The Koch Brothers group Americans for Prosperity mailed out misinformation to registered Democratic voters. Misinformation such as this is the black art of sabotage, folks.
Wisconsin’s recall election, an upcoming event triggered by the Scott Walker and Republican (and Koch-funded) effort to subvert the democratic process in Wisconsin, has taken another interesting turn: absentee ballot information was printed with misinformation to confuse voters as to the date it must be returned to the City Clerk.
According to the Associated Press, a total of $4.2 million has been spent on the August 9th recall elections. (Money well spent by both sides, no?)
The mailed absentee ballot applications sent by the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity specified ballots had to be delivered to their respective city clerk on August 11th, when the election day was in fact August 9th.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party has called for an investigation into the matter.
In the interest of fairness, it should be noted that Democratic National Committee placed calls to voters in Republican Sen. Dan Kapanke’s district of La Crosse with the wrong date as well.
Americans for Prosperity, for their part, have said the confused dates were a “mistake.” They were mailed, according to AP, to only 10,000 voters in six Republican Senators’ districts.
AFP-Wisconsin state Director Matt Seaholm has stated that each of the 10,000 voters on the mailing list will receive a personal phone call with the correct mailing date.
Giving the AFP the benefit of the doubt and calling it an error or mistake still doesn’t change the fact that the date was wrong. In something so important as a recall election, should there not be some sort of process by which election dates on ballots are double or triple-checked before being sent out?
August 03, 2011 at 4:37 pm, Jamie Brown said:
These old farts cannot live forever, but let’s let them spend all their money on politics before they croak. The people know who and what beast they adore and work for now.
August 03, 2011 at 7:00 pm, D. J. said:
Right you are, Jamie.
That just reminded me of revelation I had whilst looking at the grotesque Rupert Murdoch during the News Corp dust-up.
I looked at him and saw not a man who had accumulated power and wealth, but a man that looked on the verge of death. And he suddenly looked so pathetic and powerless. And despite every decision he’d made to accumulate wealth and power over the course of his lifetime, he was going to die and never be able to take it with him.
And a great wave of serenity washed over me.
DJ
August 04, 2011 at 1:37 pm, Cny82722 said:
There are new litters of walkers born daily. My dog had a walker litter the other day. They just have to stop eating their young.
August 04, 2011 at 1:32 pm, Cny82722 said:
Bachmann problem is she needs a man. Her gay hubby is no man. She hates America because she needs a good man. Twenty years along make her squirely.
August 04, 2011 at 1:35 pm, Cny82722 said:
Wisconsin has no rights for humans. Corporations and there puppets have rights. Corporations have their own constitutiona nd the humans have none in Wississippi.
THe gop good old pervs hate humanity. Something they are not human.
August 05, 2011 at 5:57 pm, Laura J. Burton said:
why isn’t this prosecutable?
August 09, 2011 at 6:37 pm, James J. Pond said:
I don’t understand why the Justice Department does not arrest the Koch Brothers for interfering with our elections. Republicans are criminals!
August 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm, Jeffn62 said:
This is horrible, the GOP is stopping our Union agenda, socialism for all, equality for all. These damn Republicans and their belief that people should fend for themselves is hurting our Liberal entitlement society. We must stop them, NOW.