Update: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote?

Last week we heard about a plot by the Michigan GOP to prevent victims of the housing crisis from voting.

Thankfully, it appears that the Democrats are fighting back. From ABC News:

The Obama campaign and DNC have filed an injunction in federal court as an effort to challenge what they deem as illegal voter suppression of people whose houses are in foreclosure.

The injunction is in response to the comments last week from the Macomb County (MI) Republican Party chairman, James Carabelli, who allegedly said: “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.”

On a conference call with reporters, Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, said this practice is illegal and would be used to intimidate and prevent people from going to the polls.

Members of Jobs for Justice and ACORN tried to deliver a letter of complaint to the McCain Campaign’s Midwest HQ, but we’re told that their letter would not accept by the campaign and that they needed to move their cars from “private property.” Not surprisingly, the McCain camps’ headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott, who’s founder, David A. Trott, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for McCain.

More from the Michigan Messenger, here and here.