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October 29, 2008 By Fausta

The Gap: “Vote twice”?

UPDATED
with contact number. Please scroll down


Several people (myself included) have noticed the “Vote Twice” buttons at The Gap displays.

Vote Twice?

My friend Allyson noticed, too, and decided to write The Gap. Here’s her letter:

To the Board of Directors of Gap, and Officers of the Company,

I have been a loyal customer of GAP since it first opened. I have seen the many changes both design wise, and artistically and I have always been inspired by the concerns for AIDS and other projects like the Whitney artist items that have brought art into daily life. However, as a consumer and activist, I was shocked by one of the buttons you are promoting in your “VOTE” campaign.

I was in your shop in Walnut Creek this weekend, and purchased a button that says “VOTE TWICE”. I was perplexed by this statement, as it is illegal for any citizen to vote twice and seeing the GAP encourage voter fraud was shocking. I bought the button as evidence, and kept the receipt as I am still outraged that your company is selling this propaganda to a group of voters, many who have registered for the first time. I also complained to the sales girl who said I was not the first person to say that this was a very innappropiate message and that she did not have a proper response from corporate regarding this controversial button.

Is this the type of message you want to go to our voters, youth, and new immigrants who are learning what America is, how our voting laws work and what our laws represent?

I think this button should be pulled, and a full page advertisment in newspapers, and on your official website saying that this is indeed not the intent of GAP to encourage voter fraud.

I will no longer shop at GAP, Old Navy, Banana Republic, or PIPERLIME again until I understand why this message was supported by the GAP, as this will only encourage your design team to continue to spew hatred of our legal system and create permission to do something illegal.

This letter will go to media, as well as my email list encouraging many others to complain and stop supporting GAP, either by selling their shares, or not spending our money at your establisment.

I look forward to a prompt response on your positon regarding “VOTE TWICE” buttons.

Thank you
Allyson Rowen Taylor

An international retail chain supporting voter fraud.

You can’t make up this stuff.

(I’ll be posting the contact information for The Gap later today)

UPDATE
The contact information is a fax number since, as Allyson found out, The Gap doesn’t accept outside emails: 614 564 2077 this is the liason to the Customer Relations and CEO.

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  1. Jeremayakovka says

    October 29, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    Shows both hilarity and decadence.

  2. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    October 29, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    GAP is (or was) based in San Francisco. Given the environment there, I can see why they’d think rules are too bourgeois to be bothered with.

  3. Python says

    October 29, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    It is possible to seek a federal injunction against the Gap , and if any voter fraud is proven in areas where these buttons are availabel is found after the polling to implicate them along with ACORN in a scheme to conspire for voter fraud under RICO , after all it’s their advertising , and this is America where lawyers and courts are more than willing to see just how deep the pockets go in all the Jeans at the Gap

  4. Margot says

    October 29, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Not that I ever shop there, but now I’ll make sure all my friends and family boycott the Gap as well, especially during the Christmas shopping season.
    There are consequences, GAP.

  5. abinitioadinfinitum says

    October 29, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Hello Fausta and everyone,
    Fear not, Nov. 5 Barry will be known as “The Once”

    ab initio ad infinitum

  6. Neil says

    October 30, 2008 at 1:20 am

    Looking at the press release titled “F J BENJAMIN EXTENDS RELATIONSHIP WITH GAP INC. TO INDONESIA” The Gap uses the following email address schematic:

    firstname_lastname@gap.com (which is consistent with investor_relations@gap.com)

    Using their Board of Directors list you should then have each person’s email if someone wanted to do an email campaign instead of calling a phone number.

  7. mindinsite says

    October 30, 2008 at 7:21 am

    Is this a trick or a treat?
    Is the GAP now part of ACORN promoting illegal efforts to “CHANGE” the USA to the USSA (United Soviet States of America)?
    I will boycot the GAP and all of its’ subsidiaries –and petition others to do the same (including honest democrats)!
    This election is not about a preview of a new reality show, or an SNL skit or an advertising gimmick! Very simply stated, it is about keeping your freedom or giving it away (to the government). This is your life (and our children’s future) WAKE UP AMERICA!

  8. Beverly Lynn says

    October 30, 2008 at 7:55 am

    A note to where those buttons came from, I found this little tidbit buried in an article about John Waters.

    “At 62, Waters seemed at ease in the transition. He likes being affluent, and becoming the kind of icon of pop culture who is asked to participate in a promotional campaign by a hip clothing chain. (Gap asked artists to come up with ideas to get out the vote, and John Waters’ contribution is a star-spangled red-white-and-blue campaign button that reads, “Vote Twice.”) ”
    http://www.stlbeacon.org/arts_life/visual_arts/john_waters_still_wants_to_shock_but_affluence_is_good_too

  9. iceman says

    October 30, 2008 at 9:11 am

    from the ever useful site

    http://gethuman.com/

    get human gives you the numbers and the way to get directly to a human and it works most of the time.

