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While other claims of vote-rigging have been hard to prove, the legal Zuckerberg spending of nearly $420 million in the election (nearly twice what the Democratic Party spent in all of 2019 and 2020) is fully documented in reports.
Trump supporters and critics of the scheme believe it helped juice the pro-Joe Biden vote in states such as Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia, where Biden edged Trump by a combined vote of just 43,000.
Several states have moved recently to tighten spending like that from Zuckerberg-backed groups, such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave $419 million through their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to the outlets.
Sold as nonpartisan election funds to help local election boards, much of the funding went to Democratic counties. In Wisconsin, a state-backed investigation found that some $10.3 million from the groups helped boost Democratic votes in the state count that Biden won by 20,686.
The groups spent $45 million in Georgia, where Biden won by 11,779 votes, and $5.1 million in Arizona, where Biden won by 10,457.
In some areas around the country, the Zuckerberg funding pushed per-vote spending by election officials to nearly $5 in Biden-won counties, compared to just over $1 in Trump-won counties, according to a RealClearPolicy report.
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