Epoch Times - Facebook Injects $500M to Influence Federal Election
Aired: 2020-12-21
Duration: 03:31


=== Zuckerberg's Influence on Elections (03:30) ===

[00:00:00]  The Amistad Project held a press conference on December 16th to release a report exposing 10 non-profit organizations funded by five foundations.
[00:00:10]  The group alleges that hundreds of millions of dollars were injected into the election, with $500 million coming from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
[00:00:18]  The funds were used to purchase voting machines, set up ballot boxes, and buy up local elections officials, according to the report.
[00:00:26]  Phil Kline, the former Attorney General of Kansas, hosted a national press conference on December 16th.
[00:00:32]  Kline is currently the director of Amistad Project, a subsidiary of the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm.
[00:00:40]  This report and the evidence we're going to share today demonstrates that Mr.
[00:00:45]  Zuckerberg's funds flowing through charities paid for the election judges, paid for the satellite offices to turn out the vote, paid for the machines.
[00:00:56]  And dictated the policies that undermine state law.
[00:01:00]  Kline released a 39-page report at the press release, which accused Zuckerberg of buying up election officials and influencing American voters to turn out the vote for the benefit of Joe Biden.
[00:01:11]  The Amistad Project began to monitor digital loopholes in the electoral system in each state in the spring of 2019.
[00:01:18]  According to the report, Zuckerberg donated most of the funds to the Center for Tech and Civil Life, CTCL, a nonprofit organization.
[00:01:26]  CTCL claims on its website that we connect election officials with tools and trainings so they can best serve their communities.
[00:01:34]  We provide information the public needs to develop lifelong civic habits.
[00:01:39]  Klein cited the various ways CTCL intervened in the election.
[00:01:44]  Earlier this year, the organization began sending agents into states to recruit certain Democrat strongholds to prepare grants requesting monies from it.
[00:01:53]  For example, the center gave $100,000 to Corey Mason, the mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, to recruit four other cities to develop a plan and request a larger grant from it.
[00:02:04]  Those five cities submitted a Wisconsin Safe Election Plan, We're good to go.
[00:02:33]  The provision of Zuckerberg CTCL funds allowed these Democrat strongholds to spend roughly $47 per voter, compared to $4 to $7 per voter in traditionally Republican areas of the state.
[00:02:47]  Moreover, this recruiting of targeted jurisdictions for specific government action and funding runs contrary to legislative election plans and invites government to play favorites in the election process, the report states.
[00:03:00]  Klein also pointed out local governments did not need the infusion of private funding to help them run the elections this year.
[00:03:07]  On March 27, 2020, the Congress enacted the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security CARES Act to help each state with pandemic control, including election-related costs from COVID-19.
[00:03:21]  This privatization of elections cannot be allowed to stand.
[00:03:25]  It allows billionaires into the counting room and undermines the integrity of the election, Klein said.