Donations are through the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
QUICK FACTS:
- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated tens of millions of dollars to ‘The Center for Tech and Civic Life’ (CTCL), a nonprofit that promoted Democratic turnout for the 2020 presidential election.
- The same group is launching a new $80 million initiative in April of 2022 to extend its influence over America’s election, according to The National Pulse.
- The new U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is described as a “nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.”
- The CTCL is working with six partners on the project, including the Center for Civic Design and the Center for Secure and Modern Elections(CSME) as well as the Center for Civic Design, all of which are funded by left-wing financiers supporting election practices favorable to Democrats.
HOW THE INITIATIVE WILL WORK:
- The initiative will allow local election departments to apply to become a “Center for Election Excellence” and, if approved, will receive funding from the alliance.
- “During the first year of the program, we’re identifying local election departments who want to join the Alliance and serve as a support system for each other and for other election departments across the country. These offices will be recognized as U.S. Centers for Election Excellence,” the group explains.
- “Centers will participate in co-creating values and standards of election excellence which will be rolled out to jurisdictions nationwide, uplifting and advancing the profession of election administration in the years to come,” notes to the group, which will also “send $80 million in the next five years to election departments across the United States in need of basic funding for equipment replacement and other resources,” according to the Washington Post.
BACKGROUND:
- Previously, the Center for Tech and Civic Life overruled local election officials in order to increase turnout in almost exclusively Democratic districts through mail-in voting in 2020.
- CTCL asp supported many election offices’ shifts to vote-by-mail and allegedly had a way to access mail-in ballots ahead of the election through the use of funds from the Facebook founder’s Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
