Posted on 01/29/2016 10:28:45 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.
The text reads:
"You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors' are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses".
In an effort to shame the recipient, the notice also informs the targeted voter their neighbors have also been notified of the recipients poor voting record.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Scummy
This CANNOT POSSIBLY be real!
How stupid is this? I don’t know my neighbor. I don’t want to know their voting record. Cruz is really a commie.
Surely this isn’t true.
Cruz can’t be that stupid.
Anybody have confirmation that Cruz’s camp really sent out those letters?
Hard to believe, I agree.
SERIOUSLY bad marketing. Infantile. Ouch.
Assuming this is even true, and it looks like it is, I can’t imagine that this wouldn’t backfire horribly. Personally, I’d be REALLY pissed at anyone trying to “shame” me into doing anything, and I’d be almost guaranteed to do the opposite of what I was trying to be “shamed” into doing.
Basically, this is a TERRIBLE approach to convincing someone you should vote for them. I mean this seems like practically a threat: vote for me or you’re an asshole.
yikes.
adds support to the notion that cruz is difficult to get along with.
If it is, Cruz is an abject moron smashing nails into his own coffin.
If I got that and wasn't planning on voting, I'd be absolutely determined to vote for his competitor.
If this invasion of privacy is true, it is a huge mistake by the Cruz campaign.
This is obviously a dirty trick to make Cruz look bad.
If this is really from Cruz then he seems to be acting as if he is on the ropes. I hope this is not him, since IMHO his best strategy is to play it slow and safe, waiting for Trump to slip up or show a weakness.
They’re public records. If someone is playing Big Brother it’s whoever passed the law making the records public.
These are clearly people not likely to vote. Every tactic has probably already been tried to motivate them. So this is a last-resort effort. It might be the only motivation they understand to actually get involved and stop the liberal takeover of America.
Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler confirmed to IJ Review that the mailer was theirs in a phone call Friday evening, saying that the targeting had been “very narrow, but the caucuses are important and we want people who haven’t voted before to vote.â€
That ain’t gonna work.
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