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The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) provided millions to Michigan, according to its preliminary list of grants it said it disbursed in 2020 to 474 local jurisdictions.
Unlike the other states that received funding, the money in Michigan was divided among cities and townships and not counties.
Michigan received $7.4 million in grant money. Capital Research reported that in Michigan, there were 2,804,040 votes for President Joe Biden and CTCL spent approximately $3.38 per Biden voter.
President Joe Biden won 11 out of Michigan’s 83 counties. CTCL’s largest grants included $3,512,000 to Detroit; 475,625 in Flint; $443,742 in Lansing; $433,580 in Muskegon; $417,000 in Ann Arbor; $405,564 in Pontiac; $402,878 in Saginaw; $280,000 in Grand Rapids; $218,869 in Kalamazoo; and $204,000 in Eastpointe.
Capital Research reported that CTCL spent an average of $5.88 per Biden vote in Wayne County, which is where Detroit is; $9.49 per Biden voter in Muskegon County, $7.89 per Biden voter in Saginaw County, $3.98 per Biden not in Genesee County, which is center on Flint, $4.71 per Biden vote in Lansing’s county, Ingham; and $0.93 per Biden vote in Oakland County, a Detroit suburb centered on Pontiac.
A lawsuit alleging election laws were violated that was filed by The Amistad Project in November noted that many election workers were paid by CTCL. It alleged that CTCL provided grants that funded the election workers who backdated absentee ballots, among other alleged violations.
In Michigan, Biden won over former President Donald Trump by approximately 154,000 votes.
“Biden won only 11 of Michigan’s 83 counties, mostly concentrated around Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing,” Capital Research reported. “The 1,799,648 votes from these 11 counties account for 64 percent of his votes statewide and contain almost 55 percent of Michigan’s entire population.”