When Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts Look Like Phishing
Summary: Text messages telling recipients they were not registered to vote and linking to all-vote.com and votewin.org were sent by Movement Labs, a San Francisco political consulting firm, as a get-out-the-vote effort, according to VoteAmerica founder Debra Cleaver. DomainTools found all-vote.com was registered July 10, 2024 and votewin.org July 9, 2024, and votewin.org asks visitors for name, address, email, date of birth and mobile number while pre-checking options to sign them up for more notifications.
What's compelling: VoteAmerica's Cleaver said the messages violate a core rule of election outreach - never tell someone what the voter file says, because voter files are often out of date - and that the end result of incompetence and maliciousness is the same: increased chaos and reduced voter turnout.
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