Elections

20 States Ban ‘Zuck Bucks’ Funding Elections

Through the first half of 2022, some 20 states have already enacted legislation to prohibit the infusion of private funds into elections, according to a report. Capital Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative not-for-profit think tank, has actually been keeping tabs on states’ diverse reactions to personal financing to help with elections operations– a situation that gained public attention in the 2020 governmental election at the height of the pandemic.

In their continuous analysis, CRC authors Sarah Lee and Hayden Ludwig have actually indicated discoveries that emerged after the most current governmental election, consisting of the tech magnate for whom the pattern has actually been called.

“The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million into one sleepy nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life,” Lee and Ludwig wrote. “CTCL then distributed grants to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia.”

According to the report, Alabama got a sliver of the pot of CTCL money, to the tune of $2.45 million.

This spring, the Alabama Legislature passed House Bill 194. The legislation prohibits public officials overseeing elections “from soliciting, accepting or using certain donations from an individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding certain election-related expenses.”

Republican Politician Gov. Kay Ivey, who signed HB194 into law in April, stated she thinks it will guarantee Alabama continues to have safe and totally free elections.

“In Alabama, we are committed to ensuring the integrity of our election process remains second to none,” Ivey said in a statement at the time of signing. “Big tech’s efforts to undermine the integrity of our elections has no place in our country, and I’m proud to have signed legislation that ensures Alabama’s election process remains air-tight.”

A few of the nation’s more purple swing states got greater CTCL contributions in the 2020 election.

Georgia, widely known for its massive election irregularities for instance, got $45 million. In other places in the U.S., Pennsylvania and Wisconsin got $25 million and $10.1 million, respectively, from the company.

Lee and Ludwig have actually taken aim at the diverse money contributions in their report.

“Despite CTCL’s claims that the grants were strictly for COVID-19 relief, not partisan advantage, the data show otherwise,” Lee and Ludwig wrote.

In late 2021, CTCL provided a last report on its 2020 grant allowances and protected all of its actions. Company authorities doubled down on their assertion “2020 was the most secure election in U.S. history and voter turnout soared.”

“CTCL played a critical role in deploying various strategies to support election officials and the voting public in 2020,” the report reads. “In addition to providing timely and relevant online training, as well as accurate and trustworthy information to millions of voters, CTCL distributed … grants to local election departments to administer safe elections.”

H/T Just The News

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