Breaking news on FL GOP shenanigans from Greg Palast

[turbo_satan]

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

Let's get on this right away. I'm doing Election Protection in the area he mentions. Is anyone else?

turbo_satan

[AIJ Alom]

1. oh my God this is what caging is !!!! Holy cow !!!

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.

[cthrumatrix]

51. this is Duvall County ..ONLY 1 early ballot office ...huge minority

population....located away from them

Jebbie and GW have their plans ...it's called "don't let people vote!

[Touchdown]

81. Dumb question. What is "Caging"?

I tried to look it up , but all I found was the traditional definitionsof jailing, caging birds, etc.::shrug:

[CAcyclist]

83. I want to know the same thing

This might help - a google search turned up this site:

http://lp2000.com/BCI/HBplan.htm


Likewise, Napoleon observed that "an army marches on its stomach" -- by which he meant that the logistics of moving and preparing food were often more important that the disposition of forces on the battle field. We believe the same is true of a political campaign. Our ability to do simple, repetitive tasks, with ease and speed, will decide the ultimate success of our "rhetorical brilliance."

We now have caging, fulfillment, accounting, FEC reporting, and inquiry follow up functions in place and running.

We have begun consulting with experts in direct response advertising about our prospecting mailings and our infomercial.

Our campaign outreach tools are being developed. By this summer our advertising and direct mail campaign should be in full swing.

Then it will only be a matter of repetition, repetition, repetition until election day 1996.

**********************************
So I think caging just means a database capture f potential voters

[MetaTrope]

101. Reference to "caging"

as "the collection of voter - or potential voter - information."
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:NyjfU2-x_s8J:www.frontiersman.com/articles/2004/10/11/news/news9.txt&hl=en

[canuckybee]

2. son of a bitch !

[CatWoman]

3. can you forward this to the Kerry Campaign?

[michigandem2]

14. i sent the link to them

I suggest others do too..who knows if they will read it but also maybe one of our FL DU's can call the HQ and let them know..this is disgusting

[CatWoman]

20. I sent it to Josh Marshall

and I'm sending it to Buzzflash as well.

[sherilocks]

30. done

I sent it direct, rather than general email. Also called to tell the Florida Dems it's on the way.

[Rambis]

4. Bastards!

How stupid are they?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. No, it's how stupid do THEY think we are.

[Rambis]

17. You are correct!

I wish these people harm and it bothers me a lot!

[AIJ Alom]

5. private investigator !

In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows.

The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services.

On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. This is so wrong.

Just the fear that your Republican employer might get the information is enough to turn your blood cold,

[Oreo]

6. Caging.xls is one of the files in the emails!

Holy shit... somebody asked in the georgewbush.org deadletter thread what the caging.xls file could mean. I think it has like 1800 names in it

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Griffin - Research/Communications
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:34 PM
To: [email protected]; Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: caging

Thx
Tim Griffin
Research Director and
Deputy Communications Director
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
w:[phone]
f: [phone]
[email protected]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Porter
> To: Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Tim Griffin - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; [email protected] ; Stephen Shiver ; [email protected]
> Sent: Thu Aug 26 18:12:49 2004
> Subject: caging
>
> Total as of today is 1834.
>
> Kelly
>
> ATTACHMENT: Caging-1.xls

[CottonBear]

24. Good work Oreo. n/t

[nostamj]

26. was that attachment availble?

it certainly should be sent to the Kerry voting/legal team if it is...

[atre]

82. Here are the links and the two emails mentioned:

Received: from 208.241.56.10 (<208.241.56.10>) for with MailEnable Catch-All Filter; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:34:10 -0400
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Subject: Re: caging
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:34:06 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: caging
Thread-Index: AcSLt/eE7gJz86stSe2OcTDaw1xKDAABNQbb
From: "Tim Griffin - Research/Communications"
To: ,
"Lindy Landreaux - Political" ,
"Miriam Moore - Research/Communications" ,
"Victoria Newton - Research/Communications" ,
"Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications" ,
,
,

X-Read: 1

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Griffin - Research/Communications
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:34 PM
To: [email protected]; Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: caging

Thx
Tim Griffin
Research Director and
Deputy Communications Director
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
w:[phone]
f: [phone]
[email protected]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Porter
> To: Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Tim Griffin - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; [email protected] ; Stephen Shiver ; [email protected]
> Sent: Thu Aug 26 18:12:49 2004
> Subject: caging
>
> Total as of today is 1834.
>
> Kelly
>
> ATTACHMENT: Caging-1.xls
http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/attachments/Caging-1.xls

