Researcher tells committee that large nonprofit voter‑registration networks have partisan ties and big payments to political firms

The House Election Integrity Committee also heard testimony from Parker Thayer, a researcher with the Capital Research Center, who presented research alleging that a national industry of nonprofit voter-registration groups has substantial partisan links and large monetary flows to political consulting firms.

Thayer told the committee he studies the “nonprofit voter registration industry” and presented industry‑level estimates and specific case studies. He said published estimates put the national ecosystem that self-identifies as voter registration and education at roughly $760 million in 2022; based on his research he said the full national total could be closer to $1 billion.

Thayer outlined a history and network of organizations he described as central to large-scale voter-registration efforts. He said the Voter Registration Project (VRP), the Everybody Votes campaign and the Voter Participation Center (VPC) together form a network that in 2023 raised tens of millions of dollars and contracted substantial work to…