Posted on 12/11/2022 1:32:38 PM PST by Signalman
The Virginia Democratic Party is instructing activists to include deceased citizens and “bad” addresses when generating voter contact lists, The Federalist has learned.
A pivotal tool Virginia Dems use to target voters for their ballot harvesting and get-out-the-vote efforts is VoteBuilder, an online database of all registered voters in Virginia operated by the Virginia Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee. In the words of the Virginia Democrats themselves, “this database contains the names and other important information about registered voters – information that we can use to target likely voters for Democratic campaigns.”
Democrat activists who use VoteBuilder can look up specific information about each registered voter and group them into likely Democrat voter outreach lists, which they then use for GOTV outreach, including phone banking and ballot harvesting.
On the Virginia Democrats’ VoteBuilder website, there are instructions for how activists can use the tool to generate voter contact lists for absentee ballot chasing, a.k.a., ballot harvesting. The website describes it as generating absentee ballot “labels,” a process which also functions to collect a list of voters’ addresses.
In the instructions on the web page, however, there are screenshots of the VoteBuilder database that show activists can generate an expanded outreach list by adding voters (under “Suppressions”) with “bad” addresses, National Change of Address forwarding addresses (residents who have moved), and even those who have died to the baseline list of active and inactive registered voters with accurate addresses. From there, activists can create lists of these voters’ phone numbers and addresses so they can contact them and collect their mail-in ballots.
hese instructions vary from another place on the Virginia Democrats’ site that appear to be tips on how to use VoteBuilder from the DNC itself, saying the “Suppressions” filters are “the automatic settings to prevent bad addresses from showing up on your lists.”
If the DNC itself is telling activists that the “Suppressions” filters are used to prevent “bad” addresses from being included in the voter contact lists, why is the Virginia Democratic Party instructing its users to include them?
“I don’t know how you can in good conscience instruct your workers to solicit votes from people in those categories,” Clara Belle Wheeler, former vice-chair of the Virginia State Board of Elections and senior fellow at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, told The Federalist. “They’re instructing people to solicit votes from people who are not legally eligible to vote — they’ve either moved, are not a citizen of the United States, or [are] dead.”
When asked about the deceased or NCOA filters on its database, a spokesman for the Virginia Democratic Party told The Federalist they are filters to help users weed through the voter registration data and that incorrect or deceased registrants are removed. But when asked why the instructions on their website for creating voter contact lists specifically tell users to include addresses of those who have died or moved, the spokesman told The Federalist he would respond later. The Federalist has since reached out twice with no response.
Virginia Democrats are not the only Democrats who use VoteBuilder to identify and group potential Democrat voters for ballot-harvesting purposes, however. State parties across the nation use the software, all thanks to the Democratic National Committee. VoterBuilder’s parent company – and main technology provider for Democrat and other leftist campaigns — NGP VAN describes the database as a way for thousands of Democrat campaigns “to contact hundreds of millions of voters” each election cycle. On the same site, there is an entire article dedicated to ballot harvesting and scoring votes “early.”
But why are deceased voters on VoteBuilder? That depends on each state’s list maintenance (or lack thereof). Virginia Democrats have deceased or incorrect registrants in their database because they receive Virginia’s voter registration file each month — purportedly to “update” their database. Despite the state’s commitment to list maintenance, Virginia’s voter rolls contain inaccurate data: a spring mailer sent out by Fairfax County had over 72,000 undeliverables return — nearly 10 percent of their registered voter list.
“Under the National Voter Registration Act, it is the locality’s [the Virginia Department of Elections] responsibility to maintain accurate and current voter registration lists, whether they are transmitted to anybody or not,” Wheeler said. “So I guess you could say it’s not really the fault of the party if the voter file is not accurate.”
Regardless of whether or not the voter files are accurate, that Virginia Democrats are instructing its volunteers to include the dead or “bad” addresses increases the likelihood of voter fraud.
“The existence of that option, along with instructions that include soliciting dead ‘people’, would seem to be soliciting voter fraud,” former Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli told The Federalist. “Obviously, that would be a crime, if accurate.”
bttt
Looking like the only way the dems got in control of Virginia at all was through fraud. Going back to Obama imo.
Sounds like the VA Dems are issuing contradictory instructions: include suppressions says one place on their site while “don’t” is instruction elsewhere.
In any event, lets suppose a canvaser goes to the address of a dead person whose name has not been removed from registration list (my state has a form to do this when a death occurs; maybe Va does not). Let’s further suppose that canvaser obtains a mail ballot that was delivered to that address, fills out the ballot and drops it off at a drop box (or mails it). How does that ballot get past the signature verification step when the vote is processed prior to counting (I’m assuming there is such a step in Va as there is in my state)?
Sounds to me like the Va Dems are really beating the bushes to get out Dem votes. Why aren’t the Repubs doing this?
It was the testing ground for nationwide fraud.
Just for arguments sake, why don’t Republicans do this?
This mail-in and ballot harvesting nonsense encourages fraud. This is evidence that it does.
Been saying it for years. All these groups should be banned. Getting out the vote should be limited to advertising from state representatives. These groups are nothing but a front for vote fraud.
They aren’t even trying to hide their crimes anymore because they know if they are caught, only some low level patsy will be punished.
How’d the Federalist get ahold of this?
Commies don’t care. It’s a means to an end. Stop imagining they have respect for laws or decency.
Fictional characters?
Fight fire with fire...
Fight dirty fighters with dirty tactics...
If they shoot your captured wounded, shoot their captured wounded...
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Fight election fraud with election fraud...
I think you left out fake people. They use them, too.
Yes, them too. 😅
Wait a minute here. This would seems to indicate Democrats are .... cheating??!!
Preposterous! Balderdash! Inconceivable!
It’s just bad candidates. You see, that’s what is causing the split tickets.
Some republicans do, like in Arizona.
Now if MAGA people tried this they would be dealt with harshly and the machine would suddenly assert that cheating is rampant and here are the wreckers that are doing it!!
Then some dude in a red hat would be paraded out for the peasants to throw rotten cabbages at.
In the screenshot example these filters only applied to people who had requested a ballot, so it wasn't a blind fishing expedition.
To an extent. But consider Fast Terry ran the worst goobernatorial campaign since Big Daddy Bevin.
Exclusionary filters that are presented in toto to easily turn them off.
The nimrod Donkey dev could have made the filters by default exclusionary, put them another step down, and then forced the user to re-establish inclusion, but he didn't, and he didn't for what he's exactly accused of. Mirrion dorrah say he built that in cohort with the equivalent of whatever passes for the BA at VADEMScumbag.
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