Posted on 08/08/2021 6:49:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DENVER — When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic late last summer, he said he hoped he would never have to do it again.
Republican legislatures are granting him that wish.
At least eight GOP-controlled states have passed bans on donations to election offices this year as Republicans try to block outside funding of voting operations. The legislation often comes as part of Republican packages that also put new limits on how voters can cast ballots and impose new requirements on county or city-based election officials.
The response is spurred by anger and suspicion on the right that Zuckerberg’s money benefited Democrats in 2020. Conservatives have long accused the tech mogul’s social media platform of censoring right-wing voices as part of its campaign against misinformation.
Zuckerberg’s money was largely distributed through a nonpartisan foundation that had liberal roots. Conservative groups cite analyses that the money went disproportionately to Democratic-leaning counties in key states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.
“People saw that, and looked around, and they were increasingly concerned about why would you have a billionaire funding our elections through the backdoor,” said Jessica Anderson, executive director of the conservative group Heritage Action, which has pushed the bans in several states.
But many election officials say that effort is short-sighted and fueled by paranoia. Election offices, they argue, are chronically underfunded and now cannot benefit from donations that still flow to so many other branches of government, including police, schools and libraries.
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You'd think hope this would be a bipartisan effort, but Democrats are good with corruption as long as they're the ones benefitting from it.
Seems ole Blackrock and Vanguard are propping up Facebook. Zuckerberg answers to them.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-shareholders-facebook-fb.asp
Why would this even be legal in the first place???
There was a time when Democrats pretended to care about big money in politics.
Yeah, right, “schools and libraries.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
AP equals “Always Propaganda”
Zukerberg is a serious problem, yes, but the big bucks that are buying and now stealing our elections come from SorosNazi front groups
both need to be shut down, imho
before we have any hope of
restoring honest free elections in USA
Considering he paid for the 250000 fake ballots, shipped from New York to Pennsylvania, just in time to be counted AFTER November 3rd.
Yeah right, CCP Puppet Biden got 80 million votes. /spit.
IMHO, “donations” of this size should NOT be “tax-deductible”.
An annual tax deduction limit of, say, $100,000 would NOT hurt many of “the 99%”.
Why should jumbo “donations” from “the top 1%” be subsidized by the rest of us?
Is AOC’s Squad (squaws?) working to end this injustice?
yes.
the idea is to take control over the country and all of us
and then to milk us dry (using our own government and our own tax money to do it )
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