Confession: I’m the one who suggested to Hugo Chavez that he buy a U.S. voting machine company. I was half joking that an honest vote count in America would produce a less bellicose government.
The idea was to develop a machine that would print out a ballot to put in a lock box to allow for a verified recount. That’s what they used in Venezuela.
But Rudy’s fantasy that Chavez could somehow sneak in some software that would wait around 7 years after Hugo died just to elect Biden, (who, btw, wants to overthrow the Chavista government) is a bit too sci-fi for me.
Anyway, it’s impossible to keep up with all the weird coming from our Twittiot-in-Chief. And besides, if Chavez were that powerful from beyond the grave, why didn’t he get rid of Mitch McConnell? Just asking...
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Under the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, if no candidate gets 270 Electoral votes, the election goes straight to the House of Representatives. Nope, Nancy Pelosi does not pick the President. It’s one state, one vote. gregpalast.com/3-constitution…
Right now, Republicans hold 26 delegations, Dems 23 (there’s one tied). If Trump maneuvers us into a XIIth Amendment vote, we’ll be whistling, Hail to the Thief. gregpalast.com/3-constitution…
On Monday, our lawyers wrote a letter to the #Georgia Secretary of State, #BradRaffensperger, demanding he restore over 198,000 voters that he and his predecessor, #BrianKemp, wrongly purged from the voter rolls by erroneously claiming they'd moved. gregpalast.com/georgia-do-i-r…
We're going to make this easy for Raffensperger. Our non-partisan not-for-profit fund will arrange for the Postal Service’s official licensee, Merkle Inc., to contract with the Secretary of State's office to obtain the correct list of those who’ve moved. gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl…
We will also provide the massive deep files of the nation’s leading “address hygiene” experts. All this can be done in a matter of hours — if Raffensperger is sincere about wanting to reverse this wrong against voters. #SaveMyVote2020gregpalast.com/aclu-releases-…
Trump’s surprise 2016 wins in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were the shockers that gave him the White House by a minuscule margin of 77,400 votes — just 0.5% of the vote in those states. gregpalast.com/audiobookoffer/
Trump won Michigan by less than 0.1% — but the exit polls showed he’d lost by 0.3%. In Wisconsin, Trump won the official count by less than 1%, but the exit polls showed Clinton won by a substantial 3.7%. In Pennsylvania, once again: exit polls gave the win to Clinton.
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.
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.