Post-election lawsuits accuse a group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of helping violate the constitution in key battleground states.
Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, committed $400 million dollars to the Center for Tech and Civic Life. The nonprofit gave money to over 2,500 local election offices across the country.
According to lawsuits filed by the Thomas More Foundation’s Amistad Project, the group gave over $6 million dollars to officials in Fulton County, Georgia, and to five cities in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin filing says state law doesn’t allow cities and counties to take in millions of dollars from a wealthy partisan actor, like Zuckerberg.
The Georgia filing says the money was used to pay “ballot harvesters” and political activists to manage ballots. It also said the money was used to consolidate counting centers in urban areas to move “hundreds of thousands of questionable ballots in secrecy without legally required bi-partisan observation.”
Amistad Project Director Phill Kline told The Epoch Times that in Pennsylvania, the money led to a two-tiered system. He said Democrat strongholds allowed voters to fix ballots, against state law. But Republican areas did not because they refused to lie and because they didn’t have resources or Zuckerberg funding.
Kline said the center funded ballot boxes that were densely placed in a Philadelphia county—but few were sent to counties that Trump won. He also said they consolidated polling places in a way that disenfranchised Republican strongholds—violating the Equal Protection Clause.
Kline says similar issues came up in other states, including Michigan.
