Election Crimes Bulletin: The trouble with ERIC
The idea of ERIC was to expand voter registration, but now a number of Republican Secretaries of State have taken it over and inverted it, basically creating a Crosscheck replacement. … READ MORE
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Why Georgia DA Fani Willis is the biggest threat to Donald TrumpState racketeering statute, intended to entrap Democrats, could snare Trump
About a month ago, I would’ve said there’s no chance Donald Trump will be indicted, and I still think that you’re not gonna see that on a federal level. But Trump may yet see the inside of a prison cell, thanks to the efforts of Fani Willis, the first… READ MORE
It’s Jim Crow 2.0, gone to a crazy extreme!Palast reports from the frontlines of the Georgia Primary Election
[May 24, 2022: Atlanta, GA] Voting day in Georgia, and this pizza is evidence of a crime. If I walked 10 feet closer to the polling station and handed this slice of pizza to a hungry voter, who’s been waiting in line for hours, I’d get handcuffed and sent to prison under a new Georgia law, which says … READ MORE
2,000 Mules: Belly Laughs, Belly Aches from Film’s “Proof” that Trump Won
In his film 2000 Mules, Dinesh D’Souza sets out to prove a giant criminal conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. The proof? Well, you can see it with your own eyes: There’s a BLACK man and he is dropping off BALLOTS in a ballot drop box. Case closed! You can laugh now. But crying time is coming. I predict … READ MORE
The new vote-fixing game in Georgia
Once again, it’s down to Georgia in the November 2022 midterm elections. Senator Reverend Warnock is running for reelection, and Stacey Abrams is running for governor against the incumbent Brian Kemp. It’s not a question of who’s going to win. The GOP’s decided it can’t win, so it’s figuring out how to not let the voters vote … READ MORE
A little-known story about how activists beat Brad Raffensperger’s mass purges in Georgia
Here’s a little-known story about how groups like Rainbow PUSH, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Transformative Justice Coalition defeated Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s mass vote disqualification campaign. … READ MORE
How do we defeat voter suppression tactics?
How do we defeat voter suppression tactics when they’re fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won over 50 years ago… READ MORE
DOJ suit misses Georgia’s worst new vote suppression tacticNew GOP tactic violates Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Georgia officials have quietly challenged 364,000 Georgia voters, a scheme newly empowered by SB202. And while the much-lauded lawsuit filed on Friday by the Department of Justice against the State of Georgia challenging the voting restriction law is certainly worthy, it won’t do a damn thing about these … READ MORE
Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters
Pamela Reardon wants to stop Tamara Horne from voting. Reardon of Marietta, Georgia who is running for Vice-Chair of the state Republican Party, has filed a legal challenge to Horne’s vote — one of 32,379 voters in Cobb County Reardon has challenged under a little-noticed provision of… READ MORE
The Big Purge: 364,000 Voters Disqualified in GeorgiaHow one woman challenged eligibility of 32,000 voters
This week on Brian Ross Investigates, investigative reporter Greg Palast takes on Georgia’s new election law, asking how this one local Republican party official was able to personally challenge the eligibility of some 32,000 voters. … READ MORE
The “mind-boggling” hidden threat in Georgia’s restrictive new voting law364,000 votes in jeopardy from little-noticed provision of SB 202
How do you think the election in Georgia would have played out, or how do you think the election in Georgia next year will play out, if the Republican party is successful in throwing 364,000 Georgia voters — largely people of color — off the voting rolls? In this … READ MORE
Texas Democrats Walk the Walk in Support of Voting RightsBut will these baby steps be enough to save our democracy?
This week saw fireworks in Texas when Democrats walked out of the House chamber, leaving Republicans high and dry without the quorum they needed to ram through Senate Bill 7, a horrible piece of … READ MORE
Cyber Ninjas and Voting Pandas?The skullduggery doesn't take a break!
Just when you think the world of electioneering couldn’t get more bizarre, armies of Cyber Ninjas and mythical Voting Pandas come to the fore to remind us that they can.
Palast and Rick Smith team up to dissect the crazy. … READ MORE
Hidden Horrors in the Georgia Vote Law
When we first reported that handing a slice of pizza to a voter waiting three hours in a line is now a felony in Georgia, other media ate it up (forgive me my puns). But there are greater horrors than pizza prohibition hidden in the 95 pages of Georgia’s new… READ MORE
Pizza outlawed in GeorgiaTo Suppress the Vote
I can’t make this up. The state of Georgia passed a law this week, HB 531, that outlaws handing out pizza slices and water to voters waiting for hours to vote.
But Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger objected to the law because, he said, his office had already ruled that pizza… READ MORE
Raffensperger Ignored Evidence of Wrongful Purges Before Runoff
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is no hero. Since the release of the tape in which Raffensperger is heard resisting Donald Trump’s bullying attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory, the Georgia politician has been portrayed as a defender of democracy. The record says otherwise.… READ MORE
Democracy Now! Stealing Georgia198,000 Georgia Residents Were Illegally Purged
Democracy Now! airs our report on vote theft in Georgia, narrated by Debra Messing, and speaks with activist LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter and the co-plaintiff in our case against Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger … READ MORE
