Palast writes: "In 2004, BBC TV exposed Brett Doster, now Judge Roy Moore's campaign chief, for illegally 'caging' Black, Hispanic, and Jewish voters, a crime explained by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. in our film."
Brett Doster, a man with a long history of assaulting voting rights. (photo: Ryan Stone/OZY)
Judge Roy Moore's Campaign Chief Brett Doster Directed Illegal Voter Caging
16 November 17
n 2004, BBC TV exposed Brett Doster, now Judge Roy Moore’s campaign chief, for illegally "caging" Black, Hispanic, and Jewish voters, a crime explained by Bobby Kennedy, Jr. in our film (see clip below), The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. The Palast team got our hands on highly confidential documents from inside the George W. Bush campaign giving "
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," their Florida chief, one of several secret lists of voters to challenge.
They’d sent letters, for example, to soldiers in Iraq, and when the letters came back as "addressee not home," the "caged" letters were used as evidence the soldier didn’t exist. Note: It is legal for a US soldier on duty overseas, to vote for President. "Caging" is a crime — but those who committed the crime, the Bush campaign, were also in charge of prosecuting themselves. They didn’t. So Doster is running Moore’s Senate campaign instead of breaking rocks in a chain gang.
During my investigation, Doster hid from me, though I chased him around Tallahassee.
Get the new edition film with RFK's explanation of Doster’s criminal acts of vote suppression — available ONLY with a donation to the Palast Investigative Fund.
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