https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/29/zuckerberg-paying-election-operations-vote-countin/
$400MILLION
$300M on Sept 1st and another $100M on Oct 13th...when the CARES act already gave them an infusion of money to handle the election...If they had all those additional resources, why did it take 5 days to count all of the ballots?
When did Biden's lids start? Late September? Complete coincidence I am sure.
$400MILLION
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[url=https://m.washingtontimes.com/topics/facebook/][/url]Facebook magnate Mark Zuckerberg and his wife gave a nonprofit $400 million to pay election workers, train poll workers and rent polling locations for the Nov. 3 vote in various states.
The Zuckerbergs' largesse is an unprecedented private expenditure on a process long held to be an exclusively public operation and has spurred at least nine lawsuits challenging the effort by the Center for Tech and Civil Life.
The donation to the center roughly equals what Congress appropriated to the states in this year's CARES Act to pay for running elections in 2020 amid the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic, critics charged.
"We've invited billionaires into the counting room and it will undermine the integrity of our elections. It's unprecedented," said Phill Kline, director of the Amistad Project, an initiative started by the conservative Thomas More Society to defend civil liberties.
"We are headed toward a situation in which Big Tech controls the flow of information and the election process. These are the first things any oligarchy wants to control when it takes power."
The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which was established in 2015, received $300 million from Mr. Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, on Sept. 1 and then another $100 million on Oct. 13, according to the center's press releases.
One of the complaints says that the group distributed money primarily in grants to Democratic regions. Thus far, that argument has not held up in court and is based on what critics acknowledge is an incomplete picture of how much the group has spent and where it has done so.
A graphic at the group's website, however, does show heavy grant-giving in traditionally blue areas. A red dot on a U.S. map is used to show each grant application the nonprofit received, and the dots virtually cover Michigan's mitten and are thickly clustered along the Northeastern seaboard.
Mr. Landry has asked the district court to reconsider its ruling, and he plans to appeal if it is upheld.
He likened the project, which involves "money being sprinkled around the country in an inequitable manner," to an "invisible hand" that could influence how ballots are collected and counted.
"And we've got enough money," Mr. Landry said of Louisiana's election apparatus. "If Zuckerberg wants to do this, he should give the money through proper channels so we don't have corporate boardrooms and billionaires spending the money."
"They're betting the law won't respond in time to stop this project," Mr. Kline said. "And they're probably right, but they know it's wrong."
$300M on Sept 1st and another $100M on Oct 13th...when the CARES act already gave them an infusion of money to handle the election...If they had all those additional resources, why did it take 5 days to count all of the ballots?
When did Biden's lids start? Late September? Complete coincidence I am sure.
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