Dude!

Mainstream media has picked up on this, as has Think Progress. As MSNBC’s article states:

News4 reported: “The viewer’s e-mail stated after he had voted, he received a call from an unknown caller who said they knew the voter was registered out of state and would be arrested if they voted today. The viewer’s e-mail stated he’s been registered to vote in Virginia for the last three years and has the Virginia Voter Registration card to prove it.”

The phone message was definitely deceptive and false, as this voter was registered legally in Virginia and not New York.

Meanwhile…

Over in Missouri, a voting machine records a vote for McCaskill as a vote for Talent.

Reader PW writes:

My wife just came home from voting here in Webster Groves MO. She used the electronic touch-screen voting system. . . She touched Claire McCaskill’s picture and the machine recorded a vote for Jim Talent. She then called one of the people running the polling center who helped her correct the problem. My wife then had to call the person over another time after it recorded her vote a Republican again. In her frustration she asked the person who was responsible for the design of this system. The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, “We’re f—-d.”

To Connecticut….

The Connecticut Republican Congressional Committee apparently has said that it will stop the robo-calls if the voters vote Republican.

From TPM Reader JN:

just got a call in CT from a Mr. Gallo of the, i think, CT State Central Republican Committee. It was something like that. It was from the republican state senate scommitte i think. I think gallo said he was some kind of leader. The poll identified itself pretty quickly as being from a republican group, and then it went on to promise that if you vote republicans then they would stop the robocalls.

Is this really the America we’ve known and loved for so long? Are these the tactics employed by righteous, principled people?