Private financing of government election offices under the guise of COVID-19 relief skewed voter turnout in the 2020 election and may have tipped the presidential election to Joe Biden.
The chief culprit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who poured $350 million into one sleepy nonprofit, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL then distributed grants to hundreds of county and city elections officials in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
At least a dozen state legislatures have responded to these revelations with bills to protect free and fair elections by prohibiting or restricting private funding of government election offices. As of July 2022, 24 states have banned or restricted the use of private funds for election offices and 6 governors—all Democrats—have vetoed potential bans.
Here is a state by state list of these states which have banned or at least restricted the use of “Zuckerbucks”. Note Nevada is not on this list, which is something the Voter ID Authority and the Election Integrity Committee of Clark County is pushing forward with.