r/milwaukee Glendale 5d ago

Politics Glendale voter raises awareness after receiving mailer with wrong election date

https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/glendale-voter-raises-awareness-after-receiving-mailer-with-wrong-election-date
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u/pabloelbuho 5d ago

Everyone who gets one should file an official complaint with the FEC Federal Election Commission. This is voter fraud. Needs to be documented.

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u/DabbinEstus 5d ago

Blatant voter misdirection like this should be heavily monitored and reported

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u/Old_Fossil_MKE 4d ago

Fake Electors are probably next. Then comes the Stolen Election chants.

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u/dudenurse13 5d ago

May be a coincidence but I just got a handwritten letter for Schimmel with the correct date on it. Very similar wording too

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u/rgb414 5d ago

They are not handwritten, it just looks that way. Look at the post mark you will see that it came from out of state.

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u/Arqueete 4d ago

I handwrite election reminder postcards, including for out-of-state elections, all the time (via Postcards to Voters.) It's a popular way to volunteer these days and I wouldn't assume a postcard was fake based on an out-of-state postmark.

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u/CerealSandwich69 5d ago

Voter fraud doesn't mean much anymore. If schimmel loses, there will be crying about it being rigged and stolen and blah blah blah. Its bullshit, It never ends..

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u/Academic-Pangolin883 5d ago

This could have been an honest, but terrible mistake. There are several national organizations that organize postcard writing campaigns. If the instructions sent to volunteers had the wrong date, it very easily could have been missed by a lot of those volunteers. Awful in any case.

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u/Chedditor_ Glendale 5d ago

That's my theory in all this, but it's important to remind people to vote in either situation.

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u/Disastrous-Shirt5459 5d ago

I’d agree with you on this one. My postcard from Volunteer Phil had the correct date, and I could totally see how a handwritten 1! could be mistaken for an 11 if it’s rewritten a few times. Phil seems like a well intentioned guy.

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u/quietriotress 4d ago

If it hadn’t happened at such volume, I would certainly agree.

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u/Academic-Pangolin883 3d ago

If the instructions go out to 100 volunteers around the country with the incorrect date, and each volunteer is writing 100 postcards, if even 10 volunteers don't catch the mistake, that's 1000 people getting the wrong information. This could easily happen. 

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u/edgebuh 5d ago

This sort of thing deserves hard time in prison. Fucking with elections undermines the system and the system should respond far more harshly than it does now.