ah, the GOP: leaving no vote unchallenged

via Too Sense and the Michigan Messenger comes the story that the Michigan GOP has obtained a list of foreclosure records and is planning to purge these eligible voters from the rolls, preventing them from being able to vote in November.

From the piece:

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.

State election rules allow parties to assign “election challengers” to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they “have a good reason to believe” that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a “true resident of the city or township.”

Outrageous? Hearkening to a day gone by when only 'landowners' were allowed to vote? Horrifyingly heartless to prevent people most affected by this administration's current economic disaster from voting? Blatantly unconstitutional, in addition to being fundamentally asshatty?

Ah, Republicans - gleefully disenfranchising folks who've lost their homes.
What mavericks.