[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.
Photo: Greg Palast
Greg Palast
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