Hillary-Backing Executive at WVWV Issues Statement on NC Robocalls
Page Gardner, President of Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices and a Hillary Clinton supporter, issued a statement regarding their robocalls in NC and the 16-truckloads of mailers post offices in North Carolina were preparing to deliver.
"In an attempt to prevent further confusion surrounding our voter registration efforts prior to the North Carolina primary, Women’s Voices. Women Vote took the extra step of attempting to stop the remaining mail from being delivered to homes. In total, 20 postal trucks are carrying Women’s Voices. Women Vote registration applications. Four of the trucks have already delivered, but Women’s Voices. Women Vote is making every attempt to delay the delivery of the remaining sixteen trucks.
In regards to the questions from the Facing South blog post regarding robo-calls associated with our mailing, we offer this clarification:
“North Carolina is one of 24 states where we mailed a total of more than 3 million voter registration applications.
“Calls were made to mail recipients for whom we have working phone numbers to alert the household they would be receiving a voter registration form and encouraging them to register to vote. In advance of the mail, a letter was sent to Gary Bartlett in the North Carolina Board of Elections Office. A copy of the letter and a press release sent to North Carolina media announcing the registration effort is attached.
“We understand concerns have been raised about the source of phone calls placed by Women’s Voices, Women Vote. These calls were our sincere attempt to encourage voter registration for those not registered for the general election this fall. We understand North Carolina’s primary registration effort deadline was April 11. We apologize for any confusion our calls may have caused. Our intent and purpose was solely to call attention to the registration applications we hope will be completed and returned to the Board of Elections office making thousands more North Carolinians participants in one of the most important elections of our lifetimes.
Women’s Voices. Women Vote has been in contact with the North Carolina State Board of Elections to work together to resolve any confusion regarding our voter registration efforts.
This group either knew the law and stomped all over it, or pretended they didn’t know.
They should have learned our state laws or called the SBOE to get advice before they launched their Operation Chaos. If they wanted to follow the law, they had the resources to learn what they should and could do.
I would like to see that letter they claim they sent to the NC SBoE. I don’t trust anything they say, and they have already created other chaos in our state by mailing out partially pre filled voter registration forms (unsolicited) to thousands of voters around the state, many of whom are already registered.
Some voters thought they should mail in the forms, and this put an increased burden on County BoEs who were already struggling to keep up with entering registrations into the system for people who really were not registered.
The name of this should be “Operation Chaos”.
As a serious advocate for voters, I am sickened at this.