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TexasTowelie

(112,492 posts) Tue Jul 14, 2020, 03:14 AM Jul 2020

Deceased cat gets voter registration application in mail

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ATLANTA (AP) — In a presidential election year, there's always a push to get people registered to vote.

For one Atlanta family, that push got a little interesting.

Ron Tims said he checked his mail Wednesday and found a voter registration application addressed to Cody Tims — his cat, who died 12 years ago.

“A great cat, indoor and outdoor, loved his family, loved his neighborhood. He was 18 and a half when he passed away,” Carol Tims told WAGA-TV.

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If you’re wondering how Cody would have voted if he could go to the polls. His owner said he was a DemoCAT.

The complete article is at https://www.chron.com/news/article/Deceased-cat-gets-voter-registration-application-15401593.php .

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Deceased cat gets voter registration application in mail (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2020 OP

Cat or human, why would someone who died PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #1

Exactly! Rebl2 Jul 2020 #6

so did my cat. twice. 1st when she would have been 18. PANSY got gevalia coffee. pansypoo53219 Jul 2020 #2

Is this a story that is aimed to scare people about mail in ballots? Sanity Claws Jul 2020 #3

We used to get stuff for our dog. Alliepoo Jul 2020 #4

I smell BS Archetypist Jul 2020 #5

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,906 posts)

1. Cat or human, why would someone who died

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 05:34 AM

Jul 2020

twelve fucking years ago get a voter registration application? This is exactly why voter rolls need to be purged periodically.

Rebl2

(13,571 posts)

6. Exactly!

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 11:47 AM

Jul 2020

pansypoo53219

(21,004 posts)

2. so did my cat. twice. 1st when she would have been 18. PANSY got gevalia coffee.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:29 AM

Jul 2020

and she had/has the best junk mail! CAVIAR! i should have kept that 1. river cruises. she still gets calls. my other cat had archaeology magazine + CD clubs + got hardly any junk mail. everybody want's pansy's money.

Sanity Claws

(21,857 posts)

3. Is this a story that is aimed to scare people about mail in ballots?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:37 AM

Jul 2020

This is probably not quite the innocent cute story some may think.

Alliepoo

(2,228 posts)

4. We used to get stuff for our dog.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:38 AM

Jul 2020

One of the kids put her name on a contest card at a mall and stuck it in the box. After that, Holly got mail!! And she didn’t win the grand prize either.

Archetypist

(218 posts)

5. I smell BS

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Jul 14, 2020, 09:35 AM

Jul 2020

If another paper verifies this maybe there is something to it. But GA has been purging voter rolls very aggressively as a firm of vote suppression and this feels tome like a story planted to try and bolster support for it.

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