Zuckerberg money used to pay election judges, grow vote in Democrat stronghold, memos reveal

[Geee]

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Grant application turned over under federal court order quadruples polling places from primary, promises as many as 800,000 votes from city in November. Only 675,000 voted in 2016.

 

Documents produced by the city of Philadelphia under a federal court order show millions of dollars in nonprofit grant money donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is being used to quadruple the number of voting places and massively grow the number of ballots cast in the Democratic stronghold on Nov. 3.

The memos were turned over in a federal lawsuit filed by the conservative Thomas More Society, and they detail how city election officials filed a grant request in August to the Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) by promising to open 800 polling places and grow voting to as many as 800,000 ballots cast in the general election.

The number of promised polling places is more than four times the 190 polling places opened during the city's pandemic-affected primary earlier this year, and the promised turnout is estimated to be as many as 120,000 voters larger than the 2016 presidential election, which drew about 680,000 voters. About 80% of the vote went to Democrats in 2016 in the city.

[Valin]

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"A voter can go to any satellite office and register to vote, if needed, request a mail-in ballot in-person, receive it, vote, and return it all at the same location," the grant application explained. The early voting efforts also include drop boxes, because "installing at least 15 secure, 24-hour drop boxes at each early vote location will help ensure that voters have some opportunity to return their ballots if it may be too late to send via" mail, the application added.

In justifying one item for which funds were sought, the grant application stated that "a full, 5-member Election Board (Judge of Elections, two Inspectors of  Election, one Clerk, and one Machine Inspector) will require recruiting, training, and assigning up to 8,515 poll workers (1,703 divisions x 5 Election Board members)."

 

There was a time when I would say This Is A Good Thing...Make It Easier To Vote.  That was then...This is Now.

 

Here's the Larger issue. No matter who wins, will the other side accept it as legitimate?

Consider the worst possible scenario (from our perspective) Biden/Harris win The *Democrats retake the Senate, and there are (substantive) questions about voting. What will Trump Voters/Supporters do? How will we react? What happens if that large swath of Red States REALLY don't accept the outcome?

I really Hate to be all Doom & Gloom, but this is a question that has been on my mind lately.

 

* Today's Woke/Intersectional/Progressive Democrats