The Pits: Georgia's GOP Swipes the Peach State
The Pits: Georgia's GOP Swipes the Peach State
by Greg Palast
for SuicideGirls.com - November 5, 2008
The evil little &*%$'s are doing it again.
Even as they drown in the anger of platoons of pissed-off voters, Republican operatives are swiping ballots with both hands.
Ground zero is Georgia. It's here where the sick little vulture named Saxby Chambliss won the US Senate seat six years ago by calling his Democratic opponent, a guy who'd lost three limbs in Vietnam, a friend of Osama bin Laden.
There's no way in hell that Chambliss can slime his way back into the Senate in the face of over half a million newly registered voters (Black and young - 69% for Obama) without jacking them out of their votes. That's what the Republicans are up to. Right now. As we speak.
Over 50,000 the new voters in Georgia have been blocked from voting by using a nasty little new law, the Help America Vote Act signed by George Bush. (Bush is helping us vote - look out!)
I just got this from Christina Rush in the Peach Pit state:
"They really have stolen my vote and I don't know what to do about it at this late stage. I just found out 2 days ago that I do not exist on the voters rolls in Georgia. I have disappeared. After calling 866-OUR VOTE and the Secretary of State (for GA), it has been determined that the last vote I was accounted for was the 1996 General Election. That's awfully strange to me, considering that I voted in the recent Primaries and that last two General Elections (2000 and 2004)."
"Everyone is 'very sorry' this is happening, but no one can tell what I can do to make my vote count for THIS election. The only advice I've been given is to fill out a new voters registration form and I'll be eligible for any future elections, just not THIS one."
"So, what can I do except tell anyone and everyone who will listen?"
And no one is going to listen to you or the other 50,000 dumped voters in Georgia.
But here's the good news: it won't save them. The GOP is toast. Paint the White House black and blue and Congress the same hue.
But the steal in Senate races may allow the GOP to savage, obstruct, sabotage President Obama's ability to repair the damage of eight years of looting by the unelected junta of the Bush regime. They begin with the theft of the Georgia Senate seat, now heading into a run-off.
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I've been studying the purge of voters and the blockade of new registrants all year with my co-investigator, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Here's what we know is happening: While Obama is brushing his tux for his Inaugural, several million votes are getting disappeared. We're awaiting the count on provisional ballots, those bouncing baloney ballots they give to the purge, The raw data is ill-making. We predicted a six-million vote heist and we're looking grimly accurate. Visit our site, www.GregPalast.com, to get the full report as the numbers come in - the totals of the UNcounted you won't see on the CNN website.
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Not so fast.
They haven't succeeded in stealing this seat yet. It's going to a runoff in December. If you were denied the vote this time, be sure to re-register, and be sure to verify that your registration goes through. Here is the infdormation page, which doesn't have the runoff election listed yet.
http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/how_to_register.htm
and here is where you complain about that fact, and demand an effective process for new voters to register in time.
http://sos.georgia.gov/cgi-bin/emailElections.asp
Spread the word.
This isn''t exactly a responce to Christina Rush but I want to take this time to thank RFK,Jr. & G.Palast for the many years of work on voter suppression and all the other vote stealing crimes. I saw Mr. Palast in Eugene, OR and can't believe how much you have accomplished.
Thank you thank you thank you. . . .
I'm sure the right ideologues will continue to upgrade their many tricks and I hope you don't give up the fight.
In Palast's Steal Back Your Vote he recommended people to check if they were in fact registered BEFORE you went to vote on the last day. You then have more time to secure your vote. Even Tim Robbins had to get a court order to get his vote on a real ballot and not a "provisional" ballot!
Christine, I hope you get another chance to vote again.
This is UNCONSCIONABLE & Must NOT BE TOLERATED!! As I see it, the ONLY way to stop this is to put the Perps in JAIL, NOW, wait NO more!! Then when the hellhounds are safely behind bars, go to the Remaining "authorities" & DEMAND THEY COUNT THE VOTE OR PUT THEM IN JAIL TOO, ON & ON TIL THEY COUNT THE VOTES OR ROT IN JAIL!!
Do it & we will help u! they stole at least 2 elections! It's time to steal our votes back!!! We've SUFFERED THRU WARS & 2 ILLEGAL PREZ & CONGRESS: WE CANNOT SUFFER THRU MORE CONGRESSIONAL SHENANIGANS DUE TO THIS... TY AND PLS ADVICE ASAP!
Hey Greg,
Did you just hear about VelvetUnderground's $100,000 Reward for information and/or evidence related to Georgia's 2002 alleged rigged election ?
Oh, just loved the Tim Robbins open letter. Nothing like a bunch of corrupt GOP criminal minded corporatists to infiltrate, subjegate, and usurp democracy. Jail time, for a long time, for those NY BOE members that engaged in "supposed" lawful behaviour of a hijacked Party. Maybe those workcamp, detention centers can be filled with the huge numbers of criminals occupying GOP positions. Maybe....nice vision at least. But then, I become what I hate. And then they really have won.
Update to above Posting.
$100K Reward For Information About Rigging Of 2002 Saxby Chambliss Senate Race In Georgia
Sorry,that's the Velvet Revolution's website that the Reward is offered. (My 70's era names got mixed in there.)
Thank you for your great work on this issue. I find it very troubling.
Between no-paper-trail voting machines here in Texas and a sudden interest in "voter fraud" by Republican election officials in Harris County after the Democratic Primary showed a great number of Democrats registered and voting, I fear that our Republican controlled state is in great danger of election theft in the future.
After the presidential election of 2000 I will never trust Republicans in charge of voting procedures.