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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

caging. i'd never heard of it

but it's NOT legal.......... uh oh


Former White House Communications Deputy Tim Griffin Resigns after Evidence Ties Him to Alleged Voter Suppression

Posted by Jon Ponder

Big media is ignoring the story that former White House Deputy Communications Director — and former RNC Research Director — Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas last week after evidence revealed he was directly involved in alleged voter suppression in the 2004 elections.
This may be the first time you’ve heard of the illegal tactic of “caging” voters, but if BBC investigator Greg Palast is correct, it will not be the last.
Caging is a form of voter suppression involving registered mail. Typically, campaigns send registered letters to voters who are are unlikely to respond — soldiers serving overseas, for example. A list is compiled of the voters whose mail is returned marked undeliverable, or “caged.” On election day, when people on the caging list arrive to vote, campaign operatives are on hand to float challenges to their residency in the precinct. Palast says caging is a felony.
Palast recently obtained hundreds of emails sent by White House officials to Bush-Cheney operatives during the 2004 campaign. Among these were emails containing caging lists sent by Griffin, apparently in his role as communications deputy..............




6 comments:

Connecticut Man1 said...

Tim Griffin, Caging and GONEzales

The MSM is only about a month behind on this. Greg Palast actually covered this right after the 04 elections. Griffin was part of the voter purge in Florida (and likely elsewhere) and one of their main targets?

Black soldiers. Especially the ones overseas. Many lost their Democratic right to vote illegally.

He is a karl rove mini-me with a law degree. You should grab the YouTubes on the other end of the link and put them up. :)

Unknown said...

geeze c m 1, it's 1 am, how come you're not sleeping?

i'll go look for the video now and thanks much

Connecticut Man1 said...

I am painting my upstairs hallway ceiling and I am waiting for the undercoat to dry...

ePluribus Media has done a lot of digging on this story,(Greg Palast even pointed to a diary at ePM, when he Blogged at dKos, as being waaay ahead of the curve on this) and they have some interesting information that they are still piecing together.

This story has the potential to take down a lot of people.

Unknown said...

c m 1, how many things have already happened that had the potential to take down an entire administration? did it?


i get so frustrated.

Connecticut Man1 said...

The key here is not just the Caging lists... That just links Tim Griffin, and Karl Rove to caging.

But the Email accounts that were sending around the caging lists seem to prove a whole other pile of stuff, and that investigation is snowballing right now in the background of the caging.

Unknown said...

i couldn't hope any stronger than i do right now, THAT I AM WRONG.

i think NO ONE (well just the tiny folk but they don't count) will go down for this travesty either