Missouri mailer grades neighbors' voting records [origin of Cruz mailer?]

Fox2Now St. Louis ^ | 10/30/2014 | Associated Press

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Thanks for the IT lesson. Much appreciated. I am such a noob. BTW, the IT industry runs on coffee. Oh and BTW, I was multi posting on purpose to make a point.

Please let me know what gcc is for. I hear it can do great things when you feed it things from text files.

I am not a political operative. Possibly you are. I am a citizen concerned with this county’s future, not in my future paychecks from a campaign.

Just remember there are 10 types of people in the world.

Those who can read binary and those who can not.

[Company Man]

I think this is the first time it has been tried with an active social media present.

[MHT]

You mean that Jeff Roe is back to his old tricks? Outside of the Graves congressional campaign, I don’t know if this man has had a successful record of getting anyone elected.

[MHT]

Who is Jedi Jones?

[MHT]

Jeff Roe from Missouri is the Cruz campaign director and was the person of the week on FNC Sunday with Wallace. Assume he did the same job in Missouri that he’s doing for Cruz in IA...

[JediJones]

If I’m a political operative why am I not getting any checks? I could really use them, especially after donating to Cruz.

Stop lying about me.

[JediJones]

I can’t find anything online linking Jeff Roe to this PAC Grow Missouri who sent this.

Maybe campaigns buy software packages that produce these mailings from third party vendors, using a voter database. This mailing was probably part of a package sold to both Grow Missouri and the Cruz campaign.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Only a

POLITICAL OPERATIVE

would be so familiar with campaign details.

[patq]

That “Report Card” mailing sounds much nicer than Ted “VIOLATION!!!” mailing. Ted is a mean and nasty person. I can understand that he is now desperate to even hold on to 2nd place in Iowa but this was just a major screw up on his part. Do we really want Ted’s finger on the nuke button? No way.

[CodeToad]

Ted Cruz, the "Constitutional Attorney", the "smartest lawyer in the room", by sending these "Voting Violation" mailers, in my opinion, violated the following federal election laws. Many States have similar laws.

The following is an image of a mailer Senator Ted Cruz sent out intimidating and threatening voters. It contains voter information and the information of the voter's neighbors.

It threatens "follow up notices" with no doubt information about if the voter voted in the caucus.

It attempts to intimidate voters by threatening public disclosure to neighbors of a person's voting record.

One must ask what does Senator Ted Cruz expect the person receiving this notice should do to their neighbors for not voting as Senator Ted Cruz demands, and what might happen to the voter if the neighbors are informed they have not voted as Senator Ted Cruz expects?

These are direct threats and intimidations in violation of federal election, civil rights, and postal laws.

Intimidate: To frighten someone using derogatory information in order to make them do what one wants.

The following PDF document outlines the federal election laws and the government's position on such matters for the purposes of prosecutions in such matters.

Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses Seventh Edition, May 2007

The following sections are from the above document.

42 U.S. Code § 1973gg-10 - Criminal penalties (violation of election law)
A person, including an election official, who in any election for Federal office-
(1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for-
(A) registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote;
(B) urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; or
(C) exercising any right under this subchapter; or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds, or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of a State of a fair and impartially conducted election process, by-
(A) the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held; or
(B) the procurement, casting, or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent under the laws of the State in which the election is held,
shall be fined in accordance with title 18 (which fines shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury, miscellaneous receipts (pursuant to section 3302 of title 31), notwithstanding any other law), or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 594 - Intimidation of voters
Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 245 - Federally protected activities
(b) Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, by force or threat of force willfully injures, intimidates or interferes with, or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with-
(1) any person because he is or has been, or in order to intimidate such person or any other person or any class of persons from-
(A)
voting or qualifying to vote, qualifying or campaigning as a candidate for elective office, or qualifying or acting as a poll watcher, or any legally authorized election official, in any primary, special, or general election;
(5)
any citizen because he is or has been, or in order to intimidate such citizen or any other citizen from lawfully aiding or encouraging other persons to participate, without discrimination on account of race, color, religion or national origin, in any of the benefits or activities described in subparagraphs (1)(A) through (1)(E) or subparagraphs (2)(A) through (2)(F), or participating lawfully in speech or peaceful assembly opposing any denial of the opportunity to so participate- shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;

[LowOiL]

JediJones is a POLITICAL OPERATIVE!!!

And your Koo-Koo for Co-Co Puffs.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Time for breakfast? I think I will make a frittata rather than coco puffs. You are welcome to your kids cereal.

[grania]

So Ted isn't the only idiot out there. Nice to know.

So, Cruz and his staff plagiarized a real bad idea that should offend anyone who supports privacy and didn't even check what the reaction to it was? Not one person on that staff said "whoa..."

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

JediJones has as much right to be here as you do. Stop trying to run people off just for disagreeing with you. Do you think that will make America great? Running conservatives off just because they do not support your candidate is anti republic and therefore anti-American.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Don’t worry about this. It is nothing. The opposition is trumping it up into something it is not. Schools, charities, fundraisers, and even city governments use this sort of tactic with public information.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I would hate having the likes of you on my homeowners association. Me and the wife on the other hand took ours over and destroyed it and our neighbors cheered, well except forr the a-holes. There were 4 of them. They were terrorizing a community of 200.

[JediJones]

No, I’m just an awesome researcher.

[JediJones]

Do we really want Ted’s finger on the nuke button? No way.

I do. He'll point them at radical Islamic terrorists.

[JediJones]

that should offend anyone who supports privacy

You must mean the illusion of privacy because voter participation records are entirely public.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Bull puckey. You have inside knowledge. Admit it. I will not hold it against you. I might even help you depending on who you are behind, getting paid by.