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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Have You Received a Misleading GOP Robocall on Early Voting?

There's anecdotal evidence emerging that the GOP may be conducting robocalls that provide inaccurate information about early voting sites in the Albuquerque area. The other day, Cocoposts had this to say:

Meanwhile, the shameless and desperate GOP is robo-calling around spewing misinformation to confuse voters into not voting - leaving a message for a friend of mine in the University area that early voting just started and that he must drive across the river to Paradise Hills to cast a ballot

Reality: there's an early vote site much closer, at the UNM Student Union Building.

Is the misleading info in the robocall by the GOP just a mistake, or is it something else designed to discourage people from voting by claiming the closest voting site is far away? Is the GOP targeting people in the UNM area because there's a high liklihood they'll vote for Democrats? What's going on here, if anything?

Has It Happened to You? If you or someone you know has received a similar robocall from the GOP, please let me know in the comments on this thread or contact me by clicking on the Email Me link at the upper left-hand corner of the page. Albuquerque Journal reporter Dan McKay indicated in a comment on Coco's post that he's also interested in any recorded messages or other evidence that the Republicans are conducting a deceptive robocall campaign. Do you know anything?

Early Voting Sites: FYI, see below the jump for a listing of early in-person voting sites in Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia Counties provided by the League of Women Voters of Central New Mexico. If you are registered, you can vote early at any of the sites within the county where you reside from now thru November 1, 2008:

EARLY VOTING

Beginning October 7 you may vote "absentee in person" at the following county clerk's office locations, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, November 1, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Bernalillo County
Bernalillo County Clerk's Office Annex, 620 Lomas NW (6th and Lomas), Albuquerque

Sandoval County
Sandoval County Voting Machine Warehouse, 800 South Hill Road, Bernalillo

Valencia County
Valencia County Courthouse, 444 Luna Ave., Los Lunas

From Saturday, October 18 through Saturday, November 1 you may vote early at alternative voting sites throughout the county where you are registered to vote. The hours are:

Tuesday through Friday, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 18 and 25 and November 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The following Early Voting locations are open beginning Saturday, October 18.

Bernalillo County:

Tijeras City Hall, 12 Camino Municipal, Tijeras

Paradise Hills Community Center, 5901 Paradise Blvd NW

Los Ranchos Villa, 6601 4th St NW, Suites A, B, C

Coors Plaza, 3200 Coors NW, Suite A

Integrity Plaza, 1512 Wyoming NE, Suites F&G

Plaza Paseo Del Norte, 9231 Coors NW, Suite R-8

Siesta Hills Shopping Center, 5407 Gibson SE

Del Norte Shopping Center, 7120 Wyoming NE, Suite 16

Market Center East, 11110 Lomas NE, Suite E-4

98th & Central Shopping Center, 120 98th St NW, Suite B-5

Goff Plaza, 1720 Bridge SW Suite G

Daskalos Shopping Center, 5339 & 5339A Menaul NE

Juan Tabo Plaza, 11012 Montgomery NE

CNM - South Valley Campus, 5816 Isleta Blvd. SW

University of New Mexico Student Union Building

Sandoval County:

Rio Rancho City Hall, 3200 Civic Center Circle NE, Rio Rancho

Meadowlark Senior Center, 4330 Meadowlark Lane, Rio Rancho

San Ysidro Public Safety Training Room, 398 Highway 4, San Isidro

Valencia County:

Valencia County Courthouse, Commission Room, 444 Luna Ave. Los Lunas, NM 87031

Belen Community Center, 304 Eagle Lane, Belen, NM 87002

October 21, 2008 at 09:24 AM in 2008 General Election Voting, Republican Party | Permalink

Comments

If you think robocalling is bad, I see in this YouTube video that McCain's campaign is outsourcing their calls to India! I guess that's what you have to do when you can't find enough "real Americans" to be your volunteers. This is a pretty hysterical behind-the-scenes look at the McCain campaign:
Outsourcing calls to India

Posted by: trent | Oct 21, 2008 1:01:08 PM

Another advantage of having signed up to vote by mail back in September. I sent my ballot back about 5 weeks ago, so I don't get robocalls.

Posted by: < | Oct 22, 2008 5:48:41 AM

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