A Minnesota county has accepted a $20,000 grant from a left-wing dark money group notable for its interference in the 2020 election to the benefit of Democrats.
During its Aug. 20 meeting, the Nobles County Board of Commissioners voted to acquire the monies from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). The left-wing organization is widely known for pouring hundreds of millions of dollars from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into local election offices during the 2020 election cycle. These “Zuckbucks” were used to expand unsecure election practices and were heavily skewed toward Democrat-majority counties, essentially making it a massive, privately funded Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.
Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden in Nobles County by a 30.7-point margin in the 2020 contest.
Notes of the commissioners’ meeting indicate the locality applied for the grant on Aug. 14 under CTCL’s “2024 Rural and Nonmetro Election Infrastructure Grant Program.” As The Federalist’s Logan Washburn previously reported, the new grants are directed at “eligible rural and nonmetro election offices” and “can be used for ‘key human, physical, and technological assets’ the Department of Homeland Security considers ‘necessary to conduct elections.’”
The grants were offered to states in which private election funding is legal.
Minnesota Senate Republicans introduced a bill in 2022 prohibiting local officials from accepting “a contribution, in any form, from a for-profit business or a nonprofit organization made for the purpose of paying expenses associated with conducting a federal, state, or local election.” The measure died in the State Government Finance and Policy
