Time has only revealed more evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 election. Millions of Americans are asking important questions about the trustworthiness of our elections—and the corrupting influence of professional partisans in them, starting with Wisconsin.
The Badger State was the first to be targeted by COVID-19 “relief grants” from the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), a sleepy Chicago nonprofit raised to national infamy after Mark Zuckerberg pumped roughly $350 million into the group a few months prior to the 2020 election. Donald Trump won this battleground in 2016 by just over 27,000 votes—a stunning defeat for Hillary Clinton that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign had to reverse to win the presidency in 2020. Biden ultimately took the state by less than 21,000 votes.
In hindsight, the goal of CTCL’s “Zuck bucks” appears simple: use private funds to boost Democratic turnout in vote-rich cities like Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine (collectively known as “the five cities”). Wisconsin was a test case for the rest of the country. If Zuck bucks worked there, they could similarly increase Democratic turnout in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, or any other battleground state essential to a Biden victory.
Here’s a rough timeline of how it worked.
June 2020: The Safe Voting Plan
On June 15, 2020, the five cities submitted a joint proposal—the Wisconsin Safe Voting Plan—to CTCL asking for extra funds to…
