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October 12, 2021

The 2020 Election Wasnâ€™t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg

Dana Mathewson

This is an informative and thought-provoking article (meaning: it'll make you angry as all get-out) from The Federalist. I'll just give you the first part of the goodies:

During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters. But this wasnâ€™t traditional political spending. He funded a targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan â€” but demonstrably ideological â€” non-profit organizations.

Analysis conducted by our team demonstrates this money significantly increased Joe Bidenâ€™s vote margin in key swing states. This unprecedented merger of public election offices with private resources and personnel is an acute threat to our republic, and should be the focus of electoral reform efforts moving forward.

The 2020 election wasnâ€™t stolen â€” it was likely bought by one of the worldâ€™s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.

Partisans Running Local Election Offices

The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) passed a staggering $419.5 million of Zuckerbergâ€™s money into local government elections offices, and it came with strings attached. Every CTCL and CEIR grant spelled out in great detail the conditions under which the grant money was to be used.

This is not a matter of Democrats outspending Republicans. Private funding of election administration was virtually unknown in the American political system before the 2020 election. [emphasis added]

This is a fairly long article, but it's all important information. And if you're like me, you'll come away from it more convinced than ever that Zuckerberg should be in jail -- but won't be. Go here https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/12/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg/ for the rest of the article.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 03:46 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 Well, it WAS stolen with the help of Zuck. I think the title is misleading.

That said it's true.

My brother Brian was working as a reporter for a two-bit news magazine in town, and he covered the St. Charles area. He had to go to county council meetings regularly and became pretty chummy with some of the councilmen (who were conservative).

Zuckerberg offered them big bucks to "upgrade" their voting system.

Some of the councilors wanted to take the deal, but a few of the more conservative ones turned it down "it has too many strings attached."

One of the councilmen told Britan it was ridiculously easy to falsify votes with these machines. He explained how it was done.

He didn't get it from listening to Donald Trump; he got it from actually examining the machines as part of his job.

He told Brian voting machines cost ten thousand dollars per machine, so when Zuck offers to give them to you for free it's almost impossible to say no. St. Charles County did, but it engendered some heated debate. (They also refused to have a mask mandate, to their great credit.)

Yeah, the little boy did buy the election. But he did so by getting people to take machines that flipped votes. In other words, he bought the means to steal it.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 13, 2021 07:55 AM (ZmO8h)

2 Bought, stole -- it's just a matter of semantics. The upshot is that he did things he shouldn't have done, and he probably wasn't the only one.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Idemf)

3 In other words the election was tampered with. They accused Trump of colluding with the Russians, whom they claim tampered with the election. So why was THAT a bad thing but Zuckerberg's manipulation of the vote o.k.?

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 14, 2021 06:53 AM (ddU3V)

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