When Monica Goodling testified last week, she revealed something that hasn't gotten much attention but should. She admitted that Rove's #1 man, Tim Griffin, was engaged in vote caging in the 2004 election.
Vote caging has been illegal since 1986, when the Republicans were caught in the act. They tried to have 31,000 voters, most of them black, taken from the rolls
in Louisana. Vote caging consists of a variety of methods of ensuring that large numbers of citizens can't vote.
One of the methods the Republicans have used is to send out mass mailers of registered mail to minority neighborhoods, poor areas, or to black members of
the military. When these persons go to vote, they are challenged. It is up to them, sometimes at considerable expense, to prove they qualify to vote. Some are given a
provisional ballot which are usually not counted. The provisional voes in Florida 6 years ago still haven't been counted. Absentee ballots submitted by the military are also challenged.
2007-05-30
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