Wisconsin voters are deciding whether to ban private money support for elections

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Private money to help fund elections in Wisconsin would be banned under a Republican-backed ballot question voters were deciding in the state spring election.

FILE - Residents cast their votes at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center on the first day of early voting, March 21, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin voters on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, will decide on two Republican-backed constitutional amendments, one of which would ban the use of private money to run elections in reaction to grants received in 2020 that were funded by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.

Both proposed constitutional amendments are in response to grant money that came to Wisconsin in 2020 from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a liberal group that fights for voter access. That year, the center received a $300 million donation from Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to help election officials buy supplies and run elections at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccines were available.

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