Caught: GOP Ran a Coordinated Caging Campaign to Steal Black's Right to Vote

[Ant]

http://www.gregpalast.com/massacre-of-the-buffalo-soldiers

What is caging?

Caging is a technique of voter suppression. In caging, a political party challenges the validity of a voter's registration; for the voter's ballot to be counted, the voter must prove that their registration is valid.

Voters targeted by caging are often the most vulnerable: those who are unfamiliar with their rights under the law, and those who cannot spare the time, effort, and expense of proving that their registration is valid. Ultimately, caging works by dissuading a voter from casting a ballot, or by ensuring that they cast a provisional ballot, which is less likely to be counted.

With one type of caging, a political party sends registered mail to addresses of registered voters. If the mail is returned as undeliverable - because, for example, the voter refuses to sign for it, the voter isn't present for delivery, or the voter is homeless - the party uses that fact to challenge the registration, arguing that because the voter could not be reached at the address, the registration is fraudulent.

On the day of the election, when the voter arrives at the poll and requests a ballot, an operative of the party challenges the validity of their registration. If the voter insists, the voter may cast a provisional ballot. However, the state will count the provisional ballot only if the voter can prove that their registration is valid.

[Real American]

There is nothing wrong with challenging the validity of a vote when you suspect fraud in registration, which the Democrats are well known for.

Stop with the scare tactics, man. It only makes you guys look like sore losers....

[Dubz]

^how did we lose though? the first election was stolen straight, and the second one wasnt a republican victory either. the bush administration got into office by weaseling its way in, and look whats going on in the world now. america is the most hated country in the world, our economy is horrible and will only get worse, and nobody likes the government. its chaos. if this administration had been fit to run the country, the people would have recognized it, and chances are that they would have won the election legitimately. by entering office in the way that they did, it not only showed poor ethics on the part of the republican party and this administration, but also shows that it never should have happened because the sensible majority of americans did not have faith in them to run our country. we did not think that they were the best ones to run the most influential and powerful nation on earth. i guess we were right.

[Javier]

There is nothing wrong with challenging the validity of a vote when you suspect fraud in registration, which the Democrats politicians are well known for.

Stop with the scare tactics, man. It only makes you guys look like sore losers....