Posted on 11/02/2024 1:45:59 PM PDT by Signalman
An official-looking envelope arrived in the mail on Friday. It came from the Voter Participation Center — a shadowy left-wing group — and contained threatening language.
“Remember, who you vote for is private, but whether or not you voted is public record,” wrote VPC President Tom Lopach in the letter. “We’re sending this mailing to you and your neighbors to share who does and does not vote in an effort to promote election participation.”
The mailer was addressed to my wife. It included a chart with her name, our Michigan address, and her supposed voting record from 2016 to 2022. It placed her information alongside what it claims are voting records of our “neighbors,” though we live nowhere near the streets listed.
“We will be reviewing these records after the election to determine whether or not you joined your neighbors in voting,” Lopach wrote. “While we have hidden the name and street number of your neighbors to protect their privacy, these are their true voting records.”
The mailer falsely claimed my wife did not vote in 2020. The outside of the mailer bears a return address in Lansing on Allegan Street, the same street where the secretary of state’s office is located, in the Charles E. Chamberlain Federal Building. From the large VPC seal on the mailer to the Lansing address, it looks almost intentionally official.
The VPC and its “sister” group, the Center for Voter Information, have been sending out similarly misleading and threatening mailers across America, as The Federalist reported.
In Maryland, the state attorney general issued a cease and desist order on Thursday against both groups for intimidating voters with these mailers.
“Let me be clear: these unnerving letters are unacceptable, and Maryland voters should know that their decision to vote this Election Day is entirely theirs to make,” wrote Attorney General Anthony Brown.
The group had sent unsolicited absentee ballot applications to thousands of voters across America as of September, Project Veritas reported. That month, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., demanded that the IRS investigate the group “for potentially violating federal tax rules for tax-exempt” groups.
In September, The Washington Free Beacon reported that the VPC was targeting its Facebook voter registration ads to likely liberal audiences, calibrating ads to avoid people with more typically conservative interests, like Duck Dynasty, John Wayne, and NASCAR.
Oregon officials warned residents in August to be careful about mailers from the VPC and CVI, as they planned to send 20,000 mailers to “five of Oregon’s largest counties,” The Oregonian reported.
The VPC is a nonprofit that launched in 2003 as “Women’s Voices Women Vote,” but it changed its name in 2011, according to InfluenceWatch. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman, helped found the group. Today, it targets likely Democrat voting blocs like single women, young people, minorities, and new citizens as part of the “Rising American Electorate” — or the “Emerging Democrat Majority.” The VPC and CVI have a history of mailing inaccurate voter registration forms.
Do you think Meritless Garlands’ thugs will be on this ... probably not because they will be protecting them and helping them out.
I received one of these here in Maine.
Came from the same group, except the return address was in the state capitol, Augusta.
I receive all my mail at a post office box in a city ten miles away, so that’s where it was sent.
It had the addresses of my “neighbors”....their street number was blotted out and I never heard of the two streets.
It listed my p.o. box as my “street” address.
It basically said “yes” or “no” as to whether I or my neighbors voted in the 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections.
In North Korea call it a gift.
There’s a LinkedIn profile under that name claiming he works for the VPC.
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Tom....... Have you made your funeral plans? Do you have a burial plot? Do you have own space for your urn in a Columbian?
They can review my voting record all they want. I voted for President Trump in the election of 2916. I voted for President Trump in the election od2020. But with the help of the Republican Party, the Democrats stole the vote along with the election. And , if I am living, come Tuesday, I will vote for him [Donald Trump] again [Alabama does not have early voting]. As far as I am concerned, they, and all other Never Trumpers can go fornicate with themselves,
This type of verbal threat should be a Criminal offense
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