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Election officials in Green Bay, WI, sought monies from a group funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to register voters, it’s being revealed.
The officials pledged to use portions of a $1 million grant to run registration campaigns and conduct outreach to “underrepresented” minority voters according to memos obtained by Just the News through an open records request.
The grant was requested from the Center of Tech and Civic Life, a non-profit that purports to use technology to help elected officials communicate their messages to constituents more efficiently and help Americans remain civically engaged.
Zuckerberg has contributed $400 million to the CTCL.
“[W]e’d like to reach out to the Hmong, Somali and Spanish-speaking communities with targeted mail, geo-fencing, posters (billboards), radio, television and streaming service PSAs, digital advertising, robo calls and robo texts, as well as voter-navigators,” Green Bay’s grant-request questionnaire to the CTCL states.
“We could also employ our voter navigators to have town halls, registration drives in trusted locations and conduct virtual events,” it adds.
From Just the News:
Legal experts and Wisconsin GOP officials said Wednesday the grant arrangement appeared to put city election officials in the business of conducting partisan activities like get-out-the-vote efforts and registrations usually reserved for political parties and candidates. They added it possibly violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution by targeting only certain ethnic communities deemed favorable to Democrats.
“Using private funds to have government workers implement voter registration drives — that should be done by political groups — is an ethical concern,” Wisconsin GOP chairman Andrew Hitt told Just the News. “And the fact that they initially offered this money to Democrat cities, to target Democrat constituencies, sheds more light on their actual intentions.”