Title: Unbelievable – Ted Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal “Shaming Letters” To Iowa Voters Source:
The Conservative Treehouse URL Source:http://theconservativetreehouse.com ... haming-letters-to-iowa-voters/ Published:Jan 30, 2016 Author:sundance Post Date:2016-01-30 08:24:10 by Roscoe Keywords:None Views:8210 Comments:41
The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.
Assembling voter report cards and then snitching people out to their neighbors is truly a bad idea.
It's such a bad idea, I have to wonder why I haven't read it elsewhere. I notice Cruz's campaign is tight-mouthed about it but said it was a "narrowly targeted" mailing.
I think Cruz's deep-data operations have indicated he will get most of these votes if he can just get them to turn out to the caucus. And it does make people aware that their voter participation record is a public record that lots of .orgs and others (like employers) can get hold of.
So there may be some backlash but it still might be a smart move if they get more votes doing it than by not doing it.