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That is the point of my disgust with the quote.

If the mailers have the same or similar information then the organization couldnt have been intended this intentionally.

Leave Digby Aloooooooooneeeeee!!!!!

It's entitled "Women's Voices, Women's Votes."

Imagine if I had writen a post which included an admonition to the NAACP because its efforts to register A-A voters was helpful to Barack Obama.

I will leave your post up, simply because this is a perfect example of what being an Obama Cultist has done to you.

And the Lamont reference, could it be that given that NC, is what, 30% AA? they're using an AA voice?  And maybe the voice is a man because people might be more likely to listen to a man?  You know, I've noticed lately that there's a bit of sexism in this country.  Just a bit.

And BTW, if you find a blog's author utterly lacking in credibility, a great way to deal with it is to NOT VISIT the blog.  That's what I've done with KOS, AmericaBlog, TPM, Huffington Post, Raw Story, Booman Tribune (oops), etc.

Tin foil is really in this spring.

Had it just been a comment on the screw ups re: the efforts of this group to GOTV, that'd be one thing.

But DH (and I have no ill feelings towards him) turned around and tossed the HRC factor in there...thereby changing the implications of the statement. It went from being about a group's mistakes to being about the group trying to "push" registration of a specific demographic group that, according to him, favors HRC (which is apparently a not good thing).

Does anyone remember the hyperventilating by the right over Acorn's voter registration efforts?

IIRC, if we had more of them turning out to vote in '04, Kerry would be prez.  Or in 2000, Gore would be prez.

WVWV was created to try to remedy that.  Based on the numbers of increased registrations mentioned in news articles quoted below, they're doing a very good job.

This group noted their registration attempts are having a much higher success rate this year than in '06, so they're been at it for several years.

I'm impressed--good effort, good work.

Some people are now saying the mistakes made are a deliberate scheme to suppress votes.  Then, people look at Hillary and her connections and contrive stories and ascribe blame.  

Let's disregard the fact that the demographic that would be suppressed actually favors Hillary and jump on the bandwagon (of, to me, fools) that will leap at any excuse to accuse her and her associates of evil.

That is how I interpret this story, anyway.    

"And it should be pointed out that a non-profit group focusing efforts on registering unmarried women in presidential primaries has to know that their activities will almost certainly help Hillary Clinton, as unmarried white women is probably her strongest demographic."

And you are fine with that.

If mistakes are being made by the group, it needs to figure out what it's doing wrong and fix it.

Virginia State Police special agents have tracked down and identified the source of the mass mailing of voter registration applications to Virginia households across the Commonwealth.

The investigation was initiated Thursday (Feb. 7, 2008) after State Police was contacted by the State Board of Elections. On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Virginia citizens began receiving recorded phone messages notifying them that a voter registration packet would be arriving in the mail. The individuals were then advised to complete, sign and mail in the application. Concerned because the messages did not specify who or where the packets were coming from, many of the citizens contacted their local registrar to find out if it was legitimate.

The investigation revealed that the phone calls and packets were generated by Women's Voices Women Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based out of Washington, DC. The organization is targeting more than 228,000 unmarried women in Virginia and 22 other states in an effort to increase voter registration and participation.

The voter registration application contained in the packet is a legitimate voter registration form commonly accepted by the State Board of Elections. The organization provided prepaid envelopes addressed to the State Board of Elections.

"Those individuals who may have completed this form and sent it in, do not have to worry," said Nancy Rodrigues, Secretary of the State Board of Elections. "The personal information provided in the application is safe. Upon receipt of their application, it will be sent to their local registrar's office for processing. Once the voter has successfully registered they will receive a voter registration card in the mail."

No charges will be placed against the organization, as neither the statewide phone solicitations nor mass mailings violate state law.  

In CA, it was written up in the WaPo by a lib blogger/reporter there, some kind of calls specifically to suppress black voters.  Oh, the name is on the tip on my tongue, but those darn aging gray cells....

Anyway, the call was supposedly made to a black voter who was a friend of the writer who then wrote about it and said it had to be from the Clinton camp. It could never have been from some RNC-related group trying to stir up confusion! Anyway, it was not at all the WVWV call.