Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office has contacted the directors of the St. Louis City Election Board and told them that a letter they sent out last week to thousands of new voters registered by workers from ACORN was illegal.
In a letter dated October 30, Betsy Byers and Kay Dinolfo, co-directors of elections in Carnahan’s office, told Scott Leiendecker and Mary Wheeler-Jones (the Republican and Democratic directors respectively) that “these steps outlined in your letter are additional registration requirements in violation of Missouri law.”
As we reported earlier, the letter asked the new voters to call the Board of Elections to confirm their registration.
An official with the election board said Carnahan’s office “doesn’t have all the facts” and they would be responding to her letter this week. The election board is also sending out today a second letter, written with the help of representatives from the Advancement Project, a DC-based civil rights organization, which is meant to clear up any confusion from the first letter.
UPDATE: According to ACORN that new letter states:
“You received the notice of October 24 because the voter registration application was incomplete or required additional information. The Board did not intend to impose additional requirements on the application because it was submitted to our office by the community organization ACORN. Although the notice contained a reference to allegations of wrongdoing that were reported in the media, please be assured that you are not the target of any investigation by the St. Louis Board of Election commissioners.”
The letter continues, “You do not need to take any additional steps, including phoning the Board or sending us a signed copy of the notice, in order for the voter registration application to be processed…”
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