A Biden administration-backed effort to make college students pay the federal government to register to vote ahead of the 2024 election is President Biden’s “own re-election effort,” according to some legal experts. If done for the purpose of assisting a person, it could have serious legal consequences.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced campaign efforts to increase voter turnout this week at a meeting with voting rights activists at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
“We have been working to increase student voter participation, for example, under the Federal Work-Study Program, where students register people to become nonpartisan poll workers and get paid through the Federal Work-Study. Now you can get it,” Harris said. he said Tuesday. “You know, this is important for a number of reasons.”
Harris said one of the reasons for this effort is to “involve young leaders” in this process and “activate them in terms of their ability to strengthen our communities.”
Kamala Harris praises ‘nonpartisan pollster’, then backlash soon after people find out his true identity
vice president kamala harris (Lee Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital that the Biden administration is working to “support his re-election efforts.”
“The Biden administration is weaponizing the federal government to support its re-election efforts. The use of tax dollars to pay for overwhelmingly liberal college students to register and vote is the latest scandal.” It’s just that,” Snead said.
“With Executive Order 14019, President Biden has turned the entire federal government into a vote-gathering operation, with government agencies collaborating with left-wing nonprofits to get the job done.
“Using the leverage of the federal government to support incumbents is an abuse of power and a threat to the democracy that President Biden claims to hold dear.”
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Hans A. von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Mies Center for Law and Justice Research and manager of the think tank’s election law reform initiative. He told Fox News Digital that the taxpayer-funded effort was an “outrageous abuse of power” by the Biden administration.
“This is a misuse of taxpayer funds to extract votes for the Biden campaign and Democratic candidates.” “This is a violation of the Hatch Act and the Anti-Deficiency Act. It is an outrageous abuse of power.”
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stand on stage and wave to the crowd during a rally at George Mason University on January 23, 2024 in Manassas, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
In a memo released Monday, the Department of Education revealed that federal labor research funds can be used to support voter registration efforts.
“The Department is clarifying today that FWS funds may be used to hire public engagement activities by federal, state, local, or tribal public agencies that are not affiliated with a particular interest or group. .” mentioned in the memo.
Harris’ comments announcing the initiative prompted a backlash from some conservatives and Republicans on social media, including Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, and President Biden He accused him of supporting efforts to “mobilize voters” in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.
“Biden signed EO 14019, which orders the federal government to use taxpayer funds to mobilize voters. [Stephen Miller] has FOIAed the details and I pursued them in Congress, but Biden is hiding them. It looks like election year planning is underway.” Hagerty wrote Posted on X on Tuesday night.
Hagerty’s spokesperson said in a statement to Fox that the senator is “deeply concerned” that the Biden administration is using government resources to “improve” his re-election chances. did.
“Senator Hagerty is extremely concerned that the Biden administration is targeting groups of Democratic voters and using government resources to improve their chances of re-election,” the spokesperson said. “The administration continues to hide these taxpayer-funded voter mobilization programs despite his repeated requests for basic transparency.
“And now Vice President Harris says she’s paying ‘nonpartisan pollsters.’ Her example is left-wing partisan activists. If there’s nothing to hide, the Biden administration plans to… should be made public.”
Harris said the federal government’s efforts to pay students to register to vote are meant to “engage young leaders” and “energize them in terms of their ability to strengthen our communities.” Stated. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
In a social media post Tuesday morning, Harris praised the efforts of poll workers in preparation for the 2024 presidential election. However, her compliment quickly backfired.
“Our democracy could not work without nonpartisan pollsters like Vass and Robb, whom we met in Georgia. President Biden and I thank you and will support you.” he wrote in a post to X, sharing a photo in which he appears to be listening to Mr Vasu’s opinion. Abiraman.
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X’s Community Notes quickly tweeted additional context that readers “might want to know” that Abiraman, a purported nonpartisan pollster, was actually a liberal advocate promoting progressive causes. Tagged with.
“The left-wing ‘nonpartisan pollster’ is Vas Abiraman, a left-wing Justice Alliance staffer and former ACLU of Georgia staffer,” Harris tweeted.
FOX News Digital has reached out to the Biden administration seeking response to the allegations of abuse of power.
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