Actilon Alert: Stop: Voter Caging Before 08 Elections

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Here is a new Progressive Secretary Letter.

This letter supports a campaign of ProjectVote.Org. It goes to Congress.

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Dear _________________:

In a desperate effort to keep poor and minority citizens from voting, election officials in states such as Florida and Ohio have resorted to a relic of Jim Crow days called “voter caging.” This is the process of sending non-forwardable mail to registered voters, then compiling “caging lists” from the returned mail to challenge the residency of these voters.

Voter caging is ostensibly used to weed out fraudulent voters who use fake addresses. However, it targets minority neighborhoods, and often employs mistaken or out-of-date addresses. The result is unfair harassment of a specific segment of the population, at taxpayers' expense.

While everyone agrees that illegitimate voting must be prevented, we must accomplish this in a fair and efficient way. Voter caging is neither.

I urge Congress to regulate voter caging before the 2008 federal elections.

Sincerely,


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