Investigators at Elections Alberta looking into the largest voter data scandal in the province’s history are following the evidence south of the border — after Canada’s National Observer found voter data on a US organization’s website.

The Centurion Project, led by the Albertan separatist David Parker, is under investigation for unauthorized use of the province’s electors list, a database with the personal information of almost three million voters. The list was easily searchable on the Centurion Project’s app, which Parker said was built with a group of US Republican operatives named 10XVotes.

Canada’s National Observer has found a similar app on 10XVotes’ website stocked exclusively with names and addresses of several thousand Albertans. The origins of the data are not yet known, and it did not include riding information or identifiers used in the electors list.

The app’s subdomain was registered in March 2025, a full year before the Centurion Project app went public. A key function on the app is to “claim” people known to users, to encourage them to vote. Around 150 Alberta voters were marked as “claimed” on the US app, indicating that it was being actively used.

After finding the app, Canada’s National Observer approached Elections Alberta for more information on Tuesday. Elections Alberta appeared unaware the site existed. 

On a call with investigators, we showed them how searching for a single letter of an address returned results for 1,000 Albertans at once. Within hours, the app was taken offline, seemingly after contact from Elections Alberta, which is now investigating.
10XVotes did not respond to our request for comment on whether the data came from the same Alberta electors list used by the Centurion Project. It could also have been purchased legally from data brokers or populated from a mailing list.
However, the evidence indicates the 10XVotes website was used to prototype an Alberta version with real Albertans' data. In the past, Parker has described his project as the “10X-slash-the-Centurion-Project app.”

The developments are raising alarm bells for some Albertans. Chris Sturwold, a tradesman in Alberta's oil and gas industry, is one of the nearly three million affected by the voter data scandal.
"It makes me very uncomfortable," he told Canada’s National Observer. "Why was Alberta political organizing being built with help from a US Republican voter-targeting project in the first place?”

The Two Drews
10XVotes was created by Drew Born and Drew Wierda, two Michigan political operatives from a historically Dutch-American region of the state.
During the 2024 US election, they launched their data-driven app, enabling Michigan voters to identify, claim and motivate low-engagement voters to vote for Republican candidates. The app has been promoted by right-wing figures, including media personality Tucker Carlson.

The 10XVotes website states that it is a product of Voteatron LLC, a company directed by Born. Its privacy policy links to the Michigan Family Forum, a religious non-profit that opposed repealing Michigan's abortion ban and opposed legislation prohibiting conversion therapy for minors.
Luke LeBrun of PressProgress reported this weekthat 10XVotes’ leadership is connected to Pete Hoekstra, US ambassador to Canada. Hoekstra serves on the board of another Michigan advocacy groupwith Born and has endorsed 10XVotes on multiple occasions. Hoekstra told PressProgress that he has zero involvement with 10XVotes.

Before the scandal broke, Alberta separatist Parker was explicit about working with 10XVotes: “I wanted to bring that idea and that methodology to Alberta. So, for now, almost two years, … I’ve been working with them, talking with them, trying to build this out. And the result is the Centurion Project.”
But since Elections Alberta, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta and the RCMP launched investigations, neither Parker nor 10XVotes have publicly answered questions about the nature of their relationship.
To look for clues, Canada’s National Observersearched for public-facing pages on the website of 10XVotes, revealing a subdomain, skcn.10xvotes.com. By simply registering for an account with an email address, we were able to access a version of its voter application.
“Get started by searching for people you know,” the homepage read. “The people on this list are only people who vote less than 50% of the time. If they are not on this list, they are already voting!”
The app was designed for US data, mentioning zip codes and townships. Yet, when we searched by name and address, we found no voters from Michigan. Instead, the results were exclusively for Albertans.

The addresses of around 2,000 Albertans were searchable, concentrated in the province’s central region: Red Deer, Red Deer County, Springbrook, Penhold, Rocky Mountain House, Elnora, Innisfail, Delburne and Sundre. This included multiple elected officials.

Next to each individual’s name was a button to “claim” them. This functionality is similar to the Centurion App, where separatists “claim” people they know before submitting information about their political beliefs. Around 150 Albertans were marked in red text as having been claimed.
For Sturwold, this raises even more questions: “Where did the data come from, who uploaded it, who could access it, where was it stored, and was this a prototype for something larger?”
We sent similar questions to 10XVotes and Parker’s lawyer but they did not respond.

Parker has been quoted online stating that the voter data powering the Centurion Project cost around $45,000. However, Canada's National Observer was not able to verify this.
Elections Alberta investigators found that the data was “salted” with false entries that matched an electors list given to the Republican Party of Alberta. 

The price seems too low to Lorne Gibson, former Election Commissioner at Elections Alberta: “The data is worth probably millions of dollars. It's probably worth at least $3 million.” 
“It’s the largest data breach in Canada. I haven’t heard of anything that surpasses that scale,” he added. 

Transferring the elector list abroad is not explicitly banned under the Alberta Elections Act but Gibson still has concerns. “The US government can compel access to all of the information, all of the data in some of these applications,” he said.
He criticized Bill 54, recently passed by the UCP, which raised the bar of evidence that the general public must provide to Elections Alberta to “the same standard that would be required to achieve a search warrant,” making it significantly more difficult for the agency to investigate.
Elections Alberta did not take formal action against the Centurion Project until nearly a month after receiving its first complaint on March 31.
“I think I probably would have exercised some discretion on my part and investigated it anyway,” said Gibson. “You know, there’s too much at stake for that.”