The Washoe County Commission has voted to employ the Election Group to help organize the Washoe County Registrar of Voters office.
Washoe County Manager Eric Brown, a registered Non-Partisan, brought the group before the Commission on Tue., Mar. 28. When the body voted on a contract offer, the motion ended in defeat, 2-2. However, Brown returned the group to the agenda on Tue., Apr. 11, and with the vote of newly appointed Commissioner Clara Andriola, the group won a $ 600 thousand contract.
Andriola was appointed by Gov. Joe Lombardo following former Washoe County Commissioner Vaugh Hartung’s appointment as the head of the Nevada Transportation Authority. Andriola was vice chairwoman of the Sparks Planning Commission and a Sparks Citizens Advisory Council member.
As for the Elections Group, Jennifer Morrell and Chris Piper appear to be the more active part of the group.
“Morrell is a former election official who currently works in a variety of left-leaning election policy roles, most notably she works as a consultant to the left-leaning Democracy Fund, where she leads the fund’s Election Validation Project,” according to Influence Watch. “Much of Morrell’s work and consulting focuses on combatting alleged interference in elections from foreign governments.”
The Democracy Fund, created by eBay founder and former chairman Pierre Omidyar, often receives grants from Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation.
“This group is connected to George Soros and Jennifer Morrell,” Gateway Pundit reporter Joe Hoft wrote on Sun., Aug. 1, 2021. “The Elections Group was also present during the election steal in Georgia and Morrell was one of the observers selected by Katie Hobbs in Arizona to review the Senate’s election audit in Maricopa County.”
Meanwhile, Piper also appears to have a partisan background.
“Chris was appointed Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections in January 2018,” the Election Group website said. “While Commissioner, he served on many national boards including the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) and the Electronic Registration and Information Center (ERIC) as well as Chair of the Election Assistance Commission’s Standards Board.”
So, Piper was on the board of ERIC.
“The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, was sold to states as a quick and easy way to update their voter rolls. Started in 2012 by far-left activist David Becker and the left-leaning Pew Charitable Trusts, the program is ostensibly run by the member states themselves,” writes Victoria Marshall in the Federalist. “But as public records show, Democratic operatives are working overtime, under the cover of ERIC to accomplish their partisan goals and drive Democratic voter turnout.”
Meanwhile, three of The Elections Group’s six nonprofit and academic partners include the Center for Tech and Civic Life, the Center for Civic Design, and the National Vote at Home Institute, each attached to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg. Unfortunately, the Election Group has removed this link from their webpage.
As for Brown, an appointed bureaucrat, in June 2022, he redefined workplace violence, saying “…by providing payment for legal and personal services by outside third-party organizations in situations where employees are unfairly publicly attacked, harassed, or disparaged by members of the public or by political organizations as determined on a case-by-case basis by the Washoe County Manager with input from the Washoe County Workplace Violence Committee.”
He was responding to former Washoe County Registrar of Voter Deanna Spikula, who resigned in July 2022 after she claimed she received death threats.
“Eric Brown is proposing to create a Washoe County agency wide Gestapo to be used at his discretion,” posits Nevada Liberty America First. “A similar proposal was drafted in 2021 with “no fiscal impact,” but now that the Biden Administration is pushing the “domestic terrorism narrative against anyone who doesn’t agree with their policies,” Washoe County Dictator Eric Brown has taken the cue and is attempting to codify himself as County Dictator Judge and Jury to crush local dissent.”
The threats appear vague to non-existent.
“A background report by county staff said, “aggressive comments, threats, conspiracy theories, and false accusations … can have the impact of deterring qualified individuals from continuing their careers in government service with the county or discouraging individuals who may be considering careers in government service,” the Associated Press (AP) wrote on Sat., Jun. 25, 2022.
The Washoe County Commission authorized the Washoe County Workplace Violence Committee to allow Brown to spend up to $150,000 per fiscal year for legal assistance on the same day the AP article was published.
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