ch: 2006

Top Ten GOP Dirty Tricks of 2006

Salon.com has a good roundup of all the dirty tricks the GOP pulled in this election cycle. Read it here.

A ‘favorite.’:

It’s not illegal to be registered to vote in two places, as long as you don’t vote in both. But that’s not what Timothy Daly, of Clarendon, Va., was told. Daly got a message on his answering machine that told him that the nonexistent “Virginia Elections Commission” had “determined you are registered in New York to vote.”

“Therefore,” the message said, “you will not be allowed to cast your vote.” It ended by promising Daly, who has voted in Virginia since 1998, that if he did come to vote, he would “be charged criminally.”

Daly wasn’t the only Virginia resident to receive such a message; enough similar calls were made, in fact, that the FBI has opened an investigation into the allegations.