Capital Research Center noted that Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $350 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life, which in turn gave the money to local election officials. CRC argues that the formerly small group “became an activist juggernaut with the means to effectively manage the election in numerous cities and battleground states across the nation.”
CRC said $4.3 million of these “Zuck bucks” went to 34 North Carolina cities and counties, in addition to a $1 million grant to the state board of elections. CRC said Biden gained about 80,000 votes in the counties that received the grants.
CRC examined grants in other battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada and – most notably – Georgia, which saw its electoral votes flip narrowly to Biden and whose two Senate seats flipped from red to blue.
Scott Walter, CRC’s director, testified about the donations to a Senate committee, imploring lawmakers to look into the issue.
“The biggest question the Georgia legislature should ask is whether a California billionaire should be allowed to waltz into the Peach State and finance aspects of their elections?” Walter wrote in a recent blog post. “Do they want billionaires in the future to steer election resources so unequally and inequitably?
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