Unconstitutional? Wisconsin city election officials sought private money to register voters
GOP official, legal expert says private funding requirements detailed in memos raises ethical, Constitutional issues.
By Daniel Payne, John Solomon and Natalia Mittelstadt
Updated: December 17, 2020 - 8:49am
City officials in Green Bay, Wis., solicited private money from a voter advocacy group backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, pledging they would use some of the $1 million grant to run registration campaigns and conduct outreach to "underrepresented" minority voters, according to memos obtained by Just the News through an open records request.
"[W]e’d like to reach out to the Hmong, Somali and Spanish-speaking communities with targeted mail, geo-fencing, posters (billboards), radio, television and streaming service PSAs, digital advertising, robo calls and robo texts, as well as voter-navigators," the city's grant questionnaire to the Center for Tech and Civic Life stated.
"We could also employ our voter navigators to have town halls, registration drives in trusted locations and conduct virtual events," the questionnaire added.
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