Thousands at risk from rightwing push to purge eligible voters from US rolls
(The Guardian United States)

Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters´ details online in what experts say amounts to `insidious modern-day intimidation´In June last year, Luis, a resident of Virginia, was astonished to discover that his name and personal details, including home address, had been posted on the internet by a group known as the Public Interest Legal Foundation (Pilf).Luis´s data had been released by the group, along with hundreds of other names, as an appendix to Pilf´s two-part report called `Alien Invasion`. The front cover showed a UFO hovering ominously over a billboard on which the famous tourism slogan `Virginia is for lovers` had been photoshopped to read: `Virginia is for aliens`. Continue reading...