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Researcher tells committee nonprofit voter-registration network funneled large sums to partisan consultants, raised concerns about foreign funding and IRS rules
Summary
Parker Thayer of the Capital Research Center testified that a nationwide nonprofit voter-registration ecosystem channels large dollars to partisan consulting firms and said groups including Everybody Votes, the Voter Participation Center and the Voter Registration Project have paid millions to Democratic consulting firms.
Parker Thayer, a researcher with the Capital Research Center, told a Michigan House committee that the nonprofit voter-registration industry is large and in many cases financially tied to partisan consulting firms. Thayer described organizational networks, funding flows and examples his research flagged as inconsistent with 501(c)(3) restrictions on partisan activity.
Thayer said national estimates of the "voter-registration ecosystem" range from roughly $760 million to about $1 billion in annual revenue. He said the Voter Registration Project (VRP) reported on its IRS Form 990 paying GBI Strategies more than $2.5 million in 2020 for "voter registration consulting," and he argued that the VRP and its public-facing Everybody Votes campaign were…
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