When the North Carolina arm of the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity 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 Republicans 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 conservative, Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity Foundation." No, nobody ever heard of the Kochs and their anti-democratic activities.
okay if this is a felony evidence should be made to DOJ and wheels should be turning from the first discovery of the cat registration, they are really desperate to allow info on who's who in the bidding wars for republican pimp 2014. the citizens united decision has more and more reason to be overturned by those right wing scotus who damned us with it but one of it's tenets was anonymity you could place your bid for gov't and keep it on the DL but leaks do occur.
So far, there's no word whether AFP is trying this in other states with tightly contested Senate races, but as David Ramsey points out in the Arkansas Blog, they've got affiliates in a lot of states, and they're on a mission tomisinform"educate" voters and "keepget out the vote" this cycle. So this probably won't be the last we hear of their phony voter registration drives.
c'mon it's a no brainer election only 35 days away they are way out of test mode they are working it as i type ok peck lol, they have little more than a month to keep the felony alive, time to go after the ones who lead to the Kochs money is not suppose to buy you the law you want but who's zoomin' who it does on a daily basis, we are the ones we've been waiting for get on up vote.
