Election integrity group the Fair Elections Fund has launched a paid media campaign to troll disgraced “Russia collusion” hoaxer Marc Elias after his campaign to bar Cornel West from voting failed. .
Marc Elias, Hillary Clinton's prominent Democratic lawyer behind the massive push to vote by mail in 2020, aimed to “disenfranchise thousands of Black voters who signed on.” The group failed in what it called a “voter suppression effort.” Petition to add Cornel West to the ballot in each battleground state. ”
This effort by Elias also included lawsuits and threats. In September, for example, he sent a letter to Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration threatening to sue if West remains on the state's ballot.
“We write on behalf of Clear Choice Action regarding the last-minute decision by the Department of Elections and the Board of Elections (together, the “Department”) to certify Dr. Cornel West as a candidate for President of the United States. I'll write. Regarding Virginia Ballots in the November 5, 2024 General Election,” that particular letter. read. “If the Department refuses to take the requested action, we reserve the right to pursue all legal remedies against the Department, including litigation for injunctions and writs of mandamus ordering compliance with the law.”
It's worth noting that Elias Law Group led these legal challenges on behalf of Clear Choice Action, which also targeted North Carolina and Michigan.
But the Fair Elections Fund has been celebrating its eventual victory over Elias with six-figure ad buys since Tuesday, marking his defeat on this front.
One of the ads includes moving billboards around Elias Law Group offices; washington post The print version proclaims, “We have won Marc Elias and his racist voter suppression lawsuit.”
“He tried to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters who supported Cornel West, but the Fair Elections Fund stopped him,” it added.
“Despite their best efforts, Democrats failed miserably to prevent Mr. Stein and Mr. West from running. Their chief campaign attorney, Marc Elias, said that the Stein team and Mr. West Got his butt kicked in court by the team’s legal authorities,” the Fair Elections Fund said. explained In the October 4th update.
“Elias’ embarrassing behavior in recent months will leave the Harris campaign facing formidable third-party competition in nearly every key state, where both Stein and West will gain voting rights.” “We have an overview of all the battleground states that have passed,” it added, adding:
1. Arizona *Stein only*
2. Georgia
3. Maine
4. Michigan
5. North Carolina
6. Pennsylvania *Stein only*
7. Virginia
8. Wisconsin*Whether Cornel West will appear on Pennsylvania's ballot remains an open question, with the Democratic-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court playing politics with the issue and giving West thousands of Because it imposed unreasonable demands that suppressed Pennsylvanians' right to vote. Mr. West is currently challenging these requirements in federal court in the Western District of Pennsylvania. The Fair Elections Fund recently aired a television ad holding the Pennsylvania Supreme Court accountable for blocking West.
Former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), a senior adviser to the watchdog group, said it was a “huge victory for democracy and voting rights.”
“Marc Elias and his group of Democratic operatives failed in their racist election interference plan to prevent Cornel West from voting,” he said in a statement.
“Our electoral system won over the well-funded and coordinated efforts of Democratic Party elites to stack the odds in Kamala Harris' favor,” she continued, adding that the group “continues to support the Democratic Party in the future.” “I will continue to expose the hypocrisy and protect the integrity of the Democratic Party.” This is our election. ”
The Fair Elections Fund said it countered those efforts with “multiple paid media campaigns urging decision makers to protect the right to vote.” They focused primarily on West because Green Party candidate Jill Stein had what they called a more “sophisticated operation.”
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Ultimately, the Fair Elections Fund plans to spend $5 million this year alone to expose fraud in the election system.
