Mark Zuckerberg Funds Recruitment of Progressives to Administer Elections

The injection of private money into public election administration — or “Zuckerbucks” — is continuing in a new form, as left-leaning candidates are being recruited to run for local elections offices by an organization that receives funds from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a Project of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is granting funds to municipalities and counties under the Centers for Election Excellence program. Over five years, $80 million will be provided by the alliance “to envision, support, and celebrate excellence in U.S. election administration,” According to CTCL.

CTCL invested nearly $350,000,000 in local election offices to manage the 2020 election. Most of this money was donated by Zuckerberg. The nonprofit has claimed its 2020 election grants — colloquially known as “Zuckerbucks” — were allocated without partisan preference To make voting more secure during the pandemic.

Critics of the extraordinary amount of private funding that was injected into the election administration offices in 2020 claim that the grants were given disproportionately to increase voter participation in Democratic strongholds. A House Republican investigation revealed that less than 1 percent of the funds went to personal protective gear.

Following controversy surrounding the disproportionate resources funneled to Democratic jurisdictions and claims the imbalance helped sway the election in Biden’s favor, 24 states have either restricted or banned the use of private money to fund elections, while 12 counties have also restricted or banned the funds, According to Capital Research Center.

DeKalb County Board of Voter Registration & Elections resisted. Private money accepted in the amount of $2 million From the alliance “violation” of 2021 state election reform law, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) told Just the News on Thursday, while the county claims that it adhered to the letter of the law.

DeKalb County accepted the funds after an official from Michigan’s elections declined an offer of private financing. Justin Roebuck is the Ottawa County Clerk Rejected a grant of $1.5 million The controversial nonprofit was founded in response to concerns about private money and possible political connections being used “to fund election operations.”

North Carolina election officials Brunswick and Forsyth Counties Also, they said that they wouldn’t accept any money from Alliance for Election Excellence. Brunswick and Forsyth however, are staying with the alliance, unlike Ottawa County.

Madison, Wisc. was, however, a similar city to DeKalb. A $1.5 Million grant was accepted From the alliance.

This alliance is not the only left-leaning, Zuckerberg-linked group trying to influence elections.

Run for Something was started in 2017 by Ross Morales Rocketto (a Democrat Party consultant) and Amanda Litman (Hillary Clinton’s former email director for 2016 Presidential Campaign).

For Something, Run “candidates must be pro-L.G.B.T., pro-choice, pro-immigrant and pro-equality,” Media outlet amNY reported Interview with Litman

The organization received $10,000 in donations from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, $100,000 from Hillary Clinton’s Onward Together, and $50,000 from ActBlue, a PAC that provides online fundraising software to Democratic campaigns and progressive groups, according to Open Secrets.

Run for Something has a program called Clerk Work, which recruits candidates to run for local elections offices. In July, Clerk Work had recruited nearly 300 candidates.

“You can influence quite literally who is administering elections,” Litman told the Washington Post. “If we don’t do it, we are absolutely going to regret it.”

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), cochairwoman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, slammed Run for Something and CTCL in a statement to The Daily Signal. “Let’s call this what it really is — a blatant attack on the security and integrity of the fairness and transparency of our elections,” she said.

“Dark money liberal advocacy groups will stop at nothing to inject partisan funds into election administration efforts,” she added. “They did it in 2020 with ‘Zuckerbucks,’ and they are continuing to find ways to do it today.”

Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), cochairman of the House Election Integrity Caucus, told The Daily Signal, “Propping up partisan operatives to serve as election clerks will not solve our election integrity issues, and it definitely will not restore confidence in our electoral system on either side of the aisle.

“It’s going to take careful consideration and deliberate debate on these matters to improve election integrity and bolster faith in our elections.”

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