The Center for Tech and Civic Life, a national nonprofit based in Illinois, provided funding to over 2,500 election offices across the country to run elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The money from Zuckerberg led to Democratic-strongholds in Pennsylvania taking steps to let voters "Cure," or fix, ballots that weren't taken in Republican-dominated areas, creating a two-tiered election system, Amistad Project Director Phill Kline told The Epoch Times.
According to an Aug. 21 agreement between the center and the city of Philadelphia obtained by The Epoch Times, the center agreed to pay $10 million to help the city run the general election amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"That is a continued election system funded by Zuckerberg where Democrats have every opportunity to vote, including the illegal opportunities to vote. And in the Republican areas, it's harder, because they closed down in-person polling and so forth. And it's a violation of Bush v. Gore, it's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
The Amistad Project filed several cases months before the election, attempting to block the Center for Tech and Civic Life's funneling of money from Zuckerberg to local and state governments.
Landry filed a suit "To prevent the injection of unregulated private money into the Louisiana election system and to protect the integrity of elections in the State by ensuring against the corrosive influence of outside money on Louisiana election officials," according to the filing.
The center called the litigation frivolous and said plaintiffs were "Wasting election officials' time at the voter's expense, while also peddling misinformation."
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Zuckerberg-Funded Group Comes Into Spotlight in Election-Related Court Cases
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