A few weeks ago I got a fairly suspicious voicemail from a recorded voice stating it was calling from the D-C-C-C. It did not use the term “Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It advised me that I would soon be getting a absentee ballot and that I should make sure to fill it out and return it right away. Needless to say I found this email somewhat misleading, as I had not applied for an absentee ballot, nor am I eligible to do so. The voice provided a telephone number but I was in no position to write it down so I was unable to call it. I did notify someone I know who works at the secretary of state’s office, as it seemed like voter suppression to me. I figured that even the people at the DCCC couldn’t be so stupid that they’d call a Connecticut resident with information that was clearly inconsistent with Connecticut state law.
Turns out I was wrong. A couple of days ago they called again, this time leaving a voicemail. I have tried to embed it below, and hopefully this will work.
I forwarded it to my contact at the Secretary of States’s office, and received a phone call from a nice person there who told me she would follow up. A few minutes ago she called to ask me if by chance I had been registered recently in another state, say, North Carolina. Well, as it turns out I had not been, but a relative, who lives in France but votes in North Carolina has, on occasion, used our address and phone number as a contact. So, in fact, it was the DCCC, calling numbers outside of North Carolina with North Carolina specific information, not even bothering to make that clear and, no doubt, potentially confusing as many people as they might enlighten. How hard could it be to tailor the message in such a way that it would not potentially confuse the legions of non-North Carolinians likely to get this robocall? How hard could it be to notice that there were calls going to non-North Carolina area codes and that might cause a problem? Leave it to the DCCC to counter Republican voter suppression tactics with unconscious voter suppression of their own.
This, of course is only a minor example of the sundry ways in which the DCCC is doing it’s best to blow the upcoming election, or, at the very least, stock the House of Representatives with DINOs that will vote with the Republicans 80% of the time.
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