Obscanity: You'll know it when you see it

The Michigan Messenger is reporting that the county GOP will use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting if they live at those addresses. The problem?

The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.”

One expert questioned the legality of the tactic.

“You can’t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,” said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm. “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.”

So basically, if you’re unfortunate enough to be in danger of losing your house, the Republicans will rub salt on your wound by trying to prevent you from voting out the administration that let the economy turn to such shit that you lost your house in the first place. Pretty great racket, eh?

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