Another Republican Resigns Amid Voting Scandal
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on June 5th, 2007 5:58 am by HL
Former White House Communications Deputy Tim Griffin Resigns after Evidence Ties Him to Alleged Voter Suppression
Pensito Review
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Big media is ignoring the story that former White House Deputy Communications Director — and former RNC Research Director — Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas last week after evidence revealed he was directly involved in alleged voter suppression in the 2004 elections.
This may be the first time you’ve heard of the illegal tactic of “caging†voters, but if BBC investigator Greg Palast is correct, it will not be the last.
Caging is a form of voter suppression involving registered mail. Typically, campaigns send registered letters to voters who are are unlikely to respond — soldiers serving overseas, for example. A list is compiled of the voters whose mail is returned marked undeliverable, or “caged.†On election day, when people on the caging list arrive to vote, campaign operatives are on hand to float challenges to their residency in the precinct. Palast says caging is a felony.
HL’s Take
The only way the Republicans can win the election next year is if they steal it for the third consecutive time. It is a rock solid guarantee that they are fiendishly trying to figure out ways to do that right this very moment. All they have to do is find a way to grab one of the big states that could go either way, and that could be enough. Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, which state will they try to steal this time? And what will the Democrats do to try to stop them? For some reason I think Hilary Clinton, if nominated, would be the best person to stop them. No way her political team which includes the master, Bill, will let them walk off with the Presidency the way Gore, and Kerry did.
