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A mysteriously funded, highly organized effort to secure a place on the 2012 presidential election ballot for a third party candidate has ties to President Obama and top Democrats, WND has learned.

The group, calling itself Americans Elect, or AE, seems designed to appear like a massive, grassroots effort involving millions of citizens acting to draft a third party candidate.

However, the organization’s voting process has been called into question and there also are concerns AE’s bylaws may allow the group’s own board members to bypass votes and nominate their own candidate.

AE describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded by Americans from across the political spectrum who are worried that our nation’s deep political divisions keep big problems from being solved.”

AE seeks to hold its own nominating convention on the Internet this June to select an independent presidential and vice-presidential candidate. The group says any registered voter can sign up to participate in the June convention.

AE reportedly has raised more than $22 million so far and already has been certified to be placed on the ballot in 12 states now, including California.

To get on state ballots, AE evidenced mass organizing skills. The group says it collected over two million signatures nationwide in its effort to get on state ballots.

WND found that two of AE’s board members, Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, were paid by the group for helping to run the massive signature gathering drive via their firm, Arno Political Consultants.

Michael Arno is senior adviser to the Podesta Group lobbying and public relations firm, which was founded by John Podesta, who directed Obama’s transition into the White House in 2008.

Podesta is director of the Center for American Progress, which is reportedly highly influential in helping to craft White House policy.

A Time magazine article profiled the influence of Podesta’s Center for American Progress in the formation of the Obama administration, stating that “not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan’s transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway.”

AE, meanwhile, reportedly originally was associated with another group that sought an independent candidate. That organization, calling itself Unity08, eventually suspended operations citing organizing and fundraising issues.

Unity08 said it did not back any particular candidate, but two of its founders launched their own national effort to draft New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president.

The Irregular Times documented how AE and Unity08 shared the same Washington, D.C., address. Previously, Unity08 shared its address with the Draft Bloomberg Committee.

Irregular Times also found that the founders of Unity08 “registered the domain name draftmichaelbloomberg.com in 2007 at a time when Unity08 was insisting that it had no candidates in mind.”

Mysterious funding

AE’s funding has been called into question.

In late 2010, AE changed its tax status from a tax-exempt group to what is known as a 501©(4), or social-welfare organization, which is not required to show its donor list.

Capital Weekly reported that prior to the change, in the second and third quarters of 2010, AE’s more than $1.5 million in funding came from one person – venture capitalist, Unity08 activist and Obama donor Peter Ackerman.

Ackerman reportedly gave AE a total of at least $5 million in seen money. Many of AE’s other donors are unknown.

AE officials have defended their secretive donor collection practices.

“We have to be able to raise significant amounts of money to be able to take on the status quo,” Kahlil Byrd, AE’s chief executive officer, told Mother Jones last November.

Byrd said that if his group would be compelled to disclose its donors, there would be “a chilling effect … on people’s willingness to participate in this process.”

Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center, two campaign finance watchdogs, requested in September the IRS investigate Americans Elect, charging it may be violating nonprofit status by function like a political party.

Voting issues

Finances are not the only source of controversy.

Mother Jones reported that AE’s Internet voting system has been called into question.

Pamela Smith, president of VerifiedVoting.org, a voters’ advocacy group, argued AE’s reliance on Internet voting is insecure and difficult to audit.

“If you allow it to be used in public elections without assurance that the results are verifiably accurate, that is an extraordinary and unnecessary risk to democracy,” she says.

Regardless of the results, there are concerns that current guidelines reportedly allow AE to anoint its own candidate.

Salon.com reporter Justin Elliott noted candidates chosen by voters must be approved by a Candidate Certification Committee, which according to the group’s bylaws consists of AE’s board members.

The committee, according to the bylaws obtained by Salon, will need to certify a “balanced ticket obligation” consisting of candidates who are “responsive to the vast majority of citizens while remaining independent of special interests and the partisan interests of either major political party.”

In response, AE official Darry Sragow told Salon’s Elliot that his group’s guidelines are subject to change.

Sragow went on to defend AE’s board, even likening them to the Founding Fathers.

“While we don’t mean to put the board in the company of the Founding Fathers, we’d point out that nobody picked the Founding Fathers, either,” Sragow stated.

“They took it upon themselves to turn a popular dream into a shared reality. And they, too, had debates over how much control should be centralized. They knew that too much power in the hands of too few isn’t real democracy, but that power too diffuse is anarchy.”

Obama backers

WND reviewed AE’s board, finding multiple ties to Obama while some Republicans also graced the committee.

