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UPDATE: Here's the link, with the "framing allegation worse than I realized:

The details about "Caging" and what the Republicans have planned to do are coming into view. The Republicans have been compiling lists (probably in the tens of thousands) of voters whom they have culled from lists of those newly registered, mailing registered mail to them, preparing lists of those who did not accept the Republican Party mailing, and then challenging their right to vote.

A correspondent has forwarded the following article to me (not yet available through Google News from a publication without subscription requirements):

ELECTION BOARD THROWS OUT 976 CHALLENGES BY REPUBLICAN
PARTY

GOP Challenger Barbara Miller Could be Indicted on
Felony Charges

AKRON, Ohio - The Summit County Board of Elections
abruptly threw out 976 challenges of voter eligibility
by the Republican Party today after Barbara Miller,
the challenger, revealed that she did not have any
personal information about the eligibility of any of
the challenged voters.

Instead, Miller said that her challenges were based on
a list of "undeliverable mail" given to her by the
Republican Party. The list was based on a GOP mailing
sent to registered voters throughout the state of
Ohio.

After Miller presented this as her evidence, Russell
Pry, Summit County Election Board member, told her
that she could be indicted for signing a sworn
challenge without any personal knowledge about the
eligibility of the voters. Miller's reaction was to
plead the Fifth Amendment.

Catherine Herold, the first voter challenged at the
hearing, told the board that she believes that she was
on the undeliverable list because she "refused the
letter when she saw that it came from the Republican
Party." She and many others expressed anger that their
eligibility had been challenged - which could force
them to vote by provisional ballot on Nov. 2.

"This is an outrage," Herold said. "I feel as if I am
being called a liar for claiming to live at my
address."

The Summit County Board of Elections has indicated
that they plan to call in the Department of Justice to
conduct a criminal investigation of the challenges.

Following is an excerpt from a transcript of today's
hearing (for email copies contact Emilie Karrick).
Catherine Herold and Neil Klingshirn, attorney for
several of the challenged voters, are available for
interviews.