Wisconsin Election Clerk Says Zuckerberg-Funded Group May Have Violated State Law

In Wisconsin, a Brown County clerk says the use of private money during the 2020 election may have violated state law. Just the News reports Sandy Juno, the now-retired elections clerk for the key Wisconsin county says political activists working for a group funded by Mark Zuckerberg money seized control of the November elections in Green Bay and other cities.

Just the News reports:

The group poured millions of dollars into multiple key Wisconsin Democratic strongholds in the months leading up to last year’s presidential race, ostensibly in an effort to shore up voting systems and infrastructure amid the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic. The organization was ultimately funded with more than a third of a billion dollars by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan; that money was funneled to additional election funding efforts across the country.
Juno claimed that following the infusion of the CTCL cash into Green Bay “the mayor’s office and chief of staff began to take over election functions.”

“And that is not something under state statutes they have the authority to do,” she said, “because under Wisconsin law, municipal clerks, the county clerk and the Wisconsin Elections Commission are the individuals charged with running elections.”

Juno said the COVID-19 pandemic had already thrown the year into chaos prior to CTCL’s involvement in Wisconsin’s elections.

“As we got closer to the November election,” she said, “we found out that this outside group had come in and was basically trying to redo our forms and documents that we use statewide. And these people were from out of state and had no business doing that.”

That money resulted in “sidelining career experts and making last-minute changes that may have violated state law” reports Just the News. Juno says of the matter, “They had no business doing that.” The funding from the Zuckerberg-backed Center for Tech and Civic Life created “chaos” and unnecessary changes as to how ballots in Green Bay were counted in the November election.

“We need to be really on top of this, because if this is how elections are going to go, we won’t have election integrity” Juno warned, who also has called on policymakers to ban grant money from rich donors to go into local election referees in the future. It creates corrupt influence.