Soros and Steyer tried to change the dynamic in Florida as feds and state open criminal investigation

J.E. Dyer:

Reports this weekend indicate that the investigation of potential fraud by officials of the Florida Democratic Party goes beyond a request for a probe by federal authorities. A tweet from USA Today Network reporter Ana Ceballos on 16 November said that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office also has a criminal investigation underway.
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The federal investigation was requested due to evidence that Democratic Party officials in the state had doctored the information on election forms and misrepresented to voters what the deadline was for “curing” mail-in ballots with discrepancies.
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Questions are also being raised about Gillum's surprising win in the Democrat primary.

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... According to a USA Today Network analysis of the primary, reported in USA Today affiliate Naples Daily News, Gillum’s win came from extraordinarily high margins in four of Florida’s 67 counties: Broward, Duval, Miami-Dade, and Orange.

This feature of the outcome was explained at the time as the result of high black populations in those four counties. The voters there were unusually motivated by Gillum’s charismatic candidacy, it was said, and turned out in historic droves. Overall, the Democratic turnout in the primary was reported to be the highest ever for a midterm, some 70% over 2014 and 2010. (That that figure alone has generated no skepticism indicates the remarkable credulity we are conditioned to have about anything casually reported by the mainstream media.)

Some reports acknowledged that progressive billionaire Tom Steyer threw a lot into Gillum’s candidacy, starting in the primary campaign, through his NextGen group. NextGen launched a major get-out-the-vote push in the primary on Gillum’s behalf. The push reportedly involved ringing doorbells, promoting voter registration, and sending mailers to key voting demographics.

Polls up to the eve of the election showed Gillum’s primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, ahead of him by a significant margin. But there was one outlier, an innovative online polling firm called Change Research. Change Research’s poll predicted the primary outcome for Gillum with remarkable accuracy. The polling firm showed him with 33% support among likely voters, and Gillum’s plurality take in the primary was 34% of the vote (to Graham’s 31%).

Change Research, it turns out, was launched in October 2017 in partnership with DemLabs, a non-profit that seeks to leverage new technology in innovative ways for politics and social change.

DemLabs is funded by the Tides Advocacy Fund, meaning of course that it is financed by George Soros.

DemLabs has also apparently done website development work – and presumably other work as well – for two groups that are crucial to figuring out what happened in Florida in 2018. Those groups are the (also-Soros-funded) non-profits Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI).

The available background on DemLabs’ link to those organizations is skimpy, but independent blogger A.P. Dillon (Liberty Lady 1885) provided evidence of it in a post earlier this year. Annotations on the banner of the CVI website showed a connection to the VPC and explained that DemLabs had done development work for the CVI site.

That’s no surprise, of course, given that DemLabs is a project of Tides Advocacy. We would expect DemLabs to provide services to numerous Soros-backed organizations – just as we would expect Change Research to put out a product that promotes Soros-endorsed themes.

Of particular interest, however, is the fact that A.P. Dillon was tracking VPC and CVI because they were involved in sending out misleading mailers to voters in North Carolina in 2018. The upshot on these mailers, which were reported by local news organizations and were being looked into by North Carolina government officials, was that they were basically fishing expeditions. A number of them were sent to deceased individuals, minors, and even pets at addresses in the state, with the apparent purpose of generating “harvestable” votes; i.e., votes that could be “processed” as mail-in ballots, introduced into the vote count by Democratic and PAC operatives.

VPC’s connection to these suspect mailers goes back for some election cycles (the group was created in 2004, and is part of a much more extensive network for voting activism). But in 2018, CVI and VPC were also caught sending mailers of the same type to voters in New York. And in probing that New York mailer campaign, Cameron Cawthorne at Washington Free Beacon discovered in October 2018 that CVI is also being funded by Tom Steyer. According to Cawthorne, “the group has been cited causing confusion and implementing shady tactics in numerous states across the country, including Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.”

That’s as little of a surprise as anything else since Steyer and Soros are both major donors to Democracy Alliance, the best-known dark-money group putting megadollars into Democratic politics.
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There is much more.

This looks like a fruitful area for further investigation.  It also raises the question of whether the potential criminal activity led to Gillum's "surprising" primary win and might be tied to the Democrats attempts to fish for more dubious mail-in ballots after the election.