Democrats hoping to drive turnout for Senator Mark Warner (D., Va.), who faces Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie, sent out a “personalized voter report card” the weekend before the election.
“Whether you vote is public record,” the mailer, which tells the voter her voting record is “below Virginia’s average,” says. “Official offices make available the list of who voted and who didn’t vote after each election.”
The mailer was sent by the Democratic Party of Virginia to an older voter who recently moved into the state and thought the message was “threatening.”
Notably, the mailer includes no advocacy for any Democratic candidates — the hope is, apparently, that voters spurred by this will pull the lever for the incumbent.
The mailer is another example of the voter shaming that Democrats have resorted to in other parts of the country, pursuant to a Yale University study finding that such tactics motivated unlikely voters to go to the polls.






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