The Virginian-Pilot
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FOLLOW-UP: Officials find source of fake election flier, won't press charges (Nov. 3, 2008)
RICHMOND
A phony State Board of Elections flier advising Republicans to vote on Nov. 4 and Democrats on Nov. 5 is being circulated in several Hampton Roads localities, according to state elections officials.
In fact, Election Day, for voters of all political stripes, remains Nov. 4.
The somewhat official-looking flier - it features the state board logo and the state seal - is dated Oct. 24 and indicates that "an emergency session of the General Assembly has adopted the follwing (sic) emergency regulations to ease the load on local electorial (sic) precincts and ensure a fair electorial process."
The four-paragraph flier concludes with: "We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but felt this was the only way to ensure fairness to the complete electorial process."
No emergency action has been taken by the General Assembly. It is not in session and lacks the authority to change the date of a federal election.
State Board of Election officials today said they are aware of the flier but disavowed any connection to it.
"It's not even on our letterhead; they just copied the logo from our Web site," said agency staffer Ryan Enright, noting the flier has been forwarded to State Police for investigation as a possible incident of voter intimidation.
Election officials did not specify in which Hampton Roads localities the flier had been spotted.
State Police are aware of the complaint and are looking into it, said spokeswoman Corinne Geller.
In 2007, the General Assembly passed a law making it a Class 1 misdemeanor to knowingly communicate false information to registered voters about the date, time and place of the election or voters' precincts, polling places or voter registration statuses in order to impede their voting. The measure is one of the few such deceptive voting practice laws in the country, according to the watchdog group Common Cause.
Julian Walker, (804) 697-1564, dale.eisman@pilotonline.com
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New Flyer
I just found another flyer: an emergency session of the General Assembly has adopted the follwing (sic) emergency regulations to ease the load on local electorial (sic) precincts and ensure a fair electorial process...All people who think that they are smart, vote on wed.
I think this will filter pretty good!
I agree
I agree on your comment and it also helps me a lot in knowing more things. It will surely be a help in doing my thesis for my thesis writing class. thanks and keep it up!
Resq
Resq, it's hard to take someone seriously who wears a tin-foil hat. So, go now and play with your Star Wars action figures like a good little child.
A summation of RESQ's post
An intentionally false and illegal flier that has been circulating in the area which attempts to mislead democratic-leaning voters into missing the opportunity to vote is strictly the fault of Democrats. A perfectly logical argument for the tinfoil-hat club.
Like it or not, voting is a right, not an IQ test
resq, I'm sure you understand that if you don't back up your comment stating "I have it on good authority that this was perpetrated by the democratic party so that they could blame the republicans", we all assume you're lying.
As we all know, the right to vote is not an IQ test. You may may not be old enough to remember that the Civil Rights Act outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests. I repeat, voting is a RIGHT. If someone does not know the date for voting, are you suggesting they should be denied their right to vote? Let's dig deep and see who the elitist really is.
Prime Example
Everyone needs to take an IQ test before being allowed to Vote!!! Part of the paper today: Follow the Money!! 125 Billion of the 700 Billion so called bailout 25 Billion Citi Group, 25 Billion Wells Fargo, 25 Billion Bank of America, 25 Billion JP Morgan Chase, 10 Billion Goldman Sachs, 10 Billion Morgan Stanley, 3 Billion Bank of New York Mellon, 2 Billion State Street. What a wholesale theft of taxpayers money and most of you Idiots out there think this is a good idea. Stupid is as Stupid does as Forest Gump said.
America: the next Third World Country?
Between all the false registrations, voting computers that are either faulty or can be easily manipulated to come up with incorrect voting records, eligible voters being purged from the voting rosters, our ridiculous system for financing political campaigns and now this where someone or some people are trying to fool people into not voting on the correct date, America is looking more and more like a corrupt Third World country.
nah it was a computer glitch
lost my connection, thought I'd lost my post. nothing you wrote does any more than make me chuckle....so, how about that land, you interested? 'scuse me, gotta go make some adjustments to my tinfoil hat.
Amazed
Folks, some form or another of this "flier" has been bouncing around the Internet since as far back as 2000. Physical forms even before then. It's like many other Urban Legends or spam - false. If you're all worked up over this, you must also still be waiting for Bill Gates to send you $100 for every e-mail you forward. Let me know how that works for you.