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Greg Palast
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After six years of investigating #KrisKobach’s Interstate #Crosscheck voter purge program, the entire racially biased, violently partisan #VoterSuppression tactic is on the verge of collapse gregpalast.com/interstate-cro…
Ten states in total have now withdrawn from the Interstate #Crosscheck system, including in the past few weeks, Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania and in alliance with my co-litigant, @RevJJackson, the state of Illinois gregpalast.com/illinois-drops…
And Kansas, after #KKKobach lost his race for Governor, has stopped creating the purge list for #Crosscheck states gregpalast.com/interstate-cro…
Unfortunately, nearly a score of states still use #InterstateCrosscheck. Worse, even those states which left #Crosscheck continue to purge hundreds of thousands of voters who found themselves on #Kobach’s lists in 2013 through 2017 gregpalast.com/interstate-cro…
The Palast Investigative Fund continues litigation in those states – a massive legal, statistical and investigative process which, frankly, is not cheap. Support our work by making a tax-deductible donation right now! palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopTheStealA…
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Trump may name #KrisKobach as Immigration Czar. Their real agenda: 2020 vote suppression. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
It’s an especially cute move by Trump, as this newly crafted position, unlike an appointment to other cabinet level posts, will not require Senate approval, not even a hearing. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
I’ve been investigating #KKKobach for six years. He's the guy who drafted Arizona’s notorious “SB 1070” law which the ACLU dubbed the, “Driving While Brown law” – found unconstitutional by Federal Courts. latimes.com/nation/la-na-a…
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Greg Palast
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Another one bites the dust, following our lawyers’ notice of federal court action against #Arizona and #Crosscheck with my co-plaintiff Arizona ballot protection expert John Roberts Brakey. It’s state by state, hand to hand combat. 20 left to go! thehill.com/homenews/state…
"I want to make it absolutely clear that we are not sending information to #Crosscheck. Arizona voters will not be put at risk of having their voter registration wrongly canceled based on inaccurate information.” — @SecretaryHobbs azsos.gov/about-office/m…
State Elections Director, Sambo (Bo) Dul, writes to #Kansas to confirm #Arizona's "formal withdrawal from the Interstates #Crosscheck Program." azsos.gov/sites/default/…
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Greg Palast
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This is an editorial screed against @BernieSanders and progressives masquerading as a news story. What they mean is that the American people have gotten off their leash and will not be whistled back to crouch politely at the feet of the elite. nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/…
The American working class consensus is that everyone should have healthcare, that the rich should pay more taxes instead of us, that jobs should be created ending pollution, instead of creating it, and that free trade shouldn’t be a free ride for corporate flight from the USA.
I guess the @NYTimes forgot that #HillaryClinton lost #Michigan, #Ohio, and #Pennsylvania. The real American consensus is that the leaders the Times have chosen for us suck. nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/…
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blmohr
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#votersuppression
1/ “...while sapping the political clout of left-leaning African American voters by undermining their faith in elections and spreading misleading information about how to vote.” apple.news/AO8Bm-ZfpTQutV…
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3/ The same year Milner and Usmanov invested $200 million in Fb.
“The report traces the origins of Russian online influence operations to Russian domestic politics in 2009.”
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Rebecca L. Davis
@historydavis
#VoterSuppression has been a big part of the story of this #Election2018, with attention focusing on the statewide issues in Georgia and North Dakota in particular. We should also remember that voter suppression is--and always has been--especially potent at the local level.
Efforts to remedy discrimination often take the form of state or federal laws, which can distract us from the fact that the problems them aim to rectify very often originate with the block captains, poll workers, and local party bosses who intimidate potential voters.
Voter suppression was endemic in the Jim Crow South--the Klan, Citizens Councils & other whites terrorized African Americans who registered to vote, voted, or ran for office. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was a federal response to that systemic disenfranchisement.
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Lakota Law Project
@lakotalaw
#VoterSuppression
Say you live on #StandingRock on the ND side. You have kids, a job, you're a busy, functional, modern day Native American — but where you live doesn't have a street address, & you've never needed one as you have PO box.

Now, North Dakota says you can't vote.
But surely, you think, there's a way around it, right? There is. You first have to call your district's coordinator (but remember, not all districts are the same). You may have to call around. You finally get ahold of someone. You describe, in detail, where your house is.
The coordinator assigns you an address that you can use on your voter registration. But they need to give you a confirmation letter for the address (we don't know if they mail it or give it to you right away, that is unclear). You then can use the address on your documents.
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BGA
@BetterGov
1/ Chicago recycling has long been trash.
But it’s not just that the city is bad at it, it’s also unfair depending on what company picks it up and where in the city it’s located. projects.bettergov.org/2018/recycling…
2/ Recycling efforts in Chicago began in the 90’s with the notorious $200 million program called Blue Bag. It was replaced in 2008 with the Blue Cart program and in 2011 @ChicagosMayor announced sweeping changes to it.
3/ Emanuel’s plan was to take the program citywide, which he did, through “managed competition.” The idea: pit private recycling haulers against each other and municipal workers and then pick a winner.
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Kristen Clarke
@KristenClarkeJD
BREAKING: We are taking action to stop the Public Interest Legal Foundation's attempt to promote a national voter purge campaign in 248 jurisdictions across the country. @lawyerscomm lawyerscommittee.org/press-release/…
2/ This fall, the Public Interest Legal Foundation sent letters seeking to bully 248 jurisdictions into instituting purge programs. Purge programs are another dirty tactic used to suppress the rights of voters. Today we are taking action to fight back.
3/ The PILF letters use bad data and flawed methodology to promote baseless claims that non-eligible voters are on the rolls. Their letters to the are a naked attempt to bully officials into purging voters from the rolls. We see right through this. publicinterestlegal.org/files/Sample-2…
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Leave Crosscheck
@LeaveCrosscheck
Thread on #Crosscheck Status in Alabama (revised):

#AlabamaSpecialElection
Alabama is one of 8 states the use both #Crosscheck and the widely respected Electronic Registration Information System (ERIC). /2
It is worth reading about ERIC at ericstates.org if you aren't familiar; here is a key part of their Membership Agreement: /3
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