As America edges closer to the November 2024 presidential contest, concerns about President Biden’s federal election interference are growing among GOP election officials.
Throughout the past several weeks, Secretaries of State Mac Warner of West Virginia and Michael Watson of Mississippi have warned about the effects “Bidenbucks” will have on 2024 state and local election administration. Signed by Biden in March 2021, Executive Order 14019 directed hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in the electoral process by using U.S. taxpayer dollars to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities.
Under the edict, each department was directed to draft “a strategic plan” explaining how it intended to fulfill Biden’s order, and to collaborate with so-called “nonpartisan third-party organizations” that have been “approved” by the administration to supply “voter registration services on agency premises.” Many of these “nonpartisan” groups colluding with federal agencies on voter registration efforts have since been revealed to be extremely left-wing, such as the ACLU and Demos.
Federal agencies such as the Justice Department have regularly stonewalled requests for documents related to the order’s implementation, even going as far as to heavily redact records ordered for release by a federal court. A White House official purportedly admitted to Watson during a recent phone call that the administration “never intended for [agencies’ strategic plans] to be public.”