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It's even easier in Georgia. Anyone can order voter registration data directly from the Georgia Secretary of State for as little as $50 if you're only interested in one county's voter data. For that price I could totally see Destiny taking things into his own hands without coordinating with a larger campaign or PAC.I'm pretty confident the way it works is:
- Actual political orgs will have lists of registered democrats/republicans
- Those orgs share the list with canvassing groups
- The canvassing groups partner with Destiny to get people to knock on doors
And as I understand it, state and federal election law is very particular when it comes to what a given person or organization can say when they knock on people's doors to try to get them to vote. If an org intends to drive votes for a particular candidate or party they're legally required to register as a PAC or formally align themselves with a campaign and report their expenses, and while I was able to find record of Destiny's contributions to Mark Gudgel's campaign in Omaha I've never found record of what he might have spent in his two Georgia efforts.When they knock on doors, they aren't trying to debate people into voting for the democrats, it's more of a "hey, I see you're a registered democrat, so we're just making sure you're aware there's a vote soon and you should support the democrat candidate X".
The only way he legally gets away with knocking on people's doors and asking them to vote while not reporting it is if he engages in "non-partisan voter engagement", basically limiting the conversation to informing the person of an upcoming election and where their polling place is without mentioning any particular candidate or party.