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State Chapters => State Politics/Government => Topic started by: Hoodat on April 20, 2021, 03:45:48 am
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Georgia SOS Brad Raffensperger’s Office Explains Taking More than $5 Million from Mark Zuckerberg Group for State’s 2020 Presidential Election
Chris Butler | April 13, 2021
A group directly linked to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated nearly $5.6 million to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office last year.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (pictured above, left) spent that money on the 2020 presidential election.
That Zuckerberg-linked group, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), donated the money. With it, Raffensperger and his staff carried out a variety of tasks, according to the CEIR website.
The Georgia Star News contacted Raffensperger’s communications staff Monday for comment. Raffensperger Spokesman Walter Jones, in his emailed response, took a dig at this publication.
“Any grant or funding source, as allowed by Georgia law, has enabled this and local elections offices to combat disinformation similar to recent articles published by this outlet that undermine the confidence of Georgia voters,†Jones said referring to the events of last year.
The Georgia Star News did not debut until November 2020, and only after Election Day.
As Breitbart News reported, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $419 million to two non-profit groups that provided controversial private funding to state, county, and municipal governments for election administration in the 2020 presidential election. $350 million of Zuckerberg’s money went to the Center for Technology and Civic Life, which spent at least $24 million in key Georgia counties . . .
https://georgiastarnews.com/2021/04/13/georgia-sos-brad-raffenspergers-office-explains-taking-more-than-5-million-from-mark-zuckerberg-group-for-states-2020-presidential-election/
Glad to see this finally in print. GOP insiders have known this for several months. There are people here pushing for an indictment, but there are also a lot of rats in the Georgia GOP.