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GOP Says They'll Continue Voter Suppression Tactic« Thread Started on Sept 28, 2007, 5:53pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------GOP Says They'll Continue Voter Suppression TacticsBy Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted September 27, 2007.read at source> http://www.alternet.org/rights/63574/The Republican Party plans to continue a legal tactic that targets the right to vote of likely Democrats -- often minorities. In 2004, Republicans used a Jim Crow-era tactic to target the voter registrations of a half-million likely Democratic voters -- often minorities -- for Election Day challenges in nine states, a national voting rights group has charged in a new report."The intended effect of voter caging operations is to suppress minority votes," Project Vote said in its report, "Caging: A Fifty-Year History of Partisan Challenges to Minority Voters. "Several court decisions and occasional public comment by Republican officials lend support to this conclusion."