{"id":1863859,"date":"2023-02-28T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863859"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:55:30","slug":"georgia-committee-passes-bill-to-stop-counties-from-accepting-zuckbucks-2-0-ahead-of-2024-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-committee-passes-bill-to-stop-counties-from-accepting-zuckbucks-2-0-ahead-of-2024-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Committee Passes Bill To Stop Counties From Accepting \u2018Zuckbucks 2.0\u2019 Ahead Of 2024 Elections"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fgeorgia-committee-passes-bill-to-stop-counties-from-accepting-zuckbucks-2-0-ahead-of-2024-elections%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=1863859&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-->\n<p>A Georgia Senate committee passed Monday a bill to ban local election offices receiving or using any type of private funding for elections.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/legislation\/64653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SB 222<\/a>All of these provisions are included in the bill. &#8220;costs and expenses related to conducting primaries, elections, runoffs, or other undertakings authorized or required by [state law] shall be paid from lawfully appropriated public funds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[N]o county or municipal government, government employee, or election official shall solicit, take, or otherwise accept from any person a contribution, donation, service, or anything else of value for the purpose of conducting primaries or elections or in support of performing his or her duties under this chapter,&#8221; It reads: If the measure is signed into law, all local governments and election officials who accepted the funds prior to its implementation would have to return the gift(s). &#8220;to the entity which provided such thing of value within 14 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SB 222 was passed <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Zh6lK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Party lines<\/a> The Senate Ethics Committee voted in favor of the measure by 4-2, with Republicans voting for it and Democrats against it.<\/p>\n<p>DeKalb County is a Democrat stronghold and has recently announced that it was selected to join U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence. It had previously taken actions to protest the county&#8217;s commissioners. <a href=\"https:\/\/decaturish.com\/2023\/01\/dekalb-voter-registration-and-elections-receives-2-million-excellence-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Accepted<\/a>\u00a0The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) awarded a grant of $2 million. As The Federalist reported previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/21\/how-georgia-became-democrats-test-site-for-their-2024-private-takeover-of-election-offices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>The Alliance has a budget of $80 million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/20\/inside-democrats-newest-election-takeover-scheme-report-unmasks-dark-money-group-youve-probably-never-heard-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venture<\/a>\u00a0Launched last year by left-wing non-profits &#8220;systematically influence every aspect of election administration&#8221; Democrat-backed voting policies should be promoted in local election offices.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Republicans passed SB 202 in 2021, banning private funding of local elections offices. However, DeKalb officials used a loophole within the statute to accept the grant from Alliance. DeKalb officials requested that the grant be applied to the county&#8217;s finances, instead of having the election office accept the funds. Dele Lowman Smith, DeKalb Board of Registration and Elections Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/decaturish.com\/2023\/01\/dekalb-voter-registration-and-elections-receives-2-million-excellence-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>This was the result &#8220;since election offices are not allowed to receive grants directly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to ensure the funding of our elections comes from lawfully appropriated public funds,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/ga-sos-raffensperger-blasts-dekalb-county-taking-2m-zuckerbucks-suggests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a> SB 222 sponsor\u00a0and Republican state Sen. Max Burns. &#8220;The intent is to prohibit third parties&#8217; selective funding of elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CTCL was one of the many groups that received support during the 2020 election.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techandciviclife.org\/100m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a>\u00a0From Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO. These are &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>&#8221; funds were directed to local election offices in battleground state across the country to improve the administration of elections. This included expanding secure election protocols such as mail-in voting or using ballot drop boxes. The grants were heavily biased towards Democrat-majority countries, essentially making this a huge Democrat get out-the-vote operation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence \u2014 of which CTCL is a key partner \u2014 is attempting to replicate such a strategy ahead of the 2024 elections. You can read more about it here.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestelections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/HEP_Locke_Alliance-for-Election-Excellence-Report-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Recent report<\/a>The Honest Elections Project (and the John Locke Foundation) revealed the Alliance&#8217;s goals.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/20\/inside-democrats-newest-election-takeover-scheme-report-unmasks-dark-money-group-youve-probably-never-heard-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skirt<\/a>\u00a0Existing &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; Banned or restricted activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee in the Georgia Senate passed a bill that seeks to prohibit election offices from using private funding to conduct elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1419844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8394,13163,4506,13098,4384,3776,6571,4977,5448],"class_list":["post-1863859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-zuckbucks","tag-2-0","tag-4506","tag-accepting","tag-committee","tag-counties","tag-elections","tag-georgia","tag-passes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}