Sunday, January 15, 2023

Rightwing group pours millions in ‘dark money’ into US voter suppression bid

Part of Heritage Action's two-year strategy is to promote what it calls "model election laws", focusing initially on eight battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin. In a private meeting with donors in Tucson, Arizona, in 2021, the group's executive director, Jessica Anderson, boasted about the role Heritage Action had played in pressing Republican-controlled legislatures to impose strict restrictions on voting, including limits on mail-in voting and early voting days. 

In a video of that meeting obtained by Documented, Anderson told the donors that the group acted "quickly and quietly", bragging that "honestly nobody noticed" their behind-the-scenes influence. Heritage Action staff have registered to lobby in at least two dozen states… 

Heritage Foundation, under the auspices of its elections supremo Hans von Spakovsky, curates an "election fraud database". It claims to expose the errors, omissions and mistakes made by election officials, but it presents incomplete and misleading information and underscores how exceptionally rare fraud is within the US system…


No comments:

Post a Comment








Click Older Posts above to see more.