What is the Caesar Rodney Institute, and what are you doing?

We are a small research organization that uses a data analytics and statistics based approach to analyze problems related to election integrity and neutrality. We are currently engaged in a deep and comprehensive investigation into the 2020 General Election. Our research project is based on the most up to date, state-of-the-art methodologies of Data Analysis, Mathematical Statistics, Political Science, and Economic Theory that are currently in use.

What is the "Center for Tech and Civic Life" and what role did they play in the 2020 Election?

The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a Chicago, Illinois-based left-wing election reform advocacy 501 c(3) organization formed in 2012. The organization advocates for far-left voting policies and election administration. In 2018, CTCL’s reported revenues were approximately $1.8 million. In the months leading up to the 2020 election, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated a total of $350 million to CTCL. CTCL then donated the funds in the form of grants to various jurisdictions and election officials throughout the United States to help them hire more staff, buy mail-in ballot processing machinery, install ballot drop boxes,and other measures that were ostensibly designed to handle the election amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Another 501 c(3) organization called The Center For Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) also funneled over $60 million dollars of The Zuckerberg Foundation’s money into the 2020 Election.

Was what the"Center for Tech and Civic Life" did during the 2020 Election illegal?

This is a difficult question to answer. As a result of increased awareness of the danger of private funding of public elections that was made evident by CTCL involvement in the 2020 Election, many states have recently passed laws forbidding local governments from accepting private donations to fund election related activities. Many analysts have argued, that the administrative dismantling of many state election regulations under the guise of Covid-19 health measures without the consent of state legislatures was illegal, and created serious vulnerabilities in state election systems that enabled CTCL to significantly bias the election results in favor of Democrat Party candidates for office, especially Joe Biden. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Lawsuit in 2020 argued this point, but The Supreme Court refused to hear his case on the grounds of “lack of standing.” We hope that our work in this area will enable politicians, election officials and judges to better understand the legal and political ramifications of allowing private actors to determine the flow of funds into local elections systems.

What Is the focus of your work?

Our current focus is on the role that the non profit organizations The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) played in the 2020 Election. These private organizations, and the complex web of Leftist non profits with which they were entangled, were responsible for an unprecedented inflow of private funds into The Election that exceeded $410 million, practically all of which came from the private resources of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. We have identified numerous examples of partisan bias in election administration, potentially illegal coordination between private and public actors, and statistical irregularities that appear to be closely correlated with the level of CTCL and CEIR funding both in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and even in solidly “Red” states like Florida and Texas. Our ongoing research involves acquiring additional anecdotal evidence of election irregularities and changes in election processes that were funded by CTCL and CEIR, and on precisely quantifying the effects of CTCL and CEIR spending on state and county level vote totals.

What do you expect will be the result of your research?

When our work is completed, we believe we will be able to show, on a state by state, and county by county basis, not just the amount of CTCL and CREI spending that took place, but the changes in official conduct that those expenditures purchased, and the mathematical structure of the electoral production function by which these expenditures were transformed into changes in vote totals in 2020. Our preliminary research already enables us to quantify the impact of CTCL spending on Biden vote totals in Texas and Georgia. This will also enable us to specify the results of a “counterfactual” election, in which CTCL and CEIR funding did NOT take place. Our preliminary work suggests that the impact of CTCL and CEIR spending may have been decisive in determining the election outcome in all of the key swing states, and also likely had a strong impact on numerous down-ballot races in states that remained “Red” at the presidential level. The Caesar Rodney Institute for American Election Research will begin distributing the results of our research and analysis to the public on an ongoing basis as our work unfolds.