I didn’t notice until after I had posted the story on the Nunda Township Republican Party mailing that it listed only three County Board candidates–Joe Gottemoller, Michael Walkup and Mary McClellan.
Now GOP incumbent Nick Provenzano has shared a letter he is sending to Nunda Township residents. It urges residents to apply for an absentee ballot.
Nick Provenzano’s letter urges residents to apply for an absentee ballot. Click to enlarge.
In an email accompanying his letter, Provenzano explains,
Nick Provenzano
“To ensure a strong Republican voter turnout in the 3rd District, Nick Provenzano, candidate for re-election to the McHenry County Board launched a “Vote by Mail” campaign today.
“An application for a ‘Vote by Mail’ ballot (historically called an absentee ballot) was mailed to over 5,000 Republican households in the 3rd District of McHenry County.
“The new ‘Vote by Mail’ law allow voters to cast ballots by mail for any reason.
“This program is designed to lift votes for all Republican candidates in the district by offsetting voter apathy in the historically ‘Blue State’ of Illinois.
“In much of the 3rd District the only strongly contested races are Romney and County Board.
“A few precincts in the Southeast of the District will have the hotly contested race with David McSweeney running for State Representative.
“The additional Republican voter turnout should also boost votes against the County Executive ballot initiative.
“The program was supported by a robo call alerting voters to watch their mailboxes for the ballot application.”
Is this legal?
Someone should look into this.
Jim Edgar had the State Republican Party do the same thing in 1994, but then all the state and legislative candidates were listed in the mailing.
First time I noticed the State GOP doing anything useful.
Useful? You may want to do some more research.
Oh, BTW, if you send in your vote by mail, you can go back and vote provisionally on election day (illegal, yes but who will catch it?).
Two of six reasons you can vote provisionally in Illinois if:
The voter’s name appears on the list of voters who voted during the early voting period, but the voter claims not to have voted during the early voting period. OR
The voter received an absentee ballot but did not return the absentee ballot to the election authority.
Provisional ballots have to be verified, meaning they get cross referenced against other lists.
It would be stupid to do that.
One because it’s illegal and two because it wouldn’t get counted anyway.
Hello Tricky why didnt you tell the voters the involvement that you had on the secret meeting.
That was against the law again.
Hello tricky
I was told by many Nunda Republicans that they will not work or vote for you.
So was that why your picture was not on the flyer?
Good for Nunda.
I want to hear more about the Secret Illegal Meeting, that I thought a FOIA was sent to find out who was in that meeting.
Come on VOTERS don’t forget that.
Nick is that true Nunda wants you out did you cross Bret Smith? I would love to know.
I will be voting for the Democrat Nick you would Never get my vote again.