Rep. Claudia Tenney Reintroduces Bill to End ‘Zuckerbucks’ Grants to Election Offices

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) has reintroduced a bill to prohibit tax-exempt organizations from donating to election bodies after institutions linked to billionaire Mark Zuckerberg funneled hundreds of millions of dollars toward such election offices in 2020.
“In the 2020 election, Mark Zuckerberg, under the guise of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL)—a liberal non-profit group—flooded left-leaning county governments in Texas, Ohio, Nevada, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Pennsylvania with opaque private funding to influence election administration for their own purposes,” Tenney wrote in a Wednesday press statement.
“CTCL used this money as leverage over cash-strapped election agencies, forcing them into advancing its own partisan agenda. Millions of dollars from Zuckerbergs’ wallet flooded the field under the guise of ‘making voting safer amid the pandemic,’ yet less than 1 percent of those funds were spent on PPE, and 92 percent of the funds went to left-leaning districts,” Tenney added….}