[Aria]

Seems the numbers on the Violation warning were made up.

What a disaster!

[RIghtwardHo]

Utter disaster.

Someone needs to explain to Cruz that just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

[Theo]

Look out. Your concern troll is showing.

[moovova]

Votergate?

Shamegate?

Cruzgate?

[be-baw]

TOASTED

[Ransomed]

I wonder if it was just an age thing, like did they only send them to old people and figured if old people who normally didn’t vote actually voted they would vote for Cruz or what? How did they think upping turnout generally would help Cruz and not Trump like everyone says?

Freegards

[Windcatcher]

Just watched an interview on FNC where the GOP rep pointed to it being done before as justification. Someone needs to tell him that one can’t justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.

Let’s get real. The mailer, right down to the red ink and yellow “recipient copy” paper, was intended to look like a traffic ticket. It was meant to intimidate people by implying that they have *done something wrong*.

I like Ted Cruz and I like his message, but let’s face it. The mailer was deceitful and, when you get to it, slimy. If I received something like that in the mail I would feel insulted that someone thought they could manipulate me in such a manner. I don’t like having my intelligence insulted, which is why 99% of any GOP mailers I get go straight to the trash.

I’d rather have my hair set on fire and have it put out with a sledgehammer than vote for any Democrat, but that doesn’t mean that I’m okay with the GOP insulting my intelligence.

[VerySadAmerican]

If this is the kind of people Cruz would hire it raises the creepiness level up a few notches.

[CodeToad]

Ethical? No. Illegal? Probably.

Ted Cruz, 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.

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

Federal Prosecution of Election Offenses Seventh Edition, May 2007

The following sections are from the above document. I've condensed and paraphrased the document to the important words.

42 U.S. Code § 1973gg-10 - Criminal penalties (violation of election law)
A person in any election for Federal office knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens, or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any person for registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register or vote; urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote, or to attempt to register or vote; shall be fined 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 or Vice President shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

[Wissa]

What’s with the video of Ted and his daughter on that page? Is she trying to flick a booger at him?

[Georgia Girl 2]

The thing about Cruz is that all of his wounds are self inflicted. The wall street loans as well as this latest fiasco. It speaks to judgment and character.

[SamAdams76]

I was wondering if there were any other examples of this "Voter Violation" than the one we keep seeing over and over again. I did a search and was able to come up with a different one (which had slightly better scores) but it doesn't seem that too many of these have been posted to the web. I wonder how widespread this actually was.

[paintriot]

I was wondering why all the scores were 55 F. Seemed odd.

[Atlantan]

From a New Yorker article:

Donna Holstein, who was listed on one of them, was upset to learn that she had been given a failing grade and that her neighbors might be told whether she participates in the caucus. She told me that she has voted consistently but that she can’t this time because of a disability.

“I’m crippled, so I can’t go to the caucus,” Holstein said. She was not happy about being shamed in front of her neighbors. “That’s what you call a bully,” she said about Cruz’s tactics. “I wish he would quit.”

[svcw]

Who cares?
I get these every election, just throw them away. Jezz

[corbe]

I cant understand why Cruz would do this so close to the IOWA Caucus.

I cant understand why Cruz didnt take care of the Birther Issue before he started his Quest.

Only Stupid people fall for this political flyer crap and Trump has that Vote locked up.

[catnipman]

“Seems the numbers on the Violation warning were made up. “

They HAD to be made up. Iowa does not keep records of caucus attendance, which is purely a function of the political party that organizes and operates their caucuses.

Colorado caucuses work the same way. I attend them in Colorado, so I know how they are run and how they operate: no information goes back to the state. (In Iowa, however, unlike Colorado, one can register and/or change party affiliation, so THAT information DOES do back to the state, but ONLY that information.)

[Just mythoughts]

http://kcur.org/post/how-jeff-roe-went-kansas-city-bad-boy-running-presidential-campaign

And this bunch think they are above New York values?

[McGruff]

[bgill]

Reason #38,294 not to vote for the Canadian.

[blueplum]

Iowa Political Sci professor, meet the Yale political sci professors that led to you being targeted:

http://isps.yale.edu/research/publications/isps10-024#.Vq6lUMv2bKw