The state elections agency is investigating complaints about a massive campaign mailing Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has directed toward Wisconsin Democrats and other voters.
But in some cases, the incorrect clerk's address is printed on the application, leading some Democrats to wonder if the Arizona senator's campaign is deliberately trying to get them to apply for absentee ballots in places where they aren't eligible to vote.
"They're trying to knock me off the rolls," said Democrat Beverly Jambois, of Middleton. "I can't tell you how upsetting it is to me. This is how you win elections? By disenfranchising other voters?" Her household received the flier this week addressed to her husband, Robert, a lawyer for the state Department of Transportation. The couple are registered to vote in Middleton, but the absentee ballot application was addressed to the city clerk's office in Madison.
They are doing it again. There is no good reason for the McCain camp to be sending even "proper" absentee ballots to democrats. They don't want democrats to vote, so does anybody think that this was an honest "accident"?
They are going to go through every trick in the book to suppress democratic votes. Please contact anybody you know in Wisconsin to make sure that this did not happen to them. We are going to have to remain extra vigilant. The lack of honesty and integrity in the McCain campaign so far means we can look forward to vote caging, vote suppressing, and any other little trick that they have in their arsenal.
Update: This story has been discussed before but it needs airing again. I found this story on a social networking site. People from Florida and North Carolina on that board were receiving the same bogus abstentee request forms from McCain. Again, why would John McCain try to encourage democrats to vote? Ooops, they made an error on the forms. Their bad.