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Glad the New York Times has caught up to what I’ve warned about: mailing in your ballot is playing Russian roulette with your vote. Don’t. Don’t. Don’t. #VoteByMail #VoteByMail2020 #SaveMyVote2020 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
And this year, some Boogaloo schmuck in a Hawaiian shirt will be the poll watcher challenging your ballot. #ElectionDay #Election2020 #Voting gregpalast.com/warning-trump-…
As we've previously reported, a seminal MIT study, Losing Votes by Mail, warns that 22% – more than one in five mail-in ballots – never get counted. #VoteByMail #VoteByMail2020 #PurgeByPostcard #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #VotingRights #CivilRights
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Hundreds of thousands of voters have been struck from the voter rolls and they have no idea.
There’s no question that this attack on the voter rolls is affecting voters of color and young people — and could absolutely change the outcome of the election.
There’s no question that this attack on the voter rolls is affecting voters of color and young people — and could absolutely change the outcome of the election.
In October 2019, #Georgia’s Secretary of State published a list of over 300,000 citizens purged from the state’s voter rolls. But, almost two out of three of those Georgia voters struck off for moving from their registration address hadn’t moved at all.
In some states voters need to show photo ID in order to vote in person.
In "Exact Match" states, voter registration details have to match govt ID — down to the last hyphen.
In Georgia, about 70% of voters impacted by “Exact Match” are African American.
In "Exact Match" states, voter registration details have to match govt ID — down to the last hyphen.
In Georgia, about 70% of voters impacted by “Exact Match” are African American.
The concept of #Crosscheck was simple and, at first glance, quite reasonable: states would share their voter rolls with its chief, #KrisKobach, who would look for voters registered in two states and remove the duplicates. Who could argue with that? gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
The press praised #Crosscheck as a brilliant use of computers, and at its peak, 30 states joined the scheme. Almost all were Republican controlled, but some Democratic voting officials joined with enthusiasm. Who can defend fraudulent voters? gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo… 
But this bothered me: On Kobach’s Crosscheck site, the number of potential double voters, by 2015, totaled 7,264,422. Seven million double voter suspects? (Or, as Kobach would have it it, 3.6 million Americans voting or registering twice.) gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
The #Georgia ruling against Fair Fight in its suit to restore 100K GA voters to the rolls comes on the heels of a devastating ruling by a #Wisconsin court that orders the state to purge 234K voters even though the state has declared the purge list faulty gregpalast.com/hunting-season…
On December 13, Wisconsin Ozaukee County judge Paul Malloy ordered the state elections board to remove 234,000 voters from the rolls on the petition of a right-wing group, despite the board determining that the purge would remove legal voters. jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
The precedent is astonishing. It's the first time a state's been ordered to remove citizens en masse. In 2018, SCOTUS allowed states to remove voters on evidence they’d moved. But no state has been forced to remove voters—especially in light of evidence that the lists are faulty.
