Last week, we wrote about a great mailer effectively utilizing an opponent’s outburst at City Council – that unfortunately had the wrong Election Date on it.
Today, which marks a week until hundreds of municipal elections across the country, we see a mailer that shows the wrong polling place hours on it.
From NewsWorks.org:
In the Northeast Philadelphia City Council race, incumbent Brian O’Neill’s campaign has filed complaints with the city board of elections, the city board of ethics and the District Attorney’s office about mailings that have reached voters touting the candidacy of his Democratic opponent, Bill Rubin.
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O’Neill’s folks are steamed because the mailer doesn’t say who paid for it – a violation of the state election code – AND because the mailer has the wrong hours for voting on November 8th. As you can see above, it says that polls open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m..
In fact, polls open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The O’Neill campaign says the mailer is going to Republicans who would likely vote for their guy, making it look like a deliberate effort to mislead voters.
It also dovetails in nicely with a recent article we did about Independent Expenditures not helping your campaign…this mailer was an IE by AFSCME.
It could also be a dirty trick by the campaign, as the Republican opponent claims. They say the mailer went to Republican households?
We vote on the side of the wrong election day, since that’s enough to keep people away altogether.
What do you think?
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