Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.
The Associated Pressoffices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations — a movement fueled by conservatives' suspicion of donations by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2020.
“Whether it was their attempt to silence conservative voices or suppress information they don't agree with, California's technology elites will stop at nothing to push their woke ideology on the American people," Reeves said."Our elections cannot be left up to billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, especially when groups like Facebook systematically silence conservative voices on their platforms.
“Mississippians deserve to have fair elections free from the outside influence of Big Tech billionaires,” Anderson said.
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