Two new court decisions have blessed mass voter purges in two swing states, #Georgia and #Wisconsin. This could be the launch of a new system for purging voters of color and young people that's expected to spread before the 2020 Presidential election. gregpalast.com/hunting-season…
In Atlanta on Friday, Federal Judge Steve Jones ruled against @StaceyAbrams’ #VotingRights organization @FairFightAction in its suit to immediately restore nearly 100,000 Georgians to the voter rolls. #VanishingVoters gregpalast.com/federal-court-…
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction #Georgia’s Secretary of State was using a method we call #PurgeByPostcard. Under the guise of “voter list maintenance,” Georgia sent out postcards that look like cheap junk mail. When a voter fails to return the card, they lose their vote. gregpalast.com/federal-court-… #VanishingVoters
Great news ➡️ It took us six years of investigating... but, finally, #Kansas, which generates the #Crosscheck scrub lists for other states, has agreed to kill the program. This effectively ends the entire national #VoterPurge operation. gregpalast.com/we-have-mortal… #VanishingVoters
But dangers still lurk:
1. At least a dozen states continue to use the old Crosscheck scrub lists. Astonishingly, this includes #Virginia, which the Democrats just won. gregpalast.com/virginia-using… #VanishingVoters
1. At least a dozen states continue to use the old Crosscheck scrub lists. Astonishingly, this includes #Virginia, which the Democrats just won. gregpalast.com/virginia-using… #VanishingVoters
2. The settlement, signed by #KrisKobach’s successor in #Kansas with the @ACLU, only stops #Crosscheck temporarily. The agreement permits it to return if the state installs cyber security protections. truthout.org/articles/kansa… #VanishingVoters
We have databases with absolute proof that this purge is racist and illegal. @StaceyAbrams is covering the cost of our experts in #Georgia, where her organization, @FairFightAction is taking legal action using our evidence. news.yahoo.com/georgia-moving… #VanishingVoters
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction However, in #Wisconsin, a court decision is forcing a similar mass racist purge of 234,000 voters. It can be reversed. We are prepared to team up with WI Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. courthousenews.com/wisconsin-elec… #VanishingVoters
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction But bluntly, we simply don’t have one penny to do this work. If you give a damn, here’s the link to make a tax-deductible donation: palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2…
#VanishingVoters #Wisconsin #BrianKemp #Georgia #PurgeByPostcard #Election2016 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal
#VanishingVoters #Wisconsin #BrianKemp #Georgia #PurgeByPostcard #Election2016 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal
#StaceyAbrams’ non-profit @FairFightAction has retained our team of experts to provide court testimony, based on our six years of investigation, in Fair Fight’s federal law suit to overturn #Georgia’s massive, racially biased purge of voters. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
@fairfightaction Our experts will testify that this new #JimCrow system not only fixed #Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial race between #StaceyAbrams and then GOP Secretary of Sate #BrianKemp — but has since gone all over the nation. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #VanishingVoters
@fairfightaction There are 20 states — mostly GOP-controlled — who are using the same #PurgeByPostcard system to remove voters from the rolls illegally. Please donate so we can expose it: palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2… #VanishingVoters
In 2018, we uncovered 340,134 voters illegally removed from #Georgia’s voter rolls by Secretary of State #BrianKemp while he was running for Governor against Stacey Abrams. gregpalast.com/georgias-brian… #VanishingVoters
This was #BrianKemp’s secretive “cleansing” operation that won him the election over #StaceyAbrams, the first black woman in American history to run for governor. gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kem… #VanishingVoters
Stacey Abrams Hires Palast Investigations Team for Massive Federal Suit to Restore Voting Rights gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #VanishingVotes #StopTheSteal
