We use fancy words — under vote, over vote, spoiled ballots — but in 2016 we literally took 1.9 million ballots that were cast and threw them in the electoral dumpster. gregpalast.com/1913369-ballot…
But it’s not just anyone’s vote that ends up in the garbage. The chance of your vote being disqualified, spoiled, not counted after you cast it is 900% higher if you're black than if you're white 900%. gregpalast.com/we-still-have-…
It’s 500% higher if you're Hispanic. And it's almost beyond calculation how bad it is for American natives, who are a staggering 1200% more likely than a white person to have their vote disqualified. These are all voters of color — and the color is blue. gregpalast.com/lets-end-the-v…
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No joke. On Tuesday, Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator” — that is, Elmo — access to the voter files of every state for the purpose of purging millions of Americans from voter rolls.
The Executive Order, with its Orwellian title, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” will require every American to prove their citizenship when they register or re-register to vote. gregpalast.com/trump-executiv…
The justification: Trump claims that the Democratic Party has registered three to five million non-citizen voters. But after four years of intense hunting by his prior Justice Department, Trump’s alien-voter hunters haven’t charged even three.
Vote suppression cost Kamala Harris no less than 3,565,000 votes. If all legal voters were allowed to vote, and if all legal ballots were counted, Harris would have topped Trump’s official total by 1.2 million.
The 2.3% suppression factor I’ve calculated undoubtedly cost Harris the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. If not for the wholesale attack on votes and voters, Harris would have won the election with 286 Electoral votes. hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-v…
For a full breakdown of the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations, read my special report. gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vot…
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
In a red-white-and-blue tutu, Trump socks, earnings and other Trump gewgaws, one die hard supporter repeated a line we heard over and over, “They [the Democrats] cheated. There was bushels and baskets full and car loads of, votes that came in in the middle of the night.”
How will the MAGAs react if Trump loses? Another Trump supporter, Derek Molenhour, showing off his AR-15 assault weapon T-shirt — he sells piles of them — said, “If [Trump] loses this, then it’s it’s impossible to say that it was not rigged.”
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. 🧵
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.”
The Republican pol he was calling, Brad Raffensperger, has been played as a hero, supposedly standing up for the principle that the vote of the people cannot be overturned.
Georgia launches new voter registration cancellation website — then leaks data of EVERY GA voter. What could go wrong?!?🤦♂️
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.
Just weeks before he was fired by America’s voters in 2020, President Trump issued this piece of nastiness which was quickly rescinded by just-inaugurated President Biden. law.ucla.edu/news/biden-rev…