Report: Cat, kids get voter mailing

The fur is flying in North Carolina.

The state Board of Elections is looking into a series of voter mailings from Americans for Prosperity after inaccuracies were found — with one flier even being sent to a cat.


The executive director of the state Democratic Party, Casey M. Mann, who filed an official complaint on Monday, said mailings sent out by the Koch brother-backed conservative group listed the the wrong location to send applications, incorrect registration deadlines and bad info on where people can get answers to their voting questions, according to an article by the News & Observer.

The paper also reported that the AFP mailings were received by children who are ineligible to vote, dead people, and one person reportedly was given voting information for a cat.

“It seems strange that an organization so determined to root out voter fraud can provide so much information to people who are not eligible to vote,” Mann told the News & Observer.

Americans for Prosperity has apologized for the inaccuracies and said it believes that Democrats are using the mistake for political gain.

“The reality is, this program has successfully registered thousands of new voters, and will continue to do so. Complaints from the NC Democrat party make it obvious this is about exploiting a small issue to score political points. We fully expect this complaint to be dismissed as the distraction it is,” Levi Russell, AFP’s director of public affairs, said in an email to POLITICO.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story said the AFP mailing contained incorrect voting dates; the wrong information was in fact about registration deadlines.

CORRECTION: Corrected by: Libby Isenstein @ 09/30/2014 08:35 AM CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story said the AFP mailing contained incorrect voting dates; the wrong information was in fact about registration deadlines.

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