BBC: Bush "Caging List" in Florida Reveals Voter Intimidation Plan

[proudtobeadem]

I don't know if this has been posted yet, if it has let it die.
It's an article from October 26,2004

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".
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http://www.blogd.com/archives/000973.html

[Astrochimp]

1. BBC link-

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


It's from 26 October.

[myschkin]

2. He should

go to prison.

[VTHoosierPatriot]

3. Why did this story die so quickly?

Damn liberal media. If that list had a semen stain on it we would hear about it everyday for six years.

[chalky]

5. Only if the stain could be traced back to a democrat. n/m

[grasswire]

4. look at this -- a threat to journalists from Roveco

In a year when reporters are under heavy scrutiny for showing political leanings toward the Democratic Party, I would think that your new organization would take greater care to understand the facts and use sources that will yield objective information, rather than carry one party's political agenda.

I consider that to be a threat from Roveco to journalists everywhere. And yesterday another one was suicided.

[Matariki]

8. what do you mean 'yesterday another one was suicided'? n/t

[grasswire]

10. Gary Webb...

...the journalist who exposed the CIA's involvement in drug running in America was found yesterday with "self-inflicted" head wounds. Another for the Bush Body Count. There's a thread in LBN about him.

[merh]

6. Yeah, that was the Palast story, it did get some MSM coverage

but then the election happened.
If you want to look at the dead letters of the rethugs, then check out the link below. In addition to the caging list, there is a master voter fraud spread list. What that list really is has been debated. I posted in the Voter Issue forum, but don't know if anything came of it.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Carr's Blackberry <mailto:[e-mail] >
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:57 PM
To: Rich Beeson <mailto:[e-mail] >; Cary Evans <mailto:[e-mail] >; Scott Stewart <mailto:[e-mail] >; Goose; [e-mail] ; [e-mail]
Subject: Fw: douglas county voter confirmation

This is actually from carson and douglas

-----Original Message-----
From: "Christopher M. Jaarda" <[e-mail] >
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:54:38
To:[e-mail]
Subject: douglas county voter confirmation

Chris,

Attached is the excel document with the returned mail from Douglas County.

Chris Jaarda

Chris Carr
702-258-9182 p
702-258-9186 f

ATTACHMENT: Douglas County Voter Fraud Master Spreadsheet.xls

http://2004.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/index.asp

[progressoid]

7. ...some MSM coverage and then just died. Crazy n/t

[dzika]

9. DemocracyNOW! has been covering this story.

November 3rd, 2004:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/03/1520249&mode=thread&tid=25

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AMY GOODMAN: Greg Palast, your expose last week about a so called caging list in Florida that was sent to instead of the georgewbush.com website, well, you got your hands on it.

GREG PALAST: Right, we got our hands on it. And what that was this turned out to be what was obviously a list of voters that they wanted to challenge in Florida, the Republicans. This was, they went to the head of the Bush campaign in Florida yesterday during, while the polls were open, I got 12 more of these lists. We're talking 25,000- 30,000 people, almost all African American voters they intended to challenge, but after we broke the story on BBC, the democrats went to court, pushed against the Republicans, sent out letters to supervisors warning about this stuff, and they backed down in Florida. However, they didn't back down in Ohio, where unlike the secret lists of Florida, they were up front causing massive problems as Barbara was speaking about in particular, just holding up the lines, making challenges against basically African American voters. You know this is against the law. We had in 1965 Voting Rights Act, the whole point of that was to stop states from using so-called legal means of impeding the black vote, profiling black voters and saying that "you cannot vote." Give them a provisional ballot, which for the most part is thrown out. I'm looking in Ohio, just as I said in New Mexico. In Ohio, you've got a tremendous problem again with non-count of the vote. Barbara is right. When they talk about 100% of the vote counted. Not so. They never count 100% of the vote in Ohio it is one of the worst states in terms of non-counts of the vote, and most of the non-count occurs in African American areas. That's your margin. I'm sorry, if you count all of the votes that should be counted it's not that close of a race. It's a blue state.

More information at this link:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/08/1520204&mode=thread&tid=25