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In 2016, Donald Trump "won" Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.

Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted.

gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
That’s official, too. Just “spoilage,” that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, untallied. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
Not just anyone’s vote gets “spoiled.” In Michigan, in 2016, most of these vanished votes were cast in Detroit — where only one in ten city residents are white. Motown. Not exactly Trump-ville. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
It's never just anyone’s ballot that gets tossed into the electoral dumpster. The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote “spoiled,” is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.
And mail-in ballots are far easier to challenge than in-person votes, so Trump’s trolls could pull off another “win” by challenging even more than the 2 million successfully blocked nationwide in the last election. gregpalast.com/22-of-mail-in-…
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It’s official: 1,913,369 ballots were cast but never counted in the 2016 presidential race. That’s from the US Elections Assistance Commission. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
And not just anyone’s ballot gets tossed into the electoral dumpster. The US Civil Rights Commission took a look at #Florida’s throw-away pile and calculated that your chance of having your vote simply go uncounted, “spoiled,” is 900% higher if you're Black than if you're white.
Trump’s call for an army of 50,000 vigilantes is laughable: some schmuck in a Hawaiian shirt and MAGA cap won’t scare off voters of color. But 50,000 challengers, challenging every single ballot for Biden — that could succeed. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
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The dirty little secret of American elections is that we don’t count all the ballots — and we sure as hell don’t allow every citizen to vote. gregpalast.com/purges-will-sc…
In total, no less than 5,872,857 ballots were cast and never counted in 2016. In addition, a minimum of 1,982,071 voters were blocked from casting their ballots. That is a total of 7,854,928 votes and voters left uncounted in 2016. gregpalast.com/purges-will-sc…
And 2020 will be worse. The purges have accelerated: 16.7 million in the last two years — and a million more expected this year. gregpalast.com/purges-will-sc… #Election2020 #VoterSuppression = #ElectionFraud
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The cop raised his weapon shouting, “Forty millimeter up! Curfew! YOU WILL BE FIRED UPON.” A .40 is the standard caliber bullet used by the Los Angeles police; it was specially designed for human kill. gregpalast.com/lapd-you-will-… #FloydGeorge #FloydGeorgeProtests #BlackLivesMatter
This was the day LA was scheduled to open up, with folks allowed back in the streets. They certainly filled the streets; and now their masks had a second purpose: to screw up police surveillance. gregpalast.com/lapd-you-will-… #FloydProtests #DTLA #DTLAProtests #BlackLivesMatter
Officers in Los Angeles "have also fired 40-millimeter rounds with rubber texture in the protests. Those rounds are less lethal than regular bullets, according to LAPD Public Information Director Josh Rubenstein." wsj.com/articles/polic…
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