absentee ballots

Georgia’s Governor Deputized GOP Vigilantes to Challenge 149,000 Voters
Black voters in Georgia say the challenges issued by vigilantes amount to a racist poll tax and a new Jim Crow.

by Greg Palast
for Truthout
November 7, 2022November 8, 2022

“You talk to fools like that!” Major Gamaliel Turner was more than upset. Assigned by the Pentagon to a Naval base in California, Turner had called his hometown registrar in Georgia, to find out about his missing absentee ballot. But it wasn’t missing… READ MORE

Bad News: Vote Suppression Can Win in Georgia
Absentee Ballots Plunge by a Million

by Greg Palast
November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

[Nov 6, 2022: Atlanta, GA] Let me break the bad news: Absentee ballots voted in Georgia have PLUNGED by A MILLION VOTES — from 1.2 million just before the 2020 election to a paltry 0.2 million, an 83% drop. Why? Because under Gov. Brian Kemp’s new law SB202, mail-in balloting has become insanely difficult, requiring… READ MORE

Yes, We can Bust the Ballot Burglary
Keiser Report: How to protect your mail-in ballot and un-steal the election

by Greg Palast
| Keiser Report
August 17, 2020August 18, 2020

22% of all mail-in ballots don’t get counted — that’s according to an MIT study conducted before Trump took office. And the Post Office has always been a problem, even before a Forever Trumper was appointed as Postmaster General. Safest way to vote… READ MORE

22% of Mail-In Votes Never Get Counted
Jim Crow is Hiding in the Mailbox

by Greg Palast
July 20, 2020February 3, 2022

“Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.”

I’ve been singing that Animals’ tune for a month. I move my lips, but I’m not sure my words are understood.
It begins with a stone-cold fact: Mail-in ballots are lost by the millions—especially the ballots of … READ MORE

Rush to Vote-by-Mail could cost Dems the Election
Mail-in Voting puts Millions of Minority Ballots at Risk

by Greg Palast
for Nation of Change
April 16, 2020November 4, 2020

I get it: We all must vote by mail—or we die.
There is really no other safe choice. But there is much to fear, with a switch to all-mail voting—unless our broken absentee ballot system is fixed. Here’s what the “Go Postal” crowd doesn’t tell you

Recipe for a Cooked Election

by Greg Palast
October 19, 2006

for Yes! Magazine

A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage. Most are called “spoiled,” supposedly unreadable, damaged, invalid. They just don’t get counted. This “spoilage” has occurred for decades, but it reached unprecedented heights in the last two presidential elections. In the 2004 election, for example, more than three million ballots were never counted.
Almost as deep a secret is that people are doing something about it. In New Mexico, citizen activists, disgusted by systematic vote disappearance, demanded change ”” and got it.
In Ohio, during the 2004 Presidential election, 153,237 ballots were simply thrown away ”” more than the Bush “victory” margin. In New Mexico the uncounted vote was five times the Bush alleged victory margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush’s triumph of 13,498 was

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