Democrats, Florida elections officials criticize GOP mailing - "The first-class GOP mailing has a 'Do not forward' instruction on the envelope, meaning they will be returned to the GOP if a recipient has had mail forwarded, perhaps to a summer address, or has moved. Letters returned as undeliverable can be compiled into 'challenge lists' of unverifiable addresses and can be used to challenge voters' eligibility during early voting or on Election Day. The vote suppression technique is known as 'vote caging.'" 9/16/08
Obama Camp: Michigan GOP Aims to Keep Foreclosure Victims From Polls - "[Obama general counsel Bob Bauer ] said the practice of disqualifying voters by questioning their residence in this fashion, known generally as 'caging,' is illegal. Bauer added that just because a home appears on a foreclosure list does not mean the homeowner does not live there or that the home will definitely be lost. He said voters also have a grace period for voting from the old address, even if they are ultimately foreclosed upon." 9/16/08
Ohio's Election Stolen Again? - "Nearly 600,000 eligible Ohio voters may be dropped from the voter rolls if Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner doesn't act to protect these voters, according to findings based on publicly available information discovered by Advancement Project and Project Vote." 8/13/08
What Barriers Stand in Your Way to the Polls? - "Caging works like this: Send nonforwarded junk mail to registered voters and use the returned mail to compile lists of voters, to challenge their eligibility on or shortly before Election Day, depending on the state. At least 77,000 voters had their eligibility challenged this way by political operatives between 2004 and 2006, based on a September 2007 report by Project Vote called "Caging Democracy: A 50-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters." Based on analysis of the list of caged voters in Ohio, Florida and other states, the mass challenges in 2004 predominantly targeted new voters in heavily urban, largely minority districts. Some names on the lists were addresses of homeless shelters. Based on reports by Greg Palast , others were college students and U.S. servicemen who never received the mail because they were in Iraq fighting a war." 6/4/08