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In particular, the new law requires that 88 county boards of election mail every single registered voter in their purview a non-forwardable notice letter 60 days before the election.
Art Levine: Note to Democrats: Don't Panic! But Stop Voter Purges, Too 2008
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If the non-forwardable card is returned to the Elections Board, political operatives use that list to challenge those voters should they show up on Election Day.
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Caging "is the practice of sending non-forwardable mail to voters and challenging the eligibility of every person for whom the mail is returned as undeliverable"
Baratunde Thurston: Announcing The Launch Of The Voter Suppression Wiki -- Learn, Report, Act 2008
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Challenger laws allow disqualification of voters based on non-forwardable mailers to registered voters, voter challenges, and cries of “voter fraud” immediately before elections.
Voter Suppression In 2008 At Stake In Attorney General Hearings 2007
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I'm sorry, but due to time-pressure and my intensely creepy feeling that companies like eVite view me as a "sticky eyeball" and wish to interpose themselves between me and my personal relationships, and deliberately break their service by sending out non-forwardable URLs and emails that don't contain the invitation details, I no longer read or even see eVites (this is an automated form response).
Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004
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I'm sorry, but due to time-pressure and my intensely creepy feeling that companies like eVite view me as a "sticky eyeball" and wish to interpose themselves between me and my personal relationships, and deliberately break their service by sending out non-forwardable URLs and emails that don't contain the invitation details, I no longer read or even see eVites (this is an automated form response).
Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004
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They have to be able to either maybe even forward some kind of a non-forwardable -- or send a non-forwardable notification to them that has to be filled out and returned.
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According to Project Vote, in 1981 the Republican National Committee mailed non-forwardable postcards to majority Hispanic and African-American districts in New Jersey in an effort to accuse those voters of false voting.
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So when mail is sent to potential voters, non-forwardable mail, and it's sent back, then that becomes a potential basis for challenging voter eligibility, because if the mail was returned, presumably that person doesn't live at that address.
Democracy Now! 2008
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Here, county clerks must send non-forwardable letters to newly registered voters.
t r u t h o u t 2008
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