Republican’s Anti-American Plan – Lose Home, Lose Right To Vote

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOPs effort to challenge some voters on Election Day. We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people arent voting from those addresses, party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed. State election rules allow parties to assign election challengers to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they have a good reason to believe that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a true resident of the city or township. The Michigan Republicans planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being true residents. One expert questioned the legality of the tactic. You cant challenge people without a factual basis for doing so, said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the US Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington DC-based public-interest law firm. I dont think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes

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