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TexasTowelie

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Wed Nov 2, 2016, 08:06 PM Nov 2016

Postcards for voters found in Cambridge trash can

The postmaster in Cambridge is investigating after a resident found a stack of informational mailers intended for registered voters dumped in a trash bin at his apartment complex Monday.

Resident Joe Martins said he was shocked, given recent rumors of voter fraud and suppression, to find the bundle of double-sided postcards from the Cambridge Election Commission just sitting in the trash in his building on Glassworks Avenue.

Even more unsettling, he said, was that the stacks of notices, sent by city officials to each registered voter in Cambridge to assist them in locating appropriate polling places, were addressed to residents that didn’t even live there.

“This seems intentional,” said Martins. “They were just bundled with a rubber band and just thrown, all as one, in the trash.”

Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/02/postcards-for-voters-found-cambridge-trash-can/Xp0Jzy6JYM1C4uF09i7O0L/story.html

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Postcards for voters found in Cambridge trash can (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2016 OP
K & R. This is important and criminal. Coyotl Nov 2016 #1
Should be easy to track to the postal carrier responsible for the addresses on the mail? progressoid Nov 2016 #2
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