Dems say GOP made deceptive voter calls (Arizona)

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON - The Phoenix resident, a registered Democrat, was suspicious when a caller told him just three days before the Nov. 2 election that he was supposed to cast his ballot across town.

No, he replied, he knew his local polling place, and the caller was wrong.

The voice on the other end of the line was insistent. The voting precinct, the caller said, had been changed to a location 30 miles from the voter's home.

No such relocation was true, and a prominent national voting rights group is investigating whether the source of the bogus call and at least three known similar calls to residents in Phoenix and Tucson was the Arizona Republican Party.

The state GOP denies any involvement.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1211fbivote11.html

[roseBudd]

1. If this was Law and Order Detectives Green and Lenny would get the lugs

That's cop talk for the phone records.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. The GOP also had private consumer research corporations

which lie about their party leanings. I was dupped before the election thinking it was the Gallop type polling. I asked the important questions: Are you partisan? They said no. The person on the other end sound like a black female and the caller I.D. was New Jersey. She sound sincere.

After giving them every pertinent detail of my life, including the location of the mole on my ass, I looked them up on the net. They're actually from Texas and... welll, see for yourself:

http://www.hillresearch.com/

[SaveAmerica]

3. from their client's list...

Political

* Governors of a half-dozen states
* Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
* State legislators and legislative caucuses
* Big-city mayors
* Special campaign committees formed to pass a single referendum or initiative and various Republican Party committees at the local, state, and national levels
* Well known political clients of the firm have included:
- Former Vice President Dan Quayle
- Elizabeth Dole
- Jeb Bush
- Katherine Harris
- Tom DeLay
- Michigan's Governor John Engler

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Need I say more?

[EMunster]

4. Not Dems "say", but GOP BUSTED....in paragraph further down a woman...

uses a last number dialed feature, and guess what?:


One of them, she said, a voter in Tucson, found a message left on his answering machine on Nov. 2 telling him to go to the wrong polling place. He used the "last number" dial-back feature and got the local Republican headquarters, she said. At least one of the phone calls or messages was tape- recorded, she said.

[Jane Eyre]

5. A local story

This does not have to do with GOTV calls, but it is relevant anyway.

We have a situation with a local right-wing county commissioner who is catching lots of heat (deservedly!) for comments that he made recently about how African American students do not do as well in school and in life because of the "moral sewer" in which they are brought up.

Said county commissioner has complained about threatening phone calls he has received at home, and one particular call from "Leroy" who said he was from the Black Panthers. "Leroy" had a surprising amount of personal information about the commissioner and threatened to publish this information on the web including information about his family. The commissioner called the police and provided the phone number which appeared on his caller ID. The police checked the number, only to find that it was the number for the local Republican headquarters!!

http://www.miami.com/mld/charlotte/news/10348888.htm?1c

Meanwhile, Matthews police Chief Rob Hunter confirmed the department is investigating phone calls James received Friday night at about 10:30 p.m.

James said his 13-year-old daughter was taking a message for him when he heard her repeating personal information about him back to the caller without realizing it.

James said he picked up the phone, told his daughter to hang up, and asked the man who he was. According to James, the caller gave his name as Leroy, and said he was with the Black Panthers.

James said he hung up, took the phone off the hook for 10 minutes. When he replaced it, he said the caller called back and asked him if he wanted his personal information posted on the Internet. James said the caller then asked about his wife and children by name, and began giving personal information about James's wife.

James said he reported the matter that night to Hunter, along with the phone number that showed up on his caller ID. Police traced the number, James said, and it led to county Republican party headquarters.

Hunter refused to comment, but James said police told him it is possible for someone to mask the number they are calling from, and have an incorrect number show up on a caller ID box.

Aneralla, the head of the county Republican party, said he was surprised when he learned call appeared to have come from party headquarters. He said a "finite group" of people have access to the building, and it is not regularly staffed.

[catgirl]

6. It happened here in minnesota too

Recorded messages were left on peoples answering machines the night before the elections with incoorrect polling place info. There was plenty of fraud happening here too. I really think that a good # of elections were tampered with, including smaller races.