Washington, D.C., Group Accused of High-Tech Dirty Tricks to Suppress Black Vote
A D.C. advocacy group called Women’s Voices, Women’s Vote is being accused of waging a high-tech voter suppression campaign, after voters in predominantly black districts in North Carolina began receiving automated phone calls implying that they hadn’t properly registered to vote in the upcoming Democratic primary.
Page Gardner, Women’s Voices, Women Vote’s president has apologized for any “confusion” cause by her group’s anonymous robocalls to North Carolina voters.
The controversy underscores the mounting tension in the Democratic primary race. Polling in North Carolina currently favors Barack Obama over rival Hillary Clinton for the May 6 Democratic presidential primary there. Blacks, who overwhelmingly favored Obama in primaries in Virginia and Maryland, make up about 22 percent of the population in North Carolina, according to the U.S. Census.