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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">alex a cmd</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">an “Academy” for state lawmakers on voter suppression strategies run by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in July featured a veritable who’s who of the right-wing leaders behind this year’s disinformation campaign about voter fraud and assaults on voting rights across the country,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21109009-alec-hep-2021-voter-suppression-academy-agenda" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">documents</a>&nbsp;obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) show.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While the <b>July 26-28 session was ostensibly led by the dark money group&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Honest_Elections_Project" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Honest Elections Project</a>, it was organized, hosted, and bankrolled by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alecexposed.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">ALEC</a>, despite repeated claims by its CEO, Lisa Nelson, that the group does not work on voting issues.</b></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nelson provided the formal welcome at the conference’s opening session, ALEC staff organized turnout, and ALEC provided two nights of accommodations at the five-star Grand America Hotel, five meals, and a $450 travel reimbursement for attendees<span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span>&nbsp;ALEC’s annual meeting was held at the same hotel immediately after the Academy.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21016587-alecs-sarah-walls-invite-to-honest-election-projets-academy?responsive=1&title=1" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">invite</a>&nbsp;published by CMD in July stated that “13 legislators from across the country” would be in attendance, but the materials acquired by CMD do not include an attendance list.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rather than email materials to ALEC lawmakers that may be subject to open records laws, ALEC distributed hard copies of the agenda at registration along with a “zip drive containing a resources document and a one-pager on your state’s election policies,” according to an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21108989-alecs-sarah-walls-email-to-academy-attendeespdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">email</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;from <b>Sarah Wall, ALEC’s manager of legislative outreach and coalitions,</b> obtained by CMD.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Wall’s email also lists Michael Bowman, president of ALEC Action, as a key contact for the event.</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nelson tipped her hand about ALEC’s voter suppression subterfuge in May at a meeting of the far-right Council for National Policy.&nbsp;<a href="https://youtu.be/DFRsAiiXyic" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Video</a>&nbsp;of the event obtained by CMD shows Nelson speaking frankly about ALEC’s work on voting and revealing its plans to outsource model policy on the controversial topic to avert the spotlight. “We don’t have model policy. We will be developing that at the Honest Elections Project [Academy], through them<span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">,”</span>&nbsp;Nelson said.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Honest Elections Project, the group ALEC chose to carry the ball on its voting agenda, is a dark money operation formed in February 2020 to push for voting restrictions and spread&nbsp;<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/leonard-leo-federalist-society-voter-fraud.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">baseless and dangerous claims</a>&nbsp;about election fraud, laying the groundwork for Trump’s attempt to overturn the election. It is a project of The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_85_Fund" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">85 Fund</a>, the new legal name for the Judicial Education Project, a group linked to<span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leonard_Leo" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="s3" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Leonard Leo</span></a></span>&nbsp;that played a central role in Trump’s effort to pack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speakers at the Academy featured many of the key strategists and leaders on the Right spreading misinformation around voter fraud, promoting Trump’s lies around the 2020 election, and pushing sweeping new voting restrictions.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita</b> gave the keynote address. A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/02/17/twitter-backtracks-indiana-ag-todd-rokitas-election-fraud-tweet/6779212002/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">proponent</a>&nbsp;of Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Rokita recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-ag-rokita-opposes-strengthened-voting-rights-act-in-senate-testimony" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">testified</a>&nbsp;in front of the U.S. Senate against strengthening the federal Voting Rights Act.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rokita was one of only four state attorneys general to not sign a National Association of Attorneys General&nbsp;<a href="https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-ag-todd-rokita-defends-choice-not-to-sign-national-ag-group-letter-condemning-capitol-insurrection,-violence.php" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">letter</a>&nbsp;condemning the Jan. 6 violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Attorneys_General_Association" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Attorneys General Association</a>&nbsp;(RAGA). RAGA was a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/01/11/republican-ags-forever-tied-to-violent-pro-trump-insurrection/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">member</a>&nbsp;of the “March to Save America” coalition that organized the Jan. 6 rally, and its policy arm,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rule_of_Law_Defense_Fund" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Rule of Law Defense Fund</a>, sent out robocalls urging supporters to “<a href="https://documented.net/reporting/republican-attorneys-general-dark-money-group-organized-protest-preceding-capitol-mob-attack" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal</a><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.”</span></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Agenda Focused on Election Legislation</font></span></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most of the Academy sessions focused on legislation, giving legislators a chance to discuss bills to restrict voting that have already been introduced and passed in their states this year and hear from Republican-aligned leaders about what more they think needs to be done.