A federal judge has rejected Georgia officials' arguments in an election-related lawsuit and ruled that information being sought by a journalist and an activist is subject to public disclosure. ...more
[Atlanta-Feb 9] In an extraordinary and unexpected move, Federal Judge Eleanor Ross has declared Gov. Brian Kemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by investigative journalist Greg Palast for the State of Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass ...more
The 2018 Gubernatorial election in Georgia became ground-zero for Republican-led vote suppression when then Secretary of State Brian Kemp ran against Democrat Stacey Abrams. As State Secretary, Kemp had unique access to the state’s voting systems in the same election in which he ran for higher office. Now, a lawsuit filed by investigative reporter Greg Palast ...more
The Election Crimes Bulletin returns for another season. In this edition, we go to Iowa, Milwaukee and Wisconsin to report on election fraud. But first Palast reveals some huge breaking news out of Georgia ...more
Palast discusses the theft of the 2020 election, which is happening right now, right under our noses, with Sabrina Jacobs on KPFA's A Rude Awakening. ...more
Two new court decisions have blessed mass purges of voters in 2 swing states, Georgia and Wisconsin. This could be the launch of a new system for purging masses of voters of color and young voters that is expected to ...more
Stacey Abrams’ non-profit Fair Fight has retained the Palast Investigations team experts to provide court testimony. How refreshing. I’ve been exposing Jim Crow vote trickery for 20 years but this will be the first time an official, intent on justice, has taken my evidence into a courtroom. ...more
Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls even more aggressively, especially in ...more
Charges have been dropped against Georgia Senator Nikema Williams, who was arrested at her place of work — the Georgia State Capitol — while observing a Count Every Vote protest last November. “My charges might have been dropped,” says Williams, “but this is ...more
Ho ho ho! Now that Brian Kemp is no longer Secretary of State of Georgia, his office has informed The Palast Investigative Fund attorneys that they are throwing in the towel in the Palast and Butler v. Kemp suit we filed in Atlanta Federal Court in October. This opens up ...more
Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went ...more
Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted. Charging Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally ...more
Georgia state Senator Nikema Williams didn't plan on being arrested last week. She certainly didn't think she'd be zip-tied by cops and asked to submit to a strip search. ...more
There's a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls "James Crow, Esq., voting suppression" — and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from ...more
Days ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams' lead attorneys. Our investigative team had "gold," as they put it, for litigating the election: Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged. Plus, we had ...more
Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia's case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his ...more
Watch this one-minute video of Ashlee Jones on the 21 "easy" steps required of a voter of color to cast a ballot in Georgia.
Spoiler alert: Step 21 is ...more
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