Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) heavily funded the election operations in Racine, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and Kenosha and the grants given to these cities required the cities to meet very specific conditions in order to get the money. Special Counsel and Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman as part of his investigation into the 2020 Election determined that when the Cities he refers to as the “Zuckerberg 5” entered an agreement with the CTCL to “Receive CTCL or Other’s Private Money to Facilitate In-Person and Absentee Voting Within a City Facially Violates Wis. Stat. § 12.11’s Prohibition on Election Bribery Under Wis. Stat. § 12.11.” it was exactly what so many of us thought. This ‘funding’ constituted an act of bribery under Wisconsin law.
Millions From Zuckerberg Flooding WI Elections Violated The Law
In all, nearly $9 million in Zuckerberg’s grant funds poured into the five most populous cities of Wisconsin, each a Democrat stronghold. These grants required and indeed paid for the establishment and use of voter drop-boxes that were completely illegal under Wisconsin voting law. They also targeted these funds into specific districts along partisan lines creating a discrepancy in the availability of ballots between different jurisdictions in violation of federal and state constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law.
According to the Special Counsel’s report,
“On page one, the WSVP requires the Zuckerberg 5 to “be intentional and strategic in reaching our historically disenfranchised residents and communities; and, above all, ensure the right to vote in our dense and diverse communities” within the Zuckerberg 5. App. 7. This election administration provision, promoting in-person voting and absentee voting, is privately funded, disfavors Wisconsinites outside the Zuckerberg 5, and favors black and minority voters as opposed to the rest of the residents and communities within the Zuckerberg 5.”
The documentation from the CTCL identified the “historically disenfranchised residents and communities” as “voters of color, low-income voters without reliable access to internet, voters with disabilities, and voters whose primary language is not English” Which makes little sense in the consideration that the purpose of the grants were supposed to facilitate “planning and operationalizing safe and secure election administration” in light of the COVID panic, but the actions of the group belie that goal and expose it for what it truly is: a racist, identitarian and class-warfare ploy to selectively amplify voting among what they viewed as likely Democrat voters. They were making it easier to vote… as long as you weren’t white and financially sound.
Margot Cleveland noted for The Federalist, “The report also detailed troubling evidence the Zuckerberg 5 counties allowing private groups working with the granting organization, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, to “unlawfully administer aspects of the election,” including in one county where one organization was unlawfully embedded in local government election administration.”
