So my sweet, beautiful 20-something daughter came home from work to her townhouse in Arlington, VA and got this in the mail:
Of course, she posted it on Facebook with this sweet comment: "umm" and the following conversation ensued:
Me: Oh.my.fucking.god
Friend1: Liberal scum I knew it......voter fraud
My daughter: Shut up [Friend1]!
Friend1: I doubt bun [her dog] is involved in this
My daughter: Jags [her dog] is totes a liberal
Me: Was it NC?
My daughter: So I haven't had a nc license or voter card in 5 years, but maybe?
Me: Yeah, they didn't delete you. Call NC, cancel, get proof and send to VA. Follow up in a few weeks with VA to make sure you're OK. You know they are targeting millennials.
My daughter: Ugh ok. Thanks Mom
Friend1: Who is they? They sound scary
Me: NC board of elections
My daughter: Haha
My nephew's girlfriend, who also live in Arlington: I got the same thing. I had registered to a new va address but I guess i didn't delete the old. Odd.
My daughter: I like how the only option was to remove the current address
Me: Exactly - they don't want you Arlington libruls votng
Me: What does [roommate who works in VA congressman's office] think?
Friend1: God the Arlington liberals really are thee worst too
My daughter: Why? Cause we knock out your vote? Cry me a riverrrr
Friend2: Goddam liberal commies trying to steal elections. #obamasamerica
Well, her roommate who works in Congress came to the rescue:
Roommate: Here you go [my daughter and me] -
125,000 Virginians mistakenly notified that they cannot vote
The Virginia Department of Elections has erroneously mailed notifications to about 125,000 registered Virginia voters raising uncertainty regarding their voting status.
The letter, dated June 23 and signed by Secretary of the State Board of Elections Don Palmer, informs the recipients that records show they may also be registered to vote in another state and that state law requires them to update or cancel their voter registration when they change residences.
“If you no longer consider the Virginia voter registration address printed below to be your address of residence, please help us keep the commonwealth's voter registration rolls accurate by completing and returning the ‘request to cancel voter registration’ from at the bottom of this letter,” it says.
In an email sent to Virginia registrars Tuesday, Matthew J. Davis, chief information officer with the Department of Elections, said that the letters mistakenly went to individuals who have not moved out of state.
Well, I find it odd that I have two of these in my immediate family, that they both live in Arlington, that they moved there from elsewhere in Northern Virginia recently, that they registered and voted in Arlington in 2013, and that they are both Democrats and young.
Come to your own conclusions.