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By the time ALEC held its voter suppression Academy in July, 18 states had already passed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-july-2021" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">30 laws</a>&nbsp;this year making it harder to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honest Elections Project’s Executive Director Jason Snead, who worked with ALEC to organize the event, laid out “priorities for election integrity across the states” and polling results in a breakfast session and appeared on another panel on how to “shore up” legislative control over election processes with Jason Torchinsky and Lee Goodman.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honest Elections Project has aggressively promoted a radical legal theory called the “<a href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/27/beware-the-independent-state-legislatures-doctrine--it-could-checkmate-democracy/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">independent state legislatures doctrine</a><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">,”</span>&nbsp;which holds that state courts don’t have the authority to review state election laws and would empower heavily gerrymandered state legislatures to determine election outcomes.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican legislators have already introduced and passed bills in 2021 “interfering with nonpartisan local election administration and consolidating power to administer and determine elections results themselves,” the Voting Rights Lab&nbsp;<a href="https://votingrightslab.org/a-threat-to-our-democracy-election-subversion-in-the-2021-legislative-session/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Snead is a former senior policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation where he developed its Election Fraud Database, which the Brennan Center for Justice says “<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/heritage-fraud-database-assessment" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">grossly exaggerated</a>” the extent of voter fraud.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Torchinsky</b> is general counsel for the National Republican Redistricting Trust and has been defending ALEC against CMD’s state&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/26/watchdogs-filing-complaints-in-15-states-against-alec-for-illegal-campaign-scheme/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">complaints</a>&nbsp;alleging that ALEC illegally gave sophisticated voter management campaign software linked to the Republican National Committee&nbsp;to its legislative members.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goodman is an elections attorney and a former Republican chairman and commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) between 2013 and 2018.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action, and Ken Blackwell, executive director of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/09/14/trump-die-hards-launch-maga-voter-suppression-center/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">MAGA voter suppression center</a>&nbsp;at America First Policy Institute led another legislative session on “securing absentee ballots.”<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anderson&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">bragged to Heritage donors</a>&nbsp;in April that policies, “severely restricting mail ballot drop boxes” and “preventing election officials from sending absentee ballot request forms to voters” were among recommendations Heritage gave Georgia for its massive voter suppression bill.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Blackwell’s</b>&nbsp;<span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Center for&nbsp;</span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Election</span><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;Integrity</span>&nbsp;recently published a “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21108981-afpis-top-25-common-sense-state-election-integrity-reforms" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Top 25 Common-Sense State Election Integrity Reforms</a>” fact sheet that includes these Heritage recommendations alongside other extreme voter suppression wish-list items, such as eliminating no-excuse absentee ballots and requiring an affidavit for absentee applications.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blackwell also moderated a panel at the Academy with state legislators “discussing election challenges they’ve faced in their own states.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another panel over breakfast covered “things to consider with implementation of laws” related to election day voter registration, “election observer protections,” and organizing seniors to work the polls. Chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Donald Palmer, a Trump appointee, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cleta_Mitchell" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Cleta Mitchell</a>, chair of the Conservative Partnership Institute’s Election Integrity Network<span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">,</span>&nbsp;led the session.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mitchell is a Big Lie fueler and Trump legal advisor who lost her job at Foley & Lardner following news that she participated in a January call in which Trump asked Georgia election officials to “find” enough votes to make him the winner of the state’s electoral votes.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“On Dec. 30, Cleta Mitchell </b>wrote to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and offered to send some 1,800 pages of documents purporting to support claims of election fraud,”&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Washington Post Magazine&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/?itid=a" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a>. Meadows is now a colleague of Mitchell’s at the Conservative Partnership Institute.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three Republican secretaries of state, Tennessee’s Tre Hargett, Kentucky’s Michael Adams, and West Virginia’s Mac Warner, spoke on a panel about “what policies the states need to employ to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Easier to vote and harder to cheat” has been a favored talking point of Republicans in recent years.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All three are active in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Secretaries_of_State_Committee" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Secretaries of State Committee</a>&nbsp;(RSSC), with Hargett serving as chair and Adams as vice chair. Republican secretaries of state produced a report on “<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21040992-republican-secretaries-of-state-commission-election-integrity-best-practices" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Best Practices for Making It Easier to Vote and Harder to Cheat</a>” for the Republican State Leadership Committee, obtained by CMD.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The RSSC holds&nbsp;<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21108979-republican-secretaries-of-state-committee-february-conference-call-minutes" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">monthly calls</a>&nbsp;that Commissioner Palmer often attends. Secretary Warner and Palmer also participated in an “off-the-record” Election University session on June 21 as part of the U.S. House GOP’s “Faith in Elections Project,” as first&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/26/house-gop-launches-faith-in-elections-project/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a>&nbsp;by CMD.