[EL] great and disturbing piece on voter intimidation

[Michael J. Hanmer]

I wonder if the answer depends in part on whether the effort is part of an academic research project.  I would think that IRBs would require the actual follow-up or if not would require a debriefing letter indicating that the recipient was part of a study.

Several groups sent mailers using this general tactic to registrants in Northern VA, including one from a vague source which leads me to believe that at least that one was part of a larger experiment.

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Adam Bonin
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [EL] great and disturbing piece on voter intimidation

Thank you.  I assume no one ever actually sends out the post-election mailers.

From: Kogan, Vladimir [mailto:kogan.18 at osu.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:50 PM
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Subject: RE: [EL] great and disturbing piece on voter intimidation

During the Walker recall in Wisconsin, the mailings warned: "After the June 5th election, public records will tell everyone who voted and who didn't."

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/06/04/union-backed-group-publicizes-wisconsinites-voting-records/

Similar efforts by Americans for Limited Government last year said, "As a further service ,we will be updating our records after the expected high turnout for the Tuesday, November, 6, 2012 election. We will send an updated vote history audit to you and your neighbors with the results." http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2012/11/01/Woman-is-told-group-has-audit-of-neighborhood-elections-activity.html

From: Adam Bonin [mailto:adam at boninlaw.com]
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Subject: RE: [EL] great and disturbing piece on voter intimidation

I remembered that they studied it and it was effective (http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/apsrfeb08gerberetal.pdf ); what I wasn't sure about was whether the tactic had become a regular part of GOTV practice.


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