Outside Cash Fuels Blizzard of Attack Mailings

Massachusetts residents, especially those with strong voting records, are seeing their mailboxes besieged by doctored photos of Senator Scott Brown posing by a truck full of cash, Elizabeth Warren angrily guarding a locked door, and a host of other incendiary images, as the Senate campaign enters the homestretch.

With the race now in its final month, the direct mail efforts have expanded as outside groups seek to influence the competitive election with millions of dollars in spending.

The mailbox is one of the few options for many of the political action committees and super PACs because...a system of self-imposed penalties designed to