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Subject: RE: caging
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:54:43 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
Thread-Topic: caging
Thread-Index: AcSK7R3u/YhIZE4RT1ufYnhmxOWS/gAAP75g
From: "Tim Griffin - Research/Communications"
To: "Kelly Porter" ,
"Lindy Landreaux - Political" ,
"Miriam Moore - Research/Communications" ,
"Victoria Newton - Research/Communications" ,
"Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications" ,
,
"Stephen Shiver" ,

X-Read: 1

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Griffin - Research/Communications
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:55 PM
To: Kelly Porter ; Lindy Landreaux - Political ; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications ; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications ; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications ; [email protected]; Stephen Shiver ; [email protected]
Subject: RE: caging

thank you, perfect
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Porter
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:47 PM
> To: Lindy Landreaux - Political; Miriam Moore - Research/Communications; Victoria Newton - Research/Communications; Tim Griffin - Research/Communications; Shawn Reinschmiedt - Research/Communications; [email protected]; Stephen Shiver; [email protected]
> Subject: caging
> The total to date is 1771.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kelly
>
> ATTACHMENT: Caging.xls http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/attachments/Caging.xls

[fob]

32. Anyone have an anonymous e-mail account to let Kelly know she fucked

up and sent the attachement to "us"?

On second thought, she'll be finding out soon enough! :evilgrin:

What is it with repugnicans and proper url's?

[CAcyclist]

87. Let's start googling these names

and see where it leads us. I googled Lindy Landreaux :
http://www.gop.com/OutReach/Read.aspx?ID=6
http://www.rnc.org/OutReach/Read.aspx?ID=17
She's the GOP Disability outreach coordinator, environment outreach coordinator , born in Texas

http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expend.asp?txtName=l&Cmte=RNC&cycle=2004&sort=name
http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=LANDREAUX%2C+LINDY&Cmte=RNC&cycle=2004
http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/expenddetail.asp?txtName=LANDREAUX%2C+LINDY+A&Cmte=RNC&cycle=2004

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/bowie/vitals/births/1977/bowib77a.txt
VITAL RECORDS - BOWIE COUNTY, TX - BIRTH 1977


So this particular name doesn't tell us anything, but if you keep plugging the names in...

[nodictators]

99. CAUTION: www.georgewbush.org is NOT the official GWB web site

The Bush-Cheney campaign web site is georgewbush.com

All of these e-mails and the "caging" Excel spreadsheet may be phony and/or deniable.

A connection to the Bush campaign has to be shown.

OTOH, I thought that Bush had all of the .org .net, .xxx variants covered.

Who runs the .org web site?

[flpoljunkie]

7. Unbelievable! This is frightening! Dems will not be denied!

[CottonBear]

12. Can you post this in LBN?

I think that this qualifies.

[Pirate Smile]

9. You need to post this in Late Breaking News.

[CottonBear]

22. I just posted it in LBN. n/t

[Union Thug]

10. Think Nov 2 is going to be bruise and abrasion free?

I don't think so. NOt with this kind of bullshit going down.

Stand up and fight, people.

[TomClash]

11. You are going to be busy

There will be a record African-American turnout.

[Oreo]

13. 1-800-OUR VOTE

I can't call from work but I think somebody should. Point them to this article and the georgewbush.org site and specifically the caging.xls file.

I think everybody on this caging list needs to be notified that they are being actively disenfranchised

[Pirate Smile]

23. Is that the MSNBC voter line?

[blondeatlast]

73. It's 1-866-OUR-VOTE, run by Working Assets, Mother Jones magazine,

People for the American Way, NAACP, and many, many others concerned about this type of thing.

Memorize it; it will be invaluable on November 2.

God, I truly beseech You, is this what our nation has come to?

May You please have mercy on them for they know not what they do.

[Oreo]

61. Sorry... 866-OUR-VOTE

voter fraud hotline

[displacedtexan]

16. Mindy Tucker looks like shit in that picture.

Remember how annoyingly cute and perky she was in 2000?

[Rainbowreflect]

18. Here we go again.

Will America let this happen?

