Current Events > Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information

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https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article220334185.html

The Missouri Republican Party sent mailers to 10,000 voters across the state with false information about when their absentee ballots are due, the partys executive director acknowledged Friday.

Ray Bozarth said the incorrect information was printed on postcards as the result of a miscommunication between the party and its vendor, which he declined to name. Bozarth also did not say how the miscommunication occurred.

A photo of the mailer provided to the Star shows a red bar across the top that says urgent notice in all capital letters and encourages voters to return their mail-in ballots today.

It also says, ballots must be returned by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, which is not the case. Ballots are due on election day, Nov. 6, and requests for mail-in ballots arent due until Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Those folks are going to get mailers with the correct information, Bozarth said.

Voters who receive mailers and believe incorrectly that the deadline to vote absentee has passed could miss out on the opportunity.

Asked if he was concerned some voters might not vote as a result of the confusion, he said he was very confident in the Missouri Republican Partys get-out-the-vote effort.

Bozarth said the party had made Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcrofts office aware of the mistake. He said the party had heard from maybe one or two people. He said the party, in turn, directed them to information on the secretary of states website and a voter turnout webpage run by the Republican National Committee.

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10,000 of their own voters, though. This was just an accident.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

10,000 of their own voters, though. This was just an accident.

Yes. Still a serious issue regardless.
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Tmaster148 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

10,000 of their own voters, though. This was just an accident.

Yes. Still a serious issue regardless.

YEah, although your title made me think it would be them saying they had more time than they did, which would be so much worse.

OctilIery posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

UnholyMudcrab posted...

10,000 of their own voters, though. This was just an accident.

Yes. Still a serious issue regardless.

YEah, although your title made me think it would be them saying they had more time than they did, which would be so much worse.

I copied the article headline.
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I mean, better to urge them to tell them they're late than it is to tell them they're early
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It's Missouri. This shit just happens.
The state has never figured out what it wants to be, to the point that "Missouri" itself has at least three accepted pronunciations.

The easternmost western state
The westernmost eastern state
The southernmost northern state
The northernmost southern state

Missouri even somehow managed to be both a Confederate state and Union state simultaneously during the Civil War.