Voater Frod?
I moved to Indonesia at the very start of the 2008 presidential election cycle, so that makes 5 cycles in a row that I have lived abroad. I also missed the 1980 election while living in Europe. In all that time, I’ve never seen anything like this.
In 2012, I signed up for Ron Paul’s email blasts to keep up with the campaign. After his campaign email stopped, I never thought much about it, until this year. Since roughly March, I’ve been getting waterfalls of campaign begging and cheerleading notices, first from the Trump campaign, and then from scores of folks like RFK and Tulsi Gabbard, and various Republican glitterati. Every time I unsubscribe, two more entities pop up. At the moment, it’s quiet. I think I sprayed them all, but there’s still a month or so to go, and the nits are notoriously hard to get.
Then, in the last week, YouBoob has been flooded with ads for some NGO called Center for U.S. Voters Abroad (CUSVA). I mean literally every 5 minutes. And it’s not just me, my Canadian buddy is seeing them, as are Mrs. FarSide and two Indonesian friends, so this is not a targeted nor cheap campaign, which causes my FarSidey Sense to twitch.
I’ve never heard of this organization before, nor have I ever seen such a wall-to-wall bombing campaign specifically targeting US voters overseas. All expats know you can go to the nearest embassy or consulate to register and vote, but only for president. State elections are unavailable overseas. Anyway, I did a little scratching around on this CUSVA group.
Turns out, there is almost nothing about them outside of their website, though I did find a curious blurb on the Guadalajara Pos
Article from LewRockwell
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