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Former Top Rove Aide Resigns after Revelation of Evidence of Illegal Voter Cagingı |
Former Top Rove Aide Resigns after Revelation of Evidence of Illegal
Voter Cagingı
Posted by Jon Ponder | Jun. 3, 2007, 8:44 am
The White House installed Griffin as U.S. Attorney without Senate
approval using a provision theyıd slipped into the Patriot Act.
Big media is ignoring the story that former White House Deputy
Communications Director and former Research Director for the
Republican National Committee Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S.
Attorney in Arkansas last week after evidence revealed he was
directly involved in voter suppression in the 2004 elections.
This may be the first time youıve heard of the illegal tactic of
³caging² voters, but if BBC investigator Greg Palast is correct, it
will not be the last.
Caging is a form of voter suppression. Typically, it starts with
campaign operatives sending registered mail to voters at the
addresses on file with their voter registrations. The campaign then
makes a list of all addressees whose mail is returned marked as
undeliverable, or ³caged.² On election day, when the caged addressees
arrive to vote, campaign workers challenge the legitimacy of their
voter registrations, thereby delaying or preventing their votes.
Caging is a felony.
Palast recently obtained hundreds of emails sent by White House
officials to Bush-Cheney operatives during the 2004 campaign. Among
these were emails containing caging lists that were sent by Griffin
in the White House communications office. Late last week, Palast
agreed to show Griffinıs emails to Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. On Thursday, Griffin abruptly announced his
resignation in Little Rock, citing an urgent need to work in the
private sector. (Some sources say Griffin is in negotiations to join
Fred Thompsonıs presidential campaign; while one wag suggests Griffin
resigned ³to spend more time in jail.³)
Griffinıs name first surfaced nationally in the investigation into
the Bush administrationıs unprecedented firing of eight U.S.
attorneys (USAs) last December. He has been depicted as a protege of
Karl Rove with no real prosecutorial experience who was chosen to
replace Bud Cummins as USA in the Little Rock office. His appointment
last December created a controversy locally and in the U.S. Senate
when it was revealed that the White House installed him without
Senate approval using a provision on ³interim² appointments theyıd
slipped into the Patriot Act.
Why would the U.S. Dept. of Justice replace a seasoned, successful
prosecutor with a political operative whose last job was working for
the White House communications department? Hereıs how David Iglesias,
the New Mexico USA who was also fired in December, describes how the
Bushies were systematically politicizing the Justice Dept.:
³They wanted a political operative who happened to be a US
attorney and when they got somebody [Iglesias] who actually took
his oath to the Constitution seriously, they were appalled and they
wanted me out of there. The two strikes against me was, I was not
political, I didnıt help them out on their bogus voter fraud
prosecutions.²
In 2006, Palast accused Griffin of caging after he found evidence
that appeared to prove that Griffin led a Republican Party campaign
to suppress the votes of active-duty African-American service
personnel in Florida.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/06/03/former-rove-aide-resigns-over-
caging-evidence/
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get real. like jesus would ever own a gun or vote republican.
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| User: "Docky Wocky" |
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| Title: Re: Former Top Rove Aide Resigns after Revelation of Evidence of Illegal Voter OCagingı |
03 Jun 2007 04:08:54 PM |
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Yes, we wouldn't want any people voting that were so dead they were
prominent names in the local history books, or folks who were only dead for
the last decade or so. would we?
Heavens! We wouldn't want any technique used that would show evidence of
illegal voters voting.
Making sure the voters were not dead, already, or no longer lived in the
area, or hadn't ever lived in the state, or region, or had not voted
somewhere else several times the same day is a distinct conservative tactic
that just drives the liberal Democratic myrmidons batty.
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