Raid Documents Detail GBI Strategies’ 17-City Voter Registration Operation
The Gateway Pundit’s investigation into the GBI Strategies scandal is expanding beyond Muskegon, Michigan.
A recent FOIA request by Yehuda Miller produced additional information about the Democrat-linked voter registration group. The documents add detail to an operation that allegedly worked across Michigan and four other states during the 2020 election season.
Muskegon, once viewed as the center of the story, may have been only one part of a much larger effort. More than 104 packages containing suspect registrations were sent to numerous Michigan clerks in 2020, according to the reporting.
President Trump later called for the Department of Justice to reopen the Michigan voter fraud investigation during a July 16 address. The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on the voter registration submissions and the broader GBI Strategies controversy.
In October 2020, Michigan State Police served search warrants at three GBI Strategies locations: Muskegon Heights, Southfield, and Grand Haven. Documents collected during those raids reportedly include handwritten notes, payroll records, employee names, shift counts, conference call notes, training materials, and software discussions.
The records also include USPS shipment tracking connected to 63 Michigan clerk offices. Together, the notes describe a 17-city network operating in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, and South Carolina.
The operation appears to have relied on rapid hiring and quick office launches. Since the jobs ended on Election Day, employee turnover was high. The group repeatedly posted job advertisements and brought in new workers, phones, rental vehicles, and other equipment.
Internal problems were common. The notes mention lost passwords, complaints about data that did not make sense, broken logins, phones that died after two hours, shared supervisor passwords, and synchronization issues. At the Charleston, South Carolina, location, one note stated, “Recruits are not sticking – possibly change the office location.”
The documents indicate that new offices could be created quickly with Democrat National Committee-provided data and vendor software used by Democratic political operations. Once a city was selected, the group booked extended-stay hotel rooms, posted job ads, rented minivans, gathered roughly 40 to 50 phones and tablet computers, and arranged software access.
Workers from other offices helped train staff and launch field operations. The group operated from at least September 20 through October 27, 2020. During that 38-day period, canvassers worked seven-hour AM or PM “shifts.” The Miami location reportedly conducted as many as 82 shifts in one day.
The pages document approximately 635 shifts. An analysis of staffing patterns, recruiting references, training numbers, new hires, turnover, and office launches estimates that between 180 and 220 people took part in the overall operation.
A further analysis estimates that the group may have collected between 110,000 and 148,000 voter registration applications. The estimate represents about 7,900 total canvassing hours across Michigan over the 38-day period.
By mid-October, the operation began moving away from collecting registrations and toward turnout work. The records say each office used its “best people” to make sure voters participated, a process described as “GOTV.”
Payroll records show weekly canvasser payments ranging from $328 to $1,180. Workers on five-day schedules were paid between $820 and $985. Six- or seven-day workweeks brought $50 or $75 bonuses, while some employees received $1,250 or $1,500.
During an October 14 call, staff discussed opening another location in the Philadelphia suburbs. The proposed pay was $20 to $23 per hour. The goal was 30 shifts per day, with 26 completed by 1 p.m.
The documents offer a closer look at the scale, speed, and internal challenges of the GBI Strategies operation while questions about the submitted registrations remain under investigation.