Just a heads up. Someone I know got a thank you letter from the Center for Voter Information telling them thanks for registering to vote. That person has NOT registered to vote at this time.
A Nonprofit With Ties to Democrats Is Sending Out Millions of Ballot Applications. Election Officials Wish It Would Stop.
Election officials say a flood of mailers from the Center for Voter Information has contained mistakes and confused voters at a time when states are racing to expand vote by mail.
by Joshua Eaton, Lauren Rosenthal and Thy Anh Vo Oct. 23, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT
Tom Lopach
Tom Lopach is a longtime Democratic political operative. As of 2020, he is the CEO of the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and its sister group Center for Voter Information (CVI), two left-of-center voter-outreach organizations which run voter mobilization campaigns in competitive states to support Democratic candidates.
Lopach has ties with the Kennedy family. He started his career working as a fundraiser for Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA). The founder and board chair of VPC and CVI is Page Gardner, another Ted Kennedy associate. In October 2019, Lopach co-hosted a fundraising dinner for Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s (D-MA) Democratic primary challenge against Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). 1
In 1999, Tom Lopach began his political career as executive director of the Committee for a Democratic Majority, and served in the role for eight years. 3 During that span, the PAC went from spending $465,000 in the 1998 election cycle to a peak of $2 million in the 2004 elections. Political contributions exclusively went to Democratic candidates, with the bulk of expenditure going toward fundraising efforts for candidates rather than direct contributions. Lopach left the PAC in 2007, and it ceased operations after the 2010 election cycle. Throughout his seven years at the PAC, Lopach simultaneously served as national finance director for Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).
From 2007-2009, Lopach worked as the national finance director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. He then worked for a year at the Export-Import Bank of the US as a senior vice president.
From 2010-2014, Lopach served as chief of staff for Senator Jon Tester (D-MT). He then returned to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for a two-year stretch as executive director.
In 2017, Lopach worked for less than a year at Subject Matter, a lobbying firm with clients including Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and Verizon. He left the company to serve as chief of staff for Governor Steve Bullock (D-MT). In 2019, his position evolved into senior advisor for Bullock’s short-lived Democratic presidential campaign. After Bullock dropped out of the race in December 2019, Lopach served as interim commissioner of the Montana Department of Labor and Industry for three months.