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Democrats have paid off strongly related to investigations into voter fraud
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Democrats have paid off strongly related to investigations into voter fraud

Democratic politician campaign have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm facing investigations in Pennsylvania counties for allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms, federal records show.

Monroe County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Mike Mancuso said in a statement Last week, a subsidiary of an Arizona firm called FieldCorps was responsible for submitting 30 forms with fraudulent details, including in the name of a deceased resident. And in York, another county in the Keystone State, they are official search for in suspicious forms, they say they were sent by FieldCorps on behalf of the Everybody Votes Campaign, a group linked to Washington, DC. Arabella’s advisers the dark money network that supports the Democrats.

now since saturday website for FieldCorps and its social media accounts do not appear to be active. Francisco Heredia, a city adviser of Mesa, Ariz., who is listed in corporate filings as the owner of the consulting firm, did not return a request for comment. Eduardo Sainz, a political consultant who is a partner at the firm, did not respond either.

The drama unfolding in Pennsylvania comes to the fore Election day on Tuesday and a showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Pennsylvania is a key swing state in 2024, and the results in counties there could decide who gets in White house next year. A Washington Examiner review of the Federal Electoral Commission filings found that since 2018, Democratic campaign committees have funneled about $430,000 to FieldCorps.

The FieldCorps branch works in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, according to state officials, who have declined to identify whether FieldCorps is the “third party organization” behind an investigation officials there have opened into 2,500 voter registration forms flagged as suspicious.

About 17 percent of those forms are fraudulent and 26 percent are still under investigation, a county commissioner said. said this week.

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, speaks during a campaign rally on Oct. 26, 2024, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and former President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a campaign rally on Oct. 22, 2024, in Greensboro, North Carolina. (AP Photo)

In 2017, FieldCorps filed articles of organization in Arizona. It is still listed as a limited liability corporation there.

A description for the business on a nonprofit track website called Idealist says FieldCorps is “a grassroots, minority-owned firm that drives results in the field through one-on-one contact with individuals.”

“We use data and technology to build programs that are effective and accountable, while ensuring we build personal relationships with members of our community,” the description says, adding that FieldCorps engages in “door-to-door canvassing, registration operations of voters’ and other election-related initiatives.

While the FieldCorps site is not publicly viewable as of this week, year archived last year’s release said the firm had knocked on 1.25 million doors and is also focusing on direct mail to voters with an in-house printer. Federal Election Commission documents provide a window into where campaigns have used the company’s services in recent years.

The 2020 presidential campaign of Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, paid FieldCorps $250,500 in 2020 for canvassing services. Bloomberg, who suspended his campaign in March of that year, spent tens of millions of dollars supporting Harris in 2024.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation’s 79th Annual Dinner Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

The Arizona Democratic Party paid FieldCorps $101,700 in 2018 and 2020 for canvassing, according to filings.

Party of Working Families PACwhich spent millions of dollars on TV ads to boost Harris and other Democrats in 2024, transferred $15,400 to FieldCorps in 2023.

This election cycle, the campaign of Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) paid FieldCorps $7,250 for “petition collection” services.

Other company beneficiaries included campaigns for then-Rep. Tom O’Halleran and Ginger Sykes Torres, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress and it was later appointed by the Biden-Harris administration to a state Department of Agriculture position, federal records show.

The election drama surrounding FieldCorps is not new.

Two Arizona counties, Navajo and Mohave, last year flagged voter registration forms from the firm as suspicious and forwarded them to the Arizona attorney general’s office, which opened an investigation. PennLive reported.

A source close to the York County, Pennsylvania, investigation said Washington Examiner that FieldCorps has partnered to send out voter registration forms with the Everybody Votes Campaign, or EVC.

Last year, a conservative think tank called the Capital Research Center found in a report that EVC is legally the same entity as a charity called the Voter Registration Project. The charity worked with wealthy Democrats to raise $190 million and register more than 5 million people to vote in 2020, the think tank said, citing leaked nonprofit documents.

Charities must be nonpartisan under federal law, but the think tank accused EVC of acting partisan to run “the largest and most corrupt ‘charitable’ voter registration effort in American history.” The Voter Registration Project counts some of its top donors as George Soros and funds managed by Arabella Advisors, the Democratic-aligned consulting firm in Washington, DC, tax filings show. Its leader is Nellie Sires, THE former director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

“Everybody Votes is proud to provide resources and support to local partners working on nonpartisan voter registration, and we are committed to helping ensure that every eligible person is registered to vote,” said an EVC spokesperson. Washington Examiner.

“We have not been contacted by officials in Lancaster, York or Monroe counties regarding any ongoing investigation and have no additional information about the forms in question,” the EVC spokesperson said. “Our partners work diligently to ensure that all forms collected comply with all rules and regulations. If contacted, we intend to work with our partners and election officials to quickly resolve any discrepancies and ensure that all eligible registered applicants have the opportunity to vote on Tuesday.”

Parker Thayer, the researcher who authored the Capital Research Center’s 2023 report, said his findings demonstrated that EVC exists “to produce as many Democratic votes as possible” in a partisan manner.

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It’s “absurd,” Thayer added, for EVC to claim it didn’t know about voter registration forms related to FieldCorps because Sires, the nonprofit’s leader, disclosed in a interview that her group signs “joint effort agreements” with partners.

“With these latest allegations, Everybody Votes now has a pattern of paying sketchy canvassing consultants for shoddy work, resulting in the submission of massive numbers of dubious voter registration forms,” ​​Thayer said. “If the canvassers under investigation said they worked for EVC, then EVC almost certainly saw and reviewed the false records.”