Discussion:

probably just a typo or could be a stolen valor situation.

The postal carrier knows everything about everybody.

Like when the neighbors want to know what church YOU attend. And how often.

That could ultimately punish you.

This would never have happened on Sarah Palin’s watch. Mama Grizzly is always on top of the pile! HA HA HA HA!

The real shame in Alaska is the Tundra Twister herself. I believe that the fear of being found out for voting for the Quitter with the Litter, is the real issue here.

It’s making your voting information to "your friends, your neighbors, your colleagues at work, and your community to publicize who does and does not vote. " that’s intimidating.

How do you interpret the phrase I boldfaced? Is it an implied call for others in the listed groups to take action regarding your own voting record? Do your colleagues at work include your immediate supervisor and even higher ups? Remember that registered party affiliation is also public information. Will the interest of others also include whether you voted “the right way” and will do so in the future? OR is the phrase just a bland statement of fact that the letter your hold in your hand is only what it says it is, which makes a plausible excuse if challenged?

It takes a village to scare a voter!

Which in this present case is not immediately apparent; some digging would be required, which most recipients probably wouldn’t do.

Presumably this was just a straightforward, GOTV effort for Republicans and sent only to registered Republicans. However, what would preclude future false-flag mailings to provoke your reaction in the other party’s registered voters?

Precisely! Stoking more anger and fear in the minds of the already angry and fearful.

And the voting historys of “your friends, your neighbors, and your colleagues at work” as well? This is change neither I, nor presumably Obama, believes in!

That’s why they always ring twice at certain addresses!

I’m guessing that was supposed to be 67, not 57. military nurses would have been, on average, a few years older than probably most of the troops, because they’d have had to finish at least a 2 year nursing program and pass the exam,. to get capped as an R.N. in addition, if they were specialty trained (E.R, O.R., etc), that would be at least another 6 months to a year, before or after they were commissioned. they could easily be 21-22, before they ever got assigned overseas duty.

WRAL, Jesse’s old stomping grounds.

Voting or not voting is a private matter. An organization that engages in that level of monitoring of my life is my enemy. It’s bad enough having my own government spy on me without having the voter scolds stick their long noses into my life, too. I do, as a matter of fact, vote, but it’s nobody else’s goddam business.

Ya, I’ve got 3 of these from different organizations, confronting me for only voting in the last 2 elections of 4. I hope there isn’t an identity thief living at my old house in a different state, where I voted in the other two.

Actually, no. Who you vote for is, and should be, private. Whether you vote is, and always has been, an extremely public matter. From the part where you show up in public in your neighborhood and stand in line (sometimes) with your neighbors to the part where your voter registration and voting data has always been available to the public and has been collected, collated, sliced, diced, and generally analyzed by parties, politicians, unions, PACs, political scientists, and, for all I know, sociologists, for decades.

Sorry you didn’t know this, but your lack of awareness of the public nature of that data doesn’t mean it was private anywhere except in your head.

And, that public element to this part of our civic life is essential to the functioning of a democracy, both at the crass level of enabling parties and politicians to turn out their vote, to ensuring that actual ballot box stuffing is harder to do and easier to detect and even at the symbolic level of affirming the sense of community inherent in the act of voting.

In Australia, it’s a law that you must vote or you will be fined. It’s always been a big fallacy that your vote is secret in most states. Officials often sell the information to third parties.

I’m sure the SuperPacs get their info directly from companies that make the voting machines used in some states. The owner of Diebolt even said during the 2000 election that he could insure that Bush Jr. would win. He and the conservative Supreme Court did just that.

In many states, you have to register as a voter stating which party you want to be affiliated with and then they hand you that ballot at the primary election. Everyone can publicly see how you intend to vote.

If you stated a preference in the past, you get umpteen reminders by robo calls and junk mail. The political parties consider it reminders. It’s part of modern marketing.

Besides, nothing is private any longer with so many surveillance cameras and cell phone cameras everywhere.

Foreign multinational corporations have now joined in our elections since the Citizens United SCourt decision made them legal American Corporate Citizens. Seems like treason to me but conservatives say it’s the only way they can win elections …and who cares if rich people and dictators from other countries can buy off our politicians… since so many of them are for sale anyways to any special interest.

No, they don’t get the information from the people who make the voting machines. You can go to the state board of elections website and download it directly. This data has been compiled, put into a state database and made available to the public since governments started using computers. Before we had computers, parties, local machines and unions employed an army of people, paid and volunteers, to physically copy the data out of the precinct level books that were also public records.

Being paranoid about this is like being paranoid about the decennial Census or getting a Social Security card. It’s a kind of misplaced paranoia that borders on lunacy. The reason this data is public is to make it hard to steal elections. You can’t simultaneously express concern that voting machines are being used to steal elections and complain that voter information is public.

Based on the almost stalkerish number of emails I receive from the President and the First Lady, asking me for money and to get out and vote, which is all generated from the same databases being discussed, I think the President seems just fine with knowing everyone’s voting history.

That one caught me too. 18 and in Vietnam in 1975?

It COULD have happened. If she dropped out of school at 16 or 17 and enlisted, and wound up in a very minor role those last couple of months.

I’m guessing it is more a typo.