A private group called True the Vote out of Texas got 88, mostly Republican party operatives, to file challenges to block the counting of ballots cast by 364,000 Georgia voters — that’s over a third of a million votes! #SB202soundcloud.com/user-835943867…
They are doing it under a little-noticed provision of the new restrictive voting law, #SB202, which allows any citizen of #Georgia to challenge an unlimited number of voters.
Under the auspices of this law, we found one super-challenger, Pamela Reardon, who personally challenged the right to vote of 32,379 Georgians. gregpalast.com/364000-voters-…
How can the Republicans get away with challenging 364,000 #Georgia voters on totally bogus grounds? #SB202 has another poisonous clause to deal with that...
Counties, who previously had final say over voter rolls and the counting of ballots, must now accept the challenges. If not, the State Elections Board can dismiss local voting officials. #Georgia#SB202gregpalast.com/uncovered-ille…
The newly constituted state board is, according to the new law, under the control of Governor Brian Kemp and legislative leaders, all Republicans.
A little-noticed provision in #Georgia’s new voting restriction law, #SB202, threatens the rights of 364,000 voters.
The new provision signed into law in March allows private Georgia citizens to challenge an “unlimited” number of other voters’ ballots. #SB202gregpalast.com/uncovered-ille…
The result is that hundreds of thousands of voters individually targeted by a conservative group from Texas may not have their ballots counted in next year’s crucial US Senate race and the expected re-match for the Governorship between #StaceyAbrams and incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.
Northern snow states have plenty of juice for you, Texas, but all the lines have been cut at your borders so that you remain at the mercy of your power pirates, the last island of insane deregulation. gregpalast.com/texas-gets-lay…
But maybe I’m asking too much: regulation is the application of democracy to the economy and the Texas GOP fears anything that smacks of democracy. gregpalast.com/texas-gets-lay…
On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the #DeepwaterHorizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean rig blew out.
“Accident”?!
That’s the official line and I could have swallowed it—except for a message I received from a source floating in the Caspian Sea... gregpalast.com/deepwater-hori…
The source told me he’d been an eye-witness to the BP/Transocean oil rig blow-out — not the one in the Gulf, but an IDENTICAL blow-out in the Caspian that happened just 17 months before its #DeepwaterHorizon Gulf companion exploded. gregpalast.com/deepwater-hori…
The hunt for the truth took me to Baku, Azerbaijan, in Central Asia (and detention by the dictatorship’s not-so-secret police), meetings with MI-6 sources in London, and beaches on the Gulf Coast and in the Arctic. #DeepwaterHorizongregpalast.com/deepwater-hori…
The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a right-wing group backed by the billionaire Bradley family foundation. gregpalast.com/wisconsin-cour…
On Sept 23, 2020, @BlackVotersMtr issued a report by the Palast Investigative Fund which proved that 39,722 voters they claimed had moved away from the registration addresses, had not, in fact, moved at all. gregpalast.com/wisconsin-cour…
To understand how this mass attack on voting rights will work, we have to go back to Dec 21, just before the Georgia Senate runoffs, when True the Vote challenged the right of 364,541 Georgians to cast ballots... #SB202gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors…
County elections boards rejected the challenges, noting that the numbers were too huge to be credible.
One voter can challenge another if they have personal knowledge that the other voter is a fraud. The local shills used by True the Vote knew nothing of those they challenged.
But #SB202 specifically authorizes unlimited challenges and True the Vote is crowing that Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger has virtually invited them to challenge more voters. gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors…