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[updatex4] Women’s Voices Women Vote controversy


Not long ago, I emailed people and posted entries on this blog about a campaign that the Women’s Voices Women Vote organization conducted. Myself and nine other political bloggers who are women were told that they were the top ten most nominated female bloggers and eventually, Digby was announced to be the Favorite Female Blogger.

The other eight were:

Layla Anwar

Helen Boyd (update x2: she weighs in here – I agree with her conclusion)

Emptywheel

Taylor Marsh

Melissa McEwan

Jill Stanek

Jessica Valenti

Lynda Waddington

At least a few of these women are actually famous and/or notorious for their blogging, depending on how you look at it. In particular, Digby, Jessica Valenti, Melissa McEwan, Taylor Marsh and Jill Stanek are in fact well-known throughout the blogosphere.

Dave Harding of Progress Ohio, who very generously promoted the WVWV favorite female blogger effort, forwarded to me early this afternoon some incredibly disturbing information about seemingly inappropriate and perhaps illegal activities that WVWV is alleged to have pursued in relation to voter registration.

I’ve written the group and requested more information which I will be happy to share, though I don’t expect it to differ from anything that’s out already.

Here is what I know – and it’s all that Dave sent me.

An entry from Facing South on the allegations

An entry on TPMMuckraker describing the allegations

An apology from WVWV

I apologize and am sorry for any way in which my involvement with the favorite blogger effort broadened the group’s ability to engage in what are now serious allegations related to voter registration – whether due to human error or purposeful deception.

Update: Meta-collection (most recent added to the top):

NPR with a lot of info in graphics; also says it’s a 501, I’ve seen people say it’s a 527 – I’m guessing it has a 527?

Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake

Booman Tribune

Matt Stoller at Open Left

Josh Marshall at TPM

Open Left (by regular Mike Lux, who is on the WVWV board; another Lux post, the next day, 5/1/08)

Huffington Post (WVWV statement; read for comments)

Contrarienne

MyDD

Politico

The News & Observer

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:34 pm April 30th, 2008 in Announcements, Blogging, Campaigning, Elections, Media, Ohio, Politics, Voting, Women 

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3 Responses to “[updatex4] Women’s Voices Women Vote controversy”

  1. 1 Chuck Butcher on April 30th, 2008 9:45 pm

    Voter suppression is an ugly thing, particularly targeted at Obama demographics from a bunch of Clintonites….

    I don’t like Hillary and I don’t like the people she hangs with, but then I posted about this awhile ago.

    I suppose that if you could believe GWB you could believe these people messed this up the same way 11 times by accident, but you don’t believe GWB. Short description, I’m really pissed off.

  2. 2 Eric on April 30th, 2008 10:27 pm

    meta-collection? i think some ohio-based bloggers have commented on this. you might include them.

  3. 3 redhorse on May 1st, 2008 12:33 am

    That’s an apology? They don’t address any particular accusation but throw the NC elections official under the bus. So. very. Clinton.

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