[nonconformist]

19. Holy shit! It's the caging attachment!

We had that! I bet it sucks to be the .org-happy MORANS in the Bush campaign today.

[Texas_Dem]

21. Good grief! Have these people been reading the Nazi election handbook

or what?

[Renew Deal]

25. I'll be in Miami.

[cygy2k]

28. This is the election get it out!!!!!!

I don't care what you have to do, this right here could happen in every city in America, get this out to every source you have, damn it this is the election people!!



This is the election get it out!!!!!!

[LibertyorDeath]

27. Thanks have sent to Kerry Campaign

This has to be Stopped!!

[nonconformist]

29. Kelly Porter is the sender of the email

Kelly Porter is the original sender of the attachment and the one reporting the total of 1834. She is with the Bush/Cheney Florida Campaign.

KELLY PORTER: Executive Assistant to Executive Director of Political Affairs & Executive Director of Party Development
http://www2.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushorgfl.html

[batchdem04]

31. What is that ABC email?

what is that ABC email that was set up for this kind of thing? it was on DU last wk

[turbo_satan]

33. Follow up -- I've alerted the authorities...

Florida Democratic Party, Legal counsel for FL Dems, Jacksonville legal counsel for FL Dems.

turbo_satan

[Pirate Smile]

65. Good job. Thank you.

[Glenda]

66. Keep us posted if you hear anything back from them

THanks

G

[Kathy in Cambridge]

34. How do we find out about Voter Protection Groups?

I keep calling the DNC and they keep transferring me to a woman with a full voicemail box. I think I may need to volunteer my bad self in some capacity.

[napi21]

37. Here is the toll free # to contact the lawyers for election problems.

It's the one given to the poll watchers and they are told if they see a real problem, call immediately.

1-866-687-8683

I don't know if this is the right place to call, but they should be able to tell you where the right contact would be.

[brooklynite]

43. Please don't overload him, but...

the Publisher of politics1.com ([email protected]) lists himself as the Broward County Co-Chair of the Kerry legal team for Election Day. However, I suspect if you see it in the paper or one the news, they're well aware of it at Kerry HQ.

[JudyM]

47. 866-OUR-VOTE Get this and more info at HELPKERRYWIN.com

[blondeatlast]

75. People for the American Way is sponsoring 1-866-OUR-VOTE, among

others. They have zillions of lawyers and clergy ready, willing, and able to mobilize NOW.

http://www.electionprotection2004.org/psas.htm

[Rjnerd]

35. I wonder if the RNC has any clue

How the file got into Palast's hands. I can just imagine Rove bellowing "how did this happen", foam staring to collect on his lips... (and it would be cute to see the look on the faces of the senders, when it was discovered that they, like cheney missed .com and .org)

[shelley806]

89. Oh how funny

I'm readinbg this thread in shock, and you at least made me laugh! I had bookmarked the post from the email mix up, but the data was purged. How did the BBC get the data for their story? Is their source DU? Or is this more rampant? It probably is very rampant--God I hate Rove.

[AnnInLa]

96. People from DU sent info everywhere, to all media

outlets, to a few in particular, who got everything to Palast.

[Thrill]

36. I thought we had teams of lawyers

WHY AREN'T they on this?

[blondeatlast]

76. Believe me, they are.

They are.

[batchdem04]

38. On the Excel sheet

What does DATE RECEIVED mean?

ANK = Attempted Not Known
RNS = Return to Sender
NSN = No Such Number
UAA = ??

[progressivebydesign]

41. UAA- "unable to ascertain"? ??? n/t

[Bozos for Bush]

54. Or else they just registered for the first time? (nt)

Could caging be for throwing away registrations or absentee ballot requests?

[Bozos for Bush]

53. Perhaps these people filed for absentee ballots?

What else could "date received" mean?

[PATRICK]

68. UAA-Undeliverable At Address

In postal parlance this is our code anyway. It is fairly generic for the carrier to send it back to the Return to Sender(RTS) unit to see if there is forwarding or anything. NSS- No such street. They all seem to be postal shorthand codes.

[doni_georgia]

72. A lot of lower income folks use PO boxes and don't have mailboxes

In that case aren't those returned to sender as well? We have a problem with this in our school, because a lot of the kids we serve do not have mailboxes and only get their mail through PO boxes.

[PATRICK]

78. Right they may be misinterpreting

and going overboard in collecting
"evidence" of non-residency. A good letter carrier might catch glitches but with automation and part timers it is easier to get mistakes.

