As diaried here, more e-mail evidence from inside the RNC points to a massive 2004 GOP effort to disqualify likely Democratic voters in key battleground states.
But there's more to come; there's evidence the program may still be running, and one can't help but wonder if this is the reason the Bush administration was targeting US attorneys who refused to bring voter fraud cases.
NOW on PBS reports on it Friday night. See a summary on the flipside...
This Week on NOW: Voter Caging
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004? Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections? This week, NOW examines documents and evidence that point to a Republican Party plan designed to keep Democrats from voting, by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity within key battleground states like Ohio and Florida.
"It was a partisan, discriminatory attempt to challenge voters of color," Eddie Hailes, a senior attorney for The Advancement Project, a civil rights group, tells NOW.
Web Extra:
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias tells NOW why he believes the Justice Department acted unlawfully.
...Is this what Rove meant when he bragged of building a permanent Republican majority?