A voter engagement nonprofit with far-left funding inexplicably hired a foreign citizen to work on getting the vote out in Kansas, a local watchdog is reporting.

The Voter Network, a 501(c)(3) that has received funding from liberal dark money behemoth Arabella Advisors and the Tides Foundation tied to far-left billionaire George Soros, hired a foreign “Volunteer and Special Projects Coordinator” in the summer of 2024 through the federal H-1B visa program.

“The H-1B program,” the U.S. Department of Labor explains, “applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

“A specialty occupation is one that requires the application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and the attainment of at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.”

Local citizen sleuth Earl Glynn, who would disclose neither the noncitizen’s name nor home country out of respect for the person’s privacy, reports the salary was $52,187.

“Why should a noncitizen be given an H-1B visa to work on election-related matters for a nonprofit in Kansas?” he asked in a substack article Thursday.

The Heartlander asked that and other questions of The Voter Network, but hasn’t heard back.

We also asked whether it’s even legal for noncitizens to be employed in election-related jobs.

“I would think not,” Glynn tells The Heartlander, though acknowledging he hasn’t researched the question and cannot see the nonprofit’s Labor Condition Application (LCA) it filed for the visa without the organization’s cooperation. So far, he hasn’t received it.

“Typically these H1Bs are very technical skills, like engineers, doctors,” Glynn says. “What special skills do you need to do this voter engagement stuff? I don’t think there are any, so I’m not sure why it wasn’t an American citizen that got the job.”

Indeed, on the federal LCA form employers are required to certify that the job going to a foreign worker doesn’t “adversely affect U.S. workers.”

Moreover, Glynn writes, “An employer must provide notice of the LCA filing to protect U.S. workers and ensure transparency.”

According to InfluenceWatch.org, which closely monitors such things, “The Voter Network Foundation is a Kansas-based organization that focuses on voter turnout in underrepresented communities through outreach. Its donors include the New Venture Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit fund that is part of the Arabella Advisors network.

“The organization’s leadership includes staff who worked for Democratic elected officials and for left-of-center advocacy groups.”

Glynn similarly reports a 2024 $185,000 contribution to The Voter Network from the Soros-backed Tides Foundation.

Still, much of the nonprofit’s funding comes from three Kansas health foundations, Glynn reports. Such foundations have apparently followed the lead of former Biden White House fellow Dr. Alister Martin – known for “merging medicine with civic engagement” and founding Vot-ER, a nonprofit that promotes voter registration in healthcare settings such as emergency rooms.

Vot-ER is “working to integrate civic engagement into healthcare,” according to its website.

What does voting or The Voter Network have to do with health?

Glynn has researched that too.

“The American Medical Association published an editorial that basically civic engagement was health care,” Glynn says. “And so they actually are getting involved in health care directly. And this happened in Kansas with some of the community health foundations a couple of years ago.”

The Kansas health foundations now helping fund The Voter Network were born of the sale of nonprofit hospitals years ago, Glynn says, “and then somehow they got ahold of this idea that voting is health care. …

“There’s just lots of lefty people in these places of power, I mean in management. And so they just lean left for whatever reason. … They don’t think they are, but they are fairly far left.”

The Voter Network was announced in 2020 by the local nonprofit Mainstream Coalition, though the network’s precursor dates further back than that.

InfluenceWatch describes the Mainstream Coalition, formed in 1993, as “a left-of-center lobbying and electoral advocacy organization [that] claims to promote public education, government transparency, LGBT interests, and reproductive health care in Kansas.”

Despite its name, the Mainstream Coalition has consistently fought alongside liberal organizations against conservative legislative proposals such as banning sex-change treatments for minors as well as school choice, including educational savings accounts (ESAs) for families to send their children to the schools of their preference.

Earlier this month, Voter Network Executive Director Lindsay Ford appeared before a state House committee to oppose a Senate bill that would tighten ballot signature verification procedures in Kansas.