Center for Voter Information

Commentary
Conservatives Can Address the Election Disparity (and Maybe Even Start Winning)
In the aftermath of an underwhelming performance by Republicans in the 2022 election, demands have echoed across the internet for conservative leaders to develop a ballot-harvesting and voter-mobilization infrastructure comparable…
by Parker Thayer on January 11, 2023

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? How and Why [REPOST]
Common sense might suggest that foundations interested in voter turnout should bankroll get-out-the-vote efforts rather than registration campaigns to get the most bang for their buck. In fact, they fund…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 2, 2023

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? How and Why
Common sense might suggest that foundations interested in voter turnout should bankroll get-out-the-vote efforts rather than registration campaigns to get the most bang for their buck. In fact, they fund…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Parties or Nonprofits?
Besides their tax exemption and tax deduction for donors, 501(c)(3)s enjoy a key advantage over political committees: distance from the two parties. While Republican and Democratic National Committees struggle with…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Cogs in the Machine
We traced the finances and funders of 24 top voter registration nonprofits. Together, these organizations spent roughly $434 million in 2020 alone. Not all of this money went to election work, but…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Special Report
Charity or Billions for the Left’s Voter Pipeline? Saving Democracy or Democrats?
Powerful leftists might have viewed unseating President Donald Trump as a cause worth pouring any amount of money into, but one suspects that they’re less inclined to do so for…
by Hayden Ludwig on September 28, 2022

Organization Trends
The Voter Participation Center: A Tax-Exempt Turnout Machine for Democrats
Every election cycle it’s the same story. Massive liberal foundations pour tens of millions of dollars into tax-exempt groups to turn out the Democratic vote. They call it “philanthropy, but…
by Parker Thayer, Hayden Ludwig on July 13, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
Democrats [Tried to Use] the Same 2020 Election Shenanigans to Overtake Virginia This Year
In Virginia, Democrats tried to ensure a McAuliffe win and a subsequent retention of power in the state and U.S. Senate by using the same tactic they used in the…
by Hayden Ludwig on November 3, 2021

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for September 2021
In outlets as diverse as the Washington Free Beacon, LifeSite, the Daily Signal, and RealClearEnergy, our original reporting on topics such as the left-wing funding of eco-conservatism and the union…
by Sarah Lee on October 21, 2021

Organization Trends
Senate Democrats’ Dark Money ATM
Majority Forward, the 501(c)(4) arm of the Democrats’ partisan Senate Majority PAC, is a “dark money” behemoth. You wouldn’t know it from the group’s nondescript website, but Majority Forward spent $515,000 backing Joe Biden…
by Hayden Ludwig on October 4, 2021