Another 'unfortunate coincidence' in WV (WVWV)???

[babylonsister]

Secretary of State says mass mailing has caused confusion


The Secretary of State's office is reminding first-time voters that the deadline to register to vote in Tuesday's primary already has passed.

Betty Ireland said she's worried that a mass mailing aimed at getting young women in West Virginia to register to vote might cause confusion.

A group called "Women's Voices. Women Vote" sent out more than 16,000 mailers to unmarried women in the state after April 22, the last day to register in time to vote Tuesday.

People who've never voted can still register, but they won't be eligible to cast a ballot in the primary.

Page Gardner, president of the women's organization, said in a letter that:

"West Virginia residents will receive this mail after the deadline for registering to vote to participate in the upcoming primary election. Please be aware that the mailing is not intended to encourage registration specifically for the primary, but simply to encourage voter registration in general.

The mailing clearly indicates that the deadline to register to vote by mail for a particular election in West Virginia is 20 days before the election ... We hope that this unfortunate coincidence in timing does not lead to any confusion or aggravation for either your state's voters or registrars."

Ireland's office said it received a batch of voter registration forms as a result of the group's mass mailing, and many of them were from people already registered.

Ireland said she wants to assure already registered voters that they do not need to register again to vote in Tuesday's primary. However, those voters who used the women's group's registration form to update their address should contact their county clerk's office to determine their proper voting precinct.

"I do not want registered voters to be confused by this mailing," Ireland said. "If you were already registered to vote, you do not need to re-register."

more...

http://www.dailymail.com/News/election08/200805090050

[glowing]

1. This group needs to be sued and sued and sued right out of existence.

Rovian tactics used by Dems.. Disgusting.

[roguevalley]

12. are these the pigs that are robocalling and voter surpressing.

put them in jail. who does it benefit? Hillary. start there and work backwards. people she knows and is connected to will be there. count on it.

[ixion]

2. it's stuff like this that truly indicates they're gaming the voting system

you don't see this kind of "confusion" over things like taxes or driver's licenses or passports, etc. You don't see the issues that occur on Diebold ATM's that you do on Diebold voting machines. Both of these examples show that while they have the proper mechanisms to make these things happen smoothly, in both cases they choose to introduce chaos into the system, which creates plausible denial. You create plausible denial when you want to game a system. Ergo, they're gaming these systems.

[babylonsister]

3. And we all must ask ourselves who 'they' are. Who is this org. working for?

Pretty obvious to me, which makes it all the more disgusting.

[patrice]

5. Could be anyone.

Either one of ours. McCheney's. RNC. Free-lancers. Ossama bin Laden.

[babylonsister]

8. No, I don't think so. They aren't freelancers. This was done prior

to the NC primary also. Their history is known.

[hootinholler]

13. Was it the same group?

The bio page looks fairly benign, but I smell the DLC there.

The demographic they claim: "Improving unmarried women's participation" seems odd at first glance. Registering voters too late for the primary who attempt to vote in the primary and get refused, would tend to curb that voter's trust in the system, wouldn't it? So what I don't understand is who would want to shut down enthusiasm for voting in the general?

It just doesn't make sense to me, once is an error, twice smells.

-Hoot

[babylonsister]

14. Same name, so that's why this 'coincidence' doesn't sound so

coincidental.

[stillcool]

7. Here's who they are...

http://wvwv.org/about/board-and-bios

[patrice]

9. This is why REAL Grassroots are soooooo important. The women of WV, if they organize THEMSELVES,

would KNOW one another.

Criteria #1 for the struggle ahead: Watch out for people who come into your state, or your district, to do you a favor. Organize yourselves and your friends.

[babylonsister]

10. Link about robocalls in NC, and links to Clinton:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/05/nc_attorney_general_says_wvwv.html?ft=1

Fines could exceed $1B?
http://politicalchase.com/2008/05/04/fines-could-exceed-1-billion-for-nc-robocalls/

History:
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/05/nc-robocalls-mo.html

[patrice]

4. not! good. nt

[stillcool]

6. What do they do this in every state?

I don't get it, but at least they aren't doing the robo-calls.

[OhioChick]

11. K&R

:kick:

[crimsonblue]

15. man...

they keep having "bad" luck on the timing of their mailings.. I'm sure it is completely coincidental. snark