Women's Voices Women Vote is a feminist lobby group registered as a 501(c)(3) charity. It states its mission as registering single women to vote. It includes members such as former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Maggie Williams, and Page Gardner, all of whom have close ties to the Clintons.

Women's Voices protocol for registering voters consists of, in the following order:

• a letter to the state elections board, warning of a likely surge in registration applications
• press releases to news outlets
• the robocalls, alerting targeted likely voters that a registration mailer is coming
• the mailer itself.^[1]

[edit] 2008 North Carolina Democratic primary

The organization gained negative attention during the 2008 North Carolina Democratic primary. The state board of elections reported that misleading robocalls were made to African-american voters in the days leading up to the primary in late April 2008,^[2] which essentially told registered voters that they were not registered.^[3] According to NPR ^[1] and Facing South^[4], these calls were made by the organization "Women's Voices Women Vote."^[5] Voters and watchdog groups complained that it was a turnout-suppression effort, and the state Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered them to stop making the calls.^[5]

[edit] External links

• Official Website

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Group with Clinton Ties Behind Dubious Robocalls : NPR
2. ^ "Elections board hunting robocaller," The News & Observer, April 28, 2008. Accessed April 29, 2008.
3. ^ Daily Kos Blog. Accessed April 29, 2008.
4. ^ Facing South: Center for Investigative Reporting follows Women's Voices' political connections
5. ^ ^{a b} Murray, Shailagh, "Women's Voices, Women Vote: Did the Outreach Overreach?", Washington Post, Sunday, May 4, 2008; Page A10, found at Washington Post article on Women's Voices Women Vote. Accessed May 5, 2008.