Reid campaign offers to do "anything" for casino votes?

[nageov3t]

let the election night shenanigans begin.

Sharron Angle Files Voter Intimidation Complaint

LAS VEGAS - A lawyer for Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle has filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging illegal voter intimidation on behalf of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's campaign. Reid's campaign worked with sympathetic executives to put pressure on union casino employees to vote, according to an article this morning in National Review on which the complaint is based.

Reid's campaign offered money and buses to get the workers to the polls, proposed that Reid personally intervene and told the bosses at Harrah's to "put a headlock" on supervisors to make sure they got workers out to vote, according to the e-mails between an unnamed Reid staffer and Harrah's executives. A casino executive distributed a spreadsheet with the names of employees and asked supervisors to track whether they'd voted.
Angle lawyer Cleta Mitchell decried what she called "union intimidation tactics" and called on the Justice Department to investigate possible election-law violations.

Reid's campaign said the e-mails show no malfeasance, pointing out that Crum told Fox News she didn't think "anything either illegal or unethical was done here."

"This 'report' by a right-wing blogger who's literally been embedded within the Angle campaign has no credibility on its face,” said Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele. “That being said, given Sen. Reid's work to strengthen the state's top industry, it should come as no surprise that casino employees support his reelection." ...

In the correspondence reported by National Review, the Reid staffer emailed Harrah's lobbyist Jan Jones, a Democratic former Las Vegas mayor, to say the campaign would do "Anything. Name it" to help the company get its workers out to vote.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44575.html

 

[CrackRabbit]

At both Reids campaign and the NRO Blogger.
Nevada is going to end up like Minnesota two years ago, it could be months before the outcome is certified.

 

[kranky]

While I don't think it's appropriate to force people to go to the polls, they can still choose to vote for anyone. I consider voter intimidation to be things that discourage people from voting, not encouraging them. But if it turns out that's against the law, there should be repercussions.

 

[Vette73]

While I don't think it's appropriate to force people to go to the polls, they can still choose to vote for anyone. I consider voter intimidation to be things that discourage people from voting, not encouraging them. But if it turns out that's against the law, there should be repercussions.

Yep if someone forced me to go vote I vote against them.


Many people running for office offer rides and even food to get people to vote. Sounds like that is all that is going on here. But Angle is probable doing this just in case she loses to probable the most easy person to beat this cycle and wants to line up the excuses.

 

[pcgeek11]

Typical Dem move. Like the New Black Panthers at the polls with night sticks.

 

[rudeguy]

While I don't think it's appropriate to force people to go to the polls, they can still choose to vote for anyone. I consider voter intimidation to be things that discourage people from voting, not encouraging them. But if it turns out that's against the law, there should be repercussions.

Its very much against the law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939

 

[spidey07]

Heard about this. This is seriously illegal what the casino did. A company cannot endorse a candidate in a get out the vote internal campaign. Their PAC can, but not agents of the company. Agents are normally director level and above, stock holders, anybody with broad decision making power. I would always be told by executives/hr that I can say "go vote" but I cannot say "go vote for X".

 

[IBMer]

Heard about this. This is seriously illegal what the casino did. A company cannot endorse a candidate in a get out the vote internal campaign. Their PAC can, but not agents of the company. Agents are normally director level and above, stock holders, anybody with broad decision making power. I would always be told by executives/hr that I can say "go vote" but I cannot say "go vote for X".

Where did you read that they said go vote for Reid?

 

[IBMer]

Apparently I can't read.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Heard about this. This is seriously illegal what the casino did. A company cannot endorse a candidate in a get out the vote internal campaign. Their PAC can, but not agents of the company. Agents are normally director level and above, stock holders, anybody with broad decision making power. I would always be told by executives/hr that I can say "go vote" but I cannot say "go vote for X".

Where in the article does it say they were told to vote for Senator Reid?

 

[rival]

Even from the article and emails, all they are trying to do is get people to vote, and count the people who have voted.

Nowhere does it say they did anything other than provide transportation to a polling place.

 

[Attic]

Even from the article and emails, all they are trying to do is get people to vote, and count the people who have voted.

Nowhere does it say they did anything other than provide transportation to a polling place.

Read between the lines dumbshit.

 

[sMiLeYz]

Read between the lines dumbshit.

Was that necessary?

 

[IBMer]

Read between the lines dumbshit.

By that you mean make your own biased interpretation of what’s there?

 

[rival]

Read between the lines dumbshit.

I did, and i will read between the lines of your comment to me have a nice day!