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The Honest Elections Project, seemed to emerge out of nowhere a few months ago and started stoking fears about voter fraud. Backed by a dark money group funded by rightwing stalwarts like the Koch brothers and Betsy DeVos’ family
https://www.honestelections.org/
https://www.honestelections.org/
Honest Elections Project is part of the network that pushed the US supreme court picks Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, and is quickly becoming a juggernaut in the escalating fight over voting rights.
They announced it was spending $250K in advertisements, warning against voting by mail and accusing Democrats of cheating. It facilitated letters to election officials in Colorado, Florida and Michigan, using misleading data to accuse jurisdictions of having bloated voter rolls
Calling voter suppression a “myth”, it has also been extremely active in the courts, filing briefs in favor of voting restrictions in Nevada, Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota, among other places, at times represented by lawyers from the same firm that represents Trump.
By having a hand in both voting litigation and the judges on the federal bench, this network could create a system where conservative donors have an avenue to both oppose voting rights and appoint judges to back that effort.
https://www.honestelections.org/the-voter-suppression-myth/
https://www.honestelections.org/the-voter-suppression-myth/
Despite appearing to be a free-standing new operation, the Honest Elections Project is just a legal alias for the Judicial Education Project, a well-financed nonprofit connected to a powerful network of dark money conservative groups
For nearly a decade, the organization has been almost entirely funded by DonorsTrust, known as a “dark money ATM” backed by the Koch network and other prominent conservative donors
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/donors-trust-franklin-center-alec-mercatus-center-dark-money/
backed by the Koch network and other prominent conservative donors https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/donors-trust-franklin-center-alec-mercatus-center-dark-money/
The Judicial Education Project is also closely linked to Leonard Leo, one of the most powerful people in Washington who has shaped Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to remake the federal judiciary with conservative judges. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/leonard-leo-federalists-society-courts/
These are really well-funded groups that in the context of judicial nominations have been systematically, over the long term but also the short term, kind of pushing an agenda to pack the courts with pretty extreme right wing nominees
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The Honest Elections Project is merely a fictitious name – an alias –the fund legally adopted in February. The change was nearly indiscernible because The 85 Fund registered 2 other legal aliases on the same day, including the Judicial Ed Prj, its oldname
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6889356-The-85-Fund-Fictious-Name-Certificate-Judicial.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6889356-The-85-Fund-Fictious-Name-Certificate-Judicial.html
The legal maneuver allows it to operate under 4 different names w little public disclosure that it is the same group.The Judicial Education Project is closely aligned with the Judicial Crisis Netw, a group with unmatched influence in recent years in shaping the federal judiciary.
Barring a landslide, election night might not yield a result in White House race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barring-a-landslide-whats-probably-not-coming-on-nov-3-a-result-in-the-race-for-the-white-house/2020/06/22/88ada5fa-b181-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/barring-a-landslide-whats-probably-not-coming-on-nov-3-a-result-in-the-race-for-the-white-house/2020/06/22/88ada5fa-b181-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html
