<--Truthout has obtained previously undisclosed GOP campaign emails from the 2004 presidential race that reveal and detail strategies to disenfranchise voters in crucial swing states.(Photo: Truthout)
I wanted to post this today. Jason and Matt wrote an excellent article. Man, it tells you alot on how much corruption in the Bush Administration and certain states tartgeted for voter fraud.
From Truthout:
By Jason Leopold and Matt Renner
t r u t h o u t Report
Thursday 26 July 2007
Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry.
The documents also contain details describing how Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign officials, and at least one individual who worked for White House political adviser Karl Rove, planned to stop minorities residing in Cuyahoga County from voting on election day.
The efforts to purge voters from registration rolls was spearheaded by Tim Griffin, a former Republican National Committee opposition researcher. Griffin recently resigned from his post as interim US attorney for Little Rock Arkansas. His predecessor, Bud Cummins, was forced out to make way for Griffin.
Another set of documents, 43 pages of emails, provided to Truthout by the PBS news program "NOW," contains blueprints for a massive effort undertaken by RNC operatives in 2004, to challenge the eligibility of voters expected to support Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in states such as Nevada, New Mexico, Florida and Pennsylvania.
One email, dated September 30, 2004, and sent to a dozen or so staffers on the Bush-Cheney campaign and the RNC, under the subject line "voter fraud strategy conference call," describes how campaign staffers planned to challenge the veracity of votes in a handful of battleground states in the event of a Democratic victory.
Furthermore, the emails show the Bush-Cheney campaign and RNC staffers compiled voter-challenge lists that targeted probable Democratic voters in at least five states: New Mexico, Ohio, Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Voting rights lawyers have made allegations of so called "vote caging," against Republicans previously. These emails provide more evidence. One Republican operative involved in the planning wrote "we can do this in NV, FL, PA and NM because we have a list to run against the Absentee Ballot requests, and should."
Vote caging is an illegal tactic to suppress minorities from voting by having their names purged from voter rolls when they fail to respond to registered mail sent to their homes. The Republican National Committee signed a consent decree in 1986 stating they would not engage in the practice after they were caught suppressing votes in 1981 and 1986.
View exhibit three here.
View exhibit sixteen here.
View RNC emails here.
5 comments:
Karl did his homework. This is a great example on US Democracy for other countries to follow. I remember when minorities couldn't vote at all. Looks like those days are coming back real fast. Justice Thomas better be looking for a place to live overseas because he wont be a Judge much longer. Connie is right where she wants to be the pillow mate of GW.
LOL yes she is Jackie...woe is her.
mAnn Coulter wants all women to give up their right to vote. It doesn't include "her" -which is perhaps why she didn't check "sex" on her voter registration.
My, my, my... I heard Karl on NPR before the last election saying he had his own numbers that the reporter 's numbers were wrong. When the reporter asked where he got his Karl
didn't want to share... yea.
We all know that the Gerbil could not get in fair and sqaure, this comes as no shock with Troll Rove busy.
Maybe Cuba and Iraq can send delegates to watch our polls to make sure there are fair elections.
Oh, the irony!
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