Press release: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) introduced the Caging Prohibition Act of 2008. Voter caging is a practice by which mail is sent to a registered voter’s address and, if the mail is returned as “undeliverable” or if it is delivered and the voter does not respond, his or her registration is challenged in order to suppress voter turnout. This may occur even if the voter has simply moved across a college campus or to another location on a military base, or simply does not respond to what one might assume is junk mail. It is estimated that the practice has resulted in tens of thousands of voters – often soldiers, college students and low-income families – being purged from the rolls.”