Bogus Letter Calls Out 'Deadbeat' Voters

[Socialist Dem]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041029/ap_on_el_pr/voter_scam

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A bogus letter circulating in South Carolina, purporting to be from the NAACP, threatens the arrest of voters who have outstanding parking tickets or failed to pay child support. The NAACP said Friday the letter is a scare tactic and called for an investigation.

"I'm outraged," said Jill Miller, director of the Charleston County Board of Election and Voter Registration. "This is so bogus."

The Rev. Joe Darby, vice president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (news - web sites), said he received the one-page letter — which had a Columbia postmark with no return address — at his Charleston home.

He said it was an attempt to frighten minorities from voting Tuesday because the letter-writer assumes black people are in trouble with the law.

"This is old South Carolina politics," said Darby. "I don't think anybody will fall for this."

Darby said he wants the State Law Enforcement Division to investigate.

The letter also says voters must have a credit check, provide two forms of photo identification, a Social Security (news - web sites) card, a voter registration card and a handwriting sample.

"None of that is true," said Miller. "I certainly hope no voter would be taken in by this."

[Beaverhausen]

1. kick

to try and get this above the OBL threads

[Spiffarino]

5. Old-school racial politics

The bring-a-hundred-forms-of-ID trick is one they've used for a century. The "returned mail" scam is another.

The 'thugs got busted for a returned mail scam in New Jersey back in 1982, yet here they are again. It must have been so much fun, they just couldn't resist trying it again. :eyes:

[RevCheesehead]

2. This same kind of crap was/is going on in Milwaukee

There was a post on here last night about certain flyers.

[Beaverhausen]

3. come one people- keep your eye on the ball

enough about OBL- we need to keep watching this kind of shit

[roseBudd]

4. Need old-fashioned loud speakers on cars driving around telling people

this is not true.