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Initech

(100,063 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:09 PM Sep 2014

Americans For Prosperity Sends (Incorrect) Voter Registration Info To Cat

RALEIGH — Hundreds of North Carolinians – and one cat – have received incorrect voter registration information, according to the N.C. State Board of Elections.

The information – an “official application form” – was sent by Americans for Prosperity, a national conservative group with a state chapter based in Raleigh.

Since then, hundreds of people who received the forms have called and complained to the State Board of Elections, said Joshua Lawson, a public information officer for the board.

“It’s unclear where (Americans for Prosperity) got their list, but it’s caused a lot of confusion for people in the state,” Lawson said.

One resident even received a voter registration form addressed to her cat, he said.

“The phone calls have consistently been all day, every day,” Lawson said.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/25/4181779_voters-mailed-incorrect-information.html?sp=/99/102/105/&rh=1#storylink=cpy


Could they possibly get any shadier???
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Americans For Prosperity Sends (Incorrect) Voter Registration Info To Cat (Original Post) Initech Sep 2014 OP
Idiots. The cat wouldn't have voted for their people anyhow. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #1
Everyone knows cats are solid big-L Libertarians, anyway Scootaloo Sep 2014 #5
Actually, they're Democrats: The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #6
Kirk Anderson's masterpiece. hifiguy Sep 2014 #10
I'd like to know where they got their list from. Terra Alta Sep 2014 #2
I swear this is a Simpsons episode come to life! Initech Sep 2014 #3
Kittehs are Americans too shenmue Sep 2014 #4
I sign my dog up for all sorts of shady nefarious offers. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #7
Voter Cat G_j Sep 2014 #8
I has signed shenmue Sep 2014 #9
 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. Kirk Anderson's masterpiece.
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 03:46 PM
Sep 2014

Though I think most cats are waiting for the emergence of the Free Tuna Everyday Party before actively mobilizing to vote.

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
2. I'd like to know where they got their list from.
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:14 PM
Sep 2014

I'm in NC and my dad received a voter registration form from them, and he died in 1989.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
3. I swear this is a Simpsons episode come to life!
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:16 PM
Sep 2014

"Oh my god the dead have risen and they're voting republican!"

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
7. I sign my dog up for all sorts of shady nefarious offers.
Sun Sep 28, 2014, 07:51 PM
Sep 2014

Its amazing how far his name gets around for years afterward.

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