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Advocacy Blog
Friday, March 28, 2008
Whitehouse bill would stop voter caging
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) is proposing new legislation that would put an end to voter caging, a practice in which the voter rolls are questioned. It can lead to unwarranted purges or challenges of eligible citizens. The Caging Prohibition Act (S. 2305) would outlaw voter caging, and was first introduced in November 2007, and is pending before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. Sheldon, testifying before the committee in February, said,
It is an unfortunate reality that, with so much at stake in the ballot box, organized efforts to suppress the vote go nearly as far back as the right to vote itself...Protecting the rights of eligible voters is essential to the health of our democracy.
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