Kristi Noem's 'Zuck Bucks' ban could boost conservative credentials

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has enacted a law that bans government entities in her state from accepting private financial resources to help absorb the cost of running elections.

In signing Senate Bill 122, the Republican chief executive was responding to the GOP backlash against the hundreds of millions of dollars donated to state governments and local municipalities across the country in 2020 by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. The money was used to help mitigate the higher cost of funding elections in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.