Akkam’s RazorI don't do personal that often, which is why I've never become a D-tier internet celebrity.

GREG PALAST: And '08, so what's happening is there is no fix of the system. In other words, just like black folk get bad schools and bad hospitals, they get the bad voting machines, which are going to kill those votes. But they're not satisfied with just letting the ballots be thrown away. They're going to move it along. And one of the things I discovered is the Republican Party has something called "caging lists," which came to our — you know, just like you had Friday, the way the Yes Men capture material by using false websites, so through a false website we were able to capture Republican Party internal missives, through georgebush.org.

And so, what happened was is that they sent us a bunch of lists of literally tens of thousands of names of voters and addresses. We were wondering what the heck this was. It turns out these were almost all African American voters, who they were prepared to challenge in 2004, and they did, to say that these people shouldn't vote, because their addresses are suspect. And you'll see in the book that in the lists of thousands of black voters that they were challenging over their address were thousands of black soldiers who were sent to Iraq; go to Baghdad, and the Republican Party challenges your vote.

So apparently Cheney isn’t alone in his *.com / *.org / *.net confusion. GeorgeWBush.org (cache), a satire site, has a “catch-all” on their mailserver that collects any emails addressed to anyone@georgebush.org. Fortunately, no one configured the mailserver to ignore such emails.The full emails, including attachments, are included in the link. Apparently, Greg Palast, of the BBC, had an article sourced from those emails, detailing a plan by Bush staffers to challenge voters in Florida that they felt were not legally allowed to vote, which they refer to as a “caging list.”

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida
and the campaign’s national research director in Washington DC, contain a
15-page so-called “caging list”. It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in
predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.
…”The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge
voters on election day.”

Of course the Republicans deny this…

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