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.

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.

There’s a new gimmick being used by the Republican party to remove voters of color. It’s called “use it or lose it".

The voter purges are conducted mostly by GOP officials.

They're removing hundreds of thousands of voters supposedly to prevent voter fraud.

Yet the chance of getting hit and killed by lightning is 500% more likely than that you will commit voter fraud.

What we mean by #VoterSuppression is that someone’s taken away your constitutional right to vote.

Here's an Rx to beat The Scourge of The Purge...

I don’t care who you vote for, but I do want every American to have the right to vote. That’s our right. That’s our democracy. gregpalast.com/cancel-culture…

#SaveMyVote2020 #VoterPurge #VanishingVoters #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #PurgeByPostcard #VotingRights #CivilRights

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29 Sep
Today, the #Wisconsin Supreme Court may choose our president. That is, justices will hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove 129,000 people from the voter rolls madison.com/opinion/column…
The #Wisconsin hit list is not only disastrously wrong, it is suspiciously over-weighted with African-Americans. Look at the maps. They reveal a near-perfect match between the percentage of Black voters in a Census tract and the number of voters wrongly tagged as having moved.
Rick Esenberg brought this lawsuit on behalf of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL). When I spoke to him, Esenberg admitted he had not checked his voter purge list for accuracy and claims he has no idea that the list is overloaded with Black and low-income voters.
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29 Sep
Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a suit brought by a right-wing think tank demanding the state purge 129,000 voters — who mostly reside in urban areas — using a “movers” list we proved was error-ridden in a report we submitted to the state.
We found 39,722 Wisconsin voters who supposedly moved, had in fact not moved, a minimum 25.8% error rate.

A further 58,404 or 38% who had moved, had only done so within their county.

If even half of these moved locally, the error rate rises to 45.8%.

Who’s on the #WisconsinPurge list? There's bias against voters of color and low-income voters, and evidence of bias against young and student voters — like Phyo Zin Kyaw, a Madison College student who moved to new digs "two houses down”.
Read 7 tweets
27 Sep
NEW REPORT: Wisconsin “Movers” Voter Purge List Errors — 39,722 Face Loss of Vote for Moving Despite not Having Moved gregpalast.com/report-wiscons…
#WisconsinPurge Summary:

▶️ 39,722 Wisconsin voters who supposedly moved from their registration addresses had in fact not moved — a minimum 25.8% error rate based on the 153,779 “movers” list.

▶️ A further 58,404 or 38% who had moved, had only done so within their county.
#WisconsinPurge: As illustrated by these maps and graphs, there is measurable bias against voters of color and low-income voters, and evidence of bias against young and student voters. gregpalast.com/report-wiscons…
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25 Sep
BREAKING: Wisconsin “Movers” Voter Purge List Errors — 39,722 Face Loss of Vote for Moving Despite not Having Moved gregpalast.com/report-wiscons… #SaveMyVote2020 #WisconsinPurge
We found 39,722 Wisconsin voters who supposedly moved, had in fact not moved, a minimum 25.8% error rate.

A further 58,404 or 38% who had moved, had only done so within their county.

If even half of these moved locally, the error rate rises to 45.8%. gregpalast.com/report-wiscons…
#WisconsinPurgeList: There's measurable bias against voters of color and low-income voters, and evidence of bias against young and student voters. gregpalast.com/report-wiscons…
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24 Sep
Address List Hygiene expert on the "mystery" of the Georgia purge gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl… #GeorgiaPurge #SaveMyVote2020
On Sept 2, the @ACLUofGA released a report prepared by us detailing how 198,351 #Georgia voters were wrongly purged. One likely source of error: 3 of 4 voters cancelled were marked “NCOA” but were not in fact on the National Change of Address list. gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl… Image
We're calling for all 198,351 voters that were wrongly purged from Georgia's voter rolls to be restored BEFORE the election! gregpalast.com/palast-offer-l… Image
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23 Sep
On Sept 2, @ACLUofGA released a report prepared by us detailing how 198,351 #Georgia voters were wrongly purged.

One likely source of error: 3 of 4 voters cancelled were marked “NCOA” but were not in fact on the National Change of Address list.

Our expert explains more...
This clip, featuring John Lenser, CEO of American Fifth Act (one of five experts in Advanced Address List Hygiene we retained to help us with our analysis) is from yesterday's joint press conference with @MsLaToshaBrown & @cliff_notes of @BlackVotersMtr.
Read the full report, #Georgia Voter Roll Purge Errors, which was released by @ACLUofGA here: gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl… Image
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