Women's Voices Women's Votes has another "unfortunate coincidence"

[kpete]

So Many Coincidences
05.11.08 -- 1:12AM By Josh Marshall

Women's Voices Women's Votes has another "unfortunate coincidence" in the timing of its voter registration mailings, this time in West Virginia.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/194404.php


Secretary of State says mass mailing has caused confusion

The Secretary of State's office is reminding first-time voters that the deadline to register to vote in Tuesday's primary already has passed.

Betty Ireland said she's worried that a mass mailing aimed at getting young women in West Virginia to register to vote might cause confusion.

A group called "Women's Voices. Women Vote" sent out more than 16,000 mailers to unmarried women in the state after April 22, the last day to register in time to vote Tuesday.

People who've never voted can still register, but they won't be eligible to cast a ballot in the primary.

more at:
http://www.dailymail.com/News/election08/200805090050

[RazBerryBeret]

1. How many states have they done this in now????

this group needs to be shut down.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. 24 - see Facing South, the organization that investigated this and has updates often

just type Facing South into google, and its the first item.

[NashVegas]

4. The Reason They Do This

Is because it's right around the primaries when unregistered voters feel a little twinge about not taking part. Then they often procrastinate and forget about it. This operation times itself to hit them when they're most likely to wish they'd registered, and gives them reinforcement.

[Kber]

3. They seem about as well organized

as the Clinton campaign.

But registering new voters for November is still a worth goal, even if they missed the primary deadline.

[crankychatter]

5. so the possible intent is to suppress the youth vote?

women's voices, women's votes?

do they have some internal polling data that indicates an upset in WV?

[C_U_L8R]

6. Once - Shame on you. Twice - Shame on us.

Three times - where are the frickkin' indictments?

[BalancedGoat]

7. I don't see a big problem in this case.

Though they should make it clear that this is related to the general election and that people who are already registered do not need to register again.

The problem last time was that they encouraged people to register by mail after mail-in registration was too late for the primary but while in-person registration was still going on. I'm sure people mailed in the packets thinking that they could then vote in the primary when they were actually missing an opportunity that still existed to register in-person.

[Coexist]

8. what is their problem?

are they really that screwed up?