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AP: Michigan GOP to sue Michigan Messenger over foreclosed voter story

By admin | 10.02.08 | 3:04 pm

The Associated Press is reporting that James Carabelli, the chair of the Macomb County Republican party, is suing the Michigan Messenger and its parent organization, the non-profit Center for Independent Media, over the Messenger’s report last…

MN GOP denies plans to challenge voters using foreclosure lists

By Paul Demko | 09.22.08 | 3:14 pm

The Minnesota Republican Party has no plans to use lists of recent home foreclosures to challenge voters on election day, according to party officials. Earlier this month, our sister site, the Michigan Messenger, reported that local Republican party officials intended to utilize such lists in order to strike voters from the rolls. “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Michigan, told reporter Eartha Jane Melzer.

Obama campaign files suit over GOP plan to strike foreclosure victims from voter rolls

By Paul Demko | 09.16.08 | 3:52 pm

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court over the Michigan Republican Party’s plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, as first reported by our sister site…