{"id":1770802,"date":"2022-12-09T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770802"},"modified":"2022-12-09T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T20:38:21","slug":"virginia-dems-ballot-harvesting-manual-instructs-going-after-dead-people-bad-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dems-ballot-harvesting-manual-instructs-going-after-dead-people-bad-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Dems\u2019 Ballot Harvesting Manual Instructs Going After Dead People, \u2018Bad\u2019 Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-dems-ballot-harvesting-manual-instructs-going-after-dead-people-bad-addresses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1770802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Virginia Democratic Party is instructing activists to include deceased citizens and \u201cbad\u201d addresses when generating voter contact lists, The Federalist has learned.<\/p>\n<p>A pivotal tool Virginia Dems use to target voters for their ballot harvesting and get-out-the-vote efforts is <a href=\"https:\/\/votebuilder.vademocrats.org\/votebuilder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">VoteBuilder<\/a>, an online database of all registered voters in Virginia operated by the Virginia Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/votebuilder.vademocrats.org\/votebuilder\/about-votebuilder-va\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">words<\/a> of the Virginia Democrats themselves, \u201cthis database contains the names and other important information about registered voters \u2013 information that we can use to target likely voters for Democratic campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>On the Virginia Democrats\u2019 VoteBuilder <a href=\"https:\/\/votebuilder.vademocrats.org\/votebuilder\/absentee-labels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, there are instructions for how activists can use the tool to generate voter contact lists for absentee ballot chasing, a.k.a., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngpvan.com\/blog\/how-to-run-a-ballot-chase-program-and-score-votes-early\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ballot harvesting<\/a>. The website describes it as generating absentee ballot \u201clabels,\u201d a process which also functions to collect a list of voters\u2019 addresses.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cSuppressions\u201d) with \u201cbad\u201d 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\u2019 phone numbers and addresses so they can contact them and collect their mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>These instructions vary from <a href=\"https:\/\/votebuilder.vademocrats.org\/votebuilder\/votebuilder-how-tos\/create-a-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another place<\/a> on the Virginia Democrats\u2019 site that appear to be tips on how to use VoteBuilder from the DNC itself, saying the \u201cSuppressions\u201d filters are \u201cthe automatic settings to prevent bad addresses from showing up on your lists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the DNC itself is telling activists that the \u201cSuppressions\u201d filters are used to prevent \u201cbad\u201d addresses from being included in the voter contact lists, why is the Virginia Democratic Party instructing its users to include them?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how you can in good conscience instruct your workers to solicit votes from people in those categories,\u201d 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. \u201cThey\u2019re instructing people to solicit votes from people who are not legally eligible to vote \u2014 they\u2019ve either moved, are not a citizen of the United States, or [are] dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know how you can in good conscience instruct your workers to solicit votes from people in those categories.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1897989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Dems\u2019 Ballot Harvesting Manual Instructs Going After Dead People, \u2018Bad\u2019 Addresses","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5475,7086,7386,3642,3933,6919,7388,7389,7387,4370,5468],"class_list":["post-1770802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-addresses","tag-bad","tag-ballot","tag-dead","tag-dems","tag-federalist","tag-harvesting","tag-instructs","tag-manual","tag-people","tag-virginia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Virginia Dems\u2019 Ballot Harvesting Manual Instructs Going After Dead People, \u2018Bad\u2019 Addresses","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}