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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans 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.
Its unclear where (Americans for Prosperity) got their list, but its 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
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.
Its unclear where (Americans for Prosperity) got their list, but its 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
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,722 posts)1. Idiots. The cat wouldn't have voted for their people anyhow.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)5. Everyone knows cats are solid big-L Libertarians, anyway
The Velveteen Ocelot
(129,722 posts)6. Actually, they're Democrats:
?w=495hifiguy
(33,688 posts)10. Kirk Anderson's masterpiece.
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.
I'm in NC and my dad received a voter registration form from them, and he died in 1989.
Initech
(107,962 posts)3. I swear this is a Simpsons episode come to life!
"Oh my god the dead have risen and they're voting republican!"
shenmue
(38,584 posts)4. Kittehs are Americans too
They have rights.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,148 posts)7. I sign my dog up for all sorts of shady nefarious offers.
Its amazing how far his name gets around for years afterward.
G_j
(40,558 posts)8. Voter Cat

