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Barry C. Burden’s profile on The Conversation

Critics have cast the laws as a power grab by Texas’ Republican-led legislature, aimed at disrupting how elections are run in an increasingly blue part of a traditionally red state.

A nonpartisan organization that trains election workers from across the country is now being run by two liberal voting activists—one who previously worked for the nonprofit that distributed hundreds of millions of dollars of Mark Zuckerberg’s election grants during the 2020 elections. The grants were supposedly to “help” local governments run elections, but most of the money went to election offices in Democrat-run localities.

One of the co-CEOs of Election Center previously worked for group that doled out “Zuckerbucks” in the 2020 election.

In a video message, Cooper said these changes aim to disenfranchise young and nonwhite voters who are more likely to support Democrats.