Mark Zuckerberg Ends Election Grants

On the occasion on Monday, Ms. Epps-Johnson stated the grants distributed by the middle in 2020 helped fill a considerable void of sources for these overseeing elections in the US. One city in New England, she stated with out specifying, was capable of exchange voting gear from the early 1900s that was held along with duct tape.

“The USA election infrastructure is crumbling,” Ms. Epps-Johnson stated.

Along with the Heart for Expertise and Civic Life, Mr. Zuckerberg and Dr. Chan gave $69.6 million to the Heart for Election Innovation & Analysis in 2020. On the time, that nonprofit group stated that the highest election officers in 23 states had utilized for grants.

Republicans have been unrelenting of their criticism of the social media mogul and his donations.

Whereas campaigning for the US Senate on Tuesday in Perrysburg, Ohio, JD Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” writer who has undergone a conversion to Trumpism, continued to accuse Mr. Zuckerberg of tipping the election in 2020 to Mr. Biden.

Mr. Vance, a enterprise capitalist, hasn’t precisely sworn off assist from huge tech. He counts Peter Thiel, a departing board member of Mr. Zuckerberg’s firm, Meta, and a serious donor to Mr. Trump, as a high fund-raiser. Mr. Thiel additionally supported Blake Masters, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona.

In an opinion piece for The New York Submit final October, Mr. Vance and Mr. Masters known as for Fb’s affect to be curbed, writing that Mr. Zuckerberg had spent half a billion {dollars} to “purchase the presidency for Joe Biden.”

In Colorado, Tina Peters, the highest vote-getter for secretary of state on the state Republican Get together’s meeting final weekend, has been a fierce critic of Mr. Zuckerberg, even after her arrest this yr on fees stemming from an election safety breach. Ms. Peters, the Mesa County clerk, is going through a number of felonies amid accusations that she allowed an unauthorized particular person to repeat voting machine arduous drive info.