But according to Nina Countryman, communications director for the Minnesota GOP, there are no plans to engage in similar tactics here. “We’re not doing that here,” Countryman says. “It’s just not true.”

Local party officials echo that sentiment. “I would be shocked if it happened,” says Rory Koch, GOP chairman in the Fourth Congressional District. Koch further argues that such tactics wouldn’t succeed in Minnesota because the state has same-day voter registration. “It’s ludicrous first of all, but in Minnesota it wouldn’t work anyway,” he says.

GOP officials in Michigan have questioned the veracity of the Michigan Messenger article and Carabelli has threatened so sue for libel, but the web site has stood by its reporting. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to prohibit GOP officials from challenging voters based on foreclosure lists.