Satire site Georgewbush.org has been quietly receiving email intended for campaign staff at Georgewbush.com, including Excel files, called "caging files," consisting of names and addresses of voters in areas with a majority of black residents. Florida Republican campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher acknowledged that the party's poll workers will be instructed to challenge voters, and refused to say that the caging files would not be used in order to create a challenge list. US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters. Read more

Meanwhile, Florida's infamous—if under-reported in the U.S.—"felon"-purging system is still in operation. After some public pressure, the state was forced to make it merely "optional" for county election officials to implement the racist purge. A "smoking e-mail" has emerged which proves that Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many "flaws." Read more

58,000 absentee ballots are missing in Broward County, Florida.

A press conference on racist voter suppression is being held in front of the State Building, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco at 10:30am on Oct. 27th.