Alberta Separatism Looking Sus

OVERVIEW

• The Centurion Project is an Albertan separatist group who recently leaked 3 million Albertan voters’ personal information.
  • Founder David Parker .
• Founder has ties to an American (Michigan) group 10xVotes/Voteatron LLC, who made an app that let people access the voters personal info.
  • The American company hosted the Canadian voters’ data.
• Trump’s admin has had multiple meetings with Alberta separatist leaders.
• data came from the Republican Party of Alberta (registered political party).
• US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has a lot of links to 10xVotes/Voteatron LLC founders/families.

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> Alberta voter data found on website of US company linked to Centurion Project (National Observer)

May 20th - Paywalled

• similar app on 10XVotes’ website stocked exclusively with names and addresses of several thousand Albertans

> Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans (PressProgress)

May 18th

• app is American-made
• linked to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, MAGA influencers, Wealthy Michigan Republicans
• Hoekstra is personal acquaintances with Centurion founder David Parker and his wealthy step-father, Clyde Fuller
• the related American company is 10xvotes who collaborated with The Centurion Project
• David Parker cites 10xVotes as his inspiration, and that they’ve been working with him behind the scenes for “almost two years”
• Financial Times - Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
  • Fucking paywall
  • confirmed earlier this year I guess
• the point of the app seems to be to help people find “10 politically-aligned friends… who can be pressured into showing up to vote”
• Hoekstra was involved in hyping up 10xVotes, but when asked about Centurion, said “I have zero involvement with 10xVotes… I have never had any financial relationship with 10xVotes”
  • tbf when he resigned from Michigan GOP chair, conflict-of-interest disclosure filings didn’t find any business interests
• 10xVotes is the assumed name of Voteatron LLC
• Drew Born, director of Voteastron, advocates for the annexation of Alberta and Saskatchewan
  • directly connected to Hoekstra
  • both directors of Mecosta Environmental and Security Alliance
    • opposes EV manufacturing plant in west Michigan, so bonus
  • rich as fuck
  • his step-father is hella Christian and does GOP stuff (JC Huizenga)
    • Huizenga and Hoekstra are boys too
      • campaign chairs for Romney in 2012
      • board members for Netherland-America Foundation
        • aside - Hoekstra, when ambassador to the Netherlands, was accused of foreign interference after hosting an event for their far-right party
  • his mother is an RFK lady, and senior advisor to US HHS (Tammy Born Huizenga)
• Drew Wierda is the other founder of 10xVotes
  • fucking hell, nephew of Blackwater CEO Erik Prince

> Court documents show new details voter information breach (CBC)

May 15th

• The Centurion Project is a registered third-party advertiser supporting Alberta Independence
  • claims it got that Alberta voter info leak from a “third party”
    • literally just search a name and get the results
    • Elections Alberta keeps fake names in data sets to be able to trace who does leaks like this
    • traced back to the Republican Party of Alberta (also pro-independence)
• Centurion says they used the data to recruit pro-separatist people
• potential class-action
• former premier Kenney’s private info was leaked (eg. address)

> Scope of how many people accessed leaked voter list may be incomplete (Global News)

May 13th

• The Centurion Project might not have shared the full list of everyone who accessed their database
• at least 21 people had full copies
• 2 reporters from The Canadian Press accessed the public database prior to the court order and one of them didn’t get the cease-and-desist
  • at least they told Elections Alberta, god bless
• Republican Party of Alberta denies, obviously
• David Parker, leader of The Centurion Project, hasn’t been co-operative
  • won’t sign a sworn statement saying he would stop using the voter list
  • his lawyer calls it an “unconstitutional trap”