In a response to Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave more than $350 million–less than Donald Trump owes New York State–to local election administration during the pandemic in 2020, voters in Wisconsin supported a Republican-championed referendum to ban private money from election administration, the Washington Post reports.
The money, dubbed “Zuckerbucks” by paranoid conservatives, was targeted for equipment and technology to help ease voting processes for workers during the pandemic: curbside drop boxes, mail-in voting costs, personal protective equipment for workers, and other unforeseen expenses. In conservative conspiracy circles, however, the money was used to pay off election officials to change numbers to favor Joe Biden and Democrats, which they believe in their hearts but never found evidence to prove.