Voters in 4 states file federal lawsuits against Zuckerberg's $250m voting initiative grant

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Four separate federal lawsuits filed today seek to halt Mark Zuckerberg's quarter-billion-dollar cash infusion into a nonprofit group funding local government voting drives in critical battleground states. 

The lawsuits, filed by voter groups in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, seek to challenge a $250 million donation by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning nonprofit that works to increase voter turnout across the counry. 

The Center for Tech and Civic Life seeks to "pay government officials to turn out the vote in blue jurisdictions," Thomas More Society lawyer and plaintiff's attorney Phill Kline said in a press release announcing the suits. Governors in those states, Kline further alleged, "are making it difficult and actually discouraging in-person voting on Election Day in more conservative areas of the states."