Confusion Surrounding Robo-Calls in North Carolina
This week, more than 276,000 North Carolina residents received a voter registration application from Women's Voices, Women Vote. North Carolina is one of 24 states where we mailed a total of more than 3 million voter registration applications.
In addition to the mailing, calls were made to mail recipients for whom we have working phone numbers to alert the household they would be receiving a voter registration form and encouraging them to register to vote. In advance of the mail, a letter was sent and calls were made to Gary Bartlett in the North Carolina Board of Elections Office notifying them of the intent and content of our mailing effort. A copy of the letter and a press release sent to North Carolina media announcing the registration effort is attached.
We understand concerns have been raised about the source of phone calls placed by Women's Voices, Women Vote. These calls were our sincere attempt to encourage voter registration for those not registered for the general election this fall. We understand North Carolina's primary registration effort deadline was April 11, (other than those participating in early voting who may register and vote at the same time this week). We apologize for any confusion our calls may have caused. Our intent and purpose was solely to call attention to the registration applications we hope will be completed and returned to the Board of Elections office making thousands more North Carolinians participants in one of the most important elections of our lifetimes.
Women's Voices. Women Vote has been in contact with the North Carolina State Board of Elections to work together to resolve any confusion regarding our voter registration efforts. Women's Voices. Women vote is also working with its mail vendor and postal officials in North Carolina in an attempt to delay the delivery of the voter registration applications until after the primary.
Women's Voices. Women Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to bringing the voices of unmarried women to our democracy. Our goal in this election cycle is to register 1 million of these women on their own, in turn helping to bring their concerns regarding making affordable health care, equal pay for equal work and a brighter future for themselves and the lives of their families, to the forefront of the election this fall.
Already this cycle, our voter registration efforts have generated more than 26,600 registration applications in North Carolina. Women's Voices. Women Vote first registered voters in North Carolina in 2004. Nationally, Women's Voices Women Vote registered over 100,000 new voters in both 2004 and 2006. Since July of 2007, almost 400,000 additional individuals have returned our applications in anticipation of participating in the 2008 general election.
Bryant (Ethel Bryant, Edgecombe County Board of Elections) agreed the method seems to be working. "They send out the voter's applications in a pre-packaged envelope with postage paid," she said. "Many are female and from rural areas, where it is harder to run out and get a stamp to post a letter. Since it doesn't need a stamp, they are able to drop it right in the mail."
"Voter Registration Cards Pour In," The Daily Southerner, February 29, 2008"This is, by far, the largest we've seen," Johnnie Mclean (deputy director of the State Board of Elections) said. One reason for the state's uptick are prefilled voter registration applications from a Washington-based voting advocacy (WVWV) group that were mailed to thousands of private mailboxes in North Carolina. Recipients can verify their information and mail the cards to the state elections office.
"Young Voters: Sign Us Up", Greensboro News-Record, March 9, 2008
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another clinonite liar trying to suppress the vote
How peculiar you keep making the same “innocent mistake” over and over and over again. Would you do us all a favor and stop “helping.” Thanks.
Page, you'd be wise to stop wasting time with this PR effort nobody's buying, and contact a lawyer.
How hard would it be to have the mailers arrive a month BEFORE the primary registration deadline or a week AFTER the primary voting?
How hard would it be to do that right every time?
How hard to do it starting the very first time someone pointed out that if you do the dates wrong, you end up DISCOURAGING voters?
I AM SORRY I AM SHOUTING BUT WE ARE WASTING TIME HERE. THIS IS CLEAR VOTER MANIPULATION LET US ALL WORK HARD TO GET THIS OUT. BLOG IT, POST IT, SEND IT OUT TO AS MANY MEDIA SOURCES AS POSSIBLE. CAN WE DO IT ? YES WE CAN!
11) Why would they often and repeatedly choose the period in BETWEEN the primary registration deadline and the primary to attempt to register African American voters? What would be the harm in waiting until AFTER the primaries in each state or well before the primary deadline?
12) Why would they continue to do the above mentioned when state representatives and officials made it clear that it WAS in fact causing “mass” voter confusion. While wvwv claims to be performing a useful service?
Dear Page Gardner
1) How were the phone numbers and addresses involved acquired?
2) How and why were the contacted selected for wvwv services?
3) Who is Lamont Williams, presumably the person making the robo-calls?
4) Why would an organization targeting unmarried women (as they claim), have an African American male address them? (a quick google image search of the name Lamont Williams will make the reason for asking this question clear)
5) Why, if their goal is registering voters for the November election, was this NOT made clear in the robo-call?
6) Why was the name of the organization and contact information not supplied (as required by law)?
7) Why was the phone number blocked? Is there a reason for this secretive behavior?
8) Why, if they have known since November of last year that their activities are causing voter confusion, did they not cease and desist or clarify to the fullest extent the purposes of their call.
9) Why in Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida did they tell those contacted that the form they were to receive in the mail was REQUIRED to vote, even though many people receiving calls were already registered?
10) Why did they not cease and desist from specifically claiming that the forms were required (clearly misleading information) until March of this year (a time frame of 5 months)?
(a quick google image search of the name Lamont Williams will make the reason for asking this question clear)
That is unbelievab
Thats quite disparaging for 'Lamont Williams' doing either a Google Image search, or just a plain google search on the name. Ouch....
Its #1 in both.
The plain google search is much worse though. Note the description under the #1 link....
mercy.....
Just one more thing Ms Gardner aka LAMONT WILLIAMS?
Is Mrs. Clinton going to be denouncing you tomorrow?
Nice way to get off the hook!
How many slaps to the face are American's going to take before they just rise up and say, "NO MORE!".
What explanation do you have for every other state you pulled this VOTER FRAUD in???
They should throw you and HILLARY IN JAIL!
So this is how you won PA and Ohio?
This trick of yours is a FE-LO-NY!
Nobody's buying it... You should be ashamed of yourselves. This is not an "isolated incident". Hillary Clinton's campaign has been nothing short of Republicaneque and the actions of your group only help to prove that.
Are you named Rove?
In North Carolina, it is a Class I felony for any person "to misrepresent the law to the public through mass mailing or any other means of communication where the intent and the effect is to intimidate or discourage potential voters from exercising their lawful right to vote."
You are a member of a shameless organization who are trying to intimidate Black voters in NC.
Does Hillary approve this message?
Using the condescending words of your leader; SHAME ON YOU!
Nobody buys your BS.
I hope you cause Hillary to lose this election in a HUGE way.
Maybe THEN these types of unethical tactics will STOP FOR GOOD under the leadership of President Obama.
Hilliary takes another one from the Republican playbook.
I'm surprised she didn't talk about Obama's black daughters.
More of a reason for North Carolina to rise up and vote for Obama on May 6...
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