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2021-04-12 Home Front: Politix

Zuckerberg group gave Detroit $7.4 million to 'dramatically' expand vote in city key to Biden win

[Just The News] The Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL), a voter advocacy group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, donated $7.4 million last year to Detroit to, among other things, "dramatically expand strategic voter education and outreach" in a blue city key to Joe Biden's 2020 election win, according to memos obtained by Just the News under an open records request.

Detroit received three grants in 2020 from CTCL for $200,000, $3,512,000, and $3,724,450, according to the records released under Michigan's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The reach of Zuckerburg's money has created a backlash in some GOP states like Georgia and Arizona, where lawmakers have moved since November to ban private money from being donated to election administrators.

Phill Kline, head of the nonprofit Amistad Project, which has contested private financing of election administration in several states, said the Detroit memos show another instance in which Zuckerberg money was allowed to influence a key battleground during the 2020 election.

"The records obtained in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan show the Zuckerberg monies were used to buy off government officials dictating the manner in which the election was conducted and using government to target Democrat strongholds to turn out the vote for Mr. Biden," Kline said. "Such action is wrong, unlawful and dramatically undermined the integrity of the 2020 election. We must not let a shadow government run our elections to the benefit of favored candidates and political parties."

The amount augmented by more than half the city's $13 million election budget, and dwarfed it the $6.3 million in grants that CTCL gave five Wisconsin cities, a series of donations that has generated accusations that private money was wrongly used to influence state and local election judges and administrators.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-12 04:47|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 But there's no fraud and you can't buy votes. So why spend that much?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-12 11:42|| 2021-04-12 11:42|| Front Page Top

#2 ^So Antifa burns your offices last?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 11:44|| 2021-04-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 It has been said that when Marxism takes over it is impossible to overcome it. The US has arrived at such a destination.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-04-12 12:17|| 2021-04-12 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Why spend so much?

It is just a little walking around money. Elections don't buy themselves after all, and this one had a lot of moving parts who all want to get paid.

I would not expect much from Antifa in Detroit. The currently established grifters are much too well entrenched. The one Antifa action I know about was quickly quashed by the city police.

This is the same Detroit that was unable to do a recount after the 2016 election due to some 60% of the precincts sampled having fatal discrepancies between the number of votes recorded and the actual number of ballots.

Posted by SteveS 2021-04-12 12:27|| 2021-04-12 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 It has been said that when Marxism takes over it is impossible to overcome it.

It has been indeed so said, mostly by Communists. But if it were true, the Soviet Union would never have fallen, nor the Khmer Rouge and Soviet-client Afghanistan, and Israel would have continued down the socialist path instead turning hard right to exuberant capitalism with a national health service.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-12 16:59|| 2021-04-12 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ The South Shall Fall Again

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-12 17:17|| 2021-04-12 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 "It has been indeed so said, mostly by Communists. But if it were true, the Soviet Union would never have fallen, nor the Khmer Rouge and Soviet-client Afghanistan, and Israel would have continued down the socialist path instead turning hard right to exuberant capitalism with a national health service."

Yes, but back then there was the West offering another vision, examples that exposed the lies, even a place to go. There is nowhere left doing any of that now.

Posted by Charlie44 2021-04-12 17:24|| 2021-04-12 17:24|| Front Page Top

#8 exuberant capitalism with a national health service

There are several, and they compete.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 17:44|| 2021-04-12 17:44|| Front Page Top

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