PHOENIX – Jeff Flake made the following statement in response to a
story reported late Sunday night by Phoenix TV station KPNX
12:
“Given the news that Democratic-leaning polling firm PPP released a
survey Sunday that had the Democratic
candidate down by five points, we expected the Carmona campaign to start
grasping at straws. That began late Sunday night when KPNX aired a story on
voter information calls sent out by my campaign.
“On Saturday we sent a targeted autodial call to over 120,000
Republicans, encouraging them to vote and informing them of their polling
location. The call clearly stated that it was from my campaign because it was
intended for Republicans. We received fewer than a dozen calls from voters with
questions about the information provided, nearly all of which we were able to
reconcile. Some adult children were registered under their parents’ address.
In other cases, voters had moved but not updated their registration.
“Had KPNX provided us with detailed information on their report prior
to airing it, we could have informed them that the Democrat they interviewed
received thecall because, according the voting records, she had the same phone
number as a Republican who lives in the precinct we provided information
for. Again, this autodial was targeted to Republicans. Any Democrats who
received the call (which in all likelihood was a small number) did so because of
errant information in the database owing to circumstanceslike those detailed
above.”
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for by Jeff Flake for U.S. Senate, Inc.
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