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December 26, 2007 at 22:26:05

Kansas GOP Chair Sends Email Boasting of Voter Caging

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Kansas GOP Chair Sends Email Boasting of Voter Caging

Kris Kobach, a former counsel to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft who is currently the chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out an email on Thur entitled "Kansas Republican Party Year in Review" in which he brags of voter caging. Blue Tide Rising has the goods:

… Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item:

"To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!" […]

Slate.com has the best comprehensive write-up on how the Republican Party employs caging techniques to suppress the votes of the poor, the deployed, and college students. (You know, likely Democratic voters.)

Did we mention it's illegal? And that Kris Kobach is proud to be doing it?

Since Kris Kobach can't expand his own party or force his own Party's members to support his candidates he's shamelessly trying to keep Democrats from voting instead. This is the stratagem of a desperate and shrinking party.

Someone needs to ask Kris Kobach which voters he's caging and how he's doing it. Someone like a newspaper editor or perhaps a Grand Jury. … (more)

More on Kris Kobach here and here (He apparently suffers from an advanced case of Lou Dobbs disease). Depending on what methods are being used in Kobach's admitted voter caging scheme, it may very well be illegal, but hardly surprising. Voter suppression through caging lists has become a standard part of the Republican playbook to steal elections for some time now. In Sept McClatchy detailed current Republican voter caging efforts underway in Florida and Ohio to "impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008," and back in July PBS NOW took a look at the Republican Party's voter caging plan "designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity." Watch that video here.

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KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades. He sees himself as a peace educator and have been a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish. I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades. He sees himself as a peace educator and have been a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish. I...

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Vote for this Kansan, Kevin Stoda, to reright KS right

I have been running for the currently Republican-held senate seat by one Pat Roberts and I say it is time to overhaul much of the status quo in the Republican party in Kansas. We need to return to a situation where Nancy Landen-Kassebaum and others are no longer shut out of the state of Kansas.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_alone_071106_writers__strike_prov.htm

I was educated in Rice county schools by election officials as long ago as 1979 that in any election approximately 20% of the ballots are tossed out in my HOME STATE. I have always felt that to be against the intnet of the VOTING RIGHTS act and the constitution.

As your Republcan Peace candidate and evangelical Christian candidate I would not put up with caging by anyone--democrat nor republican in 2008 and henceforth.

Kevin Anthony Stoda

by ALONE (130 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 283 comments) on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 4:16:01 AM

It is never the masses that make the difference, it is always the individual which makes the difference. Thank you for letting me be myself today.
Jeanette DoneyIt is never the masses that make the difference, it is always the individual which makes the difference. Thank you for letting me be myself today.

Don't taz me Bro!

Kerry won. I bet yah 99.9% of the GOP does not have a clue this happened "in their name". The article is designed to keep the duopoly looking as if the Democrats didn't block Nader's ballot access or perform dirty tricks on the Greens. I'm so glad the Ron Paul rEVOLution is going to give the GOP a regime change, of course this will upset the Dems who depend on the GOP to be bastards to be bastards themselves and continue this hatefull fearmongering ultimately making ALL Americans look bad to the universe.

by Jeanette Doney (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 304 comments) on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at 4:41:16 PM