{"id":1530740,"date":"2022-06-28T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530740"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T18:50:07","slug":"wisconsin-gop-addressing-zuckerbucks-at-statewide-election-integrity-events-party-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gop-addressing-zuckerbucks-at-statewide-election-integrity-events-party-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin GOP Addressing \u2018Zuckerbucks\u2019 at Statewide Election Integrity Events: Party Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-gop-addressing-zuckerbucks-at-statewide-election-integrity-events-party-director%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1530740&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Wisconsin Republican Party is trying to expose private entities\u2019 financial involvement in the U.S. democratic processes, according to the state\u2019s party director.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Wisconsin Republican Party Executive Director Mark Jefferson said the party is trying to raise awareness of the influence of \u201cZuckerbucks\u201d in Wisconsin\u2019s recent elections and restore voter confidence during its current nine-city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election-integrity\">election integrity<\/a> roundtables with the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think conversations lead to more involvement, which is going to lead to more confidence in the system,\u201d Jefferson said, referring to the election integrity events, which have featured training and recruitment sessions for current and prospective poll workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, in addition to recruiting people to be poll observers and poll workers, we want people to know [about] some of the problems we\u2019ve encountered in the past from the Zuckerbucks that we\u2019ve had, especially in places like Racine and Green Bay, and really, in all the major cities in Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Zuckerbucks\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>By \u201cZuckerbucks,\u201d Jefferson is referring to the donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to election offices across the country that funded official government vote counts during the 2020 elections.\u00a0The couple made $419.5 million in donations to nonprofits, $350 million of which went to the Safe Elections Project of the left-wing Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).<\/p>\n<p>The most recent investigation on the use of \u201cZuckerbucks\u201d in election administration in Wisconsin was conducted by a former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Michael Gableman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/wisconsin-special-counsel-alleges-massive-misconduct-in-2020-election_4312772.html\">found<\/a>\u00a0that more than 200 jurisdictions in Wisconsin received \u201cZuckerbucks\u201d from CTCL during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2020-election\">2020 election<\/a>, totaling more than $9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Gableman was heading the\u00a0Office of the Special Counsel, which was created in 2021 by Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, to investigate allegations of election fraud during the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Republican Party is trying to expose private entities\u2019 financial involvement in the U.S. democratic processes, according to the state\u2019s party director. 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