> From: [person I don't know]
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:37:48 -0400
> To: [same as from, indicating blind carbon copy]
> Subject: Voting
>
> No joking around. Here's an important heads up ...
>
> Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She
> voted
> straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every
> vote
> was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted
> for
> Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.
>
> She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected.
> She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her
> information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar
> incident and that they are looking into it.
>
> So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong,
> get
> it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local
> Democratic
> headquarters.
>
> Make sure you pass this along to your friends ... hopefully this is
> all over
> the airwaves by tomorrow ...
It appears to be a level 1 forward to me, that is, my friend who forwarded it seems to have received the original email himself. However, the way it begins ("No joking around.") and the "Yesterday a friend..." are reminiscent of chain letters and urban myths. So is it real, or an internet scare hoax to get publicity, stir people up, and get them to check their ballots (obviously prudent regardless)?
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link