Wisconsin GOP Addressing ‘Zuckerbucks’ at Statewide Election Integrity Events: Party Director

The Wisconsin Republican Party is trying to expose private entities’ financial involvement in the U.S. democratic processes, according to the state’s party director.

In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Mark Jefferson said the party is trying to raise awareness of the influence of “Zuckerbucks” in Wisconsin’s recent elections and restore voter confidence during its current nine-city election integrity roundtables with the public.

“We think conversations lead to more involvement, which is going to lead to more confidence in the system,” Jefferson said, referring to the election integrity events, which have featured training and recruitment sessions for current and prospective poll workers.

“Right now, in addition to recruiting people to be poll observers and poll workers, we want people to know [about] some of the problems we’ve encountered in the past from the Zuckerbucks that we’ve had, especially in places like Racine and Green Bay, and really, in all the major cities in Wisconsin.”

‘Zuckerbucks’

By “Zuckerbucks,” Jefferson is referring to the donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to election offices across the country that funded official government vote counts during the 2020 elections. The couple made $419.5 million in donations to nonprofits, $350 million of which went to the Safe Elections Project of the left-wing Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).

The most recent investigation on the use of “Zuckerbucks” in election administration in Wisconsin was conducted by a former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Michael Gableman, who found that more than 200 jurisdictions in Wisconsin received “Zuckerbucks” from CTCL during the 2020 election, totaling more than $9 million.

Gableman was heading the Office of the Special Counsel, which was created in 2021 by Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, to investigate allegations of election fraud during the

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