The 2020 election was characterized by a revolutionary new funding stream in which private money flowed into government election offices, and the donors told the government election offices how to run the election. Characterized as “Zuck Bucks” because the majority of the money came from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, this money made the difference in 2020. Urban election offices in Philadelphia, Detroit, Lansing, Phoenix, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Las Vegas were converted into turnout machines. City officials went door to door collecting votes, all legally because they were city officials. Ad buys were made on urban and Spanish-language radio stations. Voting centers were set up inside urban areas rich in Biden votes. And it was all legal. Zuck Bucks drove Trump’s defeat, while many Republicans were distracted by confusing voting machine technology. The use of private money – much of it dark money – to fuel election-office policy was the single most revolutionary and effective characteristic of the 2020 election.
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Yes, follow the Dark Money.
There are lawsuits ongoing now claiming that these maneuvers were unconstitutional. Hopefully there is some way to peirce the legal armor these sleazebags constructed to cover themselves with.
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