Restoring trust in elections should be a bipartisan cause, and Wisconsin voters taught the professionals a lesson on Tuesday by approving two state constitutional amendments that increase safeguards for election integrity.
More than 54% approved a referendum banning the use of private grants in election administration. And more than 58% backed a second measure requiring that only public officials “designated by law” can handle election administration.
This is a welcome response to the infusion of so-called Zuckerbucks in the 2020 election. Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan handed out cash grants through the nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life to state and local officials who run elections and count ballots.
A 2021 report by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) found that more than 86% of the $10 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life went to the cities of Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay. “The private money served to increase voter turnout for Joe Biden, but not Donald Trump,” WILL found.
Twenty-seven other states have restricted private funding, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Tuesday’s amendments are useful correctives, and they’ll remove one argument from those who want to cast doubt on election results.
@ChowderMartyPatriot2mos2MO
Not only did "Zuckerbucks" unfairly influence the 2020 election, don't forget that Sam Bankman Fried contributed approximately $100,000,000 illegally from investor funds (in coordination with his mother's shady Democrat activist organization) to the Biden campaign and other Democrat candidates in the 2018, 2020 and 2022 election cycles. Why haven't SBF's parents been indicted yet for their complicity and involvement in their son's crypto Ponzi scheme and illegal political campaign donations?
@AdventurousMagpieMountain2mos2MO
Let’s also talk about Ballot Harvesting!
“Paid Volunteers”…. Let me help you vote from Alzheimer's care facilities, homeless, etc and, also, collect other ballots from known voting patterns districts.. But only return ballots favorable to a particular party.
@NiftyPoultryConstitution2mos2MO
The 2 tiered justice system. After all they are just altruists.
@BillOfRightsPonyLibertarian2mos2MO
We all know that Zuckerberg funded $420M, that Biden won by 20K votes, and that none of that would have happened without his money or media and government collusion.
We know legacy and social media colluded with the DOJ and FBI to block information that was damaging to Biden and would have caused a number of voters to vote differently. We know that because voters told us afterwards when they were finally able to find the truth, after the elections.
We know there were statistical anomalies in Wisconsin, with voting participation rates much higher in certain counties than the rest of the nation, counties that typically vote democrat.
This was not a fair election. We cannot have a billionaire interfere and buy the votes.
@MellowC4pitalistDemocrat2mos2MO
"We know there were statistical anomalies in Wisconsin..."
Some people think a statistical anomaly is their Orange Messiah losing.
If Trump wins Wisconsin and Arizona this time, it will fortify his claim that the 2020 election field was tilted. Those Zuckerbucks funded $hundreds of millions to collect ballots from every dank corner of Democratland during the weeks of early "voting." Legal under the special rules of that COVID-plagued election, but a headwind for Trump nonetheless.
That's why the Democrats are pulling out all the stops to keep Trump from having a fair election this time. Because if he wins it, he'll be saying, "I told you so," for the rest of his life. And they'll have to listen to him say it, no matter how much they try to avoid hearing it.
Some are concerned that federal and state government will not allow Trump to win. The concern is any state election with a Trump win of less than 5% will be flipped to Biden. That’s the concern anyway. The problem is it doesn’t matter if the concern is legitimate. It’s about a destruction of trust by partisan control of election machinery in big cities. Election officials whipped into a frenzy of hate by Biden’s divisive rhetoric.
Democrats forcing widespread loss of confidence in elections triggered by breach of Constitutional norms destroys our democracy.
@DejectedSuperPACLibertarian2mos2MO
What possibly could go wrong with such an arrangement?On, Wisconsin! Sanity prevails.
@RavenBennyCA Common Sense2mos2MO
"On, Wisconsin! Sanity prevails." A slight glimmer of sanity prevailing... and it is long past time.
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@MandateFalconTranshumanist2mos2MO
Wisconsin has some of the best election security processes in the nation, yet the Wisconsin Election Commission allowed "pandemic" variances that they had no right to do. Speaker Voss gives them a pass.
Secondly, the nation needs a voter ID that is based on proven citizenship like many other countries.
@PragmaticSausageRepublican2mos2MO
Where is reporting on Soros’s nonprofit Open Society Foundations having already committed more than $250 million for this upcoming election, as Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life did with half a billion dollar grants in unprecedented private funding to local election boards in critical states to fund vote harvesters renamed voter navigators in fleets of new cars paid by CTCL?
$6 million to Fulton County, $5.6 million to Cobb County, and $4.2 million to Gwinnett County in Georgia, nine Arizona counties with $5 million, $1 million to Maricopa County, $4 million in grant… Read more
@InnocentBipartisanVeteran2mos2MO
Zuckerberg's activities represented wholesale election interference. It was not right, dishonest, and he got away with it with the help of those that were favored.
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