rap@oliveb.UUCP (11/27/83)
| FROM: Dave Decot > The only possible explanation for this arriving in my mailbox is the > inexcusable fact that I actually *voted* for this person in 1981. If > anyone ever asks me what was the most stupid act I ever performed, > I have absolutely no problem. I shall definately be more careful this time. > (I thought ballots in this country were supposed to be secret?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <FLAME ON> While I agree 100% that this kind of advertising stinks, don't give me that balogna about secret ballots. Where did you write your name and address on the ballot? If you really want to know how they got your address take a look at your voter registration card. <FLAME OFF> Now that you're done with that, go out and vote for Carter.
decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot) (11/30/83)
From Dave Decot:
The only possible explanation for this arriving in my mailbox is the
inexcusable fact that I actually *voted* for this person in 1981. If
anyone ever asks me what was the most stupid act I ever performed,
I have absolutely no problem. I shall definately be more careful this time.
(I thought ballots in this country were supposed to be secret?)
From seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!rap:
<FLAME ON>
While I agree 100% that this kind of advertising stinks, don't
give me that balogna about secret ballots. Where did you write your
name and address on the ballot? If you really want to know how they
got your address take a look at your voter registration card.
<FLAME OFF>
Now that you're done with that, go out and vote for Carter.
-----
Since I used an absentee ballot, my name and address surely WERE on the ballot.
When I said that I had made a mistake, I did not mean that I should have voted
for Mr. Carter, although he may have been preferable to Mr. Reagan. I was
going to vote for John Anderson, but chickened out.
If voter registration cards were used, why didn't other voters in my
district also get this solicitation?
Dave Decot
decvax!cwruecmp!decot (Decot.Case@rand-relay)preece@uicsl.UUCP (12/01/83)
#R:oliveb:-23500:uicsl:16300037:000:431 uicsl!preece Nov 30 10:01:00 1983 The Republican 'invitations' could have been mailed to any number of convenient lists. For instance, have you ever voted in a Republican primary? I have (trying to get them to select someone I actually would have voted for), and I assumed that's why I got one. But they might have used almost any mailing list with good demographics (they want, after all, people with disposable income). scott preece ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece