louise on the left (coast)

I just got an email questioning if Pete or I had heard anything about a Carl Rove trick involving fake absentee ballots and wanted to know if we'd heard anything about it's validity. Subject: Possible Absentee Ballot Fraud I don't know if this is true but it sound like a Carl Rove Trick. There is nothing about it on snopes.com The story is all over Progressive Talk Radio today about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered democrats or people that have donated to Obama's campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of your city or town. What this will end up doing is either having your vote not counted, or if you return one of these, they will cite you for election fraud, saying that you already voted absentee. These ballots are only being sent out in 'purple states' and this is a big deal. This is called voter caging, and is a huge probl