Bob Unruh bundled one of his favorite lies at the start of a July 31 WorldNetDaily article:
As soon as Joe Biden gained control of the Oval Office following that 2020 election that was influenced by multiple outside factors, including the $400 million “Zuckerbucks” that let local election officials often recruit voters from Democrat [sic] districts, he signed an executive order.
That was Order 14019, called the “Promoting Access to Voting” that required every federal government component to boost voting. It demanded taxpayer-funded employees coordinate with “leftist” organizations to mobilize voters, and of course those groups did not solicit more participation from conservatives.
Now that agenda, to use the assets of the federal government to boost a Democrat [sic] political candidate, has gone to the next level.
As we’ve documented, Unruh and WND have never provided evidence that any voter registration drive funded by “Zuckerbucks — in fact, that money was given by a Mark Zuckerberg-funded foundation to help local governments put on a pandemic-hobbled election, and more Republican-controlled counties applied for and got money from the foundation than Democratic-controlled counties.
Let’s get back to Unruh’s current conspiracy theory:
A report at the Federalist explains inside the tax-funded Department of the Interior, email communications and documents show the Bureau of Indian Education “feverishly scheming to use students in bureau-operated Native American K-12 schools to carry voter registration cards home to their parents.”
The plan, uncovered by research and Freedom of Information Act filings by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, is using what have become known as “Bidenbucks,” federal dollars applied to an election influence operation.
“What’s happening now is absolute corruption. A very red line was crossed by this administration,” charged Mike Howell, chief of the Oversight Project, in an interview on The Federalist Radio Hour.
But Unruh offers no evidence that encouraging people to vote is somehow a “red line” that was crossed, beyond a dubious complaint that “Congress declined to provide taxpayer money for any such “get-out-the-vote” campaigns,” nor does he identify which organizations involved in the effort are supposedly “leftist.” If few right-leaning groups are involved in the effort, it’s likely because such groups are more into voter suppression instead of expanding voter rights.
And, of course, no evidence is provided to back up the contention that only Democrats are being registered or that Republicans have been blocked from doing so. Seems like Unruh and the Federalist want to engage in more voter suppression.