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By Michael Bielawski
Vermont in the past has seen outside private financial support for its public elections systems, as reported by VDC. It could happen again. “The Center for Tech and Civic Life,” an organization funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, provided funding in the 2020 general election and lists Vermont as an eligible state for this year’s general election.
Neither state officials nor the Center for Tech and Civic Life have responded to VDC requests (made this morning) about involvement in the election this November. More than 100 Vermont communities received election help in 2020.
VDC reported in 2021, “CTCL spent $250 million nationwide on ‘poll worker recruitment, hazard pay, and training, polling place rental, temporary staffing support, drive-through voting, equipment to process ballots and applications, personal protective equipment (PPE) for poll workers, and nonpartisan voter education from cities and counties.’”
The Center for Tech and Civic Life is a not-for-profit formed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan to “provide assistance to local election officials” according to the report.
It continues that over 100 Vermont communities saw some of this money during the 2020 election. Further investigation by VDC suggested that such money was not present during the 2022 midterms in Vermont.
John Klar, a VDC contributor, author, national blogger and former Vermont GOP gubernatorial candidate, suggests that ‘Zuckerbucks’ are back, at least on the national level.
“One of the companies alleged to have influenced the 2020 national election using money contributed by Mark Zuckerberg (aka “Zuck Bucks”) has announced another round of grants for 2024,” Klar, a Brookfield resident, wrote recently. “The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) claims its mission is to ‘increase civic participation,’ yet critics claim the organization is partisan and should not be permitted to insert its operatives into election offices.”
Klar quoted former Federal Election Commission member Hans von Spakovsky who was also taken aback by the development in 2020. Spakovsky said, “My reaction is that this was a carefully orchestrated attempt to convert official government election offices into get-out-the-vote operations for one political party and to insert political operatives into election offices to influence and manipulate the outcome of the election. … All states should ban private funding of government election offices no matter the source.”
Zuckerbucks in Vermont in 2024?
As of today, 28 states have banned outside private financial contributions to their election systems. Vermont is not one of them.
According to an April 2024 report by The Center for Election Innovation and Research, Vermont has “no restrictions” of any kind regarding outside financial influence over its elections, one of only 12 states with such status.
The CTCL lists Vermont on their list of eligible states to take their money. Their page states, “Applications are currently open to eligible election offices in 20 states—Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming—as well as the U.S. territories.”VDC reached out to CTCL and Vermont’s Secretary of State’s office to see if Vermont will be receiving any funds or services from their program. Any responses will be reported.
Noble-Prize-nominated physicist, speaking Saturday in Middlebury, has warned about Zuckerbucks
As reported in 2023 by True North Reports, a world-renowned physicist and a military fraud detector visited Vermont to discuss election integrity, and the subject of Zuckerbucks came up during their presentation.
Dr. Douglas Frank, Ph.D., explained that even after presenting data to seemingly sympathetic state legislators concerning evidence of election fraud in their states, once he left, financial influences [Zuckerbucks] again took over policy.
“Both committees [in the Pennsylvania state legislature] in both houses made a recommendation to the legislature that they throw out the entire state voter rolls in Pennsylvania,” Frank recalled. “They did, they threw their entire voter rolls because we proved that they had been abused and manipulated. And they hired a firm to rebuild the state voter rolls, that contract was rewarded for $10 million on Nov. 21 after the election.”
Frank went on to explain that the firm was paid for via Zuckerbucks and the changes he had advocated for in Pennsylvania were promptly undone. Frank will be back in Vermont this Saturday in Middlebury on Aug. 17, for a public event on election integrity.
The author is a writer for the Vermont Daily Chronicle
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are zuckerbucks the same as federal reserve notes////
LOL
The real question to ask is why Mark Zuckerberg would be so vested in providing private funds to influence the outcome of elections. What is in it for Zuckerberg. The answer is because the Metaverse is an important part of the new digital economy and a shining example of stakeholder capitalism. I am providing the link to the World Economic Forum which discussed the Metaverse. There is a link that will show you the diagram depicting how all commerse and education will be conducted via the Metaverse. The article talks about democratizing education relative to the global community. The word “democratization” has been cooped to mean serving or implementing social, political and economic systems practiced in other countries such as Singapore and China’s use of surveillance to govern populations aka communism.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/12/metaverse-impact-education-learning/
All the lobbyists know they can buy Vermont politicians cheap; they can get anything passed in this state.
