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To: piasa

Sorry, the lead in of that excerpt from another thread was cropped off by mistake:

Despite a tax code restricting tax-exempt nonprofits from political activity, putatively nonpartisan outfits like the Voter Participation Center are able to boost turnout in Democratic areas....

two influential groups, the Voter Participation Center and its partner group, the Center for Voter Information, increase Democratic turnout.

Both have the stated mission of encouraging people in specified demographics – “young people, people of color and unmarried women” – to vote. All three groups are part of the Democratic Party’s base. Voters in these groups are up to two-and-a-half times more likely to vote when engaged by a nonprofit, according to research from Nonprofit Vote, an advocacy group for tax-exempt activist groups.

The value of these groups was underscored when the Biden administration prepared to compose his executive order directing federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote.” In July 2021 officials met with leading progressive operators, including Democracy Fund, Fair Elections Center, FairVote, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Al Sharpton’s National Action Network and the George Soros-backed Open Society Policy Center, according to an internal administration email obtained by the Foundation for Government Accountability, a conservative nonprofit that is suing the administration to obtain records related to the executive order....


5 posted on 03/25/2024 9:32:18 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

But but the GOPe Chamber of Commerce groupies here who constantly back illegal immigration, off-shoring and “Free Trade” aren’t going to like this at all!

Or maybe they were anti-Americans all along. LOL.


6 posted on 03/25/2024 10:39:41 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Knowing may be half the battle but preparedness and determination decide it.)
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