It's just so hard to look up the deadlines and not use a fake person named Lamont to lead your registration campaign!

Does anyone think Mike Lux's denial actually makes this worse for Hillary?

If it jumps out and hits us on the head, then maybe we will recognize the real agenda here.

I still want to know who got the calls/who got the packets/and who scheduled the cals and the mailings.

If there was EVER a sneaky way to keep voters from the polls, and just look like a mismanaged non-proifit, this fits the bill.

And the connections to Clinton's campaign are more than worrisome, it's one more nail in the coffin of Clinton-respect so many of us will bury this year.

Unfortunately it is not the last one, by any means.

"Primary Colors" may have been more accurate than I have been willing to admit.

It's hard to tell if this is major incompetence or maliciousness.

I'm wondering now if those calls from 'Lamont' were actually from WVWV, because I have a hard time believing that any GOTV group could have that much trouble with deadlines and targetting.

I am not sure how many people have listened to the call (audio available here) but not only are the vast majority of people named "Lamont" African-American, but I am willing to bet that the caller is African-American as well. Of course, it is possible that I'm mistaken here, and I would be interested to hear what others have to say on the subject.

If I'm right, it really begs the question: why would an organization whose purpose is to convince women to register to vote use an African-American man, with a traditionally African-American name for their illegal robo-calls?

Even if I'm wrong, I am utterly convinced that this was an insidious attempt on the part of Hillary Clinton's supporters, and possibly Clinton herself, to suppress the African-American vote in North Carolina. The overwhelming weight of circumstantial evidence points to this conclusion.

The attempts of Women's Voices Women Vote to brush this incident off by citing its own (literally criminal) incompetence are not convincing anybody. They are amusing, however - it is always amusing to watch people struggle vainly to defend the indefensible after they have been caught red-handed.

I'm the "PC" who sent in the scan of this mailing. When my wife received it in yesterday's mail, the post offices here had already closed. Yesterday was Oregon's registration deadline for the primary.

As to why we were targeted for this mailing, I won't venture to guess. But I can note this: we're in Portland, under 40, and our neighborhood has many Obama yard signs. I haven't seen any for McCain or Clinton.

They spent $225,854 on focus groups and polling. I don't think you drop that kind of money and then leave the identity/voice of the caller up to a "generic call center."

The fact that this organization is "nonprofit" is completely irrelevant. As far as I know, "independent" political organizations are always not-for-profit. Are you implying that because they aren't trying to make a financial profit they are incapable of attempting to confuse likely Obama voters?

Why does Josh Marshall's TPM post linked with this one say that on the face of it the robocalls were just a screwup? No callerID and the use of a phony-named, clearly African American man's voice on the call, and the lack of any reference to the general election? What does that have to do with women's voter registration? The history of investigations and reprimands in states all across the country? The clear and deep connection to Maggie Williams and other staffers from Hillaryland and Billostan? Those robocalls look a lot like a felony from here, not a mistake, and part of a clear pattern.

The website listed in the scanned mailer has all voter registration deadlines listed by state. The website also clearly represents itself as part of WVWV> the organization absolutely had the correct information necessary to mail information prior to the deadline.

The WVWV website takes a great amount of pride in their lists, making a point of noting their greater accuracy than those available on the open market. They describe methodology for scrubbing their lists of inaccuracies, as well as combining census info and commercial info to include race and income level, and marital status. They also apparently make their lists available for free to other 501C3 entities, and charge a paltry $200 to others.

Missing the registration deadline in Oregon isn't the only thing they flubbed. Under "Special Instructions for Oregon Registrants," we are informed that a first-time voter "MUST bring to the polls identification with your name and address."

Considering that Oregon votes entirely by mail, and there aren't any "polls" to bring identification to, this instruction is very, very special indeed.

Thanks for your assistance, WVWV. I Feel the Power already!

When I was growing up in Portland in the 1970's, it was indeed "mostly white" and de facto segregated. There were bus stops downtown that I thought of as "black" because it seemed to me that only black people ever waited at these stops (if you're a Portlander, these were the purple raindrop bus stops). It is only recently that I have begun to learn why this was (redlining, etc).

In any event, much of zip code 97212 was historically African-American and despite gentrification still has patches that I would think of today as being mostly African-American. If you Google Maps it, you'll see streets like MLK Boulevard, Williams, Alberta, Killingsworth. It's "close-in Northeast." It's where the Nike outlet is, and Jefferson High School is just north of it in 97217. (If you're not a Portlander, I am speaking here in a polite code to indicate that I am talking about areas of Portland thought of by just about everyone I know here as mostly African-American.)

For the record, I now live in the suburbs and it's a lot more integrated here -- we see kids of many different races playing together in the street, which is progress.

If you wanted to drop a mailing that would accidentally-on-purpose go to a higher percentage of black people than if you sent it to all of Portland, or Portland metro area overall, you could do a lot worse than starting with the Jefferson High School district.