How is it even a “democracy” when one individual funds elections?
Like they don’t have enough tax payer money to run an election in this state?
We’re insane with corruption, we think it’s normal.
We think it’s normal to steal, it’s ok.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-man-tresspassing-theft-arrests/61879141
arrested 5x in one week, 69 times in one year, they don’t show this on Vermont news, have to go to New York. This is happening every day, yet the VTGOP are quiet, and VT Digger keeps postings of cops doing bad things. We live in an upside-down world. Every day, multiple times major retailers in Chittenden County are robbed blind. Have you seen everything that’s locked up now?
We got a D- ethics, one of the lowest grades in the entire nation.
NBC 5 is VT News. But yes, people are committing offenses and being let go to re-offend.
here’s a more details report
230 encounters with the police in ONE YEAR….that’s almost EVERYDAY…
It is every working day of the week. Every single day a police officer has to deal with this ONE criminal, because…..Vermont is all about restorative justice.
https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vermont-patrick-ibbotson-arrested-burlington/61853755
You guys think this is ok?????? Seriously. DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!
What every you do, don’t dare send a strong worded tweet.
Exactly, you will be put in prison for hate speech for commenting on the fact that the citizentry are being raped and murdered by migrants, as is happening in the UK.
Some more background info on this 501c3:
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-tech-and-civic-life/
Here are some of the highlights you should be aware of:
“However, the group’s tax-exempt status was officially recognized on March 24, 2015, according to a “Final Letter” from the IRS. Though the letter was dated March 24, 2015, the letter also states that the effective date of exemption was October 23, 2014. Interestingly, the address listed was the same address as the New Organizing Institute’s, the group where all three CTCL founders previously worked. This means that the Center for Tech and Civic Life was created and operational within the New Organizing Institute’s offices before the New Organizing Institute was dissolved amid scandal in 2015”
“When it was still in operation, Epps-Johnson, May, and Bridges all worked together at the New Organizing Institute (NOI), a now-defunct left-progressive group which trained digital organizers and campaigners for the Democratic Party and left-of-center political causes. Epps-Johnson began working for NOI in 2010 as a deputy data manager of the organization’s Voting Information Project. She was then promoted to manage the project and eventually became NOI’s election administration director. May joined NOI in 2012 to work as its liaison to state election officials for the Voting Information Project and later acted as the liaison to election officials for the organization’s election administration department. Bridges started in 2011 and directed a variety of research projects on candidates, elections, and ballot questions.”
“The New Organizing Institute was originally founded in 2004 (launched in 2005) by Zack Exley, a radical activist with MoveOn.org (later an adviser to Sen. Bernie Sander’s 2016 presidential campaign and an Open Society Foundations fellow), and Judith Freeman, a political strategist for the AFL-CIO and later adviser to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.”
“The organization boasts that more than 250 million voters have accessed its data and that CTCL acts as a major supplier of ballot data for tech giants Facebook and Google. Additionally, Rock the Vote, the Women Donors Network, and the Voting Information Project have all used data provided by CTCL”
“These reports found that, while CTCL did not apparently violate any election laws in funding county elections offices, many of its grants targeted key Democratic-leaning counties and cities in battleground states essential to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. While CTCL sent grants to many counties that Republican incumbent Donald Trump won in these states, the largest grants went to Biden counties such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.”
Why are churches registered under 5013c? Are they yoking themselves to government rule? Is that free practice of religion? Is that why the government is allowed to shut down churches and infiltrate to spy on parishoners? Some are saying this is an abomination to God and His Word. Feeding the beast system through His House and leading His flock astray.
“Establishment Clause: Prohibits the government from establishing an official religion or favoring one religion over another. The Supreme Court has developed a three-part test to determine if something constitutes an “establishment of religion”:
The primary purpose of the assistance must be secular.
The assistance must neither promote nor inhibit religion.
There is no excessive entanglement between church and state.”
Registering a house of worship with the US corporation sounds like willfull “entanglement” to me.
Unfortunately, we will never see good government in Vermont because of the stupidity of the voters who keep voting for the same people with the same promises and lies told to them over and over and over again.
“And the world’s few… evil people have little power without the help of the world’s many stupid people. As a result, stupidly is a far greater threat than evil”.
Gurwinder Bhogal
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits”.
Joe Concha