Comments on Vote Suppression, the Robo-Call Way
Calling for political donations should just be banned altogether. In this day and age, it's frowned upon anyway and considered by and large as annoying as fraudulent telemarketing. If one wants to suuport a candidate or cause, there are many other efficient avenues to do so, like rallies and the internet.
Check out Daily Kos. If the NH AG decides to go after the NRCC, it could cost the GOP $100 million in fines.
This is vaguely reminiscent of the bot wars post. How do we keep powerful technology out of the hands of asstards...
Gomez: why are you bringing up fundraising calls? That's not what these robo-calls are doing.
This is such a despicable practice. It's too bad that there seems to be little remedy. Any bad press that they get will be forgotten next election year. The only hope is preventing it from happening in the future.
It's worse than you think:
"In Virginia, Democratic Senatorial candidate James Webb's last name does not appear on the voting summary sheet. In Indiana, African American congresswoman Julia Carson was told her congressional ID was not sufficient to vote. In Broward County, Florida early voting, a vote for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate registered as a vote for the Republican candidate."
And: "n San Diego, actually, we just learned that they ran out of absentee ballots, so the official ballots that they mailed to some people in San Diego are Xeroxes, which you vote on this Xerox, and then when you send it in, election workers will transfer your choice onto a proper ballot, which will then be scanned properly."
And it's not even Tuesday...
I bring it up because it's an annoying, outdated, counterproductive practice in general.
Discouraging voters? maybe in bizarro world, but come on, once this sort of thing got into the newspapers (which it is), what democrat would think to not vote, or to vote repub?
Poke a sleeping bear with a stick could get her to wake up and move somewhere else, but usually, poking a bear is considered a bad way to motivate a bear.
Phenics: the problem is the calls make it seem that the Dems are poking the bear.
Don't these campaign calls fall within the umbrella of the Do Not Call registry? If not, why not?
WF: I don't see why the congressional ID should be accepted, since an election worker would have no idea if it was valid. Everything else is scary, though.
Gitai: make that $1 billion. $5000 fine per call (that seems excessive, but... hey, the libertarians in my state of birth don't like to be disturbed), estimated over 200,000 of the calls were made.
Him:
The National Do Not Call registry only applies to commerical speech. Given this is political speech, it has a far stronger First Amendment protection, and ths is not covered by the registry.
NH has stricter laws on automated calls than the national ones. That's why the talk of fines are coming from NH and not anywhere else.
I don't think the first amendment has anything to do with why political calls aren't covered by the do-not-call list; it's a list of people who don't want to be bothered in their own homes using a service they're paying for. I think the reason is simply that the law creating the do-not-call list was created by... elected lawmakers.
Actually, WA state has some strong laws too. Not as strong, mind you.
Here on my side of the State, (washington) the phone has rang constantly all day, (well not quite constantly), but is 9-10 calls enough?
They all been from Democrats!
There have been canvassers stopping by the house to see if we've voted also.
Enough is enough!
It is time that Washington State gave homeowners the option of taking their phone number off the calling lists of various political groups.
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