{"id":2476898,"date":"2025-08-20T18:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-admit-voter-registration-schemes-exist-to-boost-dems\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:10:09","slug":"activists-admit-voter-registration-schemes-exist-to-boost-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-admit-voter-registration-schemes-exist-to-boost-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Admit Voter Registration Schemes Exist To Boost Dems"},"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\">18<\/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%2Factivists-admit-voter-registration-schemes-exist-to-boost-dems%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=2476898&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 article discusses admissions by Democratic Party insiders that so-called &#8220;nonpartisan&#8221; voter registration efforts have always been partisan, primarily aimed at registering voters likely to support Democrats. A member of the Democratic National committee, Maria Cardona, acknowledges that these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-ways-the-feds-are-using-bidenbucks-to-rig-the-2024-election\/\" title=\"9 Ways the Federal Government is Manipulating the 2024 Election with &#039;Bidenbucks\">voter registration initiatives<\/a> were designed to engage voters who would vote Democrat rather than promoting broad civic participation. The piece highlights the reliance on nonprofit organizations to register minority and younger voters under the assumption they would favor Democrats, an assumption now challenged by increased support for Republicans and former President Trump among these groups. The article also mentions federal government involvement, including directives from President Biden to register and mobilize minority voters-groups that tend to vote Democrat-often thru third-party organizations. Investigations reveal that many of these efforts concentrate on Democratic strongholds and may skirt legal boundaries like the Hatch Act. Ultimately,the article argues that these voter registration schemes have been tools to manufacture electoral advantages for Democrats rather than genuine nonpartisan efforts to increase voter participation.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dchg6aEYi3k\">CNN\/Youtube <\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Activists%20Admit%20%E2%80%98Nonpartisan%E2%80%99%20Voter%20Registration%20Schemes%20Were%20Always%20About%20Boosting%20Democrats&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Activists%20Admit%20%E2%80%98Nonpartisan%E2%80%99%20Voter%20Registration%20Schemes%20Were%20Always%20About%20Boosting%20Democrats&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Activists%20Admit%20%E2%80%98Nonpartisan%E2%80%99%20Voter%20Registration%20Schemes%20Were%20Always%20About%20Boosting%20Democrats&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/20\/activists-admit-nonpartisan-voter-registration-schemes-were-always-about-boosting-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>A member of the Democratic National Committee admitted that so-called nonpartisan voter registration schemes were always, in fact, partisan.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&rsquo; Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concede<\/a> in an analysis on Democrats&rsquo; cratering voter registration numbers that &ldquo;For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits &mdash; which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose &mdash; to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democrat.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1745101066\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s Democrat strategist and member of the Democratic National Committee Maria Cardona who admits the underlying strategy of these supposedly non-partisan organizations: It was never about engaging voters; it was about engaging voters <em>who would vote Democrat. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, with President Trump&rsquo;s gains among minority voters, &ldquo;you can&rsquo;t just register a young Latino or a young Black voter and assume that they&rsquo;re going to know that it&rsquo;s Democrats that have the best policies,&rdquo; Cardona told Goldmacher.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ParkerThayer\/status\/1958178959100690867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out on X<\/a> by investigative researcher Parker Thayer, &ldquo;All of the sudden the &lsquo;nonpartisan&rsquo; voter registration nonprofits don&rsquo;t seem to care about the civic participation of minorities any more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These supposedly nonpartisan registration groups only cared about registering minorities when they assumed those voters would be reliably Democrat. Now that President Trump and Republicans are making inroads with demographics that once seemed safely Democrat, the party is worried its &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; efforts could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>Of course such an admission is not surprising. Just after taking office, then-President Joe Biden issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >executive order mandating federal agencies register<\/a> and mobilize voters &ldquo;with the express intent of increasing election participation among minority groups that tend to vote disproportionately Democrat,&rdquo; as Ben Weingarten&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/13\/heres-fresh-evidence-bidens-using-your-tax-dollars-to-turn-out-democrat-votes-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> in these pages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gop-chair-demands-bidenbucks-info-from-14-agencies\/\" title=\"Exclusive: GOP Chair Demands Bidenbucks Info From 14 Agencies\">order instructed agencies<\/a> to enlist the help of &ldquo;nonpartisan third-party organizations &hellip; to provide voter registration services on agency premises.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.heritage.org\/OP_Memo_on_EO_14019_Partisan_Implementation_5.1.2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analyzing<\/a> &ldquo;Bidenbucks&rdquo; recipients who participated in a July 2021 &ldquo;listening session,&rdquo; The Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Oversight Project found that &ldquo;Every participant whose party affiliation or political donation history could be identified by the Oversight Project was identified as a Democrat except for one Green Party member.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READNEXT:[READNEXT:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/23\/trump-erases-bidenbucks-and-taxpayer-funded-leftist-voter-registration-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump Erases &lsquo;Bidenbucks&rsquo; And Taxpayer-Funded Leftist Voter Registration Drives<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Matt Kittle&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/23\/trump-erases-bidenbucks-and-taxpayer-funded-leftist-voter-registration-drives\/\">re<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/23\/trump-erases-bidenbucks-and-taxpayer-funded-leftist-voter-registration-drives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ported<\/a>, the U.S. Department of Agriculture&rsquo;s Food and Nutrition Service, which provides meals in K-12 schools, &ldquo;was involved in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-donated-last-year-to-defund-police-group-backing-dc-sanctuary-city-law-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris donated last year to defund police group backing DC \u2018sanctuary city\u2019 law - Washington Examiner\">left-wing group&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s efforts to get voting-age students in Milwaukee Public Schools to the polls.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/31\/bidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-school-children-in-voter-registration-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Mexico and Kansas<\/a>, the Interior Department&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bie.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bureau of Indian Education<\/a>&nbsp;(BIE) schemed to use students in bureau-operated American Indian K-12 schools to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenbucks-plan-uses-native-american-kids-in-voting-scheme\/\" title=\"&#039;Bidenbucks&#039; Plan Uses Native American Kids In Voting Scheme\">carry voter registration cards home<\/a> to their parents,&rdquo; Kittle reported, noting that the move may have violated the Hatch Act, which bars &ldquo;executive branch employees from overt political activities on the job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile an investigation by the House Committee on Small Business discovered that the Small Business Association (SBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/20\/exclusive-gop-chairman-demands-info-from-14-agencies-on-bidens-taxpayer-funded-gotv-efforts-to-boost-dems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bidenbucks<\/a> voter registration events in the swing state of Michigan were held &ldquo;mainly in Democratic strongholds.&rdquo; And as Minnesota Rep. Pete Stauber <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/04\/hearing-federal-business-agency-spends-bidenbucks-to-win-michigan-for-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>, &ldquo;roughly 91% of Michigan voters are registered to vote, with small business owners more likely to vote than the general population.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With such high registration rates, a nonpartisan organization expending resources on such a state would make little sense &mdash; unless these organizations wanted to push one party over the edge in the key swing state.<\/p>\n<p>Critical observers have long understood that leftist activists weaponize &ldquo;nonpartisan&rdquo; voter registration schemes to tilt elections in Democrats&rsquo; favor. What&rsquo;s different now is that Democrats themselves are saying the quiet part out loud: These efforts were never about civic participation &mdash; they were about manufacturing an electoral advantage for one party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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