No. We are a nonpartisan group.

Posted at April 30, 2008 4:09 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

The fact that the calls did not identify WVWV was purely human error, and there was no ill intent. Again, it was an error, and not one we will be repeating in the future.

Posted at April 30, 2008 4:05 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

Again, that was an error and one we will definitely not be repeating.

Posted at April 30, 2008 4:01 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

What information are you looking for?

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:57 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

When doing live calls, yes, you would definitely use your real first name. But these were robocalls.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:56 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

We have been doing mailings and robo-calls in 26 states, to millions of people. It is definitely a national effort.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:52 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

Sadly, we're only human, and we are sorry that we've erred.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:48 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

Also, I just want to re-iterate how sorry we are about this.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:42 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

Still here.

Sorry I did not answer the questions about Lamont, the blocked ID, or why we were calling African Americans - I was trying to get the answers to those questions.

There were two recordings, one using a male voice and one using a female voice. They were both done by actors using a script. The male character was named Lamont and the female character was named Julie. To be honest, I don't know where either name came from. Again, the robocalls are an important part of making sure we reach as many people as possible and get them registered to vote.

As for why we would call African Americans: it's true that our primary mission is to register unmarried women. However, our ultimate goal is to get as many people overall registered and participating in our democracy. African Americans are an unrepresented group in our democracy, and so we do outreach there as well. Also, it's not as if African-Americans and unmarried women are mutually exclusive groups.

As for the blocked ID, I'm still trying to get to the bottom of that issue, and will post when I find out.

Thanks again for the questions, and I'm working hard to keep up.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:39 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls

We have very ambitious plans to register hundreds of thousands of voters before the general election. In order to do this, we had to start a year before the election. It is simply not possible to register that many people in the month between the end of the primary season and the general election, especially given the extended nature of this year's primary.

Posted at April 30, 2008 3:08 PM in response to Nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote Stops Suspicious N.C. Robo Calls