Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is expected to accept a nearly $800,000 election grant from a newly-formed nonprofit with ties to a prominent left-wing dark money group.
On Monday, Urban Milwaukee revealed that the Democrat stronghold — in a county Joe Biden won by nearly 40 points in the 2020 election — has been offered a $796,500 election grant from Cities Forward, a virtually unknown nonprofit organization that markets itself as a “nonpartisan effort focused on helping cities around the country make participation in the democratic process a priority.”
Milwaukee is expected to use the funds from the group to pay for new tabulators to process ballots; a text messaging service that “would allow the city to reach registered voters to correct misinformation or answer questions”; voting machines that “can digitally generate a ballot for any voter in the city and then print a paper copy”; more than 200 Android smartphones “for the chief inspectors at each polling place” that will reportedly permit “site directors to submit photos or videos of any equipment issues and more easily request supplies”; and “signs, an electric pallet jacket and a table trolley.”
Cities Forward is also expected to gift a separate grant of unknown value to the Milwaukee Public Library to explore, as Urban Milwaukee described, “ways to encourage civic engagement.” Speaking with the outlet, Claire Woodall, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, claimed the purpose of this grant is to connect “people to their city services” and help “them navigate
