Discussion for article #228362
Who the hell is proofreading these articles?
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.
A probe by the state Board of Elections was opened following the North Democratic Party sending a complaint about the mailers. North Carolina Democratic Party executive director Casey Mann, in the complaint, said that the mailers included false information on the deadlines for registering to vote, where to send voter registration forms, and an incorrect ZIP code for the State Board of Elections. Mann described the mailers as “a means of discouraging or intimidating voters in the 2014 General Election.”
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Missing so far from all the reporting on this story (here and elsewhere) is any sense of whom the misleading mailing went out to. Where did the fraternal colostomy bags get their list and what were the criteria for being on it?
Did it target a traditionally Democratic-voting population with bad information, in which case they should be prosecuted to the letter, or was the misleading info sent to a constituency that would tend to vote GOP, in which case, too bad for would be Republican voters, but wah-wah-wah-wahhhhhh! on the fraternal colostomy bags.
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“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.
Next thing, dead Republicans will be voting in key districts. The Koch villains are so desperate, this may be only the tip of the steaming pile to come.
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Theother… It’s not just the proofing, it’s the incredibly poor “writing,”
for want of a better word. It certainly isn’t journalism.
"In a statement to The Huffington Post on a Friday late in September
Americans for Prosperity spokesman Levi Russell described the forms
as “a few minor administrative errors.”
“on a Friday late in September” really, how can you actually write that?
If you can’t be more exact than that then just say, “late in September.”
Does it really matter that it was a Friday?
Also, as Poindexter points out, there is much missing from the story.
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Sounds like someone should subpoena the USPS and see how many return envelopes were posted to that BRC permit so that can be compared to what reached a legitimate registrar. Would help give sense of how big the fraud is.
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Did someone say the billionaire Koch Family is again funding voter fraud?
Say it ain’t so??
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There is some good news about the Koch Bros: Given their age, they’ll be dead soon.
And like for the rest of us, the maggots are waiting.
Then, in a short while, “Who were the Koch Bros.?” will have become a trivia question.
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Can’t win on the merits, so cheat, cheat, cheat.
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Surely you jest. What is soon??? These bastards could live to be 100. One of them was lucky enough to survive a fucking plane crash that killed over 100 people. Their legacy (along with their billions) will live on, you can count on it,\
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Exactly Poindexter.
When you don’t have ideas, cheat.
Oh, and the Kochs aren’t afraid of hot water, because they think any kind of warming is a hoax.
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Yeah, you’re right. But it could happen.
Nobody edits or proofreads this guys stories ever, apparently. It’s annoying and I’d think a journalist would be embarrassed to publish story after story with so many errors. The content/subject is usually good and I enjoy the meat of the article, but nearly every article of his, I have re-read to fill in the holes.
That’s the Koch Brothers! Money can’t get the job done so they have to lie. How is that working?
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Wait…the KockSuckers are LIARS?
Shucks…who knew?
Coming soon to an election near you!
The Golden Rule: He has raises the most gold wins. Thanks to the SupremeCorporation K-RATS CU decision.
No need for folks to vote.
“Ultimately our forms are working as intended— when a resident fills out
our form and sends it in consistent with our directions, they will be
registered to vote, period.”
Unless of course they have the gall to register Democratic.
Welcome to 34 years of trickle down economics where even opponents-of are forced to operate like low-hanging-fruit pickers.
Their wealth will fund conservative nut bags for decades, if not centuries to come.