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NC robo-calls target black households with bogus voting registration information

by: Pam Spaulding

Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 14:00:00 PM EDT


Stop messing with my primary! Something stinks to high heaven and the state attorney general should look into this. Calls are going out to black households that are incredibly similar to calls received in Ohio and Virginia passing along misinformation from a "a stentorian voice reminiscent of James Earl Jones" calling himself "Lamont Williams." Chris Kromm of the Institute for Southern Studies' blog Facing South has the scoop.
As reported yesterday in the Raleigh News & Observer, African-American households are receiving anonymous robo-calls with misleading information about voting. Facing South has now learned that those calls are very similar to tactics recently used in Virginia and Ohio, suggesting they may be linked to a national voter deception strategy.

In one North Carolina call, the caller falsely states that voters must send in a "voter registration packet" before voting. The State Board of Elections released a transcript of the call (you can also listen to it at the Democracy North Carolina website):
"Hello, this is Lamont Williams. In the next few days, you will receive a voter registration packet in the mail. All you need to do is sign it, date it and return your application. Then you will be able to vote and make your voice heard. Please return the voter registration form when it arrives. Thank you."
Facing South has learned that voters in Virginia received calls with the same message before that state's Feb. 12 primaries -- although, the Virginia State Board of Elections curiously viewed it as an attempt at identity theft, not voter disenfranchisement.
And in Ohio, the Buckeye State Blog reported this "Lamont Williams" turned up in calls to voters there.

Go read the rest. All I know is that this better not be connected to the Clinton campaign.

(The Daily Kos diary is on the rec list. Kudos to the Durham-based Institute for Southern Studies, which does fantastic investigative journalism -- I'm on its board)

UPDATE: BTW, polling in NC right now, with turnout expected to be high -- and we have same-day registration:

Rasmussen. 4/28. Likely voters. MoE 4%  
Obama 51  
Clinton 37

PPP (PDF). 4/26-27. Likely voters. MoE 2.9%
Obama 51
Clinton 39  

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these anti-democracy games are tiring
Attempts at voter suppression is a clear sign that the perpetrator's ideas are bankrupt and cannot win in a fair fight at the polls.

I don't understand
with all our technology and smart people why can't we figure out where the calls are coming from?  The gov. spies on us now let's use that expertise and find out where this calls originate!

Does anyone know how to trace?
You have to have someone note exact time of call at a given number, and preferably the caller id.

First, how to unblock the calling number (if caller id came up "unavailable") during a brief call.

Once you have the originating number, then you run into trying to trace it to an owner and eventually client.

Someone in NC ought to be getting court orders for the info.

IIRC, some Republican official in VT or NH was convicted of fraud for similar activities in the 2004 election.

The problem is that there is little deterrence - the rate of successful prosecution is low, and the penalty occurs years after the election.


Investigating where the packet is supposed to be mailed back...
... might be useful.  The return address is probably just a mail box, but if we can get another name (or names) to go on, perhaps that might help investigate what is happening.

The government should be doing the investigating, but sometimes they aren't on top of things.

If you want allies, you have to be an ally.


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But chances are...
that there isn't a packet at all.  This phone call leads voters to think that they won't be able to vote because they never received a voter packet in the mail and sent it in...hence, they'll stay home because they think they aren't registered.  That's the whole purpose of the call.

[ Parent ]
...counter with true facts.

Legal cases take too long. This needs to be countered through the media most likely to reach the 'target' audience. Radio, newspapers.. nightly local news. and in the equivalent of 40 pt type.

Are you registered? Do you want to vote in the primary? YOU CAN DO THIS EASILY and the SAME DAY... via......... It is up to voters to know how to register and vote, but if they do not MAKE IT EASY for them to find out, if someone else is trying this kind of misdirection stuff. 



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