Progressive organizations are aggressively registering new voters online using special online access implemented under Democratic election officials. In Arizona, the program was launched during COVID-19 in 2020 and is open to groups that intend to register more than 1,000 voters. There was very little news coverage of the program launch other than a press release, and the names of the progressive organizations are no longer listed on the Arizona Secretary of State’s website.
Last year, the list of the progressive groups granted access under then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was prominently displayed on the site including Chicanos por La Causa, Mi Familia Vota, Equality Arizona, Inspire 2 Vote, One Arizona, Rock the Vote, and The Civics Center. Additionally, three other organizations that nominally sound nonpartisan but lean to the left were the Arizona Student’s Association, the Phoenix Indian Center, and the Arizona Center for Disability Law.
The Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian parties were listed, but Florence Smith, a precinct committeewoman in Legislative District 8, told Republican Briefs that the Republican Party was unaware of the service. No other right-leaning groups were listed, even though there are several known for registering voters in Arizona, such as Americans for Prosperity and Citizens for Free Enterprise.
The secretary of state’s office defended the lack of participation by conservative organizations by pointing out the sole inclusion of the Republican Party. Since the initial trial rollout of the 2022 program, there are likely many more organizations now approved for 2023.
IRS regulations prohibit targeting the registration of new voters by political party. However, a recent report from Restoration of America found that “nonprofits ran biased registration campaigns using data on where certain demographics live and how they vote.” The report looked at two sister nonprofits founded by a Democratic operative that did this outreach, the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and the Center for Voter Information (CVI). VPC boasted that it was “‘dedicated to increasing the share of unmarried women, people of color, Millennials, Gen Z, and other historically under-represented groups in the electorate’ — which happen to be the Democratic Party’s core constituencies.”
ProPublica reported in late 2020 about CVI, “Since 2005, it’s reported at least $780,360 in political spending to the Federal Election Commission, either to oppose Republicans or support Democratic candidates, including the spending this cycle for Biden.”
In their 2020 drive, the two organizations registered over 20,000 new voters in each of the five states — including Arizona. ProPublica said that the organizations are plagued with problems. “[F]or years, CVI has been criticized for the inaccuracy of its mailers and has faced reports that it has sent voter registration forms to the deceased, to longtime voters who are already registered and even to pets with human-sounding names,” ProPublica said. Kentucky’s Republican secretary of state, Michael Adams, issued a statement calling some of CVI’s mailers a “scam.”
A link to “Application Evaluation Metrics” was also scrubbed from the secretary of state’s site, which asked applicant organizations detailed questions about how they solicited new voters.
Voter registration fraud continues to happen around the country. For example, a man in Florida last year pleaded no contest to two felony charges. The third-party voter registration group he worked for, Hard Knocks Strategies LLC, “was fined $46,600 for violations of third-party voter registration laws, including submitting registrations after the deadline, to the wrong county, and from residents of another state,” according to the Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. “[A]n affidavit alleged that 29 fraudulent registrations had been submitted by Florence and five others in Lee County and another 29 suspicious registrations were submitted by employees of the same company in Charlotte County.”
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Rachel Alexander is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Rachel on Twitter / X. Email tips to [email protected].
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how is this even legal????
Watch, all those registrations will be removed right after the election.
oh Juan and Maria wont care.
Democrats have no conscience. Dems will do ANYTHING to win even if it is counter the Constitution. Look what they have done to our border. Often they try to say our immigration laws are broken. Not true. The Dems deliberately cast aside our immigration laws in the name of demography. As they love to say of themselves, demography rules – so, they cast aside our border to geometrically increase their voter demographic. They are conscienceless scumbags through and through.
What will the people do when they ALL figure out that “voting” is just a big scam to fool you into signing a “contract of obedience” with your “government”?
Their names can be found. Their tribunals will be brief.