The Center for Tech and Civic Life - a nonprofit group that controversially used funds from Mark Zuckerberg to boost turnout for Democrats in the 2020 election - launched a new $80 million initiative targeting local election departments.
Proving the partisan conflict of interest, the CTCL supported many election offices' shifts to vote-by-mail and allegedly accessed mail-in ballots ahead of the election using funds from the Facebook founder's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Announced in April of 2022, the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence is described as a "Nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections."
Local election departments appear to be able to apply to become a "Center for Election Excellence" and, if approved, will receive funding from the alliance.
"During the first year of the program, we're identifying local election departments who want to join the Alliance and serve as a support system for each other and for other election departments across the country. These offices will be recognized as U.S. Centers for Election Excellence," explains the procedure.
"Centers will participate in co-creating values and standards of election excellence which will be rolled out to jurisdictions nationwide, uplifting and advancing the profession of election administration in the years to come," adds the group, which will also "Send $80 million in the next five years to election departments across the United States in need of basic funding for equipment replacement and other resources," according to the Washington Post.
Earlier this year, Zuckerberg even claimed that he would not be engaging in the effective privatization of local election offices again - a claim belied by the latest CTCL announcements.
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