WASHINGTON — The same institutions and officials who spent years assuring the public that large-scale Somali-linked NGO and daycare fraud in Minnesota was either nonexistent or exaggerated are the same voices that declared the 2020 election free of meaningful tampering. In Minnesota, federal prosecutions later documented hundreds of millions in fraudulent claims funneled through nonprofits that had received public funds and political protection. Early dismissals of the scale of that fraud came from the same class of state agencies, federal partners, and media outlets that, in November 2020, issued blanket statements that voting systems had not been compromised and that private funding of election operations raised no structural concerns. The pattern is consistent: an initial institutional denial followed by delayed, partial documentation.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan contributed approximately $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life. The nonprofit distributed the money as COVID-19 response grants to roughly 2,500 local election offices. Many of the largest awards went to urban jurisdictions and financed additional staff, equipment, and ballot drop boxes. The grants were legal. Their concentration, the operational conditions attached to some awards, and the subsequent collection practices have never been subjected to a single federal inquiry with subpoena authority. The officials who oversaw or defended those arrangements are, in several states, the same offices that later minimized the scope of nonprofit fraud until federal charges forced the record into court.
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos has testified under oath that no evidence of systemic vote deletion or switching exists and that his company has no foreign ownership ties of the kind alleged in 2020. Those statements are on the record. So are the machine logs, configuration files, and chain-of-custody gaps that multiple state audits were not given full access to examine. A renewed federal review under current Department of Justice leadership can place the CTCL grant agreements, the drop-box placements, and the complete Dominion production record under one set of investigators who were not the original certifiers. The paper exists. The prior assurances came from the same institutional sources that described the Minnesota nonprofit cases as isolated or overstated until the indictments arrived. Both records can be examined again without reopening settled court findings on the final tallies. The question is whether the present officials will request the documents the previous ones declined to compel.
— Josiah Hale, WAA1776
References
- https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/17/irs-filing-confirms-zuckerberg-grantee-spent-332-million-for-local-election-administration-in-2020/
- https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/15/dominion-voting-ceo-antrim-county/3906017001/
- https://www.apmreports.org/story/2020/12/07/private-grant-money-chan-zuckerburg-election
