Parker Thayer

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Parker Thayer is an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, a Washington-based organization that examines how foundations, charities, and other nonprofits spend money and get involved in politics and advocacy.

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    • Opinion

    Voter Registration ‘Charities’: An Overlooked, Hyperpartisan Scandal

    Parker Thayer
    “Nonprofit voter registration” doesn’t sound interesting. Yet nonprofit voter registration, or the use of tax-exempt charitable organizations to conduct and fund voter-registration drives, is one of the most important and underreported political scandals of our time. Nonprofit voter registration, and the get-out-the-vote activities that usually accompany it, have become the heart of a billion-dollar industry…
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