While we're thrilled with this new alliance, it only covers #Georgia. We need to expose new, massive, illegal #VoterPurges in #Ohio, #Michigan, #NorthCarolina, #Florida, #Kentucky, #Wisconsin, #Nevada and other states. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
We’ve already filed preliminary legal actions in 20 states. Now we move to the expensive process of detailed computer analysis of each purge, voter by voter, more than a quarter million in each of these states. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #VanishingVotes
#AskGregAQuestion: I was purged — how do we fight back? How important are Exit Polls? What about #VoterSuppression in Ohio? Why won’t the Dems go after Crosscheck? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal…
#AskGregAQuestion: Has #RonDeSantis and his GOP Legislature derailed the #Amendment4 that Floridians enacted? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal… #Florida
#AskGregAQuestion: How important are #ExitPolls for the #DemocraticPrimary? facebook.com/notes/greg-pal…
#JimCrow in #Ohio: 183,000 cancelled voter registrations 10tv.com/article/ohio-r… #PurgeByPostcard #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #VotingRights #CivilRights #Election2106 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal #GregPalast #StealBackYourVote
The mass removal of 183,000 #Ohio voters from the rolls is a clear violation of the National Voter Registration Act gregpalast.com/ohios-junk-mai… #NVRA #PurgeByPostcard
With attorney Robert Fitrakis of Columbus, #Ohio, and Jeanne Mirer of New York coordinating our national legal effort, we'll prove these removals are illegal as we did in #Georgia where our team is working with @StaceyAbrams’ @FairFightAction. gregpalast.com/suing-ohio-kan…
😱 #Ohio is set to purge 235,000 voters from the rolls TODAY!!! The state ALREADY removed 265,000 voters from the rolls in January, so with this latest purge, half a million voters will have been removed so far this year. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ohio-vot…
Ohio is using the same discredited, biased #PurgeByPostcard game our team is fighting in #Georgia. Our experts say the method is over 70% wrong. That’s 200,000 voters in Ohio set to be wrongly purged TODAY!!! gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
Bob Fitrakis, a top #VotingRights attorney, has already notified #Ohio's GOP Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, that he plans to sue in federal court under the National Voter Registration Act. This purge is a CRIME, and when they steal Ohio they steal the nation. #NVRA
#Ohio is using the discredited, biased #PurgeByPostcard game our team is fighting in #Georgia. Our experts say the method is over 70% wrong. That’s 200,000 voters in Ohio set to be wrongly purged this Friday. dispatch.com/news/20190904/…
As @darreldrowland of @DispatchAlerts reports, "#Ohio already removed 265,000 from the voter rolls earlier this year, meaning if another 235,000 come off the books Friday, half-a-million will have been removed this year." dispatch.com/news/20190903/… #PurgeByPostcard #ElectionFraud
@darreldrowland @DispatchAlerts Bob Fitrakis, a top #VotingRights attorney, has already notified #Ohio's GOP Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, that he plans to sue in federal court under the National Voter Registration Act. This purge is a CRIME, and when they steal Ohio they steal the nation! #PurgeByPostcard
BREAKING: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Block on Indiana #Crosscheck Voter Purge Law wbiw.com/2019/08/27/fed… #InterstateCrosscheck #VoterPurge #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #Election2020 #VotingRights #Indiana
Another bullet in #Crosscheck: Indiana can’t use the list without sending out postcards to victims. As students, people of color, and the poor move more than white suburbanites, this will still mean that nearly 100,000 Indiana voters who've wrongly lost their vote are in trouble.
Learn more about why #PurgeByPostcard is a problem, watch The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, available from GregPalast.com — or stream it for FREE on #AmazonPrime! amazon.com/Best-Democracy…
Cuomo: "What would you do if the President said, 'I am a racist'"
Kobach: "Then I would not defend him."
Cuomo: "Would you still support him as President?"
Kobach: "I don't know."
Cuomo: "You have to think about whether or not you would support a racist?"
Kobach: "Then I would not defend him."
Cuomo: "Would you still support him as President?"
Kobach: "I don't know."
Cuomo: "You have to think about whether or not you would support a racist?"
