Foreclosures won't hinder voters. ... That's what the Macomb GOP chief says.

[Bozita]

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/POLITICS01/809120380/1022/POLITICS

Friday, September 12, 2008
Foreclosures won't hinder voters
Macomb GOP chief denies plan to challenge votes in November.
Jim Lynch and Gordon Trowbridge / The Detroit News

One political blog accuses him of hatching "the most evil plan in modern Republican history."

Other activists say he's trying to steal votes and disenfranchise African-American voters.

But James Carabelli, chairman of the Macomb County Republican Party, said Thursday it was all a fabrication -- that he never told a reporter the GOP plans to use poll challengers to block residents with foreclosed homes from voting in November.

The interview ignited responses from across the country, with some political observers saying the very idea of linking foreclosures with voting rights could have a chilling effect on turnout.

"Sometimes it doesn't take much to keep people away from the polls," said John Klemanski, a Macomb County native who has taught political science at Oakland University for more than 20 years.

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[SammyWinstonJack]

1. K&R

[EFerrari]

2. Okay. We now have the Official Denial. n/t

[slampoet]

3. Funny how "challengers to block residents" should read "challengers to black residents.."

[Bozita]

4. Brad from Bradblog has just mentioned the foreclosure lists on Thom Hartmann's show

It didn't sound like Brad had heard about the denial in the OP.