Bush encouraging absentee ballots in Ohio

[rfunk]

(Cross-posted from Daily Kos, where you can take the poll if you register)

I'm a registered Democrat sitting here in North Canton, Ohio, a Republican-leaning suburb in a swing county in Jeff Seemann's district. And I just got a phone call from George W. Bush.


Well, OK, it was a recording of Bush. But the whole point of the call, besides touting himself a bit, was him encouraging me (me!) to get an absentee ballot and use it.

This seems weird to me.

My first thought was that they want to encourage people in this suburban community to vote absentee because they plan to mess with the voting machines. (Diebold HQ is right here in North Canton.)

My second thought was that they chose their targets more precisely, and they really do want me to vote absentee while the true Bush supporters use the machines. Then they'll junk the absentee ballots.

Sigh. Another sort of Vizzini gambit, I guess. Vote early, vote often.


Update: Complete details, including an MP3 and transcript of the call and scans of the flyer they mailed with an absentee ballot request form, are now up on a separate web page.

Comments

[stega.livejournal.com]

another fun fact: the Rebulican party uses some company out of India for their mass mailings. The DNS uses IronPort C-series devices.
I really do think that says quite a bit about the party responsible for shipping most of the manufacturing jobs out of the country.

DNS

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, goes so well with their whole "we're the real patriots" theme.

What's an IronPort C-series device?

Presumably from a foreign company?

Re: DNS

[stega.livejournal.com]

ooops...I mistyped. They actually use A-series devices.
Basically they're machines designed to max out an OC3 with email. They're "made" here in the US too--although they're DELL hardware under the hood.

A C-series is pretty much the opposite of an A-series. It's an MGA of incredible size.