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By DANIEL STRAUSS Published OCTOBER 2, 2014, 4:38 PM EDT
In the last few weeks before the Nov. 4 midterm elections Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Brothers-backed conservative organization plans to spend millions in key senate races through digital mail, door-to-door campaigning and other types of advertising.
Those states include, according to The New York Times which first reported the push, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina, where the group has found itself under fire recently over sending out mailers that included misleading information about voting.
On Tuesday, North Carolina's ABC affiliate reported that "hundreds of complaints" are flooding into the state Board of elections over "hundreds of thousands of mailers with false information about voter registration sent by Americans for Prosperity." That report cited Jenifer Odum, who received a letter addressed to her young daughter who would only be about four years old if she had not died two years ago.
On Tuesday, North Carolina's ABC affiliate reported that "hundreds of complaints" are flooding into the state Board of elections over "hundreds of thousands of mailers with false information about voter registration sent by Americans for Prosperity." That report cited Jenifer Odum, who received a letter addressed to her young daughter who would only be about four years old if she had not died two years ago.
The report is the latest of a string of coverage about the mailers that started with a piece in The Raleigh News & Observer. A before the North Carolina affiliate report Zachary Roth at MSNBC reported that AFP was being investigated over the mailers, which were sent to hundreds of voters in North Carolina and a cat.
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nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Including a huge fine and prison time.
Tired of this shit from the REAL fraudsters!
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Would love to collect all those fake mailers and leave them afire on their doorstep.
I imagine I can hear the GOP and their cronies having the laugh of their lives, all on us including their teabag fan club.
What is it going to take to stop this?!
Every election it's the same ole thing here.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Other than that, their cult will keep on voting for the officials that enable this, from the state election officials, state houses, governors, senators and HoR guys. It can be done, up to us again. The courts can't make them stop in most cases, because Bush got all the appointments he wanted and stacked the bench. We've only begun to turn back the tide. Our time is short, though.
Kingofalldems
(38,452 posts)Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)and pretend the 1% are not the cause of most of our problems.
PATHETIC.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Warm water, more like it.
This election will see the greatest number of election fraud cases by the Righties® in history. They got away with it in 2000 and 2004. They will probably get away with it this year too.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)An age old formula, defraud the stupid, er, misinformed.