Projected Winner 2020: Fraud Unicorns

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/s...32296091246595

[kuronosan]

Lmao

[6souls]

https://www.protocol.com/policy/zuck-bucks-election
https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/st...31700272017410

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $419M to election services to purchase ballot sorters & drop boxes and to help pay poll workers. Conspiracy theorists are now convinced that Zuck is one of the main factors that Trump didn't win.

He did it the Zuckerberg way. The Facebook way. Instead of explicitly picking a party — God forbid he be the arbiter of anything — he threw open the vault to his vast fortune and said: Have at it, America. He offered grants to any election official who wanted one, so long as they spent it on what a lot of people would consider mundane essentials that make it easier and safer for everyone to vote.

And when those election officials from red, blue and purple places, all starved for funding, applied for more money than the whopping $300 million he already offered, he kicked in another $119 million to satisfy the rest of the requests.

As with seemingly everything Zuckerberg touches, the donations — and their ensuing backlash — have had disastrous unintended consequences, inspiring new restrictions on election funding in more than a dozen states, leading to death threats and harassment against the nonprofit leaders who distributed the money and contributing to the resignations of election officials who accepted it. The grants have been the subject of shambolic investigations and — as shown by what The Washington Post described as the “fraud fete” in honor of the “Rigged” premiere in April — have become a big part of the Big Lie.

The sudden influx of cash from one of the world’s most divisive billionaires instantly thrust CTCL’s spending into the spotlight. Conservative critics conflated the early grant program that came out of CTCL’s budget with the Zuckerberg grants that came later, seizing on the idea that CTCL and Zuckerberg had conspired to give Democratic stronghold cities like Milwaukee and Philadelphia a head start before making additional funding available to everyone.

This detail is not only a big part of the plot of “Rigged,” but also central to an investigation in Wisconsin that has been seeking to “decertify” the election there. Michael Gableman, the special counsel leading that investigation, now refers to the first cities CTCL funded in Wisconsin as the “Zuckerberg 5."

“Why just pick the top five Democratic cities?” Gableman, who received a round of applause at the film’s premiere at Mar-a-Lago, asks in one scene in “Rigged.” “And then when they received criticism about that, then they sprinkled relatively minor amounts of money.”

There is much more in the article. It's a long read.

[TsingTao]

Whatever desperate conspiracy theory it takes to "prove" Trump won.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/stat...LrKdveu6efwjrw

[zoobernut]

People claiming election was stolen were actually the ones trying to steal the election. Color me surprised. This is about as surprising as the republican politician guy who is fervently anti gay that gets caught in a public bathroom with another guy.

[Lucavi]

Project to deflect. Oldest trick in the book.

[Jaybar]

So you're saying we actually need voting protections. But from the Republicans.

[zoobernut]

So you're saying we actually need voting protections. But from the Republicans.

Republicans: The real source of voter fraud and monkeypox 2022.

[Cail]

https://twitter.com/zcohencnn/status...TkhvZPxJkW3SOg