{"id":1908523,"date":"2023-04-01T16:43:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-zuckerbucks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:45:05","slug":"georgia-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-zuckerbucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-zuckerbucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Lawmakers Approve Ban on &#8220;Zuckerbucks&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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-lawmakers-approve-ban-on-zuckerbucks%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=1908523&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<div property=\"schema:text\">\n<p>Georgia lawmakers have passed a piece of legislation that disallows county officials from requesting or accepting donations for election administration. SB 222 or &#8220;Zuckerbucks&#8221; ban, requires that public funds be used to pay for the cost of election administration. It also forbids local government staff members and election officials from accepting gifts worth more than $500 from external groups to carry out primaries or elections.<\/p>\n<p>Any violation of the legislation will result in an election official being guilty of committing a felony, but the bill does not cover the receipt of a location for voting.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers&#8217; attention was drawn to the issue of a $2 million grant provided by the U.S Alliance for Election Excellence to DeKalb County. The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which had received funds from Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, facilitated the establishment of the U.S Alliance for Election Excellence as part of an $80 million program.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have hailed the new implementation, with Jason Snead, Executive Director of Honest Elections Project Action, praising the legislation&#8217;s advancement. Snead expressed his concern over the security of public trust in election administration due to private election financing, particularly when motivated by partisan interests.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Saira Draper, D-Atlanta, denied the assertion that the legislation was intended to clarify present state legislation, arguing that it&#8217;s a &#8220;demonstrably false&#8221; view. Draper then stated that &#8220;SB 222 is not a clarification of existing policy. It is an abrupt change in policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia lawmakers signed off on legislation banning counties from soliciting or accepting donations to help administer elections. Senate Bill 222, a so-called &#8220;Zucker bucks&#8221; ban, specifies that public funds must pay for election administration costs. It also prohibits government employees and elections officials from receiving gifts valued at more than $500 from third-party groups to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908524,"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":[547],"tags":[21803,5418,7008,4977,3673],"class_list":["post-1908523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-zuckerbucks","tag-approve","tag-ban","tag-georgia","tag-lawmakers"],"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\/1908523","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}