STILL MORE GOP ELECTION FRAUD

From the BBC courtesy of Eschaton, courtesy of the Daily Kos, my favorite reporter Greg Palast on the latest round of dirty tricks down in Florida:

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".

It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.

An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."

And

Mass challenges have never occurred in Florida. Indeed, says Mr Sancho, not one challenge has been made to a voter "in the 16 years I've been supervisor of elections."

"Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting."

Sancho calls it "intimidation." And it may be illegal.

In Washington, well-known civil rights attorney, Ralph Neas, noted that US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters.

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Man, I keep reading this stuff and I'm too flabbergasted to really react to it. This is so dirty, so low-down, so against everything for which this country supposedly stands, that I'm simply slack-jawed. This is no longer about conservative versus liberal: the Republicans have crossed the line, not once, but many times; this is now about freedom versus tyranny.

I really don't think I'm overstating this.

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