Left-Wing Group Writes Playbook For Biden’s Federal Takeover Of Elections
By: Fred Lucas September 23, 20221 of 3
There’s nothing nonpartisan about Biden’s overly broad executive order directing every federal agency to focus on voter participation.
In March 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing every federal agency to focus on voter registration and participation in what appears to be a federally-backed get-out-the-vote effort.
Don’t worry. We are assured this will be nonpartisan.
The White House came back in September 2021 to explain federal agencies will be working with “nonpartisan” groups. But the Biden administration hasn’t given many details about how this order is being implemented and who these nonpartisans are. What’s key is that the executive order almost mirrors exactly what the left-wing group Demos produced in a policy brief shortly after Biden was elected.
While other groups on the left often attempt to sound reasonable and pragmatic, Demos shows ideological leg with phrases like, “transforming America,” “rethinking capitalism,” and “global governance.” So the liberal New York think tank’s “Democracy Program” strikes one of its least-threatening tones. Don’t be fooled. It’s about weaponizing the federal government to sign up as many Democrat voters as possible.
Demos issued a report on December 3, 2020, titled, “Executive Action to Advance Democracy: What the Biden-Harris Administration and the Agencies Can Do to Build a More Inclusive Democracy.” Less than two months after taking office, Biden issued an executive order nearly identical to the Demos demands about politicizing federal agencies.
Lest there be any doubt about the organization’s influence over this administration, it’s important to know that K. Sabeel Rahman was the president of Demos and Chiraag Bains was the Demos legal strategies director when the organization issued the briefing calling for Biden’s executive actions.
So it’s no coincidence that Rahman became senior council for the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the implementation of executive orders, as well as for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which oversees regulation.
Bains is the deputy director of racial justice and equity for the Domestic Policy Council — which the executive order identifies as taking the lead on the policy. A White House press release on March 5, 2021, noted that Bains — while working at Demos, “led voting rights litigation and advocacy across the country.” Two days after this press release, Biden issued the executive order.
Demos previously partnered with Project Vote, an offshoot of ACORN, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to lobby the federal and state governments against what it calls “excessive Voter Identification requirements.” The coalition wanted the Motor Voter law extended beyond registering voters at the Department of Motor Vehicle offices to include offices for welfare, Medicaid, food stamps, and other areas of public assistance where perhaps Democrat voters are more likely to be. Demos criticized the Obama administration for not using the HealthCare.gov portal to sign up for Obamacare as a voting registration site.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/23/left-wing-group-writes-playbook-for-bidens-partisan-federal-takeover-of-elections/