Forsyth and Brunswick Counties in North Carolina are no longer members of a left-wing dark money group seeking to influence local election operations, The Federalist has learned.
A pair of letters written by Forsyth and Brunswick’s respective election directors confirm the counties have ended their memberships with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence. As The Federalist previously reported, the Alliance is an $80 million venture launched in 2022 by left-wing nonprofits such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to “systematically influence every aspect of election administration” and advance Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices.
Forsyth and Brunswick were announced as two of 10 inaugural members of the Alliance in November 2022, with the latter’s election board voting as recently as April 2023 to retain the county’s membership in the coalition.
During the 2020 election, CTCL and the Center for Election Innovation and Research collectively received hundreds of millions of dollars from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. These “Zuckbucks” were poured into local election offices in battleground states around the country to change how elections were administered, such as by expanding unsupervised election protocols like mail-in voting and the use of ballot drop boxes. To make matters worse, the grants were heavily skewed towards Democrat-majority counties, essentially making it a massive Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.
According to the Capital Research Center, North Carolina received $7.2 million from CTCL ahead of the 2020 contest, with the nonprofit giving “grants to 6 of the 26 counties Biden won.” Not including a massive statewide
