Why do the liberal progressives care about the eligible but unregistered citizens? Think of it this way. Catalist already has a “score” for each registered voter. They already know which registered voters are liberal progressives and micro-target them, right through until the polls close, to get out the vote (GOTV). Their liberal registered voters are like loyal customers; the left knows the registered voter inside and out. But for growth, they need to bring in more customers to add to Catalist and those are the eligible but unregistered (EBU) citizens.
Leading up to 2012, Obama’s team realized his base was splitting their support between Obama and Romney. Their solution was to register as many new liberal progressives as possible to target and persuade them to vote for Obama. Between the close of registration for the 2018 general election and the close of registration for the 2020 general election, states and territories reported receiving a record 103,701,513 registration applications—26,184,917 more applications than were received in the same period leading up to the 2016 general election.
The 2020 census, as did the 2010 census, provided a wealth of information the liberals needed to build the profiles on EBU citizens in Catalist so they could isolate the liberals and not waste time targeting conservatives.
From Right-To-Know requests, PA received two ERIC EBU contact lists in 2020. One in the June timeframe as indicated in an email from the Department of State (DOS) to all 67 PA counties, as indicated below.
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The second request was made in October 2020 through DOS’s $13,260,000 CEIR grant, signed by CEO David Becker and then Secretary of State (SOS) Kathy Boockvar. PA’s DOS CEIR grant was the largest in the country and it included a kickback of $830,779 to ERIC for an updated EBU list.
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Did ERIC’s EBU refresh list feed Catalist the contact information for their new liberal targets? It’s hard to find out the answers to these questions due to the privacy and intellectual property rights agreed to in the contracts.
The PA DOS - CEIR agreement states: “Intellectual Property and Project Data: Grantee shall own all right, title and interest, including all copyright interest, in and to any work product created in connection with the Grant project ("Project Work Product"), for example, mailings and other communications. Grantee hereby grants CEIR a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use any Project Work Product in connection with its research, educational initiatives, or other work. In addition, should CEIR wish to conduct research to study the initiatives funded by the Grant, for example, measuring the impact of the educational communications, Grantee agrees to cooperate with CEIR, including providing data, as CEIR reasonably requests.”
Sounds like CEIR had free rein to do with ERIC’s EBU list what it wished. And my guess is that ERIC’s EBU report is generated in a format easily integrated with Catalist. ERIC needs removed from the equation. Taxpayer dollars are being sent to ERIC to manipulate voter rolls in member states, and, due to their privacy clause, we don’t fully understand their agenda. With David Becker still sitting on the ERIC board, it probably isn’t good!