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That Secret Email About Secret GOP Election Machine Meeting Now Exposed Too

By Dave Harding, ProgressOhio - Jan 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pm EST

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Seems like the last time Ohio GOP Secret Emails came out we found out about their Voter Caging Strategy.

Ohio Republican Party: Vote Caging Is One Of Our Election Strategies

What's the strategy and message for today's partisan republican meeting of Republican Election Officials . Officials whose Election duties are to be totally non-partisan?

Why the secrecy? Why no press allowed. What's going on in that meeting that the ORP doesn't want anyone else to know?

ORP Election Fraud: Related Documents and Links:

E-mails between National Republican Party headquarters and Ohio State Republican Party officials about plans to challenge voters in Ohio [pdf]

List of people in the Cleveland, Ohio area who the Republicans planned to stop on Election Day, 2004 [pdf]

Guidebook for Republicans interested in becoming poll monitors[pdf]

Reader Comments

Not Surprised

By User from Marion, OH Jan 15th 2008 at 3:42 pm EST

Im not surprised at the ORP for doing this, but it is somewhat surprising that people somehow think local BOE's are all that Non partisan in how they perform their work. Ive seen boards be highly partisan with Dems sometimes supporting R's. These postions can be filled by anyone who can get the support of the chair or otherwise get the votes at a central committee meeting. The Dems need to come out in support of what Jennifer is doing. She is trying to respond to the EVEREST report which documented the problems with the DRE's. Please read it and then we should organize in support of Jennifer.

Smoking gun

By OHliz Jan 15th 2008 at 4:36 pm EST

Flat-out busted! Good work.

Enforce the law

By Doug Jan 16th 2008 at 1:37 pm EST

It's my understanding that the Republican Party is under a judge's consent decree to stop all caging of voters. The U.S. prosecutors who were not fired by Bush/Rove/Gonzales is where the scandal is worst because supposed "law and order" conservatives are selectiveley applying the law.

Conservatives are rarely so honest as this 30 second clip from the Heritage Foundation and Moral Majority Founder:

Link

Caging voters?

By OHliz Jan 16th 2008 at 2:00 pm EST

Have you been watching Planet of the Apes again? (Seriously, what does 'caging' mean?)

Re: Enforce the law

By Ohio Election Justice Campaign Jan 22nd 2008 at 2:14 pm EST

that does not cover state republican parties.
see pdf attachment on comment below.

Jane caging is when you send out mail to ppl and if it is returned or not replied to, then that means they don't live there and thye ar erased from the rolls

Re: Enforce the law

By OHliz Jan 22nd 2008 at 2:41 pm EST

OK! So caging is a way of unfairly dismissing blocks of voters you don't want to be counted...I get it, thanks.

question to Brunner Via radio show from Philly

By Ohio Election Justice Campaign Jan 22nd 2008 at 2:11 pm EST

question to Brunner Via radio show from Philly, Link

Ohio HB3 passed the republican legislature. This bill contained a provision that allows counties to cage votes. The republican party got caught and prosecuted for this years ago. From an article on this subject linked below:
"Litigation arising from voter caging and challenges will be discussed during the survey of state
challenge campaigns and in a detailed litigation section that follows. The Democratic National
Committee and state Democratic parties fought against illegal caging and challenge campaigns by
the GOP in state and federal courts. Two of the most important cases stemmed from GOP caging
efforts in New Jersey during the 1980’s and led to consent decrees that are still in effect. Under
the consent decrees, the RNC has agreed to restrictions to bring its activities into compliance
with the Constitution and federal law. As the RNC has pointed out in subsequent lawsuits, only
the RNC is bound by the decrees, not the state Republican parties."

How do you plan to address this in your plans to protect the voter?
Here is a link: Link