Vote caging: A story to watch

[mburbank]

Monica Goodling mentioned it in testimony.

Senators didn't focus on it much, beyond one admitting she didn't know what it was, and Monica's vague non explanation of the term was accepted.

Vote caging is an illegal method of knocking the poor off voter registration roles by sending them registered mail at places the mailer is pretty sure they won't be. Last addreses of homless people, home addresses of college student, and soldiers residences.

Several blogs, including RFJ Jr's and a BBC guy who's specialty is voting made noise, but today Dahlia Lithwick at slate picked up the ball, making her the first main stream meadia journalist to shine some light on the issue. (I think we're into the internte age enough to call Slate MSM)

How and to what degree was the Justice Department involved in vote cageing? Why has it become neccesary for the very screamy and often untrustworthyt and easily ignorable 'blogosphere' to get main stream journalists to be anything more than stenographers?