Nonprofits start Campaign 2024 mailings to counties in Sharice Davids' congressional district
Mailings start today for almost 30,000 pieces to five counties in Kansas
Updated June 3 to included stats about second mailing in May.
An open records request to the Kansas Secretary of State’s office, revealed the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI) will be sending voter registration application mailings starting today to people in five counties.
Surely it’s only a coincidence the targeted counties are specifically the ones in Democrat Sharice Davids’ congressional district: Anderson, Franklin, Johnson, Miami and Wyandotte.
The VPC/CVI groups are not sending any mailings to the other 100 counties and three Republican congressional districts.
Updated June 3, 2024 with stats from second mailing:
The letter from VPC’s Sarah Mitchell, Deputy Director of Partnerships & Outreach, to Bryan Caskey, state election director, and Clay Barker, general counsel, at the Secretary of State’s office gave this information about the voters being targeted.
VPC and CVI particularly focus on registering and engaging the New American Majority - including young people, people of color, and unmarried women. …
Our voter registration mailing will be targeted to reach unregistered young people, voters who have recently moved and have not re-registered or updated their voter registration records (according to the latest available information), and others who are unregistered in the voting eligible population.
These mailings are designed to be partisan statistically by whom is being targeted. “Young people, people of color, and unmarried women” are statistically more likely to be Democrats.
There can easily be some sort of bias when not all voters are treated the same by nonprofits. These nonprofits are “legally” nonpartisan, but not in practice.
Comparison to 2022 CVI/VPC Early Voter Registration Mailings
The mailing of 29,108 pieces is far less than the 161,325 voter registration pieces sent in 2022 to Kansans, but VPC’s letter indicates this mailing is the first of three planned voter registration mailings this year.
Also in 2022, there were 215,851 requests for mail ballots and nearly 1.2 million get-out-the-vote mailings.
Sample Mailing
The letter from VPC to the Caskey and Barker gave several examples of the mailings they planned, and asked for feedback: “We would be glad to address any questions or concerns you or local election officials may have.”
But given the State of Kansas and VPC/CVI are in a dual in the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals over pre-populated forms being sent by VPC/CVI, there probably is not much communication initiated by the Secretary of State’s office.
Here’s one of the examples VPC provided for review by Kansas state election officials:
My understanding is the post office doesn’t bother returning undeliverable mailings, but does provide VPC/CVI with a list of the status of all mailings for follow-up.
VPC pre-pays the postage for the return of the voter registration form to the election office.
But why sign and return a paper form? The accompanying letter provides a QR code to use Rock the Votes’ national online voter registration service, similar to BluePrint Kansas’ KSVotes.org — the progressive “nonprofit in the middle” in Kansas.
The bottom of most VPC/CVI mailings includes a union printer code, so you will know it’s from a progressive organization.
Perhaps we’ll learn more about future VPC/CVI mailings in the next few months.
Related
Is this leftist group registering non-citizens to vote in New Mexico, Restoration of America, Hayden Ludwig, June 3, 2024.
Enlight Foundation, Influence Watch, viewed 2024-03-25.
The Enlight Foundation is a private grant making institution founded by Chinese billionaire Yongping Duan, known as the “Godfather” of the Chinese smartphone industry. …
Enlight supports the left-of-center Voter Participation Center, a voting registration group that drives Democrat voting activity.
How Charities Secretly Help Win Elections, Parker Thayer, Capital Research Center, Aug. 15, 2023.
Using sophisticated voter databases and Democrat-aligned microtargeting firms, charities like the Voter Participation Center have targeted “nonpartisan” voter registration drives toward demographics and localities where people vote strongly for Democrats. As liberal reporter Sasha Issenberg wrote of the Voter Participation Center in his widely praised 2012 book, Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, “Even though the group was officially nonpartisan, for tax purposes, there was no secret that the goal of all its efforts was to generate new votes for Democrats.”
The Voter Participation Center: A Tax-Exempt Turnout Machine for Democrats, Parker Thayer and Hayden Ludwig, Capital Research Center, July 13, 2022.
Every election cycle it’s the same story. Massive liberal foundations pour tens of millions of dollars into tax-exempt groups to turn out the Democratic vote. They call it “philanthropy, but no one really believes that. It’s certainly not for funding soup kitchens and libraries. As a secret memo reveals, not even leftists buy the “philanthropy” disguise.
Big Left Foundations Fund Biased Barely-Legal Voter Programs, Ken Braun, The American Conservative, May 26, 2021.
The Voter Participation Center website proclaims that “We’re the New American Majority” and carefully defines this as “young people, people of color and unmarried women.”
Obviously, this leaves out some folks. In a suspiciously convenient coincidence, exit polling from the 2020 election shows their so-called “New American Majority” gave 60 percent or more of their votes to Joe Biden.