The Louisiana Court of Appeal has reinstated the state’s lawsuit against a Mark Zuckerberg-funded nonprofit that flooded Democratic-controlled jurisdictions with election administration grants and, in the process, may have skewed election results. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican, said the ruling was a major victory for election integrity. “Our law is clear: No individual, including Mark Zuckerberg, should supersede the people’s elected representatives,” Landry said in a statement. “Our elections should never be for sale; private money should not fund our elections.” The thinking behind the lawsuit is that the millions of dollars doled out by the left-leaning Chicago-based Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) unfairly boosted turnout in Democrat-heavy parts of the state, functioning as a kind of subsidy to get Democrats, not Republicans, to the polls. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, disagreed with Republican criticism of CTCL’s practices and vetoed state legislation banning the …
Louisiana Appeals Court Reinstates AG’s Suit Re Zuckerberg Bucks
April 6, 2022
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