Friday, October 10, 2014

Koch brother funded mailer flagged for sending misleading information to North Carolina voters. Because you know tricking people into missing election day is an official conservative tactic.

Courtesy of The American Prospect:  

The North Carolina State Board of Elections announced this week that it is investigating a controversial mailer the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) sent to thousands of state residents that contained inaccurate information about voter registration. 

The board was required to launch an investigation after a formal complaint was filed by Casey Mann, executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party. The complaint noted that the mailer, sent by the AFP Foundation—whose chairman is David Koch—included incorrect information on the registration deadline, where to send voter registration applications, and where to get answers to questions about registration. As Mann wrote in the complaint: 

The above referenced statements were certainly known by the Respondent to be false and known by the Respondents to have the effect of misleading, intimidating, and/or discouraging participation in the North Carolina General Election by recipients not yet sufficiently informed with respect to the voter registration requirements. 

Under North Carolina law, sending out a mass mailing or taking any other action where "the intent and effect is to intimidate or discourage potential voters" is a Class I felony. The elections board told the News & Observer that it has received at least 2,000 calls about the mailers, and has asked the AFP Foundation to send accurate information to the homes that received the misinformation. 

AFPF has downplayed the significance of the mailers, releasing a statement that said they "contained a few administrative errors" that "were not substantive."

Yeah telling voters the wrong information about registration deadlines and where to send their registrations, is clearly "not substantive."

Let's face it these assholes know that the more of us that vote across the country, the worse it is for them.

This is another reason why I hate the false equivalency I see lately of comparing the Koch brothers to Unions, or wealthy Democratic donors. The difference is that those people are encouraging people to register and vote, while the Koch brothers and their minions are attempting to suppress voter turnout, or steal elections outright.

20 comments:

  1. Boscoe2:41 PM

    Isn't it interesting how we ALWAYS hear stories about conservative mailers and robocalls that target democrat-leaning areas telling them the wrong day for voting or some such?

    EVERY election season I hear these stories. Yet I've NEVER heard it said about Democrats. I guess "the left" just doesn't have as much of that "ends justify the means" gene that "patriotic, constitution-loving" Cons appear to have.

    They're all for justice, fairness, and democracy as long as it's slanted in their favor. Otherwise, not so much.

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    1. Anonymous3:42 PM

      ^^ THIS.

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    2. Anonymous4:20 PM

      OT: Did Palin endorse this guy? Carl DeMaio (R)?
      b/c if she did :HOOHAH:! Caught Tossing off!! another R down the drain! http://bit.ly/1sor4Jv

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  2. Anonymous2:47 PM

    Bidness as usual for these crooks.

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  3. Anonymous2:58 PM

    Surely the mailers only went to AFPF members or registered GOP voters.
    (please read as sarcasm)

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    1. Anonymous4:36 PM

      Why isn't something being done legally to these guys? Democrats, where are you? How much will their actions screw up the voters? They did this intentionally and should pay the price!

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    2. @Anonymous4:36 PM, something is being done legally. Read the article.

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  4. Anonymous2:59 PM

    Seeing the Koch brothers get indicted would, for me, be about 10,000 times as satisfying as seeing the Palins indicted. And that's really saying something.

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    1. Anonymous5:10 PM

      Anonymous2:59 PM

      Seeing the Koch brothers get indicted would, for me, be about 10,000 times as satisfying as seeing the Palins indicted.
      ***
      yes b/c they are paying her!

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  5. Anonymous3:06 PM

    Dirty bastards!

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  6. Anonymous3:54 PM

    Whoever came up with that deceptive scheme is un-American. Lock up those domestic terrorists.

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  7. So, if you can't win on the actual issues (or even address them in a helpful way) that are making the USA look like a third world country you just cheat. Sounds good to me.

    With love from Georgia,USA

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  8. Anonymous4:32 PM

    These two assholes need to be kept out of Alaska. They are harming the country with their money in trying to buy elections! Wake up, America, as we are being overrun from the right!

    Get out the voters for the November election to assure Republicans will be voted out of office across the nation and especially in the U.S. Congress.

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  9. Anonymous5:35 PM

    Sarah Palin is really hitting the A-list, big time places for giving $peeche$$$$$$. (I wonder how much they can afford to pay her). The school is small. The fund raising banquet will be held at a 2 year college that has a total of 993 students. (My daughter's high school class had more students than that).

    As for Trinity: Trinity Christian School
    Private | Grades: PK-12 | 247 students
    http://www.schooldigger.com/go/ND/schools/9999905348/school.aspx
    Another website gives a bigger enrollment:
    Grades: PK - 12 | 311 students
    http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/21357

    Since the school is small and rents property, the Big Deal Banquet is being held at Williston State College, a 2 year school with around 900 students. The other speaker on the program is David Barton the founder of Wall Builders: http://www.wallbuilders.com/abtbiodb.asp It looks as if they teach American History as seen through the eyes of a Christian. I hope that Trinity Christian has a sweatshirt in Sarah's size.

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  10. Anita Winecooler5:37 PM

    I'm sick of this bullshit myself. I get robocalls for the sitting republican governor and seeing ads with NO mention of whom is sponsoring them, but the language and lies are the same. They're blaming Obama for Ebola and Isis, because the two have soooooooo much in common.
    GOTV

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  11. Anonymous6:50 PM

    Koch brother funded mailer flagged for sending *bullshit* to North Carolina voters.

    There. Fixed it for you. Hard to believe you would sugar-coat it like that. "Misleading information" my ass.

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  12. Anonymous7:54 PM

    Domestic terrorists.

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  13. Anonymous8:55 PM

    Assholes!

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  14. Anonymous8:56 PM

    I think that's treasonous. Lock those rich bastards up and throw away the key.

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  15. Anonymous3:44 PM

    so which one of the Koch Brothers are the father of that 'poor little rich kid' in Alaska? and why did the mom eat a gun in TX?
    I hear the 'product' is in the Criminal Minds industry...oh shit!
    We can expect to see them in orange suits real soon?

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