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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

SF Tech Firm Loses Clients After CEO Sends Spam Demanding They Vote For Biden

'If I wanted to pay someone to tell me to vote Democrat I'd enroll in a university...'

A business-geared software company is losing customers after its CEO, David Barrett, sent an unsolicited mass email to all 10 million users urging them to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Barrett, who runs Expensify, a software company that developed an expense management system for businesses, claimed in the email that “anything less than a vote for Biden is a vote against democracy.”

“That’s right,” Barrett continued, “I’m saying a vote for Trump, a vote for a third-party candidate, or simply not voting at all—they’re all the same.”

He went on to accuse the Republican president of trying to dismantle America’s system of government and suggested Trump supporters were selfishly prioritizing their own needs over the country’s.

“They all mean: ‘I care more about my favorite issue than democracy,'” he said. “‘I believe Trump winning is more important than democracy, I am comfortable standing aside and allowing democracy to be methodically dismantled, in plain sight.'”

Barrett even suggested that not supporting Biden is tantamount to risking “civil war.”

As a result, many users began announcing that they were leaving the service.

One Expensify user sent a direct response to Barrett.

Daniel Rothschild, executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, said Barrett’s email further contributes to the “breakdown in social trust” that many Americans are experiencing.

“David, we selected Expensify as a vendor based on trust — after all, you have financial information for us organizationally as well as the personal information of hundreds of my colleagues,” he said.

“You also have our email addresses,” he added. “We trusted you with our private information. You have violated that trust.”

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