Did You Hear About This? The Voter Fraud Police Raid: Internal Documents Expose GBI Strategies 17-City VotReg Operation

The Gateway Pundit continues our investigation of the GBI Strategies scandal in Michigan – and beyond!

A recently FOIA request by Yehuda Miller revealed more information on the Democrat-linked fraudulent voter registration group.

Please review previous posts by Patty McMurray on this scandal that was highlighted by President Trump in his historic speech on election fraud in July.

We now know that Muskegon, Michigan was just the tip of the iceberg.

There is evidence that this was widespread in Michigan and beyond. There were over 104 packages filled with suspect registrations sent out to numerous clerks in Michigan in 2020.

Now we have

Estimated GBI 2020 canvassing hours in MI (click to enlarge)

When President Trump addressed the nation on July 16th, he tasked the DOJ to reopen the Michigan Voter Fraud investigation. Our original article about these fake voter registration submissions is here.

In October of 2020, the Michigan State Police served search warrants at 3 GBI Strategies locations in Muskegon Heights, Southfield, and Grand Haven.

TGP has obtained documents collected during those raids. This article continues to explain the scope and inner workings of this voter registration operation.

They conducted business like burn-and-turn operations because their jobs ended on Election Day 2020. High employee turnover required they run job ads continuously. It was a revolving door of new hires, more phones, more rental cars, and more problems.

Lost passwords, internal complaints about data that didn’t make sense, logins that didn’t work, phones dying after 2 hours, supervisors sharing passwords, and sync issues were just some of the problems. At their Charleston, SC, location, they said, “Recruits are not sticking – possibly change the office location.”

Much of the information obtained from the search warrants is handwritten and likely from a Regional Field Director or a Regional Organizer. The information includes:

Payroll Entries
Employee names
Shift Counts for AM & PM
Daily Conference Call Notes
Training & Canvasser Manuals
Software & Hardware discussions
USPS Shipment Tracking to 63 MI Clerk Offices

State Police raid office of GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan on Oct. 29, 2020.

The notes detailed their 17-city network in the five states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, and South Carolina.

Because of high turnover, the organization was very careful in what they wrote down, printed, or distributed to staff.

The use of DNC-provided data and Democrat-specific vendor software made setting up new offices fast and simple. It was the same technology used by Dem politicians and leftist national operations like Rock the Vote and MiFamilia.

The technology helps them target areas with large amounts of unregistered but eligible voters, or areas where ballot influence is needed. Once the new city had been determined, they booked rooms at an extended-stay hotel and ran numerous job ads.

Next, they rented a few minivans, got 40-50 phones and tablet PCs, and set up software login access on the devices. Staff from other field offices were then brought in to help launch the new city with training and field operations.

The group operated from at least September 20 through October 27, 2020. Over these 38 days, field operatives worked either AM or PM “shifts” in these states. A canvasser’s shift was typically 7 hours. The Miami location conducted as many as 82 shifts in one day.

The pages document approximately 635 shifts. Using AI, we analyzed staffing patterns, shift counts, recruiting references, training numbers, new hires, turnover, and office launches. We estimate that at least 180 to 220 staff were involved in the overall operation.

A deeper analysis suggests the operation could have collected between 110,000 and 148,000 voter registration applications. Estimating shift counts for several Michigan cities, these numbers represent approximately 7,900 total hours of canvassing statewide over 38 days.

In mid-October, the operation began phasing out voter registration collection. They transitioned to voting, using their “best people” in each office to ensure people voted (GOTV).

GBI PAYROLL: Weekly payroll for canvassers ranged from $328 to $1,180. People working a 5-day week were paid between $820 and $985. There was a $50 or $75 bonus paid for working 6 or 7 consecutive days. Some staff were paid $1,250 and $1,500. That’s a lot of money 6 years ago.

During an October 14th call, a new location was discussed for the Philly suburbs. Pay would be $20-$23 per hour. They wanted 30 shifts per day with 26 of those shifts completed by 1 PM each day.

HOTELS AS OFFICE HUBS: To quickly expand their activity, hotels were used as operational office hubs. They were located in nearly a dozen extended-stay hotels from Miami to Iowa. Payroll notes list “Travel Days,” indicating that staff were deployed away from their homes for extended periods.

One of the locations is not a hotel. The journal mentions “Russ Office” in Bristol, PA. This is the office of Russ Oster, CEO of Grassroots Unwired, a canvassing software company tied to leftists. Further discussed below.

Hotels used by GBI Strategies (click to enlarge)

GBI HEIRARCHY: Like most companies, there were defined roles and responsibilities. The Regional Field Directors oversaw an entire region, managing office productivity and events. Regional Field Organizers handled recruitment, training, technology, and paperwork.

Supervisor/Drivers are the staff who drove vans. They supervised canvassers and keep crews on schedule. Compliance Officers reviewed and entered voter registration data into the system and created reports. Canvassers solicited people, completed voter applications, and followed scripts.

It’s hard to believe that a dedicated Compliance Officer would allow invalid registrations to flow to County Clerks. But they did, and in volumes.

Was this a legitimate role, or a job position that simply provided cover?

DAILY CALLS: They held 3 types of conference calls throughout the day. The most likely reason for multiple conference calls is the fact that they needed to stay on top of all the problems.

These calls included topics about payroll, tech issues, shift numbers, equipment, assignments, recruiting, sync issues, new hires, daily performance, and recruiting problems.

FIELD DEPLOYMENTS: As the election drew closer, GBI wanted more shifts per day and aggressively added more bodies. A single shift is one person working 7 hours in the field, either AM or PM. Philly started with 17 shifts per day, but grew to 37 per day after only one week.

It wasn’t just door-to-door outreach. Field staff were also deployed at retail stores. This included gas stations, grocery stores, and liquor stores from known brands such as Mobil, Walmart, Dollar General, Exxon, Hunter Wayne Liquor, and so on.

Time sheets indicated most canvassers didn’t have approval from the stores to solicit their customers. They were likely kicked off the property. Of the 56 store deployment documents, the average time on-site was only 96 minutes. One Citgo deployment on Elliot St. lasted only 18 minutes.

Southeast MI retailers canvassed by GBI Strategies

TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYED: They used phones, tablets, laptops, phone batteries, and case chargers. The software they used is sophisticated and mainstream. It includes the following.

VoteBuilder – A voter database administered by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through vendor NGP VAN. It’s used by Democratic state parties, committees, campaigns, and consultants.

Politech Blocks – Manages the workflow and tracking of voter registration forms after they are collected in the field. This tech is used by RockTheVote, MiFamilia, and other radical leftist groups.

Civitech C3 – The journal mentions this voter data program from focus4democracy.org. They provide lists of eligible but unregistered voters.

Grassroots Unwired – Provide canvassing, field organizing, and campaign software for mobile devices. They allow interactive voter registration forms on canvasser devices for quick completion. One tech video says, “Actual voter registration forms for all 50 states are at your fingertips on a tablet.”

Their clients are all hard left, including the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and so on.

MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL ENTRIES:
Will not return under Empower Michigan
Recruits not sticking, possibly change office location
Get more people and get more cars
We need 50 phones for Iowa
Need admin access to VoteBuilder
Continue building offices
We are not receiving the data in a way that makes sense.
Politech is working on fixing the error
Login and phone sync issues
Preparing for Election Day
Phones dying within 2-3 hours.
Russ sending us extra phones, batteries, and cases for charging