Bottom line: they can't be sure. They can be tempted to forge undeliverable mail(can't trust their own stooges, I should think). They should be confronted and made to BACK OFF now!

Possible big violations if THEY screw up.

[brooklynite]

39. Relevant Section of Florida Election Law

101.111 Person desiring to vote may be challenged; challenger to execute oath; oath of person challenged; determination of challenge.—

(1) When the right to vote of any person who desires to vote is challenged by any elector or poll watcher, the challenge shall be reduced to writing with an oath as provided in this section, giving reasons for the challenge, which shall be delivered to the clerk or inspector. Any elector or poll watcher challenging the right of a person to vote shall execute the oath set forth below:

OATH OF PERSON ENTERING CHALLENGE
State of Florida
County of ( )
I do solemnly swear that my name is ( ); that I am a member of the ( ) party; that I am years old; that my residence address is ( ), in the municipality of ( ); and that I have reason to believe that is attempting to vote illegally and the reasons for my belief are set forth herein to wit:

(Signature of person challenging voter)

Sworn and subscribed to before me this day of ( ), (year) .
(Clerk of election)

(2) Before a person who is challenged is permitted to vote, the challenged person’s right to vote shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of subsection (3). The clerk or inspector shall immediately deliver to the challenged person a copy of the oath of the person entering the challenge and shall request the challenged person to execute the following oath:

OATH OF PERSON CHALLENGED
State of Florida
County of ( )
I do solemnly swear that my name is ( ); that I am a member of the ( ) party; that my date of birth is ( ) ; that my residence address is ( ), in the municipality of ( ), in this the precinct of county; that I personally made application for registration and signed my name and that I am a qualified voter in this election.
(Signature of person)

Sworn and subscribed to before me this day of ( ), (year) .
(Clerk of election or Inspector)

Any inspector or clerk of election may administer the oath.

(3)(a) The clerk and inspectors shall compare the information in the challenged person’s oath with that entered on the precinct register and shall take any other evidence that may be offered. The clerk and inspectors shall then decide by a majority vote whether the challenged person may vote a regular ballot.

(b) If the challenged person refuses to complete the oath or if a majority of the clerk and inspectors doubt the eligibility of the person to vote, the challenged person shall be allowed to vote a provisional ballot. The oath of the person entering the challenge and the oath of the person challenged shall be attached to the provisional ballot for transmittal to the canvassing board.

101.131 Watchers at polls.—
(1) Each political party and each candidate may have one watcher in each polling room at any one time during the election. No watcher shall be permitted to come closer to the officials’ table or the voting booths than is reasonably necessary to properly perform his or her functions, but each shall be allowed within the polling room to watch and observe the conduct of electors and officials. The watchers shall furnish their own materials and necessities and shall not obstruct the orderly conduct of any election. Each watcher shall be a qualified and registered elector of the county in which he or she serves.

(2) Each party and each candidate requesting to have poll watchers shall designate, in writing, poll watchers for each precinct prior to noon of the second Tuesday preceding the election. The poll watchers for each precinct shall be approved by the supervisor of elections on or before the Tuesday before the election. The supervisor shall furnish to each precinct a list of the poll watchers designated and approved for such precinct.

(3) No candidate or sheriff, deputy sheriff, police officer, or other law enforcement officer may be designated as a poll watcher.

[Anaxamander]

40. Here's what I found in the document's "Properties"

Created: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:43:49 PM
Last saved by: kporter
Author: RPOF
Company: The Republican Party of Florida

[grace0418]

42. I will go ape on anyone who tries to intimidate me from voting

I saw that this was sent to Kerry's campaign. Hopefully someone will run with it.

P.S. Did you see that GOP spokeswoman? She looked lobotomized.

[brooklynite]

45. No, you won't

What they want, as much as voiding some people's registrations, is to cause trouble and delay. You get angry, they get angry, yelling, pushing...then the police arrive and close down the polling site while they try to figure what's going on.

If you're challenged, I would, first look for the Kerry pollwatcher/lawyer, and if one's not available, in a calm but "loud" voice, say "unless you can show cause, you have no cause to challenge me, or other voters, and if you do so without cause, you are breaking Florida law which prohibits obstructing a polling place." I suspect their hope is that they'll be able to cause trouble without publicity or embarassment.

