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The mailer was sent by the Progressive Turnout Project. Spokesperson Priyal Amin says these flyers, which she calls social pressure mailings, are not meant to intimidate voters.
“Our goal is not to publicly shame people or offend them in any way,” Amin says. “We just want them to receive their voting record and understand this is a public record and actually think about it for a second when making the decision about whether they are going to vote, to kind of say, ‘My voting record is public record.’ It kind of goes back to our organization’s efforts to identify people and make them proud of the fact that they are voters and they have publicly voted before.”
Amin explains her organization mailed out more than 87,000 pieces of mail like this and has only heard complaints from a few people.
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- August 7, 2018
