A liberal group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that donated to the 2020 presidential contest is now offering “assistance” to election offices.
QUICK FACTS:
- The leftist nonprofit organization Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL), which donated to election offices during the 2020 presidential run, will now be offering “assistance” to similar offices.
- CTCL, alongside other left-wing nonprofits, also created the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a movement that claims to help election offices with “resources and services.”
- The alliance reportedly gave $530 million in grants to local election offices from the foundation run by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.
- The group claims to be “nonpartisan,” but documents reviewed by watchdog foundations reveal that the alliance is designed to push more progressive ideologies.
- The Alliance “allows CTCL and its partners to get into election offices, instead of parachuting in the way they did in 2020,” Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead said. “They want to go to stay, they want to learn everything about how these offices function, they want to push, you know, what they term best practices, guidance, resources, trainings, technology, software, to reshape the way that they function.”
- The CTCL joined several other technology and election organizations for the alliance, including Arabella Advisors, a Democrat-linked consulting firm that funds the “misinformation” research industry.
- “CTCL’s new effort, camoflaged as the ‘Alliance for Election Excellence,’ still tries to manipulate elections by giving money to government offices,” Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, an investigative think tank, told The Daily Signal. “But money always comes with strings, even if CTCL calls them ‘training’ and ‘mentorship.'”
PRESIDENT OF INVESTIGATIVE THINK TANK ‘CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER’ SCOTT WALTER ON THE DEM-LINKED ALLIANCE DONATING TO ELECTIONS:
“The more the Alliance [for Election Excellence] is investigated, the more strings to its money will be found. If Republican operatives tried this scam, the media would rightly blast off their camouflage and expose the partisanship,” Walter said.
BACKGROUND:
- In April 2022, Zuckerberg announced he would not be donating to election offices after receiving criticism that the nearly $400 million he put towards the 2020 presidential contest unfairly bolstered Democratic turnout.
- “They are not donating for something like this, ever again,” said Brian Baker, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife.
- Republican lawmakers, conservative-leaning news outlets, and watchdog groups claimed Zuckerberg’s massive donation in 2020 was used unjustly to encourage Democratic voters, particularly in swing states.
- “They were virtually all given to very heavily blue municipalities,” said Bill Doyle, an economist and principal researcher at the Caesar Rodney Institute for American Election research.
- Zuckerberg and his wife also donated an additional $69.5 million before the 2020 elections to a nonprofit that distributed funds primarily to state election officials.
