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> payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election Surprisingly affordable relative to today’s campaign budgets.

koolba 4y ago
Everything is cheaper when you get it at just the right point of the supply chain.
- barbacoa 4y ago
  Mark Zuckerberg spend $400MM to get influence over state election offices in key swing states. Makes you wonder.
  - hackernewds 4y ago
    Proof for this claim?
    - spaceships 4y ago
      Not a statement on any claims of influence but the amount seems about right. "The couple [Zuckerberg and Chan] awarded $400 million to nonprofits for election assistance" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-from-facebooks-ceo-saved-the-2020-election https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-f...
      - barbacoa 4y ago
        It has also been criticized for its strings-attached funding with clear partisan aims of influence. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/07/team_zuckerberg_masks_the_heavily_pro-democrat_tilt_of_2020_election_zuck_bucks_study_finds_835470.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/07/...
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  - xxs 4y ago
    > $400MM What is MM - million million, i.e. 4e14 - 400 trillion. That's 15+ times entire US gross domestic product
Imnimo 4y ago
If I'm understanding the indictment right, these are elections for low-level judgeships: >On or about May 19, 2015, Domenick J. Demuro, and others known and unknown to the grand jury, added 40 fraudulent ballots during the primary election in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' client candidates running for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' preferred candidates for other state and local offices. (this is just one incident on the list). I don't know what the campaign budget for a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas is, but I suspect it's not that high if they're willing to bribe someone for an extra 40 votes!
dghughes 4y ago
Years ago it was just a case of beer.

koolba 4y ago

Everything is cheaper when you get it at just the right point of the supply chain.

barbacoa 4y ago
Mark Zuckerberg spend $400MM to get influence over state election offices in key swing states. Makes you wonder.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  Proof for this claim?
  - spaceships 4y ago
    Not a statement on any claims of influence but the amount seems about right. "The couple [Zuckerberg and Chan] awarded $400 million to nonprofits for election assistance" https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-from-facebooks-ceo-saved-the-2020-election https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/943242106/how-private-money-f...
    - barbacoa 4y ago
      It has also been criticized for its strings-attached funding with clear partisan aims of influence. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/07/team_zuckerberg_masks_the_heavily_pro-democrat_tilt_of_2020_election_zuck_bucks_study_finds_835470.html https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/07/...
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- xxs 4y ago
  > $400MM What is MM - million million, i.e. 4e14 - 400 trillion. That's 15+ times entire US gross domestic product

Imnimo 4y ago

If I'm understanding the indictment right, these are elections for low-level judgeships: >On or about May 19, 2015, Domenick J. Demuro, and others known and unknown to the grand jury, added 40 fraudulent ballots during the primary election in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' client candidates running for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' preferred candidates for other state and local offices. (this is just one incident on the list). I don't know what the campaign budget for a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas is, but I suspect it's not that high if they're willing to bribe someone for an extra 40 votes!

dghughes 4y ago

Years ago it was just a case of beer.