Voter Beware: Didja Get an Absentee Ballot?

The other day I was talking to SaikotikGunman  about receiving an absentee ballot with McPain's picture plastered all over it. I was pretty ticked off about it because I never requested an absentee ballot, and I definitely didn't request to receive such oog-lah in the mail.

Shadeofgray  brought up that I am registered Republican and that is probably why. I saw that as a possible answer until the Obama group I am a part of brought up a very odd piece of news that I had yet to read... check it out, it happened to me and could happen to you:

Progressive talk show host Lee Rayburn has gotten dozens of contacts from voters in Wisconsin, mostly recently moved, who are complaining that they have received unsolicited absentee ballot applications sent to their new addresses (not forwarded) from the McCain campaign, and that those applications have as the return address the county clerk of their FORMER address. While he was talking about this on the air today, other voters from Florida and North Carolina, as well as more from Wisconsin called to report that they had received the same. A number said that the were not registered Democrats, but had donated to Obama, so it appears that the public donor lists were the McCain campaign's source of the names. This had to have been cross-checked with change-of-address info at the BOEs.

This dirty trick serves a dual purpose. First the votes won't be counted. Second, and equally distressing, the inaccurate returned applications will be used by Republican state legislators to claim fraud by Democrats, and to push through laws with harsh voter ID provisions with which it is hard for poorer registrants to comply. This will suppress the vote in future elections.

Everyone who receives absentee ballot applications from the McCain campaign, or any unsolicited absentee ballot applications, needs (a)to not use them, (b)to publicize the problem as widely as possible including their state Democratic Party and the media, and (c)to demand an investigation by their Secretary of State immediately.

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So I give it to them that I am in fact registered republican. I can see that. But.. 1) I never requested a ballot, 2) I have had 2 changes of address in the past year and a half and 3) I donated to the Obama campaign. So maybe it was a mix up... or maybe anyone who shows any interest in the Obama campaign and is in this position is going to be screwed over. I don't care which party you belong to, this is just wrong.