Posted by:
Politico
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Date: February 12, 2017 07:42PM
I live in a county (very large land area) of about 200k outside of Utah. There are seven wards and a branch in county (one is actually part of a stake in the neighboring state).
I was running for political office covering the entire county.
I had a great idea to get some extra votes. I prepared two sets of a campaign card that had a short bio on one side and a short bio on the other. One set mentioned I graduated from BYU. In an unauthorized use of Ward Directories downloaded from lds.org I cross-referenced that list with the county voter list and mailed the card and another flyer to every registered voter on the ward lists.
At least 50% or more of those were returned by the post office of addressee not known.
The number of returns must have due to the unauthorized use of the directories and the wasted $$$ for the mailing was my punishment.