Besides Ackerman, an Obama donor who gave money to help start AE, the advisory board includes Lawrence Lessig, an Obama technology adviser.

Lessig has been mentioned as a future candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC. He is an activist for reduced legal restrictions on copyright material and advised Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

AE’s CEO, Kahlil Byrd, has drawn scrutiny from conservatives because he formerly served as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s communications director. Patrick’s chief strategist was top Obama strategist David Axelrod.

AE board members Kellen Arno and Michael Arno are tied to John Podesta, as WND noted.

Meanwhile, AE’s board also includes former John McCain aide Mark McKinnon, Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institute, former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair.

AE also has ties to Hillarious Clinton supporters.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who is a prominent Hillarious Clinton backer, is on the board, as is Doug Schoen, a former pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton.

Schoen recently was in the news after he teamed up with Jimmy Carter’s former aide Patrick to publish an editorial in the Wall Street Journal last month, entitled “The Hillarious Moment,” in which they called for Clinton to throw her hat into the ring for the presidency.

The two wrote another piece at Politico.com calling for Democratic voters nationally – particularly in New Hampshire – to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton.

With research by Brenda J. Elliott

http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/is-this-how-obama-win-will-be-guaranteed/

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Obama is a tyrant and will do anything to get re elected . We must vote him out . We will become a socialistic communistic country if not . We have never had a leader like this tyrant . He is destroying our country little by little . Slow and easy and we are so complacent and trusting we are not noticing our country and way of life slipping away . He has destroyed our economy's, huge deficit ,dismantling our military , do you know what the health care bill has in it . He wants to. Take away the hard earned money you have made and give it to the welfare group. The give me something for nothing folks . Are we getting the picture yet . We better , it's call communism , with a big C . Look at the big picture, don't vote party , vote for the right person , a businessman a god fareing man and a presidential man not apologizing for America's greatness . This man is deliberately destroying all that our fore fathers have died and sweated for . Do you want to live as the Russians did . I don't . Please for our children's sake and country's sake . Get this tyrant out of the oval office ..... Time is ticking , register and vote , not on personalities , but on credibility and your gut ... An old marine who cares and knows .... Semper fi ......

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Don't talk and cry about it , Do something about it. Action creates reaction . Get off the arm chair , put down the Bon bons , and start talking to you friends neighbors family members or else when he does get in you will be really crying then .. America , don't be complacent with this snail . He has no regard for rules and law . He is our example to our children and the rest of the world . He is the example . Holy sh t . Where are we headed . Get the drift Yet ... Vote him outttttttt .. An old marine who knows a phoney when I smell one ..

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Don't talk and cry about it , Do something about it. Action creates reaction . Get off the arm chair , put down the Bon bons , and start talking to you friends neighbors family members or else when he does get in you will be really crying then .. America , don't be complacent with this snail . He has no regard for rules and law . He is our example to our children and the rest of the world . He is the example . Holy sh t . Where are we headed . Get the drift Yet ... Vote him outttttttt .. An old marine who knows a phoney when I smell one ..

Thats what I'm thinking, get all your friends to spread the word and VOTE HIM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!1

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His win will be guranteed by the GOP being splintered and not united. That is how he is going to win.

Democrats and or Rhinos will do anything, even tear down this nation to get into or keep power. That's all they give a dang about, POWER. But this article shows that there is a new form of corruption coming our way.

Well TP if you'll remember, the Democratic party was in shambles back in 08. Hillarious and Joe were saying Obama wasn't qualified to be President. They were all at each others throat, things got pretty ugly for the Dems. Well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.The 'GOP' will all rally when the field is narrowed down. But, I'm sure the Dems hope not.

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Democrats and or Rhinos will do anything, even tear down this nation to get into or keep power. That's all they give a dang about, POWER. But this article shows that there is a new form of corruption coming our way.

Well TP if you'll remember, the Democratic party was in shambles back in 08. Hillarious and Joe were saying Obama wasn't qualified to be President. They were all at each others throat, things got pretty ugly for the Dems. Well, you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.The 'GOP' will all rally when the field is narrowed down. But, I'm sure the Dems hope not.

They were in shambles and the democratic ticket won. But it is 2012, Tea Party and GOP are not going to mix. That is obvious, note the budget crisis. Take the country to a almost default. Oh well, we shall see. Romney has the only chance of beating obama and you all know that. The key is Florida and Ohio, win both it is over. Lose either you are done. Note Al Gore. The Jewish voting block is huge in Florida and Mr Paul is not on there Christmas list.

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