</font></p><h2 class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC Lawmakers Consider Litigation</font></span></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ALEC’s Academy featured two panels on litigation. The first dealt with “anticipating challenges to the Voting Rights Act in Arizona,” legal challenges mounted by Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias, and redistricting fights, and was led by with Republican lawyers Torchinsky, Michael Thielen, and Brian Barnes.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thielen is the executive director of the Republican National Lawyers Association and served on the national board of Lawyers for Trump in 2020. Barnes was involved in legal challenges to changes in voting procedures in North Carolina and Pennsylvania last fall.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goodman and Utah’s former Solicitor General Tyler Green led the second panel on “operationalizing litigation challenges.” Noted in the description of the panel are “ways to challenge the scope of litigation attacks on new election integrity legislation (defense) as well as advance the ball on election integrity (offense).”</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of Oct. 3, “at least 43 voting cases have been filed in 12 states, and Georgia and Texas lead the way with ten new lawsuits each in 2021,” the Brennan Center&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-rights-litigation-tracker-2021" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span></font></p><h2 class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 10px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Training Sessions on “the Left”</font></span></h2><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two trainings focused on “the Left” filled out the remaining agenda at the ALEC Academy. Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow and manager of the Heritage Foundation’s “Election Reform Initiative,” and Ken Cuccinelli</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, former Trump staffer and chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, led a session focused on “the Left’s attack on our election system” through “state-level attacks on election integrity legislation” and HR 1, the sweeping voting rights and campaign reform bill pending in Congress.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spakovsky, who was appointed by Trump to his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/03/575524512/trump-dissolves-controversial-election-commission" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">ill-fated</a>&nbsp;Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity, has been a major mouthpiece of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-voter-fraud-myth" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">voter fraud myth</a>&nbsp;from the Right for well over a decade.</font></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 3.6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>President of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Capital_Research_Center" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">Capital Research Center</a>&nbsp;Scott Walter gave the keynote for a “Mapping the Left Lunch.</b>” Walter and CRC received funding from the Bradley Foundation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/12/20/influence-watch-website-launched-berman-alec-heartland-copy-cmds-sourcewatch-org-site/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: inherit; background: 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">to develop</a><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>an “Online Encyclopedia of the Left<span class="s2" style="box-sizing: inherit;">,”</span>&nbsp;inspired by CMD’s SourceWatch, called “Influence Watch.” The site was “constructed in partnership with Berman and Company,” run by PR spin doctor Richard Berman, and in collaboration with ALEC.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April&nbsp;6,&nbsp;2020</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALEC</span>, represented by&nbsp;Lisa B. Nelson, and&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">ALEC</span>&nbsp;Action, represented by Michael Bowman, were&nbsp;signatory to an&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200602002605/https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CAFE-Coaliton-to-Trump-April-2020-9.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener external noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">American Energy Alliance letter</a>&nbsp;to President Donald Trump supporting the&nbsp;Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SAFE</span>) Vehicles Rule which would scrap federal fuel economy mandates under&nbsp;the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CAFE</span>) program.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council/#s105" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[105]</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Describing&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">CAFE</span>, the letter contends: “Those families and individuals who prefer or need trucks,&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box;">SUV</span>s, and crossovers pay more to subsidize those who buy smaller vehicles or electric vehicles under the existing mandate. This significant, needless, and unjust cost is a very real regressive tax on American families that has made our country worse off.”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council/#s105" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">[105]</a></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1/24</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><div class="wysiwyg l-constrain--medium has-space-below wow fadeIn" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; animation-name: fadeIn; animation-duration: 1s; animation-fill-mode: both; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 54.7059em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 2.05882rem !important;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">d<a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/document/arizona-senate-communications-regarding-select-members-participation-in-an-election-integrity-phone-call" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">ocuments</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;obtained by American Oversight and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/maga-emails-arizona-trump-2020-election-1287447/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">reported on by&nbsp;</span><i style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Rolling Stone</span></i></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;reveal that in<b>&nbsp;early December 2020, election-denying activists pushed Arizona state legislators to use untested technology to scan and toss out “invalid” ballots, thus handing the state’s electoral votes to then-President Donald Trump.