Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) is an American Democratic Party elections lawyer.
53 years (February 1, 1969)Marc Elias / Age
Democracy Docket is a Democratic Party voting advocacy group. The group was founded in 2020 by lawyer Marc Elias with funding from the Hopewell Fund and Priorities USA Action. Elias launched Democracy Docket on March 5, 2020, with the stated goal of educating the public on voting rights and redistricting litigation.
The Democracy Fund is a charitable foundation created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar in 2011. It has been an independent private foundation since 2014. Its stated aim is to improve the democratic process in the United States so that it better benefits voters.
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
A native of New York, Marc Elias is an American attorney who is a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice. He worked in the same role for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
According to The Washington Post, in April 2016, he hired Fusion GPS on behalf of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to complete the research that resulted in the Donald Trump–Russia dossier. On October 24, 2017, Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from its client confidentiality obligation.
Marc Elias – The Democrat Who Singlehandedly Destroyed American Democracy. Marc Elias’s partisan legal career may appear to glitter like gold but even a cursory examination reveals his legal ethics are, at best, dubious. In fact, Elias likely has done irreparable harm to the United States of America. Who is this guy?
Perkins Coie was paid somewhere between $5 million and $6 million by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign for the law firm’s services.
POSTAGE: This is simply a means to boost voting by individuals who would otherwise not think it was worth the money for a stamp just to vote or even worthwhile to exercise their right to vote by going to a polling place. POSTMARKS: Place the blame for late delivery on the U.S. Postal Service.