A leftist dark money group appears to have identified a loophole that allows it to funnel cash from foreign billionaires into U.S. elections, spending tens of millions of dollars to drive turnout in key states.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a nonprofit that has funneled more than $1 billion dollars in dark money to liberal causes, has spent nearly $23 million this election cycle on state ballot initiatives covering everything from abortion to election reform, according to a report from Americans for Public Trust provided exclusively to The Daily Wire.
Because the ballot initiatives tend to be on liberal issues, the voters they draw to the polls are also likely to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris while they’re at it.
Some of the donors to the dark money group include Democrat megadonor George Soros, eBay founder and billionaire Pierre Omidyar, and Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who said he has “never felt the need to become an American” but wants to “(re)interpret the American Constitution in the light of progressive politics,” according to a biography written by his sister.
Wyss has given $243 million to Sixteen Thirty Fund. As a foreign national, Wyss is prohibited from donating to American political