[xrepub]

49. Best advice I've seen yet, thanks

[blondeatlast]

77. CAll 1-866-OUR-VOTE.

Lawyers, clergy, and volunteers--THOUSANDS of them, ready to mobilize at a moment's notice. They WON'T get away with it this time.

[JDPriestly]

44. Voters move,

and their names are not removed from the voting roles. Anyone who has walked precincts knows this. You go to a house, ask for a registered voter by name, and the present resident says that the registered voter moved away years ago. Very few of the people on the list will show up to vote, and those that do are probably doing nothing wrong.

The Republicans constantly project their own contempt for the "one person, one vote" principle on Democrats. As a Democrat, I believe in "one person, one vote." If Democrats lose fair and square, I accept that as part of the democratic process. Republicans want to win at all cost, so they convince themselves that Democrats think the same way. We don't. That's all there is to it.

I know a Democrat who moved three times this year. She registered to vote in each place she lived because she planned to stay there. She will only vote once. To purge the voter role every time someone moved would cost a lot of money and give the government the right to invade what little privacy we have left. The Republicans are wasting their own and everyone else's time on this "scandal."

[JudyM]

46. Probably not just Florida. HELPKERRYWIN.com

We need more poll watchers from our side in every swing state. Lots of quick and easy things anyone can do to help Kerry-Edwards without taking the time to join the campaign - plus good links and humor:

www.helpkerrywin.com

Send it around to your friends to really get this cooking at a higher temp! With a few minutes, everyone can help nail this for the Dems this time around.

[no name no slogan]

48. Shades of 2000 all over again

Palast was ahead of the curve on this last time around, reporting on the bad "felony lists" and other such shenanegans pulled by JebbY & co. He had front-page stories in the Guardian starting in November 2000 about the fraud and misconduct happenning in Florida.

Sadly, nobody stateside bothered to pick it up.

We need to promote this stateside NOW. We CANNOT afford to let what happened in 2000 happen this year. IMHO the biggest crime in 2000 was not the "butterfly ballots" or the unfinished handcount, it was the purge lists and the deliberate attempts of the Florida governor's office to discourage the vote in heavily Democratic areas.

[leyton]

50. Well, I suppose this is what the media blaster is for!

Sent 'em off to the Florida news organizations. I recommend you do the same.

[cthrumatrix]

52. send it out to the NAACP , ACLU & the media ..... swamp them

[Neecy]

55. if you live in their districts...

Call Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee. Let them know not only about this article (which they probably already are aware of), but that we have in our possession the xls file.

They won't hesitate to raise hell about this in public forums.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

56. Has this article been sent to any of the media?

I'd think some papers here stateside would be interested - especially since they were aced out by the foreign press.

FYI - I'm pretty sure that someone else has this but I did save the files containing the "caging" information. I wanted to get the files that listed scores and scores of people with their SSNs but they were gone by the time I had hit myself up side the head and issued a hearty, "Duh" before going back to grab them but no luck. No nefarious plans, just thought someone should have copies when the denials began.

Please tell me that someone got copies of all the documents. Don't want to know who - just that there is proof of what they have been up to this election.

[slutticus]

62. I have all the documents.

[leyton]

64. I blasted Florida.

Of course, some of those e-mail addresses are LTTE and such, but I have already (within a few minutes) gotten one response from an interested radio director.

[dicknbush]

57. The plan here is simple.

Tie up the voting, delay the voting so as to create a big line and frustration and people will give up and go home or more importantly considering that most democrats have to go to real jobs they won't have the time to vote in the morning before work an hur or 45 minutes for lunch but the wait in line is three hurs after work you get there the line is four hours and you got kids to feed or shopping for food for the kids etc etc. It is a very devious plan and it is what they are going to try and do in Ohio as well with 3,500 monitors. Challenge challenge challenge and the line gets longer and longer!

[PATRICK]

70. They must have sent out a mailing to verify

voter residency and the RETURNS, the marked undeliverables, will be used as proofs of challenge.

An enterprising shill might even try to fake such things. They should be afraid of that line and some idiot crossing it, enough to back off under this spotlight as that would be a nice postal and federal code violation.
Hard time.

Good way to make them back off. I don't think(obviously) they have been very careful or legal.

[AnnInLa]

97. Yup, that's exactly what they did.....and, it's legal

and a basis for a challenge...slowing down the vote, making people give up and go home, not voting.

