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spanone

(135,844 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2018, 11:52 PM Oct 2018

Republican congressman admits to sending inaccurate absentee ballot info



New York Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin’s re-election campaign acknowledged that it mailed information to voters that included the wrong deadline to return absentee ballots, prompting his Democratic opponent to seek a federal probe, Newsday reports.

The details: The mailers inaccurately said voters should submit their ballots by November 6 (Election Day,) but the actual deadline is November 5. Under state law, ballots that missed the deadline are disqualified. Based on the complaints he received, Democratic candidate Perry Gershon alleged that college-age and minority voters were targeted. Zeldin’s campaign reportedly said it was an error caused by the printer. Newsday reports that the campaign had also listed the wrong date in 2016.


https://www.axios.com/zeldin-voters-inaccurate-absentee-ballot-4bbb7cf1-03f1-42b4-adb5-932113385b8c.html
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Republican congressman admits to sending inaccurate absentee ballot info (Original Post) spanone Oct 2018 OP
Despicable Chickenshit Cha Oct 2018 #1
👍🏼 spanone Oct 2018 #2
Zelden Meowmee Oct 2018 #3
Did you by chance get to his "debate" with Tim Bishop in Riverhead back then? It was... TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #13
No Meowmee Oct 2018 #14
Rachel highlighted this cilla4progress Oct 2018 #4
redumbliCONS will lie, cheat and steal in an attempt to win elections. democratisphere Oct 2018 #5
that should be a felony gopiscrap Oct 2018 #6
No mistake. One time error can be accepted. Doing it twice, no way a mistake. Any ballot iluvtennis Oct 2018 #7
That was my thought AllyCat Oct 2018 #8
Exactly. iluvtennis Oct 2018 #10
Surprise-fucking-surprise rags17 Oct 2018 #9
there is no real consequences to them AlexSFCA Oct 2018 #11
Zeldin is my congressman, and I can assure you this is just the tip of the iceberg. TreasonousBastard Oct 2018 #12

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
3. Zelden
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 12:00 AM
Oct 2018

a real creep, and my rep. I’m hoping Gershon wins. We have a sign and I got one for my dem neighbor too. Someone else has a sign for him as well. I have been contributing as much as possible to Gershon and other dems. I’m not sure who needs it the most right now?

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
13. Did you by chance get to his "debate" with Tim Bishop in Riverhead back then? It was...
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 06:08 AM
Oct 2018

the sort of thing I had never seen before around here.

The teabaggers were out in force that year.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
14. No
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 02:53 PM
Oct 2018

I have never gone to any of these things due to health issues. And to be honest other than voting and donating I havent been involved politically much. Except for making hundreds of calls for Hillary. But I may try to get to something for Gershon. Sounds like I was better off missing it😳😹

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
5. redumbliCONS will lie, cheat and steal in an attempt to win elections.
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 12:01 AM
Oct 2018

Zeldin is a loser that needs to lose his job!

iluvtennis

(19,862 posts)
7. No mistake. One time error can be accepted. Doing it twice, no way a mistake. Any ballot
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 01:25 AM
Oct 2018

postmarked on November 6th should be counted since that is the info his office distributed. Final vote tallies should not be published until ballots postmarked on 6 Nov are received and counted.

AllyCat

(16,189 posts)
8. That was my thought
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 01:35 AM
Oct 2018

One does not make that mistake twice. It was on purpose. If it was truly a mistake, seems some other kids of voters/demographic might have been affected. And yet, somehow, these things always seem to hurt certain groups likely to vote Democratic.

 

rags17

(18 posts)
9. Surprise-fucking-surprise
Wed Oct 24, 2018, 01:47 AM
Oct 2018

These motherfuckers know exactly what they are doing. Shave a little off here, a little off there and maybe they end up with an extra thousand votes that stayed home when they should have been out kicking your ass.

And if you ever get caught, like being a Catholic, all they have to do is say "Ooopsies ! DI I do that ? Ain't I a stinker ?! Mea culpa !"

"Errors" like this should ALWAYS be presumed to be a conscious vote suppression effort on behalf of the party concerned unless proven otherwise.

The fuckers pull this shit because it WORKS !

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