{"id":2205807,"date":"2024-03-25T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-receives-zuckerbucks-just-before-residents-vote-on-banning-private-funding-for-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T20:31:24","slug":"milwaukee-receives-zuckerbucks-just-before-residents-vote-on-banning-private-funding-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milwaukee-receives-zuckerbucks-just-before-residents-vote-on-banning-private-funding-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee receives donations from Mark Zuckerberg just before residents vote on prohibiting private election funding"},"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%2Fmilwaukee-receives-zuckerbucks-just-before-residents-vote-on-banning-private-funding-for-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=2205807&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>Milwaukee recently received \u200bover $1 million \u2064in private \u200bdonations for election administration just before\u2064 residents decide on the legality\u200b of private election funding. The donations, including a $786,850\u200d grant from Cities Forward and a $250,000 grant for the Election Commission and \u2064public library, have\u2063 raised concerns amid upcoming\u200c Republican-proposed amendments regarding election processes \u2063in Wisconsin. The grants aim to\u2062 enhance election infrastructure and citizen engagement, sparking debates surrounding private funding influence on elections. Louisiana stands \u2062as\u200c the sole state to have prohibited such \u2063private donations, addressing the controversial issue of &#8220;Zuckerbucks&#8221; \u2062and their impact on electoral integrity.<br \/>\nMilwaukee received more than $1 million in private donations to help administer elections nearly a week before residents decide whether injecting\u00a0private funding into elections is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\nLast week, the city received a $786,850 grant from nonprofit organization Cities Forward, and a $250,000 grant was given to the Milwaukee Election Commission and the city\u2019s public library, Just the News reported. In 2020, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg donated to the left-leaning nonprofit organization the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which funneled millions of dollars into local elections, leading Republicans to dub the private donations \u201cZuckerbucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The private donations come as Wisconsin voters are set to decide on two Republican-proposed amendments on April 2. Voters will decide if private funding toward the election process is unconstitutional and if only election officials can carry out election duties.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly $800,000 grant will fund two ballot tabulators, a <a title=\"New data reveals more negative spending on Ron DeSantis than his 2024 rivals\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-targeted-by-more-negative-expenditures-than-2024-rivals-new-data-show\/\">text messaging service<\/a>, 50 ExpressVote machines, and 210 Android smartphones for election officials, the Urban Milwaukee reported.<\/p>\n<p>The text messaging service would contact voters to correct misinformation and answer questions about the election process, and the smartphones would be used by chief inspectors at polling locations to take pictures or videos of any equipment malfunctions, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The $250,000 grant given to the city\u2019s library and election commission will help \u201claunch a citywide public education campaign to increase civic connection among residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the library, when people are registering for a new library card, they will also be asking, \u2018Do you want us to help register you to vote today?&#8217;\u201d said Claire Woodall, the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2020 election, House Republicans investigated the funds and found that less than 1% of the $350 million, some of which was donated by Zuckerberg to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, was used for <a title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013 And It Is Historic!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\">personal protective equipment<\/a> and that the bulk of the money was used on <a title=\"Report: 81 election fraud cases brought to courts, 30 active cases\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-81-election-fraud-cases-brought-to-courts-30-active-cases\/\">voter registration drives<\/a> and get-out-the-vote campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the only state to have banned \u201cZuckerbucks\u201d is Louisiana, which it did at the end of last year.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee got over $1 million in private donations for election administration. This happened just days before residents vote on the legality of private election funding. Recently, the city received a $786,850 grant from Cities Forward and a $250,000 grant for the Election Commission and the public library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2669,"featured_media":2205808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24065581081933-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Milwaukee receives donations from Mark Zuckerberg just before residents vote on prohibiting private election funding","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24065581081933-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Milwaukee receives donations from Mark Zuckerberg just before residents vote on prohibiting private election funding","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205807","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\/2669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}