The Center for Civic Design (CCD) is a non-profit funded by liberal organizations like The Center for Tech and Civic Life, The Democracy Fund, The Knight Foundation, and more. The CCD claims “democracy is a design problem” and uses design technology to assist election offices in informing voters, reimagining their election administration, and setting standards and principles for election machinery.
During the 2020 General Election the CCD worked with the CTCL and National Vote At Home Institute to make elections more accessible primarily through increasing the vote by mail; According to their 2020 report they worked with 27 states.
The CCD also worked with the CTCL in 2016 to develop an Election Toolkit. Includes downloadable checklist for “combatting voter misinformation” and prepares election officials to respond to accusations of fraud.
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Whitney Quesenbery, an Advisory Board member at the CTCL and the Executive Director of the CCD was naturally proud of the good and influential work her teams had done during the 2020 general election. On November 6, 2020 as it became increasingly clear that the election was slipping away from Donald Trump, Whitney seemed to know that her organizations’ work to increase the vote by mail had another effect beyond increasing vote accessibility: killing fascists.
This rhetoric, while seemingly harmless, holds great danger for election integrity, as these self-proclaimed “bi-partisan” non-profits held immense power and influence in how the 2020 election was designed.