    I have not tested these numbers yet

    Gap Credit Card Press 000 at each prompt; ignore request for account number. 800-887-1198

    Gap, The Press 1 and then 1 again 800-427-7895

  10. Henry says

    October 30, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Here’s a list of the Corporate Officers:

    Mr. Glenn K. Murphy B.A. – Chairman and CEO – $2.89M

    Ms. Sabrina L. Simmons – CFO and Exec. VP – $1.14M

    Ms. Marka Hansen – Pres of Gap North America – $2.17M

    Mr. Donald G. Fisher – Founder and Chairman Emeritus

    Mr. Art Peck – Pres of Outlet Division and Exec. VP

    You could send a letter to any, or all, of the above at:

    Gap Inc.
    Two Folsom Street
    San Francisco, CA 94105

  11. IDONTCARE says

    October 30, 2008 at 10:49 am

    I think the button is funny and I’d wear one. I’m sure somewhere the GAP is happy for the extra attention and laughing and those who take it this seriously. It’s obviously tongue in cheek.

  12. Kiril, The Mad Macedonian says

    October 30, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    You have been STUMBLED!

    I made a pledge, earlier in the week, not to Stumble politics again, until Tuesday…

    Since your story is about ADVERTISING GIMMICKS…

    Hee, hee!

    Great Job! ;-D

  13. knldgskr says

    October 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Its even worse. Gap has the “vote twice” button on its limited editon webpage http://www.gap.com/browse/info.do?cid=42798&mlink=5058,945679,1&clink=945679

  14. J.D. says

    October 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    …I think it’s suppose to mean vote once in the primary, and vote again for president. You know, the whole election thing takes two votes?..

    I take it as more of a “participate in the whole election” instead of sitting at home till Nov. 2nd and just voting for who bothered you less.

  15. spiderbucket says

    October 30, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Relax, please. It’s a joke and far less offensive than most any of the comments the stooges post here or Michelle Malkin’s site.

  16. Sweet says

    October 30, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    I’m not sure what is funnier, the letter by the original person, or the reactions. It is funny. I challenge you to find one person who voted twice because of a button. At first I thought the commenters were kidding with this outrage… turns out I was wrong. I encourage you to send letters to GAP… bet it will keep the fellas over to GAP laughing.

  17. Otis says

    October 30, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Think for a moment. College student registers to vote when home last summer. Student attends college in neighboring state, registers to vote there too. Student requests absentee ballot from home and votes. Student vote also on campus.

    Can anyone explain to me how this could not happen? Does anyone know of any federal registration network which cross checks voter registration rolls in the other 49 states?

    Vote twice – is it really so far-fetched?

  18. BigMAC says

    October 30, 2008 at 2:29 pm

    Vote Early and Vote Often 🙂

  19. saint says

    October 30, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    Maybe they’re leftovers from the primaries

  20. Skye says

    October 31, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    I wonder if the early voters are going to try to vote again on Nov 4th?

    There are many things that suck about this campaign – one of them being a free application on my i-phone that links you into the Obama campaign to help get out the vote!

    I despised the i-phone before I despised it for this free application!

  21. Devon says

    November 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    It’s satire you ignorant fools. it’s a reflection of the mockery we’ve made out of our democracy. Who the hell in their right mind would think that one could actually vote twice. I would love to hear John Waters’ stand on this (he designed the button.) I own this pin, i love it! people passing me in the streets love it. even if you don’t get the satire it still makes people stop and wonder.
    It’s a travesty that this item was pulled. but what a great collectors item you’ve made for me!

  22. JAO... says

    November 1, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    first of all this button was produced before the ACORN scandal and has nothing to do with it…if anyone did their homework or were the least bit knowledgeable in art or pop culture would know that the designer of this button is John Waters, director of such cult classics as Pink Flamingos and Serial Mom…

    it is all tongue in cheek, all done to make the public aware of the importance of voting!!!…AND only an idiot knows that those registered to vote can only do it once, but hell i guess that America truly is a nation of uneducated idiots considering who is currently running things…

  23. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    November 1, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    “Who the hell in their right mind would think that one could actually vote twice. “

    Ummm… All those “graveyard Democrats” in Chicago* who gave Kennedy part of his margin of victory in 1960?

    *(What a coincidence….)

  24. repukelican says

    November 2, 2008 at 3:10 am

    Get a life you dip shi ts. You f’ing conservative brain washed bigots never have been able to understand sarcasm have you? Best wishes on the 4th!

  25. Jen says

    November 2, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    I voted for Obama twice. Once in the primary & once in the general.

  26. Di says

    November 3, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Get a life… it’s just a button…. find a new cause.

  27. BP says

    November 10, 2008 at 8:08 am

    …and I guess you’ve never laughed at a joke about Chicago and voting twice/deceased voting…now that I think about it, you probably don’t have a sense of humor so you probably have never laughed. It was a joke and I trust our system to minimize the efforts of anyone wanting to vote twice. For too many, getting to vote once has enough obstacles!

  28. M. R. Kirk says

    January 21, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    John Waters has been saying “vote twice” for years, ive even heard him say it in person. I do understand the controversy but if somebody actually gets in a second vote its his/her concious that can take it. Also… would anybody know where to find a “vote twice” button? Im a HUGE John Waters fan and would love to have this for my collection. Thanks tons.

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