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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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