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Shame The Vote: Both Sides Use ‘Vote-Shaming’ To Motivate Voters
dailycaller.com ^ | 10/31/2014 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 10/31/2014 9:30:15 AM PDT by rktman

If you live in an area with a competitive race, be it for Senate, governor or any other office, parties and activist organizations want to get you to the polls. In addition to phone calls, knocking on doors and offering rides, activists are now using a different tactic — vote-shaming.

Residents from Alaska to North Carolina to New York are reporting receiving letters with their voting history in them and a not-so-subtle message — vote this time or we’ll tell your neighbors you didn’t.

The letters don’t say which candidate a person voted for, that is impossible to know, but they say whether or not a person voted in past elections. This is public record. However, political parties can make an educated guess based on party registration, past or present, where you live, and other factors.

Public record or not, it’s still disturbing to many who open the letters.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: intimidation; threats; voterintimidation; weknowwhoyouare
Myself, I don't care which party sends such letters. Wouldn't bother me either way. (But just to be safe we already did vote so I'm hopin' no visit from Tony. :>})
1 posted on 10/31/2014 9:30:15 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
The demonrats have pulled out ALL the stops with their latest ploy!

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2 posted on 10/31/2014 9:36:57 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rktman

If I got a letter like that, I’d find out who is in the outfit and start data mining all their public info looking for delinquent real estate payments, etc. Send it all back to them. See how they like it.

At a fundamental level, this letter is a threat and sending a threat thru the mail is a crime.


3 posted on 10/31/2014 9:39:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Dick Bachert

Just the typical republicans war on women. Right?


4 posted on 10/31/2014 9:42:13 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: rktman
But just to be safe we already did vote so I'm hopin' no visit from Tony. :>})

You mean a visit from Bobby Bacala.

5 posted on 10/31/2014 9:42:38 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Flick Lives

Well, unless it’s a lib/prog/socialist/commie/dhimmiokkkrat endeavor then it gets a pass.


6 posted on 10/31/2014 9:43:43 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: rktman

That does it, this is the last time I register to vote. Unbelievable!


7 posted on 10/31/2014 9:44:49 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Flick Lives
At a fundamental level, this letter is a threat and sending a threat thru the mail is a crime.

As we have learned through the IRS, the BATF, the FBI, numerous pols and bureaucrats and plutocrats, crimes among the ruling class are never punished. Punishments are for the non-protected class in Marxist culture.

8 posted on 10/31/2014 9:46:39 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Maceman

You talkin’ to me? LOL!


9 posted on 10/31/2014 9:46:51 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: rktman

What “both” sides?


10 posted on 10/31/2014 9:58:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

LOL! I see what you did there.


11 posted on 10/31/2014 10:11:09 AM PDT by rktman ("The only thing dumber than a brood hen is a New York democrat." Mother Abagail.)
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To: BenLurkin

Both sides of the same statist uniparty.


12 posted on 10/31/2014 10:24:20 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: BenLurkin

My relative got a POSTCARD with giant x’s on it, his name and address.
It was from the Republican Party of MA, of course they are marxist RINO’s.
This was started by the gay mafia years ago when MA was denied the right, unconstitutionally by the Legislature to vote on gay marriage even though we had way more than the requisite signatures for the ballot measure.
The gay mafia started publishing and targeting those names and addresses publicly.


13 posted on 10/31/2014 10:26:41 AM PDT by acapesket
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To: rktman
If anyone ever wanted to figure out a way to get me to NOT do something, it would be trying to shame me into doing it.

I, for one, do not cotton to Marxist "conscientization" strategies.

In fact, if I were a Democrat and some bottom feeding a$$-hat Democrat tried to shame me into voting, I would vote Republican just for pure spite and take a selfie in the voting booth to prove I did just that and then post it on Youtube with an article explaining what I did and why- along with a caption that read BITE ME!!!

Then, I would very loudly and very publicly re-register as an Independent.

14 posted on 10/31/2014 11:02:40 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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P.S.

When it comes to how and whether or not I vote, I couldn’t give a flying BLEEP less what my neighbors think!!!!!!!


15 posted on 10/31/2014 11:04:30 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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P.P.S. I am also from a part of Massachusetts where there are still a few people left who despise the pretensions of bottom-feeding, granola eating, berkenstock 'n sock wearing left-wing moonbat losers - many of whom are still "occupying" their parents' basements or feeding off the public trough ( i.e. EBT Cards ) and have a lot of time on their hands to think up stupid sh%t.

Maybe we should find out who these a$$hats are and shame them!!!!!

Voting history is not the only thing that can be shouted from the rooftops to all and sundry.

16 posted on 10/31/2014 11:16:34 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (No taxation without representation!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Liberals always blame Republicans for what they do. They have been nailed for threatening voters so now it is “everybody does it.”


17 posted on 11/01/2014 8:01:53 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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