[PATRICK]

100. Legal yes

if restrained and accurate in its application, but the GOP is supposedly in agreement not to do this tactic AND I doubt they can do it cleanly, much less without cheating.

[pk_du]

58. LOOK !!!.............CAGING list folks are ALL

Poor , Blacks , or living in Homeless Shelters...

titled "Caged.xls"...it appears to list the following Jacksonville , FL residents;

1. Black Students at Edward Waters College (1658 King road)
2. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless (611 east adams st.)
3. Rescue Mission (234 State Street west)
4. Most if not all the rest are lower income Apartment addresses

......so why are these folks classed as "CAGED".....

LOOK - just sort the sheet by address column....then google the common addresses to find stuff like the above.

THIS MUST BE INVESTIGATED!!!!!!


...more to come tomorrow.

[pk_du]

59. ...and if the BBC in UK can look into it with on-the-scene Rep

why cant mainstream US media????

[PATRICK]

69. They must have sent out a mailing

And then analysed why some letters didn't get thorugh as a proff no one resides there. Presto, a challenge to residency claims as filled out on the registration with postal proof in hand.

I wonder if they are tempted to FORGE postal return to sender notes on mail which of course is a no no. Amateurs WILL screw those up by the way.
Most of the workforce doesn't get exactly what the messy variety of codes stand for.

[Supersedeas]

60. no explanation as to why such clerical matters sent to top officials...

No explanation....good enough for me.

Broadcast media...you?

[ArnoldLayne]

63. This could backfire on the NeoCons and just piss off

African-American voters in Florida to be more determined to get out and vote once word of this gets around. :grr:

[newyawker99]

67. kick

:kick:

[doni_georgia]

71. Same shit they are doing in Ohio - this needs to be challenged and stopped

NOW!

[allemand]

74. It's online now !

You can watch Newsnight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm

[pk_du]

79. OKay - Here's part of the "filter" they used - all ZIP codes are

32200 - 32299 in Jacksonville,FL....any bets on them being Jacksonvilles "poorest", "most Dem" , "most African American".???

[ava27]

80. Don't get all worked up about this

Kerry wins by 10% points and will get over 300 electoral votes. Even with this bullshit.

[blondeatlast]

85. Excuse me? DON'T GET ALL WORKED UP OVER VOTER INTIMIDATION?

Right, sure, okay.

Welcome to DU. See you tomorrow, will I?

Edit: Strange that with 27 posts, you know who RimJob is...

[ava27]

90. I didn't think people here got intimidated.

Look at all the money raised by people like us. Look at all the protests. We are stronger than ever. There is no reason for us to get intimidated.

[blondeatlast]

91. Not about US on DU. It's about denying citizens their CIVIL RIGHTS,

including many who may have marched with Dr. King only to see this dismal day come. Have you read the referenced link?

You seriously need to educate yourself if you are planning to stick around. Follow the threads about voter intimidation. Open your eyes, not your mouth.

If you've lurked long enough to have figured out who RimJob refers to (and I know that you have), you should be more aware at the dirty tricks campaigns to stifle the vote. It's been discussed daily for months.

[sherilocks]

84. Voter file sent to Congresswoman Corrine Brown

I posted this over at the BN forum, so you may see it twice.

I sent the list of 1800 names to Congresswoman Brown's office. Many of the names are in her district. I spoke to her assistant and they wre delighted to get the it and will try to contact the people on the list.

Ms. Brown is the most outspoken member of the CBC, so I'm sure we haven't heard the end of this.

[senseandsensibility]

86. Good move.

Corinne Brown will get right on this; she's very familiar with what they did last time. God, this is unbelievable.

[blondeatlast]

88. Kick for the original thread.

:kick:

[PeacefulWarrior]

92. Good Article From Salon on "Caging"

Palast's "secret" GOP voter document
From www.salon.com

The muckraking journalist Greg Palast is reporting <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm> for the BBC that Republicans in Florida have cooked up "a plan -- possibly in violation of U.S. law -- to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts." Palast has gleaned this apparent plan from a "secret document" that he says he obtained from within the Bush campaign's Florida headquarters.

