Feds ‘deployed’ a ‘liberal’ org to help register Alabaman federal prisoners to vote, according to a statement from the secretary of state.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has been registering federal prisoners to vote in Alabama, according to Secretary of State Wes Allen, an effort he claims is “illegal.”
“At least one liberal third-party organization has been deployed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to conduct voter registration in federal prisons in Alabama,” Allen said in a statement to The Federalist. “Obviously, this raised questions for my staff and I.”
Allen said President Joe Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting,” issued in March 2021, attempts to “mobilize and weaponize the entire federal government” to “register primarily Democrat leaning groups of voters.”
The federal program has taken the nickname “Bidenbucks.” Like the 2020 election “Zuckbucks” from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which enabled third-party election meddling and get-out-the-vote efforts for likely Democrat voters, it directs federal agencies to work with third-party groups to “promote voter registration and voter participation” in similar ways.
Allen asked the White House “earlier this year” how the federal government has implemented this in Alabama. He said the administration “confirmed” the Bureau of Prisons had “deployed” a “liberal third-party organization” to help register federal prisoners to vote. Those with criminal records are far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican, making this a partisan effort.
Allen said federal prison inmates include “high percentages of noncitizens,” people “not domiciled in Alabama,” and convicts of “crimes of moral turpitude” — defined as “wicked, deviant behavior” — all of whom could be “ineligible to vote” in the state, Allen said in the statement.
Alabama requires voters to be citizens, and not convicted of a “disqualifying felony” — a crime of “moral turpitude” — or have been legally restored voting privileges.
“My office has sent correspondence to both the third-party group and the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding answers as to how they are ensuring that only eligible, United States citizens are being registered to vote,” Allen said in the statement. “Unsurprisingly, my office’s attempts to gather information and ensure that only eligible U.S. citizens and Alabama residents are being registered to vote have fallen on deaf ears.”
Allen also said he asked the White House about its use of tax dollars to fund the “illegal effort,” but the questions have gone “unanswered.”
The Federalist asked the Federal Bureau of Prisons how it is helping register prisoners to vote, which third-party groups it is partnering with, in which states, and how it can guarantee federal prisoners are eligible to vote. Bureau of Prisons Spokesman Donald Murphy sent a statement to The Federalist, simply saying the agency has given “general information on voting” privileges to “all individuals in its custody” since at least August 2020.