Good on the ever amazing House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) for stepping up for voters again today.
Chairman Conyers Introduces Bill to Fight Voter Caging
– Provides that the right to register to vote or vote shall not be denied by election officials if the denial is based on voter caging and other questionable challenges not corroborated by independent evidence.
– Prohibits persons other than election officials from challenging a voter’s eligibility based on voter caging and other questionable challenges.
– Requires that any voter challenge by persons other than election officials be based on personal, first-hand knowledge.
– Designates voter-caging and other questionable challenges intended to disqualify eligible voters as felonies, crimes eligible for fines up to $250,000, five years imprisonment, or both.
Thinkprogress posted this article around 4:35 pm so if someone else has already created a diary on this issue I understand. I searched for Conyers Caging with no results so I figured I should start this diary.
Caging List as described by Wikipedia. It was a huge disenfranchiser in the last election and we know that the Republicans will not back down from doing it again. If they got away with it once, they know they will be more than tempted to redouble their efforts to remove more names from the voting rolls.
Conyers worked with Greg Palast and the emails he received pointing to none other than Karl Rove connected to the "Vote Caging" Evidence
Indicates caging operation could not have been done without knowledge of Rove, according to Palast team.
In 2004, Greg Palast wrote for For BBC News about Shrub's direct connect to this issue and Karl Rove's emails