When the North Carolina arm of the Koch brothers' un-Americans for
non0Prosperity group tried to register a cat to vote it was amusing. But
with more of the story unfolding now, it's downright infuriating.It
didn't make any sense. Jennifer Odom's daughter shouldn't have gotten
anything in the mail, let alone a voter registration form.
"It was disturbing for a couple of reasons," said Odom. "First,
Samantha would only be four-and-a-half years old. So it's a far cry from
the age of voting. Secondly, she passed away two years ago."
Odom says her daughter died on Sept. 11, 2012.
"That's right about the time we started getting these notices," said Odom.
It
turns out that AFP has sent hundreds of thousands of these
error-ridden, confusing voter registration forms in North Carolina, and
both local elections offices and the state board of elections have been
swamped with phone calls from confused voters. The forms had numerous
bits of misinformation, from filing deadlines to where to send the
completed forms to who to contact for more information. The scope of
this misinformation is massive, considering it's gone to hundreds of
thousands of voters, and has resulted in an investigation by the state,
after the state Democratic Party filed an official complaint.
Deliberately misinforming voters is a felony.
But here's an interesting part to the story. Remember all the
pooh-poohing about the Democrats' strategy of hitting the Kochs? When repugicans and pundits alike were saying that the Koch brothers had no
name recognition and it would all backfire? Look at how the local news
framed this story: "The group behind the mailing is the sharply wingnut, Koch brothers-backed un-Americans for non-Prosperity Foundation."
No, nobody ever heard of the Kochs and their anti-democratic
activities.
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