Reply #137: I've been in contact with them too...

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...Tim Griffen sent me a piece from Salon that supposedly "debunks" this story...but what's interesting is a little note at the very end of the story...

"UPDATE: A few readers have pointed out that even if the Republicans are telling the truth that the list is only a compilation of bad addresses returned from a direct-marketing mail, its purpose could have been less than innocent -- to challenge voters on residency grounds (since the GOP would have some reason to believe their addresses didn't qualify). This is plausible; it's worth noting, and we should have noted earlier, that the RNC has in fact been accused of these actions before, and in 1987, in response to a civil rights suit, it signed a consent decree pledging not to do this. But Republicans told War Room that this was not the purpose of this list, and, so far, we have no way of proving them wrong."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#palast_florida