Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S. Attorney ... after evidence ... alleged voter suppression in the 2004 elections

Rove’s Mini-Me Tim Griffin Resigns after Evidence Ties Him to Alleged Voter Suppression | Posted by Jon Ponder | Jun. 3, 2007, 8:44 am |

The White House installed Griffin as U.S. Attorney without Senate approval using a provision they’d slipped into the Patriot Act.

Big media is ignoring the story that former White House Deputy Communications
Director — and former RNC Research Director — Tim Griffin resigned as the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas last week after evidence revealed he was directly involved in alleged voter suppression in the 2004 elections.

This may be the first time you’ve heard of the illegal tactic of “caging” voters, but if BBC investigator Greg Palast is correct, it will not be the last.

Caging is a form of voter suppression involving registered mail. Typically, campaigns will select voters from the opposing party who are unlikely to respond to a registered letter — soldiers serving overseas, for example. They send registered mail to the addresses listed in these voters’ registration files and then compile a list of the voters whose mail was returned marked undeliverable, or “caged.” On election day, when the people on the list arrive to vote, campaign workers challenge the legitimacy of their voter registrations, thereby delaying or preventing their votes. Palast says caging is a felony.

Palast recently obtained hundreds of emails sent by White House officials to Bush-Cheney operatives during the 2004 campaign. Among these were emails containing caging lists sent by Griffin, apparently in his as communications deputy. Late last week, Palast agreed to show Griffin’s emails to Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. On Thursday, Griffin abruptly announced his resignation in Little Rock, citing an urgent need to work in the private sector. (Some sources say Griffin is in negotiations to join Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign; while one wag suggests Griffin resigned “to spend more time in jail.“) ...