PENNSYLVANIA: Seven Charged in Alleged Democrat Ballot Factory
In a rare win for election integrity, charges are finally filed in a scheme funded by a leftist get-out-the-vote operation
Seven people, including an organizer for a Democrat-affiliated voter outreach firm, were charged last week with felonies in what prosecutors describe as a scheme to flood Pennsylvania's Berks, Lancaster, Monroe, and York counties with thousands of fake voter registrations just before the November 2024 presidential election.
Guillermo Sainz, who ran operations for Field+Media Corps in Pennsylvania, is charged with three counts of solicitation for allegedly pressuring his team to meet impossible quotas. In Pennsylvania, it is illegal to offer financial incentives to achieve registration quotas.
The other six—all canvassers working under him—are facing a string of felonies, including forgery, unsworn falsification to authorities, and tampering with public records, in addition to five misdemeanors apiece. If convicted, each felony carries seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
By contrast, Sainz only faces three counts of a misdemeanor charge, each carrying a maximum of a year in a county jail and a $2,500 fine.
The recent charges stem from last October in the Republican-leaning counties, where election officials spotted more than 2,500 suspicious voter registration forms. Investigators say the submissions were riddled with red flags, including phony names, suspicious handwriting, fake addresses, and fraudulent signatures.
Last year, Field+Media Corps CEO Francisco Heredia told the Philadelphia-based radio station WHYY-FM that he was proud of his company’s work and said he didn’t know anything about fraudulent voter registration forms.
According to court filings, Field+Media workers came clean during questioning, admitting they cooked up entire applications from scratch when real sign-ups stalled.
One canvasser told investigators she created fake forms, hoping for a pay boost.
Another admitted most of the registration forms were not real.
A third admitted to making up names and information "due to fear of losing her job.”
Sainz is accused of paying canvassers extra based on the number of signatures, a morally hazardous incentive structure that the Pennsylvania law banning such practices aims to prevent.
This follows a Field+Media pattern.
In 2023, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office investigated about two dozen suspicious voter registration forms submitted by Field+Media’s parent company, FieldCorps, in Navajo and Mohave counties. Then, during the 2024 voter registration deadline, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer reported receiving up to 90,000 forms from third-party groups—30,000 to 40,000 of which were incomplete or irregular—with Field+Media playing a significant role.
After the Pennsylvania charges, WHYY-FM was unable to reach Heredia, and Field+Media’s website has gone dark.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) stressed in his statement that profit, not political outcomes, motivated this alleged fraud. Although this is technically true, the organizations involved are on the Left. And the politically motivated incentive structure they employ inevitably leads to low-level canvassers getting busted while the leftists at the top continue their politically motivated "charity.”
Field+Media is a for-profit consulting firm out of Arizona that connects leftist organizations with ethnic and racial minorities. Its services include voter-registration drives, ballot-measure canvassing, and texting campaigns. Heredia previously worked for the leftist voter engagement group Mi Familia Vota, and its Vice-President Pita Juarez worked for the LGBTQ Victory Fund.
The Everybody Votes Campaign hired Field+Media in Pennsylvania. Everybody Votes is a project of the former ACORN affiliate Voter Registration Project, which raised a tax-deductible $193 million from Democrat mega donors to fund Everybody Votes. Capital Research Center estimates the campaign generated between 1 and 2.7 million swing-state votes for former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election thanks to its successful microtargeting of traditional Democrat constituencies—like ethnic and racial minorities.
These big-budget voter drives, which rake in hundreds of millions from donors were conceived specifically as a means to use nonprofits to get-out-the-vote for Democrats.
Left-wing activists—who generally view minorities as having less agency than whites—concocted a plan over a decade ago to focus on registration drives aimed at racial minorities rather than voter mobilization campaigns. This would accomplish three goals. It would overload registration rolls with likely Democrat voters; save donors' money, since donating to register allegedly oppressed minorities is somehow charity and much more cost-effective than donating to Democrat candidates; and prove a good business model for leftist political entrepreneurs.
The Pennsylvania case is a reminder that the Left’s election machine runs on the same cynical logic as any racket—money first, morals second. As long as mega-donors can disguise partisan mobilization as "charity,” the fraud will keep flowing downhill—leaving low-level operatives hitting the slammer while their bosses cash in on "democracy.” Although the scam continues, at least justice finally caught up to these seven.
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