10,000 Missouri voters received Republican mailers with false voting information

https://thinkprogress.org/10000-missouri-voters-received-republican-mailers-with-false-voting-information-3a9559f73b84/

10,000 Missouri voters received Republican mailers with false voting information
The GOP says the whole thing was the result of a "miscommunication" with the printer.
Jessica M. Goldstein
Oct 20, 2018, 12:42 pm


Some 10,000 voters in Missouri received mailers with incorrect information about the dates for their absentee ballots were due. The source? The Missouri Republican Party.

Ray Bozarth, the party’s executive director, admitted that his party was responsible for the misleading information but insisted the incorrect date was caused not by malice or an effort at voter suppression.

It was, he said, simply “the result of a miscommunication between the party and its vendor, which he declined to name,” as the Kansas City Star reported.

“Bozarth also did not say how the miscommunication occurred,” the daily added.

The Star obtained a photo of the mailer, which bears a bright red bar and the words “URGENT NOTICE” emblazoned in all-caps, urging voters to get their mail-in ballots sent “today.”



According to The Star, Bozarth believes the ballots were sent to “likely Republican voters” as part of a get-out-the-vote effort. These voters should expect to receive correct information “very soon.”



The error-ridden mass mailing comes amid numerous reported cases of incorrect or sometimes misleading information being distributed to voters across the United States — as well as outright efforts to suppress votes in some areas — ahead of next month’s narrowly-contested midterm election for control of Congress.