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Georgia – Epoch Times – Article: RNC Seeks Information About Illegal Election Grant In Dekalb County

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Article: RNC Suit Seeks Information About $2 Million ‘Zuckerbucks’ Grant in Georgia

The Republican National Committee is filing suit to see if one of Georgia’s most populous counties illegally received private funding for its public election activities.

On May 16, the RNC filed a one-count complaint against the DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections Office, along with various county officials and related offices, in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia. The complaint alleges the county failed to comply with Georgia’s Open Records Act by not providing all public records related to its dealings with the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.

In February 2023, the county announced it received $2 million from the Alliance. At the time, the county said in a release it would join “a select bipartisan group of election officials to share best practices and strategies in their ongoing pursuit of excellence.”

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North Carolina – Port City Daily – Article: Brunswick Elections Director Fails to Get Commissioner Approval for All Requested Positions

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Article: Brunswick County Commission rejects request for two more elections employees

BRUNSWICK COUNTY — The Brunswick County commissioners and elections director reached a compromise Wednesday over the number of additional positions to fund in the next budget cycle. 

Director of Elections Sara LaVere requested the county fund two new full-time positions at the board of elections. Ultimately, commissioners only agreed to one — though that is half a position more than what was in the county manager’s recommended budget.

LaVere requested at a budget workshop meeting this week for a combined voter outreach and communication position, along with a candidate coordinator to bring her full-time staff up to eight.

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The Federalist – Article: The Media’s Shameful Revisionist History of “Zuck Bucks”

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Article: Capital Research Center finds evidence of a clear bias weighted toward Democrats in 2020 election

A majority of Wisconsin voters approved a ballot measure on April 2 that made Wisconsin the 28th state to adopt a ban on private funding of elections. The next day, news headlines were filled with baseless smears. One particular article, from USA Today, used the now classic “Republicans pounce!” framing: “Trump and the GOP weaponized Mark Zuckerberg’s donations; what it means for the 2024 election.”

The article claims the Wisconsin ballot measure “[stemmed] from misinformation surrounding” Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous $400 million donation to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). To support this claim, the article references a Federal Elections Commission (FEC) report’s citation of a report commissioned by Mark Zuckerberg wherein former FEC chairman Michael Toner “found that more grants were given to jurisdictions who voted for Trump rather than Biden in 2020.”

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Wisconsin – The Federalist – Article: Green Bay Clerk Breaks Election Law, Pleads Ignorance

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Article: Controversial Wisconsin clerk admits to violating election law, claims she doesn’t understand it

Green Bay’s law-bending elections chief is at it again, but this time City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys admits she didn’t understand the election law she was breaking. 

In response to a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation on behalf of three Green Bay citizens, Jeffreys “concedes that she has not been strictly adhering to the statutory requirements in Wisconsin Statutes … but the failure to do so was inadvertent and due to a lack of awareness of the statutory requirements.” 

In short, the much-troubled clerk was ignorant, not willful, according to the legal response. It’s more of the same from Jeffreys, the former chief of staff for Green Bay’s far-left mayor in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020 and turned punitive when its bumbling clerk previously twisted state election law. 

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Wisconsin – WISPOLITICS.com – Article: Dane County Seeks Clarification of New Amendments

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Article: Dane County seeks clarity on definitions of ‘election official,’ ‘task’ to complying with constitutional amendments

Dane County’s corporation counsel has asked Dem AG Josh Kaul for guidance on what constitutes an “election official” and a “task” when trying to implement new constitutional amendments voters approved in April.

Carlos Pabellón also argued “election official” should be defined by a law that states it’s “any individual who is charged with any duties related to the conduct of an election.” Otherwise, there’s the possibility that local clerks, their employees and others could be barred from running elections this fall.

Pabellón’s request last week for an attorney general’s opinion comes after voters approved two amendments during the April election. One barred the use of private funds to cover the public costs to administer an election. The second one restricts who may perform tasks in primaries, elections and referendums to “an election official designated by law.”

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The Bharat Express News- Article: Wisconsin Voters Introduce Amendments that Could ‘Undermine’ State Elections

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Article: WI voters sign two amendments that election officials worry will harm election administration in the state.

While it was clear that Joe Biden and Donald Trump would win their respective primaries in Wisconsin on Tuesday, voters in the state pulled off other surprises by backing Republican-backed election amendments and registering a significant anti-war protest vote.

Wisconsin voters on Tuesday signed into the state constitution two amendments that election officials and voting rights advocates worry will harm election administration in the state.

The first prohibits election offices from accessing private subsidies — a source of revenue that election officials relied on in 2020 to conduct elections during the pandemic and have since been used to stock voting equipment in polling places.

