The little-known organization, AllVote, is on the radar of election officials in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Wisconsin over its confusing text message campaigns to registered voters. In one example, the group told Pennsylvania voters they already voted in 2024 — a falsehood that generated attention and prompted AllVote staffer Charlotte Clymer to claim the outreach was the product of a mistake.

“Never discount incompetence, which usually trumps conspiracy,” Jake Dilemani, a veteran Democratic political strategist, told the Washington Examiner. “However, any effort deliberately misleading voters about their eligibility to vote or other critical election-related information is antithetical to democracy and should never be tolerated.”

The AllVote-led outreach to voters is a window into how some dark money groups work in strange ways during election season to push misinformation and scams that election officials and ethics experts say harm the public trust and, in other cases, could raise legal questions. At the same time, super PACs that are allowed under federal law to spend unlimited sums of money are working overtime to boost candidates with the help of anonymous donors.

After the Washington Examiner contacted AllVote this week for comment on this story, AllVote added a disclaimer to the group’s website acknowledging it pushed misinformation to voters. The group did not respond to sets of questions over email.

“Please let us know if we sent you incorrect polling place information, but we have your correct address,” the disclaimer says. “We’d also love to know if you voted several days ago, but our database has you as not yet voted. This information will help us avoid any mistakes in the future. To opt out, just reply ‘stop’ directly to the text message.”

Who is behind AllVote?

AllVote has a barebones website that says it “uses publicly available data to ensure eligible Americans have all the information they need both to register and exercise their right to vote.” The group takes “seriously the responsibility of providing correct information,” according to AllVote’s website.

Records appear to tell a different story.

AllVote is facing scrutiny from the Wisconsin Election Commission for sending voters in the Badger State links to the wrong election website, CNN reported. In Arizona, local news reports say unsolicited text messages linked to AllVote were sent to voters telling them they were not registered. In North Carolina, voters in numerous counties were also sent election misinformation by AllVote, WRAL reported.

Clymer, the AllVote staffer, is a former press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT lobbying group supporting Democrats. In July, the AllVote staffer spoke at an event to support Vice President Kamala Harris alongside Chelsea Clinton, commentator Ana Navarro, and other Democratic activists, footage show. Clymer donated $1,000 to Harris this election, filings show.

“Let’s go win this thing,” Clymer said at the July event. “To find out how to volunteer and elect our first woman president and save democracy from Trump and Vance and Project 2025, text WOMEN to 30330.”

Clymer did not respond to sets of questions from the Washington Examiner about AllVote and its funding stream. AllVote’s website has a disclaimer indicating it is a political action committee. Online data analyzed by the Washington Examiner show that AllVote’s website is hosted through Amazon Web Services in Ashburn, Virginia.

Indeed, an AllVote super PAC was registered with the Federal Election Commission on Oct. 1, documents show. The PAC has yet to disclose any activity to the regulator in regard to fundraising or spending — though public records do show that some AllVote-led outreach to the public in swing states occurred prior to October.

Upon registering with the FEC, AllVote said its mailing address was in Los Angeles at a location that property records show is a UPS store.

While it’s also unclear how many people work or contract for AllVote, the super PAC’s statement of organization documents say its books are in the custody of Mo Rudick Hall, a recent deputy director of compliance for the Democratic-aligned MBA Consulting Group.

Rudick Hall, according to FEC filings, has also been listed as the treasurer for two Democratic super PACs in Minnesota and Virginia. However, Rudick Hall is not listed as the treasurer of AllVote.

Instead, AllVote’s treasurer is Howie Stanger, who runs an accounting and operations firm in Los Angeles known as Pocketbook Strategies, which works with progressive groups, according to filings. This election cycle, Pocketbook Strategies was paid tens of thousands of dollars for services from People’s Action Power, a Washington, D.C.-based PAC largely funded by the massive Harris-allied Movement Voter Project PAC.

Until 2020, the AllVote treasurer was the chief operating officer for the Sunrise Movement, a climate activist group behind pro-Palestinian protests after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year, according to Stanger’s LinkedIn profile. Sunrise, which operates under a pair of affiliated nonprofit groups and a PAC, has counted some of its donors as the Tides Foundation, the Fund for a Better Future, and the George Soros-funded Democracy PAC, according to IRS tax returns and FEC filings.

The AllVote treasurer also notes on social media that he is affiliated with IfNotNow, which has also helped lead anti-Israel protests after Oct. 7, and the Momentum Community, which says it trains progressive protest organizers “to build social movements.”

“Faced with a global pandemic, climate emergency, and enduring systemic racism, the U.S. political system has fallen short, at best, and exacerbated those crises, at worst,” the Momentum Community says on its website.

Nothing so far indicates that AllVote has violated federal laws this election, campaign finance experts said. In the past, some election misinformation purveyors have faced legal scrutiny and been prosecuted.

“Mistaken political speech is not the basis for a legal claim unless the Left is suing, so who knows,” said Dan Backer, a longtime Republican campaign finance attorney.

According to its website, AllVote is partnered with a group called MaxVote. MaxVote also recently added a disclaimer to its website acknowledging it sent “incorrect polling place information” to voters.

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On Oct. 1, the same day AllVote was registered with the FEC, MaxVote did the same. And like AllVote, MaxVote has disclosed no financial activity to the regulator.

MaxVote did, however, disclose a treasurer and a records custodian: Stanger and Rudick Hall.