Poll Suggests U.S. Troops Support McCain 3-1

[sealybobo]

No, it's just as easy state side as it is for anyone else to register absentee. In processing is only a little different overseas.

I find it odd that you folks want to trust people like Monica Goodling. She lied about politicizing the Justice Department and she is also one of the people denying that she and the GOP are caging black military votes.

If you read up on caging, you'll see that each state has different rules. So where it might be difficult to cage votes in your state, it may not be as hard in Ohio & Florida.

So, Democrats are making sure legitimate voters votes count.

That's a good thing, right?

You don't want to believe that caging goes on.

I don't want to let it happen again.

This is just like global warming. The right denies it happens and the left just wants to make sure it doesn't happen.

 

[Angel Heart]

It happened in 2004 only more of them... That's a logistics issue with getting it all back to the states in time.

Thousands of military absentee ballots would once again go uncounted

Disenfranchising Our Overseas Troops
Nearly 500,000 Americans are abroad, defending our freedom as members of our armed forces. In standing their post and protecting the rest of us back home, they make enormous sacrifices. They live in tiny compartments aboard submarines and in tents on the gritty desert. They spend months, even years, away from their families. Some give up their lives in service of their nation.

Thanks to these brave men and women, those of us back home will head to our local polling places this November and exercise our foremost right — the right to vote.


...August 19, 2004

 

[sealybobo]

It happened in 2004 only more of them... That's a logistics issue with getting it all back to the states in time.

Thousands of military absentee ballots would once again go uncounted

I doubt this much attention would be put towards CAGING if it were make believe:

National Campaign For Fair Elections

Voter Caging
Citizens serving in active military service, minorities, students, and the homeless have at least one thing in common when it comes to state and federal elections; each group is the target of one of the most deceptive and controversial voter suppression tactics: "voter caging." Resembling the current photo identification dispute, proponents of voter caging have unconvincingly maintained that this practice aids in the prevention of voter fraud. There exists, however, little to no evidence of instances of individual voter fraud. These "phantoms of voter fraud" have been used as the premise to garner support for voter caging and photo identification requirements at the polls. As a result, these efforts have placed partisan politics over voting rights.
Specifically, voter caging involves a campaign, organization, or private party that sends mail marked "return to sender" or "do not forward." The mail returned as undeliverable is then used to compile caging lists. These lists form the basis for challenging votes cast by citizens who do not live at the address at which they are registered to vote. This politically motivated scheme has been artfully employed in an attempt to intimidate and challenge the eligibility of legally-registered voters, predominantly from low-income and minority communities.
Help put an end to caging by supporting the Caging Prohibition Act today!
Click here for an extensive historical and judicial analysis of "voter caging"
2004 Elections
Approximately 77,000 additional voters had their eligibility challenged between 2004 and last year. Indeed, voter caging has solidified itself as a key weapon within the voter suppression arsenal. Florida, one of the nine states that was the target of voter caging efforts, made headlines again earlier this year during Congress’s investigation regarding the termination of several U.S. Attorneys. Allegations resurfaced that Tim Griffin, who served as a RNC opposition researcher in 2004 and as an interim U.S. Attorney in Arkansas at the time of the investigation, had been involved in an effort to cage voters in Jacksonville.
Prohibiting Caging
In an effort to prevent voter caging and blanket challenges to voter eligibility, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, along with twelve co-sponsors, introduced the Caging Prohibition Act in November of 2007. It comprises two crucial provisions:
1. Prohibit challenges to a citizen’s right to vote or register to vote based on voter caging practices; and
2. Mandate that those who dispute a voter’s eligibility provide in writing, under penalty of perjury, the specific grounds for the alleged disentitlement.

 

[Angel Heart]

Says nothing of the Republicans doing it. It just states that it looks like caging was happening. Not that one side was to blame over another.