NC Elections board seeking source of robocalls giving false info (to African-Americans)

[catgirl]

Huffington Post:

APRIL 29: State election officials are looking for the source of robocalls targeting African-American household with false voter information:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/north-carolina-primary-ne_n_94961.html

Link to HP source:

http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/elections_board_hunting_robocaller

Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, said in a news release that the calls were being made to African American households. The good government watchdog posted audio of the call.

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"This is another in a long line of deceptive practices used in North Carolina and elsewhere that particularly target African-American voters," Hall said. "In our view, this phone message plainly violates North Carolina law. We ask the Attorney General, State Bureau of Investigation, and the State Board of Elections to investigate, expose, and prosecute the sponsors of these calls."

Hall said that in North Carolina, it is a Class I felony for any person "to misrepresent the law to the public through mass mailing or any other means of communication where the intent and the effect is to intimidate or discourage potential voters from exercising their lawful right to vote."

[Hawkeye-X]

1. I'll give you three guesses, two are already used.

It ain't Obama, and it ain't Edwards.

Hawkeye-X

[John Q. Citizen]

3. There are other possibilities.

[catgirl]

4. Karl Rove?

[John Q. Citizen]

17. Or his buddies in NC. Whoever it is I hope they nail them.

[BlueIdaho]

2. So that's what Slick Willy and Mark Penn (BFF) have been up to lately!

I wondered why I hadn't seen "the natural" on the tv lately.

[galaxy21]

6. Is Hillary even dumb enough to try this?

If she gets caught, it's over.

[marions ghost]

5. This is an old familiar voter intimidation practice in North Carolina...

Jesse Helms Co did it but was never prosecuted. Helms supporters' messages used to tell African American voters they could be arrested if they tried to vote.

Nothing new. :thumbsdown: I'm sure the local Rethuglicans are behind it and just warming up....(we all know who their pick is for the Dem candidate)

[catgirl]

10. Something similar happened in Minneapolis in 2004

Certain neighborhoods were targeted by robocalls giving out false
info. on voting locations. I'm sure this happened elsewhere as well.

[marions ghost]

15. oh yeah

I know it happens elsewhere. But it's never prosecuted. Sounds like the NC election officials are trying to get info on the perps, but their track record is not good. Usually they make a show of concern, but that's it.

THIS is why we need standardized simplified voting that operates the same way everywhere. So people can't be so easily confused and intimidated.

[Lerkfish]

7. mark penn should be worried.

or not.

oh wait, that's right...nothing ever happens to white people who disenfranchise black voters.

oh wait, nothing ever happens to white people who allow black people to die in floods.

oh wait, ...

[libnnc]

8. kick

dirty tricks

[NJmaverick]

9. why am I not surprised or shocked?

[demo dutch]

11. Happens in many Southern states routinely! SC, FL, GA etc

[ej510]

12. If Hillary is behind this shit I am fuckin done with them.

[demo dutch]

19. No HIllary is not behind them, it happens with EVERY election! Standard procedure in the South

[Fluffdaddy]

13. Hummm, Hillary supporters are unusually quiet in this thread.

[RC]

16. They're probably all lined up for the jobs of conning the people who answer

their phone.

[DJ13]

14. Were any of the calls at 3AM?

Theres your answer.

[FrenchieCat]

18. I can smell something!

[nsd]

20. Why isn't this a bigger story?

Somebody must have paid for those calls. People should be outraged by this.

[catgirl]

21. MSM is too busy bashing Obama

They don't have time for important issues like this.