The document is a spreadsheet file that lists the names and addresses of more than 1,800 people in Jacksonville, Fla., an area with a high minority population. Somewhat mysteriously, the file is named "caging." Nowhere in the file is the purpose of the list explained, but Ion Sancho, the Democratic elections supervisor in Leon County, Fla., tells Palast that the only possible reason that the Republicans would have to draw up the list is to "challenge voters on election day." The list, Sancho tells Palast, probably indicates the names of the voters whom Republican operatives, stationed in polling places, will challenge on their qualification to participate in the election -- a tactic that Republicans have acknowledged planning <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/politics/campaign/23vote.html?oref=login&hp&ex=buzzflash> in an effort to prevent what they say will be widespread voter fraud by Democrats at the polls this year.

Palast's evidence for this theory is quite thin, and it's premature to conclude that the list is suggestive of any kind of wrongdoing. The list Palast cites was first uncovered by the folks who run GeorgeWBush.org, <http://georgewbush.org> a parody of the Bush campaign's official Web site, at GeorgeWBush.com <http://georgewbush.com>. Over that past few months, it seems, insiders at the Bush campaign, the Republican National Committee and groups aligned with the two have occasionally, accidentally addressed some of their e-mails to the .org domain rather than the .com. Earlier this month, the GeorgeWBush.org people noticed that they'd collected a stash of Republican e-mail in their "catchall" box, and they decided to post the messages <http://georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp> on their site. Much of the mail is the sort of banal dialog you'd expect from politicos: frequent updates on phone-banking operations, a confirmation of Arkansas Governor Mick Huckaebee's Holiday Inn reservations, and a junior campaign staffer's wistful appreciation of Jenna Bush -- an appreciation that prompts the response, "Just stay away from Jenna or things could get ugly."

War Room looked over the stash of e-mail a couple days ago, and two of them piqued our interest -- both from Kelly Porter, at the Republican Party of Florida, to officials at the Republcian National Committee, and with the subject line "caging." But the purpose of the messages was unclear. One message, <http://georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp#caging2> sent on Aug. 25, says only, "The total to date is 1771," and it includes this attachment of an Excel spreadsheet. <http://georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/attachments/Caging.xls> The other message, <http://georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp#caging> sent the next day, includes this Excel attachment. <http://georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/attachments/Caging-1.xls> It says, "Total as of today is 1834."

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[Barad Simith]

93. PeacefulWarrior --

Please be aware that DU copyright rules require that excerpts of copyrighted material be limited to four paragraphs.

[PATRICK]

94. Correcting mailing lists

especially if those lists are not your typical GOP voter, is itself far-fetched as an item worth exchanging these kinds of e-mails. it seems less technically concerned with updating lists which in any event can be done fairly automatically than amassing all the various signs someone is not at their expected address.

Well, now WE have names and methodologies and we will be waiting to see if this turns up. The word should go out to all the likely sites to be challenged.

Proof or nailing them now is not as important as prevention. Some massive legal threats spreading through their grapevine would disrupt any despicable vote suppression rather nicely.

The other vaunted Rove strategy, the hireling GOTV troops, may be falling prey to its own fears, much as the private contractors in Iraq let our army down. With all the widespread hatred of Bush- even in traditional GOP areas, these tools may be afraid or at least unenthusiastic about doing their job.

Hit them on the beaches.

[crispini]

95. hee hee hee! I sent the deadletter site to Salon!

DU rocks! :)

[Occulus]

98. from the deadletter site

"-----Original Message-----
From: Pfeifle, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 2:45 PM
To: Mark Wallace ; Nicolle Devenish ; Alcivar, Leonardo
Cc: Harris, William ; Norcross, David ; Steve Schmidt ; [email protected]; Davis, Alicia
Subject: CNN/Youth Program

Jean M at CNN is filing on the aids protesters at the youth convention today.

She's trying to get someone on camera to respond and turn it into a larger security story.

I said no; I'd talk to her on the phone.

CNN will be looking to get someone on tape; please refer them to me.

Thanks. Mark."

Holy God. Would this be proof of CNN collusion with the RNC? Say it ain't so! *snerk*

AND HERE'S SOMETHING ELSE:

1658 Kings Rd. appears repeatedly on the caging list, each time with a different name next to it.

Apparently, this is a college. Smartpages.com lists it as Edward Waters College. I just called there and spoke to an administrator; apparently, the dates were during campus voter registration.

I've emailed a copy of caging-1.xls to the college; we'll see if anything happens. :D