I've been volunteering for the Obama campaign since January. My wife and I started the local Obama group in our conservative county on the Oregon Coast. We got a field organizer stationed here during the primary, and Bill Clinton came to speak at our cheese factory. We lost Tillamook County to Hillary by 31 votes, which was a moral victory in these parts. While I am registered "no party," our house is adorned with Merkley and Obama signs and I consider myself fairly well known in the local democratic circles.
So imagine my surprise when this arrives in today's mail, addressed to me:
My initial reaction was they must really have needed to spend all that primary money before today if they are trying to get me to switch to John Bush. I found it funny they were including my "Vote-by-Mail" application when all Oregon elections are done by mail. Then I looked closer at the instructions: "Request your absentee ballot in 3 simple steps" and the address on the two "Absentee Ballot Request" Cards: "Director of Elections, 420 Holmes St, Bellefonte, PA 16823".
It appears John McCain would like me to register to vote in Pennsylvania, presumably knowing (they had to get my current address somehow) that I've registered and voted 3 or 4 times since I last lived in Pennsylvania (2002-ish) in two different states (Washington and Oregon) at four different addresses. I may have switched to republican during the 2000 primaries, and I definitely switched to democrat in the '04 and '08 primaries, but I've been an independent the rest of the time.
What I initially took as a waste of money or a misguided attempt at wooing an independent voter could theoretically be something more sinister. I'm not up on the logistics or checks involved in dual voter registrations, but it seems like asking a registered Oregon voter to request an absentee ballot from Pennsylvania might be barking up that tree.