AFP Not Getting Better With Practice
At what point does mistakenly misinforming the public about voting become malicious, how often does that pattern need to repeat?
We talked yesterday about AFP sending out incorrect voting materials to many North Carolina households, which is apparently serious enough to warrant an investigation from the state board of elections. Zack Roth also reported on a 2011 incident in which AFP “sent out absentee ballot applications for eight Wisconsin state Senate recall elections,” giving voters the wrong deadline information.
Reader C.G. emailed me overnight to remind me of yet another incident which I’d forgotten all about. The Charleston Gazette reported in April of this year:
Voters in at least eight West Virginia counties have been mailed “misleading and confusing” material that may make them incorrectly believe they aren’t eligible to vote in next month’s election, Secretary of State Natalie Tennant said Tuesday.
The leaflets - mailed by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation - warn voters that if they do not update their voter registration, they may lose their right to vote in the upcoming primary election on May 13…. Tuesday was the last day to register to vote for the May 13 primary, and a Tennant spokesman said the mailing could convince people whose voter registrations are perfectly valid that they aren’t allowed to vote.