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The Patriot Post – Article: Thursday Below the Fold, Executive News Summary

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Article: Another Team Biden Big Lie, Zuckerbucks banned in Wisconsin, Title IX rewrite strategically delayed, and more.

Another Team Biden Big Lie: If Joe Biden’s biggest reelection obstacle can be boiled down to one word, that word would be “age.” A whopping 86% of Americans think he’s too old to run for a second term. But a close second to “age” would be “immigration.” Not only is this the single most important issue to American voters, but it’s also the issue on which Donald Trump owns the greatest advantage over our decrepit president — an eye-popping 28 points, according to one recent poll. So we shouldn’t be surprised that Team Biden is trotting out another Big Lie to try to cut into Trump’s big lead on this issue. This time, they deceptively edited a video of Trump’s remarks at a recent rally to make it seem like he called all immigrants “animals.” He didn’t. Here’s the necessary context preceding the remark. As it makes clear, Trump was talking about one specific immigrant — the 26-year-old Venezuelan dog who murdered Laken Riley. As Trump put it: “The 22-year-old nursing student in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal — the Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals, they’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re animals,’” adding, “Nancy Pelosi told me that. She said, ‘Please don’t use the word animals when you’re talking about these people.’ I said, ‘I’ll use the word animal because that’s what they are.’” It’s funny, not funny, how what’s good for the Trump goose isn’t good for the Biden gander. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lectured a reporter who asked about Biden’s reference to a “bloodbath” back in 2020. Recall that Team Biden and their mainstream media brethren pounced on Trump when he used the word recently in reference to the auto industry, dishonestly asserting that Trump was referring to a nationwide bloodbath should he lose the 2024 election. As KJP pathetically said Tuesday, “You’ve got to read what he said in context.” Oh.

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Wisconsin – Town Hall – Article: Republicans Score Major Win for Election Integrity

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Article: WI voter have made it clear that they do not want “Zuckerbucks” or dark-money interests influencing their local elections.

Wisconsin voters approved two constitutional amendments on Tuesday that the RNC says “will enshrine the principles of election integrity into the lawbooks.”  

Fifty-four percent of voters approved Question 1 banning the state from accepting private funds or equipment for election administration, commonly referred to as “Zuckerbucks.” According to the RNC, this ensures that “outsiders can’t manipulate the will of hardworking Wisconsin families when they cast their ballots.” Question 2 passed with 58.58 percent of the vote and mandates that only designated election officials can administer elections.

“Wisconsin voters have made it clear that they do not want Zuckerbucks or dark-money interests influencing their local elections,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “The RNC and RPW were proud to help drive this crucial victory and ensure strong poll-watching coverage across Wisconsin to ensure a transparent voting process. This win emphasizes that Americans support basic election integrity safeguards in battleground states like Wisconsin and around the country.” 

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The Federalist – Article: Dark Money-Fueled Group Strategizes to Target Dem Voting Blocs

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Article: Inside one dark money-fueled group’s strategy session to “reshape the electorate in as many states as possible”

In 2015, the Wyss Foundation — a project of Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss — put forth a plan to “fundamentally change the composition of the [American] electorate” in a way that another leaked memo indicated would help “achieve the foundation’s policy goals.” Last week, one of the organizations the Wyss Foundation channels money to held a conference plotting how to do just that.

The Wyss Foundation’s plan, mapped to run from 2015 to 2020 and projected to cost $105 million to $210 million, aimed to “reshape the electorate in as many states as possible” by expanding voter registration. A follow-up memo indicated these efforts would be directed at “low-income populations who tend to be reliably progressive” such as “[u]nmarried women, youth, and people of color.”

At its 15th annual State Summit in Washington, D.C., last week, left-wing nonprofit America Votes brought together public officials and activists to strategize about reaching just such voters. The conference included discussions about how to “create more lifelong voters” from a “diverse coalition” that, based on the conference topics, includes college students, pro-abortion voters, anti-Second Amendment activists, LGBT activists, racial minorities, and “progressive Christians.”

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Newsmax – Article: After Wisconsin Vote, RNC Likely to Launch War on ‘Zuckerbucks’

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Article: Wisconsin voters resoundingly elected to ban out-of-state election interference

Wisconsin voters resoundingly elected to ban out-of-state election interference with vote counting Tuesday.

Barely 24 hours later, Newsmax learned that members of the Republican National Committee were discussing launching a movement nationwide to eradicate the influence of outside money in election administration such as that deployed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2020.

With nearly all votes counted, 54% of Badger State voters supported Question 1 to ban all private funding of elections. An even larger number of voters (58%) voted to enact Question 2 to restrict the administration of elections “to only election officials designated by law.”

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