‘Caging.’
There are other things, but that’s one of them and it’s certainly one that you care about. You could totally get ‘caged’ in ‘08.
Caging is a clever process by which someone sends a registered/certified letter to your address, knowing that you are not there to sign for it. Then, when they receive notice that you did not sign for the letter, they challenge your voter registration status and have you removed from the rolls.
Caging is illegal. However, the Republican National Committee caged a bunch of people last year.
The best people to cage, actually, are young people like us. We often vote in our ‘permanent address’ district, while we spend little time there because we are at college or serving in the military.
(Yes, I am saying that the RNC supported out troops by disenfranchising the ones that lived in democratic districts while they were watching things explode in Fallujah.)
Remember how they were trying to get the RNC e-mails that Rove deleted? Some of them have surfaced, in fact.
Here’s an excel spreadsheet retrieved from one of those emails of names removed from the voter rolls in Nevada:
This really happened.
Since caging is a crime, it is the Federal Attorney’s job to prosecute the offenders. Not like it would be hard – certified mail leaves a crystal clear paper trail.
If a republican federal attorney were to try to stop this, or prosecute the RNC people for doing this, that might constitute a ‘performance problem’ (to quote the White House).
An obedient federal attorney would look the other way, but ones truly committed to justice would probably interfere.
I’m not sure if the 8 fired attorneys tried to stop it, but coming from the sucka MC who orchestrated the disenfranchisement of tons of people in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, there is good reason to suspect that this corruption goes right to the top, with even the Attorney General looking the other way while elections are stolen.
