Posted on 01/31/2016 5:17:54 AM PST by Helicondelta
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is defending a campaign mailer that Iowa's secretary of state says misrepresents election law.
The mailer bills itself as a "voting violation" notice and tells the recipient it's been sent due to "low expected voter turnout in your area." It then grades the recipient's voting history and that of several neighbors, citing public records.
Cruz told reporters in Sioux City, Iowa, on Saturday that the mailing is "routine."
He says he won't apologize
(Excerpt) Read more at kwwl.com ...
Just a series of unfortunate misuderstandings, dontchaknow.
Projection much! Get your head out of there!
Sounds exactly like something a democrat would do.
No no you don’t get it this an indication of his genius. Ted places 3rd in Iowa is my prediction. He gonna be a popular as a fart in a car in about a week.
Well-stated, nascarnation. Thanks.
There is no reason for him to apologize. He did nothing wrong.
That envelope has junk mail written all over it.
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Voting history as to how often they voted or voting history as to who they voted for? Or is the one in Iowa different or what? To my understanding it was how often they voted, not who they voted for. I could be wrong for sure. In any case it’s scummy, stinks and I don’t like it.
Here’s the article where I took it to mean it was just how often you voted, but maybe it’s different for different states?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3390937/posts
“A voter report card mailer is grading residents on how often they vote compared to their neighbors and some Missourians aren’t happy.”
“The voter report cards give letter grades to voters based on participation and then list neighbors’ scores. The mailer says it might issue another report after the election.”
“I believe you should face facts.”
I’m trying, FRiend.
Freegards
No, it’s not Beck. This is a routine campaign mailer. An almost identical one was used in Missouri in 2014.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3390937/posts
Your voting history is not private, other than who you voted for. Anyone can look up when you voted, what your party is, etc.
So it’s a reverse psychology thing? I don’t know, supposedly these things work the way they are intended, or at least that’s what I recall reading.
Freegards
AARP or other organizations do not compare you with other, known to you, people by name. Never have I seen something like this.
It may be "public information" but is only available to be bought by political organizations so not so public. You can't walk into the courthouse and get this information.
You can get the information from the secretary of state’s office in most any state.
Or from States’ Boards of Electors, etc.
I don’t know enough to address it.
What strikes me is that both parents seem to have been pretty unstable & at least somewhat capricious, even irresponsible- at least when Ted was a child. It’s not clear about his mom, but his father’s radicalism in faith sort of mirrors his situation when he was in Cuba & acting to overthrow Batista in favor of Castro.
It seems (to me) that he (the father) gravitates to the ‘’revolutionary’’ & dramatic. :-) Maybe it’s a ‘’hot blooded Latin mindset’’ thing, I dunno. But Ted seems to have followed in his footsteps in that regard.
People pin their hopes for a ‘’solid conservative’’ on him, but is that what he really is? He plays a little fast & loose with the Constitution for my tastes. And too much in the direction of his own interests (not just his own citizenship/ eligibility issues, but his positions wrt immigration as well).
I think he would be very vulnerable to corruption in order to serve his goals. That’s too much like a democrat, imho.
It’s not a violation of anyone’s privacy. It uses public record data (who is registered to vote, who has cast ballots in past elections) which is available to anyone/any campaign that requests it. Data aggregators assemble this information and sell it to campaigns, but again, it is derived from public information sources.
The Cruz campaign does what other campaigns are doing, which is to merge this kind of data into a file on registered voters, and combine it with predictive modeling which scores each voter for propensity to support Cruz and propensity to actually get out and participate in the caucus process. The folks who score high on both attributes are the “given” support. The people that they are trying to motivate are the folks at least marginally inclined to support Cruz but not inclined to participate on Caucus day. That’s the segment that would receive this mailing.
Love it or hate it, it’s not a privacy violation and it is not prohibited by law or regulation. The first time I saw it was in 2012 when Obama For America used it. Other campaigns are using it now, and political parties have used generically in the past two presidential cycles.
Agree.
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