Anyone in the campaigns, I'd love to know who got the most

phony push cards out today in Conn.

distributes a fake pushcard to get votes.

The cards with an organization's endorsements given to voters. One campaign (actually someone on behalf of the campaign) will produce a card that looks just like the real one except where it says "For Senate we endorse candidate B" they would change "B" to "A" or just change the candidate's number from the one correlating to "B" to "A."

No one can get closer than 75 ft. to the polls, and in my town, it's just not done at all! I assume it must be a big thing in Texas??

What would that have to do with it?


You honestly think no one in Conn has ever made and distributed fake pushcards? I guess no campaigns there have ever organized contributions to church "building" funds either? :rofl:

and yes now that you explained what you meant to me, in larger towns that I've lived in, there have been people distributing cards,which I've glanced at and promptly thrown away, unless they are from MY CANDIDATE, I always go to the polls knowing in advance who I intend to vote for, and will not be diverted by such things. Having never paid any attention to it, I would surmise that perhaps maybe it does happen here. But as far as "contributions to church building funds"? NEVER! Not in CT. this is not the LA "bible belt"!! I still don't understand the INTENT of you're original post, or this one either, as a matter of fact! What are you trying to say? Are you insinuating that just because a lot of states controlled by the right wing "cheat in elections" that it stands to reason that Ct. does so also?? We are a BLUE state, and a liberal state, remember? Just because we have a Rep. Gov. and an ex criminal Gov. that the whole state must be crooked? We in Ct. just did the WORLD a favor, and you are questioning our "ethics"?? Please explain???:shrug:

It's a shame, it's the funnest part of election day in my opinion, tracking down fake ballot cards (another term for them), watching who's vans are picking up people with which yardsigns.

It has nothing to do with right wing or left wing or blue or red or the Bible belt. It's a part of campaigns. It's done in races with a Dem v. GOP, Dem v. Dem and very much before the runoff remember in Louisiana we do not have party primaries, but it is done in both Dem and GOP primaries in states where they have them. As far as the intent of the OP I just wanted to see who was doing a good job on it, you know keeping ballots with your candidate's endorsements correct. Some people collect the cards both the correct and fake ones, I have a huge box of them at my in-laws.

Surly there are political organizations that put out endorsements in Connecticut? They endorse your candidate, they have x number of people that use their ballot every election and you give them a contribution to help pay for the ballots to be printed, someone running state wide would pay more to the cost than someone running for local judge. Now of course if you are in a closer race there might be more "printing costs" to get the ballots out, and it's your choice if you want to help or not. The larger and more established the organization the more contribution is expected. Don't help and they endorse your opponent. Now of course you can get a copy of their ballot on election day and print your own fake one with you as their endorsed candidate or change the voter number of their endorsed candidate. Some can be funny when the picture is changed but not the name and you have a picture of a female and a male name below it. A real funny one was a push card endorsing both Bill Clinton and casino gambling, had a cartoon of Bill pulling the lever on a slot machine.

As far as contributions lined up for church building funds, this is something that happens everywhere with certain preachers on both the left and the right. Has nothing to do with the Bible Belt. Rev. Joe Blow tells a candidate that he has x number of people at his church just waiting to find out who he thinks should win the election, but he is too busy trying to build a new rec center or finding funds for his after school program, and after he gets that done he'd be happy to discuss such with his x hundred people. Of course the problem is if you don't get someone who can give the money, your opponent will. This is of course not done by all of them but it is done. I do hope you are not naive enough to think no preacher has ever thought to do this in Connecticut.

I was not questioning the people of Connecticut on anything, so please don't take it that way.