Election chief: Scams, misbehavior mark 2012

[bathroommonkey76]

Last edited Tue Oct 30, 2012, 10:02 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: CBS/WRAL

RALEIGH, N.C. — The 2012 election is setting a new record for voter misinformation and misbehavior at polling places, according to State Board of Elections Executive Director Gary Bartlett.

"I have heard more complaints, more misinformation and more what I call intimidation or suppression than any time during my tenure," Bartlett said.

Bartlett's office sent a memo to county election officials Monday, warning them about reports of aggressive or illegal electioneering at the polls, as well as a list of voter misinformation schemes making the rounds statewide.

"It seems like it’s getting worse in this last week leading up to the election," he said. "Some of this stuff may not be against the law, but it certainly makes you scratch your head."

Read more: http://www.wral.com/election-chief-scams-misbehavior-mark-2012/11715949/

[elleng]

1. Hope he does more than scratch his head.

[blm]

2. Some of it SHOULD be against the law. Especially when election officials send out mailers with

different information to districts populated with working class families and the working poor.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. This is the very last sentence of the article...

"Bartlett said similar mailings in Mecklenburg and Cumberland Counties have come from Americans for Limited Government, a conservative non-profit with ties to the Koch brothers."

No shock here!

[alp227]

3. CBS? This is WRAL not the national CBS News.

Regarding the story: scary stuff. Sign of our polarized political times.

[bathroommonkey76]

4. WRAL is a CBS affiliate. nt

[alp227]

7. True, but I'd prefer seeing the station name so not to mislead readers.

CBS News has little or no editorial control really over the local newsrooms.

[bathroommonkey76]

12. I would have changed it last night

but I lost my Internet connection, sorry.

[alp227]

13. Thanks for doing so, and are you in hurricane country?

[Canuckistanian]

5. It's like we've always said

The REAL problem isn't "voter fraud"

It's "election fraud". In other words, the people who RUN the elections.

[Kurovski]

6. +1

I wish we had stricter laws on all those little bullshit shenanigans. Really kick-ass penalties.

[Sophiegirl]

8. We cannot be stopped!!

GOTV HAS TO OVERWHELM VOTER SUPPRESSION EFFORTS.

[John2]

10. This

can be looked at in another way. North Carolina has never had a problem with voting allegations. It could be looked at as a sign of Romney being in trouble for North Carolina more than is being told in the public. The accusations are Democrats are cheating, and you have letters being sent out to oppress the vote. It sounds like Karl Rove to me. Romney needs North Carolina pretty bad.

[bathroommonkey76]

11. The last sentence of this article mentions the Koch Brothers.

"Bartlett said similar mailings in Mecklenburg and Cumberland Counties have come from Americans for Limited Government, a conservative non-profit with ties to the Koch brothers."

They are all tied to the same snake though.