The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom Greg Palast — This is worth reading in its entirety.
Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet – except the USA – only because America’s news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup d’etat that chose our President in 2004.
Here’s how caging worked, and along with Griffin’s thoughtful emails themselves you’ll understand it all in no time.
The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked “Do not forward” to voters’ homes. Letters returned (”caged”) were used as evidence to block these voters’ right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and — you got to love this — American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.
Why weren’t these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation — and the soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished.
How do I know? I have the caging lists…
found by Cat Yronwode via Marc Perkel
#25. I have no doubt that voter suppression operations like the one you describe take place, every two years or so. And no doubt they target low-income, minority voters.
but
I have REAL doubts that this is orchestrated from the White House by Karl Rove or from the Justice Department by Alberto Gonzales or his minions.
and the factiod about whether Feds can purge State voter rolls is important – it lies at the heart of the allegation and kicks the crap out of its credibility.
#30. And GWB won the election because the Democrats decided to run another Massachusetts liberal. We all know how well that works. I was damn surprised it was as close as it was.
#18…TJGeezer….I must have missed your request on the vote recounts. So, here you go…there are actually about 25 of them on Google….but I thought you might prefer this one since it’s by your bible…..The New York Times.
http://tinyurl.com/34y9c5
Fusion, I’ll show mine, when you show yours. 50,000 huh.
In any mid-term election there is probably an avetrage of 200 to 300,000 people nationwide who are purgesd for many, many reasons. The fact that more of them tend to be the poor and certain minority’s could very well be because the poor and minority’s tend to not keep their registrations current. Just a guess, but I’ll bet it’s provable.
I have got past playing dueling links with you a very long time ago, when I provided you with a varied and diverse rang of links to make a case about Social Security funding and goverment sponsered health care and you provided me with links to **moveon.org, the daily kos, Salon magazine, and 2 really wacky far left sites that had me laughing for several days.
I posted the link to Wiki on caging because it gave a pretty good meaning of the term politically. But the article did seem a bit shy of Democratic errors of judgement, which is why I said it was a bit **iffy**.
When something like this is so one sided, I tend to think the article has been hijacked. Have a nice day!!! 🙂