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Jul 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
BREAKING: Supreme Court deals blow to felons in #Florida seeking to regain the right to vote washingtonpost.com/politics/supre…
As the BBC TV reporter who first broke the #Florida faux felon story back in 2000, I can tell you that the Supreme Court’s decision May have just reelected Donald Trump. gregpalast.com/the-great-flor… ImageImage
The court is requiring voters to pay their old fines and court fees, but I can tell you as an investigator, it’s almost impossible to even find those records. #Florida’s records are a mess, and they (ie. Katherine Harris' GOP successors) like it like that.
As my investigation showed in 2000, #JimCrow is in charge of voting in #Florida, always has been. Fact: 88% of ex-cons vote Democratic, no matter their color or income. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
I can also tell you that a lot of those African-Americans on these so-called ex-con lists, have committed no crime except voting while black. gregpalast.com/the-great-flor… Image

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The Palast Investigative Team worked itself into the Trump rally in Duluth, Georgia on Wednesday, where the themes were denial of Trump’s election defeat in 2020 and threats of armed violence if he’s not declared victor in two weeks. #Election2024
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Get ready for the quiet coup in November. Trump’s dreams of overturning the vote count of 2020 can now come true in 2024, thanks to a new rule passed by the MAGA-controlled Georgia State Election Board. 🧵 Image
Let me break this down. Four years ago, Trump called the Secretary of State of Georgia and demanded: “What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state.”
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Georgia launches new voter registration cancellation website — then leaks data of EVERY GA voter. What could go wrong?!?🤦‍♂️ Image
This week Georgia rolled out a new website where people can let the state know they’ve moved (or their relative has died) and cancel their voter registration online. It’s super easy; you just plug in your info and, poof, your voter registration vanishes. gregpalast.com/georgias-lates…
The problem with the new “cancel my registration” site is that bad actors, if they know a person’s name, address, DOB, and either Social Security or drivers’ license number, can simply go in and cancel other people they don’t want voting.
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Do you know about Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13950?  If you don’t, be afraid. Be very afraid. 🧵 Image
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🚨 Instead of counting Joe Biden’s brain cells, we need to be counting “vigilantes,” the self-proclaimed vote fraud hunters who, under new state laws, can challenge the vote of their fellow Americans and stop their votes from being counted.
In 2022, 88 self-appointed GOP vote fraud hunters challenged 180,000 voters’ registrations in Georgia. They successfully removed thousands of voters from the rolls in that state. gregpalast.com/the-real-issue…
The group behind the attack on US citizens, True the Vote, glorying in their success in Georgia, has rolled out the vote challenge operation to several swing states and––Are you ready for this numbers?––they signed up 44,000 volunteer vigilante vote challengers so far this year. Image
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While most of the press is busy blathering about whether another Trump conviction will affect the vote, literally a million voters are losing their ballots with hardly a peep in the press.
One such voter, whom you’ll meet in our film Vigilantes Inc., MAJ. Gamaliel Turner, had to fly thousands of miles and bring in a Washington lawyer to have his 2022 ballot counted. gregpalast.com/warrior-on-two…
Mark Elias, the voting rights lawyer for Major Turner, is losing his mind over the failure of the press to see the #1 threat to democracy in 2024: hundreds of thousands of vigilante challenges taken from lists created from uber-Right-wing groups led by True the Vote. Image
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