Delaware County, Pennsylvania, one drop box was placed every four square miles and for every 4,000 voters. In the 59 counties carried by Trump in 2016, there was one drop box for every 1,100 square miles and every 72,000 voters,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n Zuckerberg\u2019s funding further helped swing state Democrats in their quest to override election law through legally unfounded rule-making and voting programs. As the Amistad Project related, CTCL grants \u201callowed Philadelphia to \u2018cure\u2019 absentee ballots in a manner not provided for in Republican areas of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n In October, Pennsylvania\u2019s\u00a0Trump-hating, Soros-backed<\/a>\u00a0secretary of state, Kathryn Boockvar, released\u00a0guidance<\/a>\u00a0claiming that voters with rejected ballots could cast provisional ballots to effectively \u201ccure\u201d their vote. This practice has no reference in\u00a0Pennsylvania’s election code<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0U.S. Constitution<\/a>\u00a0reserves the right to determine \u201c[t]he Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives\u201d to state legislatures and Congress.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the Department of State later instructed counties\u00a0multiple<\/a>\u00a0times<\/a>\u00a0to inspect ballots before the election and to contact voters about flaws. Pennsylvania law\u00a0allows<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe inspection and opening of all envelopes containing official absentee ballots or mail-in ballots\u201d \u2014 which the state classifies as \u201cpre-canvassing\u201d \u2014 \u201cno earlier than seven o\u2019clock A.M. on election day.\u201d<\/p>\n Many Republican counties\u00a0did not adopt<\/a>\u00a0these practices,\u00a0recognizing<\/a>\u00a0them to be illegal<\/a>. Four of the five counties with the most Democratic voters in the state\u00a0did take up the guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n Boockvar and other top Democrats\u00a0undermined<\/a>\u00a0other statutory election safeguards, like the mail-in ballot deadline and postmark requirement. Local officials broke the law in more basic ways,\u00a0openly counting<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0certifying<\/a>\u00a0thousands of undated and unsigned ballots,\u00a0returning<\/a>\u00a0void ballots<\/a>\u00a0back to voters, and\u00a0possibly accepting<\/a>\u00a0ballots without secrecy envelopes.<\/p>\n In Michigan, Democratic state secretary Jocelyn Benson, another\u00a0Soros beneficiary<\/a>,\u00a0sent out<\/a>\u00a0unsolicited ballot applications to all registered voters, though state law\u00a0requires<\/a>\u00a0that absentee ballots be explicitly requested and distributed by clerks. The Michigan Constitution\u00a0reaffirms<\/a>\u00a0the right of the state Legislature over election protocol and highly regulates opportunities for absentee voting.<\/p>\n Benson also created an\u00a0online registration program<\/a>,\u00a0changing<\/a>\u00a0statutory signature requirements for applications. Millions of Michigan\u2019s record-breaking, largely pro-Biden, 3.2 million absentee ballots might have been technically invalid as a result of the secretary\u2019s unilateral initiatives.<\/p>\n Election officials in urban counties of neighboring Wisconsin likewise helped voters circumvent ballot safeguards,\u00a0encouraging<\/a> them to get around voter ID requirements by declaring themselves \u201cindefinitely confined\u201d due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n After state judges ruled against this strategy, the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC)\u00a0impeded<\/a>\u00a0clerks from removing suspect \u201cindefinitely confined\u201d ballot requests. Nearly 216,000 Wisconsin voters said they were indefinitely confined in the 2020 election,\u00a0up 400%<\/a>\u00a0since 2016.<\/p>\n The WEC later\u00a0declined to shut down<\/a>\u00a0early voting events hosted by the City of Madison in more than 200 parks weeks before the start of early in-person voting in Wisconsin. The events, called \u201cDemocracy in the Park,\u201d were\u00a0advertised<\/a>\u00a0by the Biden campaign.<\/p>\n The commission also refused to follow a court order demanding that they purge 234,000 voters flagged as having left the state and\u00a0blocked<\/a>\u00a0qualified left-wing third-party candidates from getting on the ballot and pulling votes from Democrats.<\/p>\n Everywhere they could, Democrats used their power to taint or distort the 2020 election. Minnesota\u2019s Democratic secretary of state unilaterally\u00a0extended<\/a>\u00a0the deadline for mail-in ballots that was codified into law by the state Legislature. Majority-Democratic election boards changed the\u00a0statutory ballot deadline<\/a>\u00a0in North Carolina and\u00a0postmark requirements<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia.<\/p>\n Democrats sued<\/a>\u00a0the Republican secretary of state of Georgia to sign a decree purporting to overhaul signature requirements weeks before the primaries. Again in Pennsylvania, the Democratic governor\u2019s administration\u00a0tried to cover up<\/a>\u00a0evidence of illegal aliens voting ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n In Nevada, an American Indian get-out-the-vote campaign called Native Vote Project\u00a0sponsored raffles<\/a>\u00a0for voters, offering thousands of dollars in gift cards and other prizes. A pro-Biden activist appears to have organized the raffles, in\u00a0one video<\/a>\u00a0offering prizes to voters who sent in pictures of their absentee ballots.<\/p>\n Similar programs\u00a0took place<\/a>\u00a0in at least eight other states. The Trump campaign sued over this obvious vote-buying scheme, but a Nevada judge\u00a0dismissed<\/a>\u00a0the case.<\/p>\n Democrats\u2019 corruption ran even more rampant when they didn\u2019t have to worry about competition. As Republican members the House Oversight committee\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0in December, former California secretary of state and newly appointed U.S. senator Alex Padilla awarded a seemingly illegal multi-million dollar contract to a Biden-linked firm last year.<\/p>\n \u201cEarlier this year, Secretary Padilla awarded a $35 million no-bid contract to SKD Knickerbocker, Joe Biden\u2019s main election campaign advisory firm,\u201d the congressmen\u2019s statement reads.<\/p>\n \u201cDocuments obtained<\/a>\u00a0by Oversight Republicans appear to show that the Secretary of State\u2019s Office attempted to inappropriately fund the contract with federal Help America Vote Act money from the CARES Act to target specific voters and encourage voting, which is a violation of the law,\u201d the press release states.<\/p>\n Elections in\u00a0New<\/a>\u00a0York<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0New<\/a>\u00a0Jersey<\/a>\u00a0apparently weren\u2019t much cleaner.<\/p>\n In state after state, Democrats put the lie to the claim that America had a \u201cfree and fair\u201d election last year. Accordingly, for the first time in at least modern history, three-quarters of the opposition party remains convinced that the chief White House occupant isn\u2019t really the president.<\/p>\n While Democrats and their allies may continue to\u00a0blacklist Republicans<\/a>, denigrate them with comparisons to\u00a0Nazis<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0al-Qaeda<\/a>,\u00a0jeopardize their employment<\/a>,\u00a0purge them from social media<\/a>,\u00a0investigate them for their political beliefs<\/a>,\u00a0threaten to spy on them<\/a>, and do whatever else they need to do to keep power, they won\u2019t change reality. For Biden to be the president of the United States, he has to legally win an election first.<\/p>\n