The beached whale got her mail in ballots, article from 2015

The new New Georgia Project: Stacey Abrams’s $10 million plan to double down on voter registration Georgia’s House Minority Leader seeks to turn out tens of thousands of minority voters to the polls in 2016 after disappointing midterm effort

BY MAX BLAU -NOVEMBER 30, 2015==

Out of Georgia’s roughly 1.5 million unregistered voting-age residents, as many as 900,000 are minorities. Democrats have long wanted to register more people of color in their quest to flip the state from red to blue, and,no one’s done more to lead Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams. At the end of 2013, the Atlanta lawmaker founded an initiative called theNew Georgia Projectthat set an ambitious goal of registering at least 120,000 minority voters across the state by the 2014 midterm elections, —Abrams’ effort ultimately registered just 46,000 people. Now, with less than a year until the 2016

•outlined in fundraising memos. Abrams has asked Democracy Alliance—a national progressive network”—to donate up to $5.9 million for the New Georgia Project and contribute another $4.35 million forVoter Access Institutea little-known progressive; one of theDemocracy Alliance’smembers, Democratic financier George Soros, wrote Abrams’s political action committee,Georgia Next, Inca $500,000 check in 2014 to fund her voter registration efforts. But considering the funder’s secretive reputation, raise even more questions about the NGO, which has been criticized for its lack of transparency and its failure to live up to its expectations. “She hasn’t been open and transparent,” state Sen. Vincent Fort, another Democrat from Atlanta, told us. “Her funders don’t know where her money went” Mayor Kasim Reed has also questioned the need for the New Georgia Project. “I don’t believe nor did I believe that the New Georgia Project is the model [for voter registration],” Reed told the Atlanta Journal Constitution last June. “I think that you have professional organizations that are experts at building the voter database in states.

• Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp investigated allegations that the New Georgia Project submitted dozens of fraudulent voter registration applications in 2014

• Then there’s the New Georgia Project’s track record. The two prominent Democrats running for statewide office in 2014—Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter—were partly relying on her efforts,ended up getting clobbered. Despite Abrams’, results fromVotebuilderan election database used by Democrats, show that 9,200 fewer minorities statewide were registered in 2014 in previous midterm election in 2010

• Efforts to register more minority voters in Georgia are nothing new. longtime Democratic state Sen. David Lucas from Macon, have tried to bolster access to the polls following the passage of the Voting Rights Acts in 1965. Lucas said the New Georgia Project did not seek his input, nor that of other longtime voter registration advocates. “We were kept in the dark, period,”

Abrams intends for her latest iteration of the New Georgia Project to be a constellationof projects scattered throughout the state. Voter registration efforts are centered in six cities, where, with dozens of paid staffers.Her staff hosted a “hack-a-thon”where teams of computer programmers competed over a 48-hour period to create apps to make it easier to vote (#UnlockTheBox)held a five-day training course for applicants to become campaign operatives(B.L.U.E.)and launched a series of academies(Advocates for Change Institute). The course even gave ACI graduates their own Apple laptops.“It was Oprah Winfrey redux!”. “You get a laptop! EVERYBODY GETS A LAPTOP.”

• Outside of the New Georgia Project, which is a subsidiary of Abrams’s longtime 501(c)(3) nonprofit calledThird Sector Development, the lawmaker in July 2014 registered a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization calledVoter Access InstituteInc. According to the group’s self-description, Voter Access Institute is focusing on voter engagement & mobilization. Unlike work done through her elected office, though, much of Abrams’s voter registration efforts are not subject to state open records laws.William Perry, founder of Georgia Ethics Watchdog, believes the lawmaker should make her financial records from her voter registration work public, especially now after 2014. One issue that concerns Perry is the lawmaker’s potential ability to use different funding sources—which include a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group, a political PAC, and personal campaign funds—to fund this year. __

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-new-new-georgia-project-stacey-abramss-10-million-plan-to-double-down-on-voter-registration/#sthash.CzBhZT4R.dpuf

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Stacey Abrams, the failed Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, has revamped her dark money group as rumors have swirled that she may seek a spot in the U.S. Senate next year.

Abrams is the executive director of Fair Fight, which was launched on Nov. 16, 2018, to focus on election reform, education, and increasing voter turnout. Two weeks after its public launch, the group filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia election officials alleging black voters were disenfranchised and led to her defeat.

Fair Fight, which was previously called the Voter Access Initiative, recently removed language from its bylaws that would now allow the group to "directly or indirectly" get involved "in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office" as she has been considered a potential challenger to Republican Sen. David Perdue during the 2020 elections, Lachlan Markay at the Daily Beast reports.

The group formed a sister political action committee that has pushed money to Democratic candidates in the state. The Daily Beast notes that the change would allow Abrams's group to donate money to super PACs that are supporting specific candidates and use communications backing or attacking candidates.

Abrams herself benefitted from dark money groups who attack a "corrupt campaign finance system" during her failed gubernatorial run.

Abrams is additionally linked the Democracy Alliance, the left's largest dark money donor network that counts liberal billionaire George Soros one of its top members. Abrams was present last year at the alliance's secretive gathering in Atlanta and led a panel that showcased a progressive dream agenda that would include reparations for slavery, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon at the gathering.

Democrats as a whole drastically benefitted from dark money during the midterm elections in comparison to their Republican counterparts, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal references a study by Issue One, a group that works to reduce money in politics, that shows dark money groups spent $150 million throughout the 2018 election cycle. Of the $150 million in dark money injected into elections, 54 percent helped Democrats, 31 percent backed Republicans, and 15 percent was considered nonpartisan.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/stacey-abrams-revamps-dark-money-group-amid-potential-georgia-senate-run/

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Voter fraud has been going on at least the 60s in GA