Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Florida GOP plans voter suppression
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.
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.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot...
..."Quite frankly, [Sancho said,] this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting."
Story here. And Kos found that some of those on the list lived on the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, which means the GOP is also targeting our servicepeople. It's not any better in Ohio.
posted by chris at 1:21 PM
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