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It sure looks like it to me. The head of the organization, Page Garner, is a longtime Clinton (Bill) organizer and John Podesta (Clinton staffer) and Erskin Bowels are board members. This stinks to high hell yet news orgs barely mention it. See for yourself These calls were illeagl, as well. The group never identified themselves on the calls.

Yesterday we posted about suspicious calls being made in North Carolina. The calls purported to be from a man who identified himself only as "Lamont Williams" and told people to wait for a vote registration packet in the mail and said, "All you need to do is sign it, date it and return your application. Then you will be able to vote and make your voice heard."
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Democracy North Carolina, a government watchdog, cried foul, saying that the calls went out to "black neighborhoods" and was evidently a vote suppression tactic since the registration deadline for the presidential primary has already passed. The North Carolina state elections board got involved and asked for the public's help in determining the source of the calls, which apparently blocked caller ID from showing the number. You can listen to the call here (wav).
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Now Facing South reports that a Washington nonprofit called Women's Voices Women Vote is behind the calls.
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The group's spokeswoman Sarah Johnson confirmed to me that those were the group's calls and said that they were part of an effort to register three million women voters in 24 states. The fact that the calls came shortly before the North Carolina primary, potentially confusing voters, was unfortunate mistake, she said. We're "incredibly apologetic about the timing of this." The group was simply working at such a "high volume" that it was "extremely difficult to tailor the mailing to every single state's schedule," she said. The calls precede the mailers, she said, because it increases the rate of response.

Right, so they just HAPPENED to go out to black neighborhoods a week before Primary voting. There has to be a better explanation than that or it ends up looking like a KKKarl Rove tactic.