Honest Voting

Back to more serious matters.

The first person to mention caging lists in my hearing was Greg Palast. But other authors have been pointing out the extensive use of caging lists in politics, most often and most documentably by the Republican Party.  Here’s the Wikipedia description of what “caging” means:

With one type of caging, a political party sends registered mail to addresses of registered voters. If the mail is returned as undeliverable - because, for example, the voter refuses to sign for it, the voter isn’t present for delivery, or the voter is homeless - the party uses that fact to challenge the registration, arguing that because the voter could not be reached at the address, the registration is fraudulent.

(To be continued shortly.)

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