Democrats paid firm tied to voter fraud probes – Washington Examiner
Democrats paid $430,000 to firm linked to Pennsylvania voter fraud investigations
Democratic political campaigns 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.
The district attorney of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mike Mancuso, said in a statement last week that a subsidiary of a firm in Arizona called FieldCorps was responsible for submitting 30 forms with fraudulent details, including on behalf of a dead resident. And in York, another county in the Keystone State, officials are looking into suspicious forms they say were submitted by FieldCorps on behalf of the Everybody Votes Campaign, a group tied to the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors dark money network supporting Democrats.
Now, as of Saturday, the website for FieldCorps and its social media accounts do not appear to be active. Francisco Heredia, a city councilman in Mesa, Arizona, listed on corporate documents 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, also did not respond.
The unfolding drama in Pennsylvania comes ahead of Election Day on Tuesday and a matchup 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 enters the White House next year. A Washington Examiner review of Federal Election Commission filings found that, since 2018, Democratic campaign committees have shuffled roughly $430,000 to FieldCorps.
The FieldCorps subsidiary is working out of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, according to state officials, who have declined to identify whether FieldCorps is the “third-party organization” behind an investigation officials opened there into 2,500 voter registration forms flagged as suspicious.
About 17% of those forms are fraudulent and 26% are still being investigated, a county commissioner said this week.
In 2017, FieldCorps filed articles of organization in Arizona. It is still listed as a limited liability corporation there.
A description for the firm on a nonprofit tracking website called Idealist says FieldCorps is “a grassroots, minority owned firm that drives results in the field by having one on one contact with individuals.”
“We utilize data and technology to build programs that are effective and accountable while ensuring that we build personal relationships with our community members,” the description says, adding that FieldCorps engages in “door-to-door canvassing, voter registration operations,” and other election-related initiatives.
While FieldCorps’s website is not publicly viewable as of this week, an archived version from last year said the firm has knocked on 1.25 million doors and also focuses on direct mail to voters with an in-house printer. Federal Election Commission filings provide a window into which campaigns have used the firm’s services in recent years.
The 2020 presidential campaign for Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, paid FieldCorps $250,500 in 2020 for canvassing services. Bloomberg, who would suspend his campaign in March of that year, has spent tens of millions of dollars supporting Harris in 2024.
The Arizona Democratic Party paid FieldCorps $101,700 combined in 2018 and 2020 for canvassing, according to filings.
The Working Families Party PAC, which has spent millions of dollars on TV ads boosting Harris and other Democrats in 2024, transferred $15,400 to FieldCorps in 2023.
This election cycle, Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ)’s campaign paid FieldCorps $7,250 for “petition collection” services.
Other payees to the firm have included campaigns for then-Rep. Tom O’Halleran and Ginger Sykes Torres, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress and was later appointed by the Biden-Harris administration to a state Agriculture Department post, federal records show.
Election drama surrounding FieldCorps is not new.
Two counties in Arizona, Navajo and Mohave, flagged voter registration forms from the firm last year 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 told the Washington Examiner that FieldCorps partnered on submitting the 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 over 5 million people to vote in 2020, said the think tank, citing leaked nonprofit documents.
Charities are required to be nonpartisan under federal law, but the think tank accused EVC of acting partisan to spearhead “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, D.C., tax returns show. Its leader is Nellie Sires, the former Wisconsin Democratic Party director.
“Everybody Votes is proud to provide resources and support to local partners working on nonpartisan voter registration and we are committed to helping ensure every eligible person is registered to vote,” an EVC spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.
“We have not been contacted by officials in Lancaster, York, or Monroe counties about any ongoing investigations and have no additional information on the forms in question,” the EVC spokesperson said. “Our partners work diligently to ensure all forms collected comply with all rules and regulations. If contacted, we intend to work with our partners and the election officials to quickly resolve any discrepancies and ensure that all eligible registrants have an opportunity to vote on Tuesday.”
Parker Thayer, the researcher who authored the 2023 Capital Research Center report, said his findings have demonstrated that EVC exists “to produce as many swing state votes for Democrats as possible” in a partisan manner.
It’s “absurd,” Thayer added, for EVC to claim it had no knowledge of the FieldCorps-linked voter registration forms since Sires, the nonprofit leader, disclosed in an 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 massive numbers of dubious voter registration forms being submitted,” Thayer said. “If the canvassers under investigation said that they were working for the EVC, then the EVC has almost certainly seen and reviewed the phony registrations.”
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