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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
Thanks I needed a good laugh this morning. Imagine having to prove you are who you say you are in order to vote. The fucking nerve of people eh? LMFAO
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the joke is on you, "caging lists" scandal is finally coming out
basically: Republicans sending letters to mostly African-American soldiers, which they knew were fighting in Iraq, as they couldn't respond these soldiers got knocked off the voting rolls and so their vote didn't count
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The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked "Do not forward" to voters' homes. Letters returned ("caged") were used as evidence to block these voters' right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and?you got to love this?American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters. Why weren't these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation?and the soldiers were overseas.
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more
http://www.slate.com/id/2167284/
btw this has been reported all over Europe and other continents already in 2004, but ignored in the US