Foreclosure Lists To Be Used In Vote Supression Effort?

On Wednesday, The Michigan Messenger reported:

• 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 GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

• “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t 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.

For more on this story, see Lose your house, lose your vote (Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters).

For follow-up reports on this story, see:

• Foreclosure may not be ‘proper cause’ for challenging voters at polls ("[E]ven if a person’s home has been foreclosed upon, and they have been evicted from that home, Michigan election law 168.507a allows a voter to vote at their last-registered voter address."),
• Republicans recant plans to foreclose voters but admit other strategies,
• Messenger rejects GOP plea for retraction.

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