Deliberate scrubbing of Black Iraq vet votes! - (Palast)

African-American Voters Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List

The Republican National Committee has a special offer for African-American soldiers: Go to Baghdad, lose your vote.

A confidential campaign directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004 sought to challenge the ballots of tens of thousands of voters in the last presidential election, virtually all of them cast by residents of Black-majority precincts.

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Here's how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as "undeliverable."

The lists of soldiers of "undeliverable" letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters' registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballot being counted.

One target list was comprised exclusively of voters registered at the Jacksonville, Florida, Naval Air Station.

more: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_greg_pal_060616_african_american_vot.htm

Move on!

It's just unbelievable the lenght they will go to to win.

where civic morals and election reform are on permanent vacation.

to get "elected", they are in fact, a failed party, as are their policies. This is simply amazing. Democratic Republic my ass. Banana Republic is what this nation has become.

to do so signifies their utter failure as a political ideology.

However, as a criminal enterprise they are succeeding wildly.
But I do believe their success is temporary.

send this to Olberman or any of the other Media-types who've been leaning Liberal lately. Maybe with his recent reporting on Election Fraud (via electronic voting), Lou Dobbs might have an interest?

Voting Rights act.

I hope the Statute of Limitations doesn't run out on this and similar ploys.

nothing is going to change.

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um-fucking-believable

These lists were generated through extensive matching and screening, not just simple things like precincts with AA majorities.

Consider matching against publicly available voting records: party affiliation, voting in recent primaries, voting patterns of other members of same household.

Now match against subscriber lists of magazines, real estate and property tax records, church memberships, background check (might have a criminal past, might have a lien or judgement, maybe had been late on child support).

And all of the above would be within the law. Now add in those extra database they contracted for from the same vendors who also did database contract work that is "protected" by law ("Now how did those get merged by some glitch?").

This is infuriating. The republicans have much to be ashamed of. How much lower can they go? Wait - don't answer that.

At least that's the Repug myth.

about much of what has transpired to torpedo democracy in the for USA.

thank God for the 'net...

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