While eligible to apply for American citizenship in June, Iraqi refugee Mohammed Saadi Khudhair Al-Ani is a green card holder, and therefore, not authorized to vote in U.S. elections. Given this fact, he was baffled when he received a voter registration form in his mailbox late last month.

“I’m a refugee and don’t really know anything about voting and all that stuff,” Al-Ani told The Federalist.

Documents provided to The Federalist show the form Al-Ani received was sent by the Voter Participation Center (VPC), a left-wing nonprofit that seeks to register Democrat-favorable demographics to vote. On the mailing envelope, the group lists its return address as that of Lansing’s Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building and U.S. Post Office, which houses tenets such as the Federal Highway Administration.

Al-Ani said he has never engaged with VPC or any other voter registration groups.

Included in the mailing is a notice instructing recipients how they can register to vote using the provided form. It also contained a QR code individuals can scan with their phone or tablet and takes them to the Michigan Department of State’s voter registration portal.

The aforementioned notice also included a message from VPC CEO Tom Lopach informing recipients that VPC has “already filled in some of your information on the enclosed [registration] form.” A copy of the registration form shows that this “information” includes the recipient’s city, state, and zip code.

Lopach also noted how “[t]here may be an April 16th Special Election in your District” and that the “deadline to mail your registration form in order to vote in that election” is April 1. This appears to be in reference to two special state House elections that will determine control of Michigan’s lower chamber. Both races will take place on April 16 in areas encompassing Detroit — not Lansing.

The last document enclosed in the VPC mailing is a pre-paid postage envelope with the recipient’s return address already filled out. The envelope is addressed to the Lansing City Clerk’s office.

The Voter Participation Center is far from an obscure nonprofit. In fact, it’s a central component of leftists’ well-funded election machine that aims to accrue Democrats a ballot advantage over Republicans ahead of Election Day.

While federal law prohibits 501(c)(3) organizations from engaging in partisan voter registration, left-wing nonprofits such as VPC target demographics likely to vote for Democrats. According to InfluenceWatch, VPC “runs a direct-mail program that targets ‘unmarried women, minorities and millennials’ with voter registration mailings and phone calls.” Critics have described the group’s efforts as “imprecise, misleading, ineffective, and potentially illegal.”

Meanwhile, Lopach is a “longtime Democratic political operative” who “has ties with the Kennedy family” and previously began “his career working as a fundraiser for Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA),” according to InfluenceWatch. In addition to leading VPC, Lopach is also the CEO of the Center for Voter Information (CVI), VPC’s “sister” organization that helps conduct partisan get-out-the-vote operations.

In March 2023, Restoration of America published a two–part report detailing VPC and CVI’s GOTV efforts in recent elections. As The Federalist previously reported, “Figures cited in the report estimate VPC and CVI sent out approximately 85.5 million mailers in 32 states in the months leading up to the 2022 midterms,” with contested states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania “among those the report estimates were ‘hit hardest.'”