This is an election that is ripe for voter fraud and gaming the system.  The GOP will not give up the White House easily and the same shenanigans that were in play in 2000 and 2004 will continue to be in play in 2008.  Though Karl Rove’s 2000 and 2004 fraud machine is currently under attack, it is still locked and loaded for 2008.  Also, given the fact that McCain has wholeheartedly adopted the Karl Rovian gutter politics, by any means necessary, political playbook, we as voters need to be vigilant and recognize when we are being duped by politicians, groups, or individuals attempting to disrupt the democratic process.  We have compiled a list that is not exhaustive of article excerpts profiling such nefarious tactics.  Stay on the look out for the following methods of voter suppression:

Vote Caging  Vote caging is a voter suppression tactic. The term is derived from a direct mail term. In the direct mail industry, when a third party runs a direct mailing campaign on behalf of a client organization, one of the activities undertaken is to compile all of the responses, handle contributions and to deposit received funds into the client’s account, and also update the database of names and addresses that were mailed to with the responses or corrected addresses obtained. Since some of the activities were controlled carefully (donations and deposits) and conducted in a manner similar to the activities within a “teller’s cage,” the process is called “caging” and the end result of the data entry updates and address corrections is called a “caging list.” This led to the term “voter caging” for voter registration analysis and challenges conducted via mass mailings

Robo-Calling  The nonprofit group responsible for a slew of misleading automated phone calls to black voters in North Carolina answered a few questions about the controversial campaign on Thursday, but some of the answers only beg more questions.

The D.C.-based voter-registration group Women’s Voices, Women Vote is facing accusations that it was trying to suppress the black vote in the upcoming North Carolina Democratic primary, after voters in predominantly black districts in the state began receiving automated phone calls telling them to expect a voter registration packet in the mail, even through the registration deadline had passed, and some had already registered.

Voter Disinformation Campaigns  Rev. Joe Darby, the pastor of Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston, S.C., might have been more than a little surprised by the letter he received on Friday. Drafted on what appeared to be NAACP letterhead, it informed him he could face arrest when he votes in November’s election if he’s behind on child support payments, has any unpaid traffic tickets, or has bad credit.Not only was the information blatantly false, but Darby was in a position to know that the South Carolina NAACP wouldn’t misinform black voters about fake restrictions

Purges of Voter Rolls  In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations.  Guess their color.  In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters. In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.  In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.

Restrictive Voter ID Laws The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that “states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.” The case concerned Indiana’s voter ID law, the most restrictive in the nation, and comes just one week before the state’s presidential primary. More than 20 states currently require some form of ID at the polls.  Check your state election site to determine if your state requires identification.

Gerrymandering  The process known as redistricting in the United States is the changing of political borders. Often this means changing electoral district and constituency boundaries, usually in response to periodic census results.  However, the GOP plans to use this strategy to regain power.

Swiftboating  Get scurrilous whisper campaigns inside the hack pack press, long after they’ve been debunked. South Carolina is known for this stuff. That The Washington Post is revealing it through a long winding piece is journalism at its worst. If it came as a warning on what’s on wingnut radio that would be one thing. But what it actually does is provide a platform for a rumor campaign, not to mention a preview of things to come for Democrats. It’s John Kerry revisited, the religious version.

We will continue to update this list with additional methods to watch out for as we receive them.  Further, if you have experience other types of voter suppression leave it in the comment and we will ad them to the list.