Fair Elections Fund Channeled $7.7 Million to 2024 Election-Doubt Campaigns
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 11
Fair Elections Fund Channeled $7.7 Million to 2024 Election-Doubt Campaigns
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 11
Summary
Newly reviewed documents show the Fair Elections Fund raised more than $7.7 million since 2023 and financed groups that pushed misleading claims about 2024 election certification and voting.
$300,000 from the fund went to the American Principles Project Foundation, which paid for swing-state ads implying local officials could refuse to certify results, even though certification is mandatory once challenges are resolved.
The nonprofit’s leadership ties it closely to Trump’s election-denial network: directors include Cleta Mitchell and Heather Honey, and tax records show the Conservative Partnership Institute supplied more than $6 million in 2024.
Another $1.875 million went to the Article III Foundation for Spanish-language ads on non-citizen voting, while $285,000 funded influencers promoting the failed Save Act and roughly $400,000 went to groups Honey led.
Watchdog groups said the spending illustrates a broader infrastructure built to mainstream debunked fraud claims and potentially support future efforts to challenge election outcomes, including this year’s midterms.
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Dark Money and Disinformation: The Fair Elections Fund’s $285,000 Campaign to Shape the 2024 Election
Overview
The Fair Elections Fund (FEF) played a major and controversial role in the 2024 election by funding and leading efforts to influence voting laws. Under the leadership of Cleta Mitchell, FEF helped launch the Only Citizens Vote coalition, which quickly grew to include over 80 conservative organizations united to prevent non-citizens from voting. The coalition pushed for federal proof of citizenship requirements to tighten election eligibility. FEF also spent $285,000 on Urban Legend Media to amplify its agenda, showing a strategic use of funding and partnerships to shape public perception and legislative outcomes around election integrity.