duckweedpond forwards an email she’s just had about the re-emergence of a tried-and-true GOP trick . . .
Subject: Election Fraud
The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered Democrats or people that have donated to Obama’s campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee. These ballots are only being sent out in ‘purple states’ and this is a big deal. This is called voter caging, and is a huge problem.
The McCain campaign is stealing this election as we speak. Please get this information out to as many people as you can, and tell anyone you know who has received one of these ballots that they need to contact their city election clerk or the supervisor of elections immediately. Also call the local media and let them know what is going on.
The mainstream media is never going to cover this so we have to depend on our ground campaign to get the word out to our voters.
Catherine Kuada
Look sharp, Obama voters. We’re up against literal desperadoes, as you know.
this gives a whole new meaning to the term voter fraud. These people should sue the s!!t out of the mccain’s the palins and the republicans!!
And here’s another one: the GOP is putting the word on the street that the government is going to have agents at every polling station, ready to match the names of people who appear to vote with lists of people who have outstanding warrants—any kind of warrant, eg, parking or traffic tickets, unpaid child support, capiases, all the way to felony warrants—and they will instantly swoop and snatch those people while they are at the polling stations. Now why do you suppose they’d circulate crap like that?
ummm-to keep America safe, Ben?
Can January 20, 2009, come soon enough for anyone?
Unpaid water or utility bills…. Ben @2. One seasoned election attorney told me that one time they circulated that rumor, then a Republican pollworker called the police department and asked if they could station a patrolman close by just in case they had any problems, which they did. The policeman had no idea how he was being used.
You’re right Weed … all it takes is just a patrol car parked outside the polling station, and/or a cop walking around the premises.