VPC/CVI nonprofits to mail final round of voter registration applications to Sharice Davids' congressional district
Additional 24,000 mailings start Saturday only to five KS-03 counties
On Saturday, national nonprofits Voter Participation Center (VPC) and the Center for Voter Information (CVI) start sending a third wave of voter registration applications to potential voters in five Kansas counties according to records obtained from the Kansas Secretary of State.
Surely it’s only a coincidence the targeted counties are specifically the ones in Democrat Sharice Davids’ KS-03 congressional district: Anderson, Franklin, Johnson, Miami and Wyandotte?
Open records requests to the Kansas Secretary of State also revealed the same groups will start sending a wave of advance ballot application requests in September. Those advance ballot requests might be sent to the entire state since VPC/CVI did not mention specific counties. VPC/CVI provided little information about those mailings.
A Watchdog Lab article in March gave details of the start of these voter registration application mailings in KS-03.
The VPC/CVI email to the Kansas Secretary of State explains the purpose of the current mailing:
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. VPC and CVI use the best technology available to ensure that their voter registration mail recipients are eligible to vote and are currently unregistered. Since no state makes available a list of individuals who are unregistered or ineligible, VPC and CVI use commercially available individual and residential databases and match them to the state’s voter file to determine who is unregistered and otherwise eligible. Because commercial data can be out of date or inaccurate, VPC and CVI send most mail addressed to “Current Resident,” rather than specific people. The cover letter encourages registered voters who may receive the mailing to help unregistered friends and family members register to vote.
These mailings are designed to be partisan statistically by the group being targeted.
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.
The last two mailings this year were to an address instead of a specific person. Some have speculated this could be an attempt to get voter registration forms in the hands of non-citizens.
This third wave brings the total mailings to KS-03 counties so far in 2024 to 76,511.
Sample Mailing
VPC/CVI provide the Secretary of State with a sample mailing for inspection weeks before any are mailed.
Note the return address appears to be a suite in an office building, but the address is a PO box at Topeka Hicrest Post Office.
The “Electronic Service Requested” on the envelope guarantees VPC/CVI obtains post office deliver information for tracking purposes.
VPC/CVI mailings always prominently display a union printer label, like shown below.
A letter to a potential voter gives instructions:
But why sign and return a paper form? The letter provides a QR code to use Rock the Votes’ national online voter registration service, which is similar to BluePrint Kansas’ KSVotes.org — the progressive “nonprofit in the middle” in Kansas.
Both Rock the Vote and KSVotes.org can use voter information collected on these forms for their own purposes. Is the main purpose of those sites name harvesting?
While the application form asks if the applicant is a citizen, there is no independent verification of citizenship allowed by federal law in most parts of the country.
With the Biden-Harris administration enabling millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country, and pushing voter registration through government agencies and their contractors, some speculate non-government organizations are illegally facilitating voter registration of immigrants.
Too many aspects of voting are simply part of an “honor system” with no verification!! How did that ever happen?
VPC/CVI “Red Boxing” in 2022?
A Jan. 2023 Watchdog article gave a summary of VPC/CVI mailings to Kansas in 2022 in three waves: voter registration requests, advance ballot requests, and get-out-the-vote.
Kansans received over 1.1 million VPC/CVI GOTV pieces alone in 2022.
So far in 2024, voter registration mailings are below the 2022 level.
Where did these numbers come from?
These numbers were accidentally discovered on the VPC/CVI websites in early 2023.
The numbers were found on a web page via a red box link that had the words “An example”.
View theVPC web page from May 18, 2022 via the WayBack Machine with this link.
The “Red box” numbers were collected for the four mailings in 2022 and published in a table and map form in this article.
But why did the red box gateway show these numbers?
In April 2024 an academic paper was published: Coordination in Plain Sight: The Breadth and Uses of "Redboxing" in Congressional Elections.
From the abstract:
Redboxing refers to efforts by candidates and parties to bypass laws prohibiting them from coordinating campaign advertising with outside spending groups such as super PACs. This coordination takes place in plain sight – on official campaign websites and party “microsites” – with campaigns asking outside groups to fund specific campaign messages that target particular groups of voters on desired media channels. The instructions contained in a redbox typically employ coded or technical language intended to guide the resulting “independent” expenditures, and are often presented in a distinctive, red-bordered text box designed to be easily identifiable by super PAC operatives.
Is it possible in 2022 the Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information used “redboxing” to communicate what they were doing with their massive mailings with political parties and candidates?
No VPC/CVI “red boxes” have been found in 2024.
Related
Meet The Shadowy Left-Wing Nonprofit Harvesting Voter Data To Juice Democrat Turnout, Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, July 8, 2024.
A closer look at the Voter Participation Center reveals how it uses harvested voter data to enhance Democrats’ election machine.
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.”
@EarlGlynn on X
Earl, does the GOP have any such organizations to reach out to potential voters? If not, why not? If it does, are they as effective as these organizations appear to be? Looking at this situation as a believer in a uniparty political system, if the GOP does not have competing organizations, I believe this whole situation is by design.