The media and consulting firm linked to fraudulent voter registration forms in Pennsylvania earlier this week has gone dark since Saturday.
Field and Media Corps – whose website and social media accounts are now defunct – is an Arizona-based company that contracted with Everybody Votes to run a campaign in Pennsylvania and other states targeting minority residents low-income earners who are not registered to vote.
The Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed Wednesday that 30 registration forms contained fraudulent information, including an application filed on behalf of a deceased resident.
Everybody Votes runs an office in Lancaster County, where election workers recently found suspicious registration forms among a batch of 2,500 applications delivered last week. Researchers there said at least 60% of those assessed were fraudulent. So far, the campaign has not been directly linked to the research.
This is not the case in nearby York County, where law enforcement is still assessing another delivery from the operation ahead of the Oct. 22 deadline to register.
On Wednesday, the America First Policy Institutea conservative-leaning nonprofit research organization, demanded a federal investigation into the company.
“Where there’s fire, there’s fire,” said Hogan Gidley, vice chairman of the institute’s Center for Election Integrity. “Thousands of reported voter registration fraud cases have now been confirmed across Pennsylvania.”
He described the Field and Media Corps, founded in 2017, as a “powerful left-wing organization” that may have launched similar “schemes” across the country that would require state-level investigations.
“Filing fraudulent registrations close to the voter deadline to overwhelm election officials is exactly the kind of scheme the Justice Department should use its power and resources to stop,” he said.
There is also evidence that Everybody Votes is connected to a left-wing super political action committee that wants to expand Democratic registration numbers in battleground states.
Notably, the Democratic Party’s registration advantage in Pennsylvania has declined significantly over the past four years.
According to public tax records shared with The Center Square, The Voter Registration Project, also known as Everybody Votes, describes itself as a public charity that helps low-income minority citizens register to vote and provides technical assistance with voter registration.
The organization reported total revenue of $45.8 million in 2022, a “substantial portion of which comes from a government unit or the general public.”
A 2023 report from the Capital Research Centera conservative nonprofit, says left-wing donors have raised a combined $190 million for the campaign to register 5.1 million voters nationwide — all in violation of federal law that prohibits 501(c)(3) from associating with engage in such activities.
The strategy, detailed in a leaked 2019 memo from Mind the Gap, the liberal super PAC in questionlures investors by promising a more cost-effective strategy to increase the vote for Democrats – namely through voter registration.
The group pointed to its direct role in toppling the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 as proof of concept.
Later in the report, the signed tax forms of donors linking their grants to the Voter Registration Project are described in direct support of Mind the Gap. The Capital Research Center estimates that President Joe Biden collected between 1 million and 2.7 million swing state votes in the 2020 election as a result.
Biden defeated then-incumbent President Donald Trump 306-232 in electoral college votes; the popular vote was Biden 81.2 million to 74.2 million.
Francisco Heredia, Chief of the Field and Media Corps, Votebeat said earlier this week he had not heard from county officials in Pennsylvania but would cooperate with the investigation. He said the company trains employees to fill out registration forms legally and does not tolerate fraud.