#KrisKobach has a long history of racism. He started out as a lawyer for a white supremacist group called FAIR, which says its purpose is to maintain a European majority America. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pal…
#KrisKobach's the author of SB 1070, which the ACLU calls the Driving While Brown law. And he's very proud of the fact he came up with the idea for Trump's wall — and that Mexico would pay for it. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
BREAKING: #StaceyAbrams’ new voting rights org, #FairFightGeorgia, files suit, charges #BrianKemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally purged" #Georgia's voter rolls. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
The suit states #BrianKemp: “grossly mismanaged an election that deprived #Georgia citizens, and particularly citizens of color, of their fundamental right to vote.” gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
The #FairFightGeorgia complaint charges that #BrianKemp: “unconstitutionally purged the rolls of nearly ten percent of #Georgia’s registered voters.” gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
Salon TV: How to Steal #Georgia in 7 Minutes gregpalast.com/salon-watch-jo…
#BrianKemp, #Georgia’s secretary of state, purged 550,702 Georgians from the voter rolls in 2016 and 2017. gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
How did #Kemp pull off this mass extinction of #VotingRights? Besides what I call the “#PurgeByPostcard trick” to remove a third of a million voters, Kemp has a devil’s toolkit of vote-bending tricks…
Last year, #BrianKemp canceled the registrations of over 500,000 #Georgia voters because they left the state or moved to another county. Except they didn’t. Experts in address location found 340,134 victims of #ThePurge had never moved at all. truthout.org/articles/georg…
WARNING: In addition to the 340,134 who never moved from their original registration addresses, Kemp wrongly purged thousands more who did move, but within their county. (If you move within your county — you need not re-register and should not be purged.) truthout.org/articles/georg…
How did #BrianKemp get away with this mass flushing of the voter rolls? I call it, “#PurgeByPostcard.” gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
Rather than face me in federal court, #Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State, Barbara K. Cegavske, turned over the list of every #Nevada voter whose registration she cancelled in 2016 and 2017 gregpalast.com/90000-purged-i… #StopTheSteal
Cegavske used the same notorious #PurgeByPostcard and #Crosscheck methods of cleansing #Nevada's voter rolls as GOP Secretaries of State #BrianKemp (Georgia) and #KrisKobach (Kansas) gregpalast.com/90000-purged-i…
Our experts, reviewing these lists, have found that the overwhelming majority of voters who have supposedly moved out of state or out of their home counties have, in fact, not moved an inch — most remain at their original registration address. gregpalast.com/las-vegas-and-…
BREAKING: Today we're releasing the names of the 90,000 residents of #LasVegas and #Reno purged in 2016 and 2017 by #Nevada’s Republican Secretary of State, Barbara K. Cegavske. gregpalast.com/90000-purged-i… #Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #StopTheSteal
Are you on the #LasVegas & #Reno purge list? Check here: gregpalast.com/las-vegas-and-…
We cannot expose the practice of mass cancellation of voting rights in #Nevada without your help. Know anyone in Nevada? Share this post now!
#Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #StopTheSteal
We cannot expose the practice of mass cancellation of voting rights in #Nevada without your help. Know anyone in Nevada? Share this post now!
#Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #StopTheSteal
If you’re a victim of the #Nevada purge, you still have time to re-register before the October 18 online registration deadline: nvsos.gov/SOSVoterServic…
#Crosscheck “stymied"? #NewHampshire and #Maine JOINED the program. And #Indiana is absolutely still in the program and purged voters simply because they were on #Kobach’s list — which even Kobach says violated the NVRA. salon.com/2018/08/06/red…
Furthermore, the Supreme Court APPROVED #Crosscheck removals if a POSTCARD is sent and not returned. gregpalast.com/ohios-junk-mai… #PurgeByPostcard #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud
#INDIANA IS STILL REMOVING VOTERS USING #CROSSCHECK. I’m not guessing. I have filed formal open records demands in 27 Crosscheck states — and, with @RevJJackson, sent formal notice of intent to file federal suit for Crosscheck records. gregpalast.com/suing-ohio-kan… #StopTheSteal
The #PurgeByPostcard is not about people moving, it’s about moving people off the voter rolls. Students who’ve moved dorm rooms and poor people who’ve moved down the street or lost their homes are losing their vote. #StopTheSteal
They removed people because they were overwhelmingly young people, poor people and voters of color. If we can prove that a postcard is not a reasonable method of determining whether someone has moved, they can’t enforce the SCOTUS decision. It won’t stand. gregpalast.com/suing-ohio-kan…
The #PurgeByPostcard, which was ratified by #SCOTUS last week, is something that could flip the midterm elections and will be truly dangerous when it really grips by 2020. vimeo.com/276127388
But we can reverse the purges. We’re going to prove what everyone knows, that #PurgeByPostcard is a bogus way of removing the poor, the young, and people of color — who overwhelming vote blue — from the voter rolls. gregpalast.com/suing-ohio-kan… #StopTheSteal
Join the fight to stop the #PurgeByPostcard — together we can #StopTheSteal! palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopTheStealA…
