[2020 Elections\Voter Suppression]
Palast: “What the press calls the “meltdown” in Georgia (and in the Wisconsin and Kentucky primaries) was very much a dress rehearsal for the plan for minority voting hell in November.”
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Greg Palast
Trump’s Purges Will Screw 16.7 Million out of Right to Vote
[2020 General Election]
Palast: “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. In total, no less than 5,872,857 ballots were cast and never counted in 2016.”
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JOURNALIST INTERVIEWS FLOYD MURDER EYEWITNESS, PALAST REPORTS ON LAPD THREATENING PROTESTERS
[George Floyd Eyewitness\LAPD]
Charles McMillan: “I kept telling the officer, ‘Brother, get your foot off his neck because he’s stopped breathing. He’s going to die. And the officer refused to get his foot off Mr. Floyd‘s neck…I hear Mr. Floyd saying, “Mom, they’re killing me in the street.”
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WILL VOTING BY MAIL SUPPRESS BLACK VOTE AND COST DEMOCRATS THE 2020 ELECTION?
[2020 Election\Mail-in-Voting]
Palast: “The nasty secret of American elections is that we don’t count all the ballots…Brennan Center for Justice finds that in some races, African-Americans are five times as likely to have their vote disqualified.”
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PALAST: HOW WE CAN ALL VOTE—WITHOUT DYING
[COVID-19 Voting]
In this interview with Igniting Change host Barbara Arnwine, investigative journalist Greg Palast says that rather than creating a precedent for canceling elections, we should embrace mail-in ballots so we can vote without the risk of dying.
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POOR AND MINORITY COMMUNITIES WILL SUFFER GRAVELY FROM COVID-19
[COVID-19\Minorities\Poor]
Palast: “The virus attacks ‘the vulnerable.’ And in our society, ‘vulnerable’ does not refer to billionaire reality show hosts.”
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HOW DO WE PROTECT DEMOCRACY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
[COVID-19 & Democracy]
Palast: Decades ago, the right wing said, “Better dead than Red.” Today: “Better postal than Orange.”
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553,000 VOTES WERE SUPPRESSED FROM BERNIE SANDERS IN CALIFORNIA BECAUSE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY RULES
[California Voter Suppression\Sen. Bernie Sanders]
Sanders, as expected, won the plurality of California’s votes, but he could well be shorted out of hundreds of thousands of votes [553,000] and scores of delegates.
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CALIFORNIA STEALING: WILL SANDERS LOSE INDEPENDENT VOTES BECAUSE OF CALIFORNIA’S DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RULES?
[Super Tuesday\California\Independent Voters]
Palast: “Independents legally have the right to vote in the Democrat primary, but the Democratic Party has created an inscrutable obstacle course for them to do so, one that amounts to another type of voter suppression.”
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GEORGIA GOVERNOR KEMP LOSES VOTE PURGE SUIT BROUGHT BY REPORTER GREG PALAST
[Voter Suppression\Georgia\Brian Kemp]
“Kemp and the new Sec. of State of Georgia want to keep the lid on their methods for removing literally hundreds of thousands of low-income, young and minority voters on the basis of false information.”
Photo: Ilene Proctor