The Registration Project

The Registration Project is a small left-of-center voter registration group that runs campaigns to register ethnic-minority voters and member of other “under-represented communities.” The organization claims to deploy canvassing teams to organize voter registration campaigns through door-to-door canvassing, attending events and festivals, and phone banking. The president of the organization is Catherine Pasqualoni, who has concurrently worked in political operations for a regional carpenters’ labor union and for the Democratic political consulting group Field Strategies while running the Registration Project. ^{1 2}

Background

The Registration project was formed in 2009 and has a stated focus of conducting voter registration activities and voter mobilization such as get-out-the-vote campaigns to underrepresented ethnic and socio-economic groups. Little information is publicly known regarding the organization other than a description of activities conducted on its website, although the organization does not provide specific examples of its activity. ^{3 4}

The organization’s Facebook and Twitter pages also do not highlight specific activities of the organization, but rather the profiles mostly share left-of-center and Democratic-aligned pictures, op-eds, and news articles, such as quotes and pictures praising left-of-center Supreme Court justices, praising left-of-center protesters being arrested, and praising other left-of-center organizations such as the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. ^{3 4}

Activities

The Registration Project states that its activities center around deploying canvassing teams to organize voter registration campaigns through door-to-door canvassing, attending events and festivals, and phone banking. The group also states, “The team at The Registration Project, Inc. collects data through each voter registration and mobilization program to understand the most effective communications strategies that can be implemented in future projects,” and further states that the organization “also studies and analyzes the effects of new and existing voter registration laws and ID requirements across different under-represented populations in different states.” ²

The group’s stated priorities include registering voters in under-represented communities, re-registering lapsed voters, informing voters of current state laws, and encouraging voters to vote by mail in upcoming elections. The organization’s website includes a state map with links to voter registration pages in each state. ^{2 5}

Financials

Tax returns from The Registration Project show fluctuations in the funding of the small organization, showing mostly increases in revenue during even-numbered election years and several years with little to no revenue. The organization’s funding peaked at $1.4 million in 2012, while it raised only $8,500 in 2013. The group showed less than $1,000 in revenue in 2021 and $215,000 in 2020. ⁶

Leadership

Catherine Pasqualoni is listed as the president of the Registration Project. She is a Democratic pollical operative who worked for Field Strategies, a Democratic political consulting firm, from 2012 to 2021 where she managed strategy and staffing for multiple campaigns, citing coordination with “stakeholders from organized labor, state democracy tables, and major individual donors.” From 2021 to 2022 she was the deputy political director at the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, a regional labor union. ¹