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Oregon’s District 2 Rep. Clifford Bentz, who represents a grand slice of Oregon, is telling us, according to EO Media Group, that the 2020 election was fraudulent. He cites information written in the Federalist that a group of people who had the money to do so, donated funds to the Center for Tech and Civic Life.

First, The Center for Tech and Civic Life is an organization of and for election workers across the country. It offers courses for how to conduct safe and secure elections. Anyone can go into their website and check out the courses they offer for election workers, including the content of the courses. I suggest everyone do so before accepting Mr. Bentz’s word that the Center for Tech and Civic Life acted to influence people to vote a certain way or for election workers to swing the election one way or another.

Next, I found an article from another organization that calls itself 2022 Influence Watch that has much information about what the Center for Tech and Civic Life has done. If the information is correct, it is specific as to where funding went to electoral offices around the country. I did not see any proof in their article that proves the CTCL is in any way partisan. My problem with this article is that it starts out by naming the Center for Tech and Civic Life as a “left-wing” group.

There are several reasons I disagree with Mr. Bentz. One, the Federalist is, and always has been, a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. Two, I find it illogical to infer that the Center for Tech and Civic Life turned the election in favor of President Joe Biden. The Center provided information to election workers about doing their job fairly and effectively. One would expect the influence of the CTCL would cause the election to be conducted fairly and effectively. It is not logical to say President Donald Trump lost just because of the training given. Anyone can check the content of the training to discern whether it favored any candidate.

My conclusions are: Giving a person or group a name, such as “left-wing” or “right-wing” does not provide the validity or non-validity of that person or group. “Correlation does not equal causation” is still the case in any logical argument. I would also infer that Mr. Bentz believes that any election is fraudulent in which his candidate is not the victor.

Evelyn Swart