Still kowtowing to the MAGA 2020 election conspiracy bullshit, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday signed a bill banning county elections offices from accepting private donations to fund their operations, a priority for fanboys still butthurt that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg built out a system for awarding grants to help election officials deal with increased turnout and vote by mail amid the COVID-19 pandemic (aka “Zuckerbucks“), John Solomon’s lame website reports.
It’s still not clear what the fucking “legitimate” rationale is for this given that there’s not to our knowledge any similar bans on private individuals or entities donating things like uniforms to a public high school football team, land to use for parks, kegs of beer to volunteer fire departments, so on and so forth. If an elections office needs money to upgrade their computers or hire more people to count ballots and a state or local legislature isn’t giving them money for it, then they should be permitted to accept outside donations just like any other government entity.
“The private funding of election administration ultimately sows distrust in election outcomes,” said MAGA “election integrity” activist Jason Snead, as if he himself isn’t among those sowing such distrust and creating the permission structure for Republicans make it harder to accept outcomes.