By GottaLaff
Please read this post for the back story, and what a back story it is. Briefly, "misleading" absentee ballot applications are being mailed out by the McCain campaign to registered Democratic voters in purple (toss-up) states. The return addresses of the city clerk's offices are inaccurate, as well as other information. It's a caging tactic.
Lee Rayburn, Thom Hartmann's substitute host, is all over this election fraud, caging, disenfranchisement, you name it, and it's a good thing.
Today he interviews Brad Friedman from The BradBlog and updates the story with news:
Brad says Rayburn has started things moving now. People are reporting the fraud. Absentee ballot request forms are what are being sent out. Good news for North Carolina: There doesn't seem to be, at this time, anything out of sorts with the forms... It's a get out the vote campaign, so that's good. But vote-by-mail are harder to track and are counted by the same machines that count other ballots.UPDATE FROM A COMMENTER:
However, in N. Carolina, the McCain camp is off the hook at this point. The correct addresses are on the envelopes.
In Hamilton County, Ohio, a million are invalidated, as I posted here. And in Michigan, many who are in foreclosure also become disenfranchised. In Florida, more dirty tricks. In Virginia, they're telling students lies that disenfranchise them. The Ohio mailer included a box that needed to be checked that people didn't know to check... so those forms can't be counted, and most are from Republicans. The county must now send mailers within 48 hours to all those people, following up... on their own dime.
Brad points out we haven't even touched on the voting machine issue. But he suggests to "make noise" if you have so much as a question about anything. Sometimes the bad guys ARE the county registrars.
If Obama voters receive McCain applications what should they do? If you want to vote absentee, go to the county website and follow their procedures. Don't count on a mailer. But it's better not to vote absentee, but vote on paper. If there is a touch screen (which can never be verified), then consider absentee, and deliver it in person on election day, to the polls. That's a paper ballot. In some states, you can request a paper ballot.
And how do you confirm you're ON the voter rolls? Call your county and/or state to check to see, even if you have previously been ON the rolls.
This is going to be uglier than anyone will even guess this November. At VotersUnite.org, there is a button that asks if you are registered. You can find out if you are. Check it more than once between now and November.
ANYONE who has received the phone call and/or received the mailer. PLEASE Call Detective Ed from the Virginia State Police at 434-352-3436. They are wondering if its a SCAM tactic to get social security numbers or is it part of a voter fraud. I called the Virginia DNC yesterday and think thats how the State Police called me. So- If you have any information, Do Your Part and call. Thanks, Cynthia
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