My greatest appreciation for those registering new voters.  Amen, amen, amen.

But I'm thinking there's a particularly high return on investment opportunity that needs to be taken.

We know that voters in Macomb County, Michigan are being caged by the GOP if they are on the foreclosure list (and presumably Democratic or non-Albino.)

http://www.marketwatch.com/...

Whereas the perversion of American democracy has been accomplished the last two presidential elections by just such methods, we need to get busy on this.  As of July, there were more than 62,000 foreclosures in Michigan, and certainly there are more today.  These folks are disproportionately people of color and probably have a hell of a lot on their mind dealing with everyday life, and might not have re-registered to vote.  

We know that the GOP will put all of their effort behind suppressing the vote.  It's their specialty.  While we can try to fight them at the sites and in the courts, we can also get a hold of the foreclosure lists across the country (I think it's public record), cross-reference them with Democratic Party IDs, and re-register every single one of them with a lot of effort.  While registering new voters is a godsend, here we have people who have a history and have a pretty good reason to want change.  We have their names and former addresses.  I think we should make sure that this is being pursued at the highest levels.  I'm in, and will recruit everyone I know who will be interested (which is probably around 3-400 people) to get to work on this.  I don't know if DNC or Obama folks are on this at all.  If they are, point me to them and I'm ready to work.  If not, let's get this baby rolling.  I spent 24 hours on the ledge wandering how in the world an undecided voter could be tipped by Sarah Palin, and I'm back on good solid earth ready to do some serious work.  Who's in, and who can help get this organized at the upper levels, and can help cross-reference information with a kick-ass database?

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