Editing Voter caging (section)

==Method==
Voter caging refers to the practice of sending mail to addresses on the voter rolls, compiling a list of the mail that is returned undelivered, and using that list to challenge voters' registrations and votes on the grounds that the voters on the roll do not legally reside at their registered addresses.<ref name=whatis /><ref name=usdoj />{{Rp|129}}

More concretely, a political party or campaign will send out non-forwardable, first-class mail to voters or particular voters they want to target (often assumed to be a demographic that belongs to the opposing party). It will compile a list of voters for whom mail has been returned as undeliverable. The list is called a caging list. First-class mail marked as non-forwardable has resulted in a rate of return (returned and marked undeliverabl) as high as one return for every fifteen letters sent out.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.advancementproject.org/news/news-display-article.php?content_news_id=192 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127163023/http://www.advancementproject.org/news/news-display-article.php?content_news_id=192 |archive-date=November 27, 2008 |title=Nearly 600,000 Ohio Votes May Be Disenfranchised |date=August 13, 2008}}</ref> The so-called "caging list" that is the compiled names of all those for whom the envelopes were returned, marked undeliverable, can then be presented by the political party or campaign to election officials, with a request that the election officials should proceed to purge those people from the list of registered voters, or at a minimum, take a second look at whether the voter still resides at the address of registration. Election officials are not required to remove names based on having been presented with a caging list.

When a voter turns out to vote, who has been identified as no longer living at the address on their voter registration, election officials at the polling place may challenge their registration and require them to cast a [[provisional ballot]]. If investigation of the provisional ballot demonstrates that the voter has just moved or there is an error in the address and the voter is legally registered, the vote would then be counted. Opponents of this practice say that it is an unreliable method for determining whether a voter is ineligible to vote.<ref name=whatis />