&nbsp;</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The emails, sent days before members of the Electoral College were set to cast their votes for president, also included members of Trump’s legal and campaign team and appear to be a precursor to the discredited “audit” of Maricopa County ballots that the Arizona Senate would later launch. Many of the emails were sent by</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/election-denier-phil-waldrons-communications-with-arizona-senate-leaders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>Phil Waldron</b></span></a><b><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the retired Army colonel who shared a&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/us/politics/capitol-attack-meadows-powerpoint.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">PowerPoint</span></a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>&nbsp;outlining measures for overturning the 2020 election results with Trump allies and congressional offices in the days before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.</b>&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/election-denier-phil-waldrons-communications-with-arizona-senate-leaders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Text messages</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;previously uncovered by American Oversight indicated that Senate President Karen Fann had consulted with Waldron prior to hiring the inexperienced firm Cyber Ninjas to conduct the “audit.”</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Included on Waldron’s emails to Arizona lawmakers were&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/01/politics/bernard-kerik-documents-january-6-committee/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Bernard Kerik</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, an adviser to Trump’s legal team and an ally of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as former Trump administration official&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/03/steve-bannon-donald-trump-michael-flynn-politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Emily Newman</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;and Trump campaign lawyer&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-trump-stop-the-steal/2021/07/12/79e58a02-e320-11eb-934f-7e6c1927f261_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Jenna Ellis</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, both of whom&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/25/why-detroit-judge-sanctioning-9-lawyers-michigan-election-lawsuit/5595666001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">were involved</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/10/trump-lawyer-pence-biden-524088" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">in advancing baseless voter-fraud claims</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;and lawsuits seeking to overturn results.&nbsp;</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">On Dec. 8, 2020, Waldron sent an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21185297-arizona-senate-communications-regarding-select-members-participation-in-an-election-integrity-phone-call#document/p424" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">email</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;to state Rep.&nbsp;</span></b><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2021/03/12/mark-finchem-promises-he-will-bring-election-fraud-proof-to-arizona-attorney-general-but-has-not/6941766002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b>Mark Finchem</b></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">—</span></span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/06/02/mark-finchem-was-much-closer-to-the-jan-6-insurrection-than-he-claimed/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">vocal Trump supporter</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;and major proponent of false voter-fraud claims — that included a “base research doc” on Arizona voting data. Kerik and Ellis were copied on the email, along with&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Russell Ramsland</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">, the co-founder of Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), which was behind that month’s debunked&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20423772-antrim-county-forensics-report?fbclid=IwAR2wFq0ijMYX5OAF3fyjWuFcKX_R0g_Y5q_QO46MDL3YEBgyab-uKkuj2hY" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">report</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;on election fraud in Antrim County, Mich. Lawyer and lobbyist Katherine Friess, who was&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/charter-jets-dinners-with-trump-new-details-surface-in-antrim-county-election-lawsuit/article_c3067c60-7c4f-11eb-87cc-b719d3c0d9cd.html" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">involved in the Antrim “audit,”</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;also appears to have been added to the email.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Waldron then sent an&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21185297-arizona-senate-communications-regarding-select-members-participation-in-an-election-integrity-phone-call#document/p423" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">email</span></a></b><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;with the “Arizona data reporting” to Finchem, state Sen. Sonny Borrelli, Kerik, and Newman, outlining technology he claimed could detect fraudulent ballots.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Waldron advocated obtaining images of the ballots, which his team would run through “optical scanning technology” that would “allow us to pull invalid votes out of the totals ‘By Candidate’ so that your state can certify normal elections and potentially not have to take extra legislative action.”&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21053079-arizona-senate-records-regarding-maricopa-county-election-audit-part-4a#document/p1047" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Records previously</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;obtained by American Oversight show that Borrelli then forwarded the email to all Arizona Senate Republicans.[8 15 22 trms reports on 6? states where voter//server info grabbed, some illegal]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Three days later, Waldron sent another&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21185297-arizona-senate-communications-regarding-select-members-participation-in-an-election-integrity-phone-call#document/p2" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">email</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;to&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2021/03/12/mark-finchem-promises-he-will-bring-election-fraud-proof-to-arizona-attorney-general-but-has-not/6941766002/" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Finchem</span></a></b><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Borrelli, and state Sen. Eddie Farnsworth regarding the purported scanning technology.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Waldron attached hundreds of pages of affidavits from election conspiracy theorist and treasure hunter Jovan Pulitzer,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">including about the ballot inspection technology he said he designed. Pulitzer, who&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2021/04/19/jovan-pulitzer-an-icon-among-election-fraud-believers-will-play-a-role-in-the-arizona-election-audit/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">claimed</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;that fraudulent ballots could be detected by the absence of certain folds in the paper and was the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/arizona-republican-audit-bamboo-ballots-china.