Koch Group In Hot Water Over Misleading Voters With Mailers [View all]
By DANIEL STRAUSS Published OCTOBER 2, 2014, 4:38 PM EDT
In the last few weeks before the Nov. 4 midterm elections Americans for Prosperity, the Koch Brothers-backed conservative organization plans to spend millions in key senate races through digital mail, door-to-door campaigning and other types of advertising.
Those states include, according to The New York Times which first reported the push, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa and North Carolina, where the group has found itself under fire recently over sending out mailers that included misleading information about voting.
On Tuesday, North Carolina's ABC affiliate reported that "hundreds of complaints" are flooding into the state Board of elections over "hundreds of thousands of mailers with false information about voter registration sent by Americans for Prosperity." That report cited Jenifer Odum, who received a letter addressed to her young daughter who would only be about four years old if she had not died two years ago.
On Tuesday, North Carolina's ABC affiliate reported that "hundreds of complaints" are flooding into the state Board of elections over "hundreds of thousands of mailers with false information about voter registration sent by Americans for Prosperity." That report cited Jenifer Odum, who received a letter addressed to her young daughter who would only be about four years old if she had not died two years ago.
The report is the latest of a string of coverage about the mailers that started with a piece in The Raleigh News & Observer. A before the North Carolina affiliate report Zachary Roth at MSNBC reported that AFP was being investigated over the mailers, which were sent to hundreds of voters in North Carolina and a cat.
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