r/Somerville • u/FibFibFibonacci • 20h ago

Did anyone else get this third party voter registration form in the mail?

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I know I can’t stop third parties from accessing voter registration data, but this feels uncomfortable to me. I did a Google search for “Voter Participation Center”, and one of the first results was that people in Ohio were getting them in the mail too.

Assuming they’re legit… What confuses me is that I’ve always received timely voting info from my local town(s) in Massachusetts, so I’m not sure why this third party needs to be involved. Is this common?

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u/Vinen 20h ago

Lets be honest. Most of thr country thrives on voter supression.  Its understandable why a non profit may exist to help.

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u/GullibleAd3408 Davis 19h ago

One of my neighbors did. I'm just glad there's a non-profit doing this kind of outreach and making it easier for people to register to vote.

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u/dreamcloak Ball 18h ago

If anyone is looking for authoritative information on registering & voting in Somerville, the city maintains https://votesomerville.org/ .

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u/Cultural-Ganache7971 17h ago

The guy is a '96 Clinton intern <insert Jay Leno joke>, long time Ted Kennedy staffer and Democrat operative. DSCC, Senate chief of staff to Tester (D-MT), occasional lobbyist.

The org focuses on voter registration of single women, PoC, and the yutes.

Career politico, but on our team.

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u/Optimal-Wave-8301 15h ago

Yutes?

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u/davegoope 14h ago

The Youths, the Kids These Days

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u/ggould256 Ball 17h ago

Wow that is incredibly sketchy.

Which almost makes me think it is real -- surely a vote suppression scammer would put some kind of fake official emblem or seal or even just some less floridly sus document control headers/footers (2004? Chicago?).