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">likely source of</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;the theory that fraudulent ballots containing bamboo fibers had been shipped from Asia, was copied on the email along with&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/trump-election-fraud-texas-businessman-ramsland-asog/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Ramsland</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;and others.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">In the email, Waldron&nbsp;</span><a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-county-judge-ballot-images-not-subject-to-public-release/article_43844313-6402-5ac6-8563-37f3a62b3ce7.amp.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">falsely said</span></a></b><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b>&nbsp;that “scanned images are public records” in Arizona and that his team should “need no authoritative release requests” to access them.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Waldron also suggested that his “local consultant and advisor” Lyle Rapacki, a&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/11/18/arizona-audit-rudy-giuliani-failed-effort-replace-electors/6349795001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">conservative activist</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;who has claimed that&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-treasure-hunter-a-satanism-expert-and-mike-lindell-fight-to-overturn-biden-win-in-arizona" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">“demonic”</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;forces led to Joe Biden’s win and who was also copied on the email, could travel to Maricopa County to load images of the scanned ballots onto a hard drive for inspection.</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than a week after receiving this email, Farnsworth joined Fann in issuing a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2020/12/15/senate-issues-subpoenas-for-all-ballots-voting-machines-to-audit-maricopa-county-election/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);">subpoena</a>&nbsp;demanding that Maricopa County turn over all of its ballots, voting machines, and other records so that the Senate could conduct an “audit.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Among the records obtained by American Oversight wer</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">e&nbsp;<b style="">communications between Arizona Sen.&nbsp;</b></span></span><a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/arizona-kelly-townsend-runs-for-congress/75-bb60c9f1-3fe9-4477-baa7-6e703232cc67" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b>Kelly Townsend</b></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">&nbsp;and Michael Bowman, president of ALEC Action</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, the advocacy arm of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council<b>. In a November 2021&nbsp;</b></span></span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21185297-arizona-senate-communications-regarding-select-members-participation-in-an-election-integrity-phone-call#document/p425" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">email</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Townsend asked Bowman for advice on </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which ALEC committee would be best to discuss “election integrity” with. Bowman responded that Townsend should talk with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ALEC’s “Process Working Group,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">” which was meeting in San Diego the following month.</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Last week, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected the state Senate’s broad use of legislative privilege to withhold records from the “audit” from public release in American Oversight’s lawsuit. And on Thursday, Cyber Ninjas and its CEO Doug Logan are scheduled to sit for a deposition regarding the firm’s failure to turn over public records to the Senate. Read more&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/the-arizona-senates-partisan-audit-of-maricopa-county-election-results" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">here</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">&nbsp;about our ongoing investigation into efforts to sow doubt about the 2020 election in Arizona.</span></font></p></div><div class="l-constrain--medium has-double-space-above" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 54.7059em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; margin-top: 4.11765rem !important;"><p class="has-no-space" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Part of Investigation:</font></span></p><ul class="nav nav--list" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><li class="navitem" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/the-arizona-senates-partisan-audit-of-maricopa-county-election-results" class="navlink" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Arizona Senate’s Partisan Audit of Maricopa County Election Results</font></a></li><li class="navitem" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/the-alternate-electors-plot-to-overturn-the-2020-election" class="navlink" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.11765em; border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(63, 165, 244);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="">The ‘Alternate Electors’ Plot to Overturn the 2020 Election</font></a></li><li /></ul></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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United States Supreme Court.&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">ALEC Action</span>&nbsp;is the advocacy partner of&nbsp;...</font></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="MjjYud"><div class="g Ww4FFb vt6azd tF2Cxc" lang="en" data-hveid="CCoQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwinv8mli8z5AhW4mGoFHXS-CV8QFSgAegQIKhAA" style="line-height: 1.58; width: 600px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; position: relative; border: 0px; border-radius: 0px;"><div class="jtfYYd UK95Uc" data-sokoban-container="ih6Jnb_MWtHdd" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; position: relative; contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden;"><div class="NJo7tc Z26q7c UK95Uc uUuwM jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" style="contain: layout paint; overflow: hidden; flex-direction: row; flex: 1 1 100%; min-width: 0px;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/16/alec-academy-featured-a-whos-who-of-voter-suppression-leaders/" data-ved="2ahUKEwinv8mli8z5AhW4mGoFHXS-CV8QFnoECB4QAQ" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/11/16/alec-academy-featured-a-whos-who-of-voter-suppression-leaders/&ved=2ahUKEwinv8mli8z5AhW4mGoFHXS-CV8QFnoECB4QAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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