WARNING: McCain campaign sends out bad absentee ballot applications to Obama donors

Progressive talk show host Lee Rayburn has gotten dozens of contacts from voters in Wisconsin, mostly recently moved, who are complaining that they have received unsolicited absentee ballot applications sent to their new addresses (not forwarded) from the McCain campaign, and that those applications have as the return address the county clerk of their FORMER address. While he was talking about this on the air today, other voters from Florida and North Carolina, as well as more from Wisconsin called to report that they had received the same. A number said that the were not registered Democrats, but had donated to Obama, so it appears that the public donor lists were the McCain campaign's source of the names. This had to have been cross-checked with change-of-address info at the BOEs.

This dirty trick serves a dual purpose. First the votes won't be counted. Second, and equally distressing, the inaccurate returned applications will be used by Republican state legislators to claim fraud by Democrats, and to push through laws with harsh voter ID provisions with which it is hard for poorer registrants to comply. This will suppress the vote in future elections.

Everyone who receives absentee ballot applications from the McCain campaign, or any unsolicited absentee ballot applications, needs (a)to not use them, (b)to publicize the problem as widely as possible including their state Democratic Party and the media, and (c)to demand an investigation by their Secretary of State immediately.

Today you can see a rather incomplete description of the problem on Lee Rayburn's page: <http://www.themic921.com/pages/leeRayburn.html>

And tomorrow the Thom Hartmann show, for which he was filling in, will be archived at the White Rose Society:

<http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=280&Itemid=105>

(You have to click on #11 on the little Sept. calendar on the page, and go to hour three of the show on the media player you're using.)

(w Lee Rayburn filling in for Thomm).

The republicans have really gotten voter fraud down to an art given they have gotten away with it during the two previous presidential elections. I hope all of us and especially our leadership have the will to put an end to this outright theft of our votes.

Please let us know what is going on thanks.

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Dems need to get the word out loud and clear....election fraud....not this time!!! not this time!!!

not for the next 50 years as far as I'm concerned. They have enough damage to last my lifetime.

Mailing Address:
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol St. SE
Washington, DC 20003

Main Phone Number:
202-863-8000
(For questions about contributions, please call 877-336-7200)

HTH someone.

The address on the absentee ballot app is to the correct county clerk, though. There's still something severely screwed up about it, though, since the first thing I did was ask my (admittedly few) Republican friends if they had received one, and they hadn't. The only people I know who've had one sent to them are staunch Dems who've donated to the Obama campaign.

Even without the dirty trick of being sent to the wrong county it's incrdibly disturbing that they're openly welcoming and encouraging absentee voting. I'll quote from the mailer:

"VOTE EARLY BY MAIL - It's as easy as 1-2-3"

I don't think absentee voting is something that political campaigns can suggest to people as being easier than actually voting on election day.

who are trying to process the enormous #'s of new registrants and blame it on Democrats? Or is there something wrong with the application that will get it thrown out like a missing question?

The difference between the address it was sent to, and the address that was on the return application could be the basis in future of a criminal action.

GOD DAMN THEM!

last week. I was on the RNC mailing list for a while (I ordered a product and they sold the mailing list), so I didn't think much about it until I heard this today.

How many election cycles do we have to do this before somebody gets a clue!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3975675&mesg_id=3977146

I requested that he scan it. I didn't ask about the address it was sent to though.

God damn these people...they have NO SHAME.