So how many of these have you guys collected?



I'm up to 12, and 9 of them had a ballot application included. They're coming from multiple PACs. They're like [BLEEP] Pokemon at this point, gotta catch 'em all! I choose you, Environmental Voter Project! America Votes uses Spam! It's super effective!

Seriously though, I don't care about 12 "go [BLEEP] vote in the runoff" ballot applications coming to me from PACs, all of which appear to be "nonpartisan". What I do care about is that for every 12 I've received, a friend in Forsyth County (about as red as Atlanta suburbs get) has received 0. Now, again, a lot of that falls on conservative organizations for not getting their [BLEEP] together and embracing mail voting the way that liberal interests have. It shows in the November results, and unless they quit telling their constituents that the voting system in Georgia is a total fraud, it's going to cost them the Senate. I don't know how many of you live here, but there is a very strong undercurrent of, "Why should I vote if the Republicans at the top can't be trusted?".

And yes, this country definitely has a campaign finance problem. This is nothing new and shouldn't be a revelation to anyone, but the magnitude of it is incredibly apparent here. PACs are private entities and can do whatever they choose (for the most part), but when you have organizations that are at least shadow-connected to partisan groups spamming highly-partisan areas in their favor with absentee ballot applications, almost all of which have come with a SASE to return them...even I'm starting to have a problem with that. Political party is not a protected class in this country, and Georgia's a nonpartisan state anyway as far as voter registration goes, but there have to be limits.

To be clear: there is no way on God's green earth that this could be considered voter fraud, but it does start to reach into Tammany Hall territory, and that's a place we shouldn't be going back to.

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