History has taught us that it's never good to wait until after the election to challenge the results. Combating the voter fraud before it happens, Barack Obama's campaign has filed suited in federal court to stop the Michigan GOP from using home foreclosure lists to discount votes in the hotly contested state.
Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, and Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, announced the lawsuit in a conference call with reporters this afternoon… Bauer called the GOP plan to use foreclosure lists “a new and especially repellent version of caging.” Caging is a technique of challenging voters where they take lists of addresses, mail to them with a “do not forward” marking and if for whatever reason those mailings are returned, they use this as a basis for claiming that the voter no longer lives at the address at which they are registered.
Michigan had 11,000 foreclosures in July alone, and Bauer said that the GOP wants to "wants to add insult to injury” by taking away their votes. [MM]
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i'm shocked that Bush still hasnt been impeaching for rigging both elections in 00 and 04. you know, if McStain does win, then you know what? Americans deserve all the hell they get.
*impeached, not impeaching
This election has brought out the absolute worst in this country. To some McCain and Palin can do no wrong even though the evidence says otherwise. This country, founded over 200 years ago only afforded black Americans the right to vote when Obama was 4 years old (1965) That is paramount in understanding what this campaign is faced with.
Thank God they at least coughed at that….. so ridiculous
:::rolling over and falling back asleep with a 'wake me up on 11/5/08 or 11/5/12 if it all goes to sh*t' sign on my door:::
Yay!! I'm glad Obama is being pro-active here, and actually protecting his electorate. He still has some of that community organizer left in him.
If they're doing this, it's totally disgusting. There's plenty of voter fraud going on in the U.S., I'm sure, but targeting people in forclosure is just reprehensible.