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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 07:36 PM Jun 2012

Exclusive: Wisconsin voter describes robocall telling him not to vote

A Wisconsin voter received a robocall Monday night falsely informing him that if he had already signed a recall petition, he didn't need to vote in Tuesday's recall, he told Lean Forward.

Ed Tuite of Eau Claire said the call came around 8pm Monday night, and that it did not identify the person or group behind the effort.

"That would be as blatant voter suppression as I've heard," Tuite fumed, adding he and his wife weren't taken in, and voted Tuesday morning.

Tuite's account jibes with several other reports of similar calls, some of which have noted that the caller's voice sounded suspiciously like that of Tom Barrett, the Democratic candidate for governor. Tuite said the voice in his call, too, sounded like Barrett's.

http://leanforward.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/05/12072429-exclusive-wisconsin-voter-describes-robocall-telling-him-not-to-vote#.T86VYmoGsCg.twitter

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Exclusive: Wisconsin voter describes robocall telling him not to vote (Original Post) MindMover Jun 2012 OP
Please ... Please ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2012 #1
So Scotty got an impersonator? Indianademocrat91 Jun 2012 #2
 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
1. Please ... Please ...
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 07:41 PM
Jun 2012

Let someone have recorded the call.

Or better yet ...

Let one of the calls have been made to someone who is being stalked and as a result has a police authorized "call trap" on their phone. And since I'm hoping and wishing ... let that number be traced back to ALEC (or koch) headquarters.

Indianademocrat91

(390 posts)
2. So Scotty got an impersonator?
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 07:44 PM
Jun 2012

He should know a lot about those! What a dickhead move, doesn't surprise me though

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