http://acorn.org/index.php?id=4174&tx_ttnews=21683&tx_ttnews=2716&cHash=bac79e130a">Report: “Caging” Operations Suppress Minority Vote Leaders of ACORN reacted with deep concern to the findings in a report released by Project Vote on Sept. 26 titled,
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12181">“Caging Democracy: A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters.”
“The report details a systematic effort by a number of state and national Republican officials to employ the practice of
‘voter caging’ to stifle minority participation in elections,” said ACORN President Maude Hurd.
“Disenfranchising or intimidating legitimate voters is wrong and un-American.”In vote caging schemes, political operatives obtain a list of registered voters and send them a piece of non-forwardable direct mail. The vote cagers then compile a list of names associated with pieces of returned onto “caging lists,” which are used to challenge voters’ eligibility to cast ballots. These mailings overwhelmingly target voters of color, residents of cities and likely Democratic voters.The report details caging operations in the “battleground” states of Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania in which almost 50,000 voters had their eligibility to cast ballots challenged. Between 2004-2006, partisans targeted about 500,000 voters in caging schemes, and 77,000 voters had their eligibility challenged.
Partisan operatives use the lists they generate to demand that boards of elections remove voters from the rolls, to intimidate voters in person, and to generate media stories that give the false impression that a large number of people are attempting to commit “voter fraud,” the Project Vote report says.
ACORN’s voter registration drives have submitted over 1.6 million new voter registration applications from low-income and minority Americans since 2004.
ACORN has been repeatedly attacked in the press by partisan officials eager to counteract this success.more.......
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