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[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

That's because it's true.

Dem-probable voters were caged off the rolls by the millions.
It's still happening. It happened to me this vote cycle.

Diebold machines have documented security flaws, and documented instances of vote flipping.

[thormonger.livejournal.com]

And those evil Republicans kept control of the White House for another four years because of it, damn them!

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

It only works when the election is close, and there is sufficient deniability to prevent either investigation or revolution. See, Gore, Kerry.

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[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

How do voters get caged off from elections? I honestly am not being sarcastic here, I just don't understand how someone would accomplish this, since it's illegal to prevent people from entering voting places, and watchdog groups would make a HUGE stink if anyone tried.

Voter caging.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Like so:

Voter caging is a practice of sending mass direct mailings to registered voters by non-forwardable mail, then compiling lists of voters, called “caging lists,” from the returned mail in order to formally challenge their right to vote on that basis alone. Other methods, such as database matching, have been used more recently to compile voter caging lists. The practice is used almost exclusively by officials or members of the Republican Party, local and national.

In states where you have to be registered within x number of days before election day, more people are caught out. In states where you can register the day you vote, it doesn't work as well, because that's when most people that were going to vote catch the dirty trick.

This is why Republicans constantly raise the boogeyman of multiple vote fraud and keep pushing for tougher restrictions on voting. ACORN anyone? This provides the pretense they need to support caging tactics. In reality, there is are very few instances of people voting multiple times, or dead peoples identities being used to cast votes.

Sauce:

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/330/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_caging
http://projectvote.org/index.php?id=355

Makes you want to puke, no?

Re: Voter caging.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

While it is devious, I must admit that in general it doesn't bother me. Assuming that the following statement is true:

"When the voter turns out to vote, he or she may be challenged and required to cast a provisional ballot. If investigation of the provisional ballot demonstrates that the voter has just moved or there is an error in their address and they are legally registered then their vote should be counted. If the investigation proves that they are not legally registered then their vote will not be counted."

If that's true, than no votes get lost that shouldn't be dropped in the first place. Now, the application of this only to certain districts and not others, that's pretty much horseshit. Hell, every state ought to do this as a matter of course for the entire state about 3 months before an election anyway.

Re: Voter caging.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Many states have time limits; no reg in by x date, no vote.

Provisional ballots are frequently not counted, and are more easily disputed.

Keep in mind too that most states have partisan appointees or other partisan officials in charge of election processes. Katherine Harris anyone?

All of this together amounts to massive disenfranchising, usually of the poor, frequently of soldiers. They've been convicted of it before, and have been doing it again.