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Hundreds of thousands of voters have been struck from the voter rolls and they have no idea.
There’s no question that this attack on the voter rolls is affecting voters of color and young people — and could absolutely change the outcome of the election.
There’s no question that this attack on the voter rolls is affecting voters of color and young people — and could absolutely change the outcome of the election.
In October 2019, #Georgia’s Secretary of State published a list of over 300,000 citizens purged from the state’s voter rolls. But, almost two out of three of those Georgia voters struck off for moving from their registration address hadn’t moved at all.
In some states voters need to show photo ID in order to vote in person.
In "Exact Match" states, voter registration details have to match govt ID — down to the last hyphen.
In Georgia, about 70% of voters impacted by “Exact Match” are African American.
In "Exact Match" states, voter registration details have to match govt ID — down to the last hyphen.
In Georgia, about 70% of voters impacted by “Exact Match” are African American.
Why am I worried about 2020? I saw what happened in 2018 in Georgia. And the trick that was rolled out in Georgia in 2018 in being rolled out nationwide in about 20 states. #Election2020
We’re talking about the swing states: Ohio, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, and Arizona — which should be a blue state given its demographics, but not if you keep wiping out young people and voters of color from the rolls.
And they're not just wiping out a few voters, 14 million voters have been wiped off the voter rolls in the last two years! palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2… #VanishingVoters #VoterSuppression #ElectionFraud #VoterPurge #VotingRights #CivilRights #Election2020 #StopTheSteal
In the 2016 California Democratic Primary, 750,000 votes were DISQUALIFIED, mostly cast by No Party Preference (NPP) voters — 3 out of 4 of whom were #BernieSanders supporters. gregpalast.com/california-scr… #BernieSanders2020
They know that if NPP voters are allowed to vote in the California Democratic primary, #BernieSanders walks away with it. gregpalast.com/california-scr…
In 2016, California had over 1 million provisional ballots — equal to half of ALL provisional ballots cast in the United States. The vast majority of these provisional ballots were never counted, which is why we call them placebo ballots. gregpalast.com/bernie-won-cal…
#BrianKemp bleached the rolls whiter than white, removing over half a million voters. 1 in 8 voters in #Georgia was flushed off the voter rolls. But the vote-rigging Kemp was involved in is not limited to Georgia... gregpalast.com/palast-scores-… #VanishingVoters
#BrianKemp was in a conspiracy, and I use that word very carefully, with #KrisKobach, the white supremacist former Secretary of State of Kansas who's Trump’s Vote-Thief-in-Chief. risingupwithsonali.com/2020/02/11/geo…
#BrianKemp worked with #KrisKobach not only to purge voters in #Georgia, but using Kobach's Interstate #Crosscheck system they targeted 7 million voters of color in 30 states. vimeo.com/390830177 #VanishingVoters
I have the absolute proof that #BrianKemp stole the 2018 election from #StaceyAbrams — America's first major party African-American female gubernatorial nominee — by illegally removing 340,134 voters from #Georgia's rolls. freespeech.org/stories/voter-… 
We sued #BrianKemp to get his secret #Crosscheck voter purge lists and last week a federal judge agreed that the purge lists we're requesting are subject to the public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act. gregpalast.com/judge-rules-ag…
We want to get our hands on these racially-biased-by-design #Crosscheck purge lists because this story goes way beyond #Georgia and the gubernatorial race.
This is a BIG win, not just for me as a journalist, not just for Helen Butler, the Executive Director of the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda who is our co-plaintive in this case, but it's a big victory for voters nationwide. nytimes.com/aponline/2020/…
As @AP reports: U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross wrote in a Feb. 4 order that Palast and Butler "are entitled to access to the 2016 and 2017 Crosscheck lists.” news.yahoo.com/judge-rules-ag… #BrianKemp #InterstateCrosscheck #VoterPurge #Georgia #VanishingVoters
@AP These are the lists used to fix elections and eliminate voters of color. This case rips the cover off #BrianKemp and the state of #Georgia’s racially poisonous undermining of democracy. gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vot…
The court decision against #BrianKemp was a shocker. Our lawyers didn’t even ask for summary judgment — the Judge was fed up with Kemp’s lying and stonewalling.
But there's so many states left to go. I've just returned from #Wisconsin — the ultimate swing state — where I’ve gotten the inside info on the latest push to purge 247,000.
Unusually, #Wisconsin (led by new Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes) is resisting the removals — and requesting our deep data. The dark clouds are parting but the storm isn’t over. Donate to support our work: palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2… #VanishingVoters #StopTheSteal
BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Judge Eleanor Ross has declared #BrianKemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by our team to compel the State of #Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass purge of over half a million voters from the rolls. gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vot…
#BrianKemp and the new Secretary 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. They cannot hide any more. gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vot…
This is a huge win and precedent for reporters trying to pry information from the hands of guilty officials. gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vot… #BrianKemp #Georgia #VoterPurge #VanishingVoters
USA Today reports on #Ohio's voter purges noting that:
1. The young were disproportionately purged: Nearly 1 out of 3 purged voters was age 25 to 34. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
1. The young were disproportionately purged: Nearly 1 out of 3 purged voters was age 25 to 34. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
2. Where a party preference could be determined based on the last partisan primary in which the voter cast a ballot, Democrats outnumbered Republicans almost 2 to 1. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Our experts have been screaming that the big purge attacks young voters — i.e. Democrats. The excuse is that they’ve moved out of #Ohio. They haven’t. They are students and renters who moved to a new dorm or down the street. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Trump's going to steal the 2020 election. It doesn't matter how good the Dem's campaign is or how much they spend on ads. Clinton outspent Trump by almost a $1 billion in 2016, but Trump is in the White House because we have an apartheid voting system. gregpalast.com/how-trumps-goi…
#Georgia's ground zero for vote theft. You think of it as a Republican state, but it's going to be the first Deep South white minority state. So the Dems can't lose — unless the GOP steals it from them! gregpalast.com/how-trumps-goi…
There aren't enough white people to elect Donald Trump in states like Georgia. That's WHY the Republicans have stepped up their vote thieving games, which could absolutely reelect Trump — no matter the will of the people. thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/donald…
The #Georgia ruling against Fair Fight in its suit to restore 100K GA voters to the rolls comes on the heels of a devastating ruling by a #Wisconsin court that orders the state to purge 234K voters even though the state has declared the purge list faulty gregpalast.com/hunting-season…
On December 13, Wisconsin Ozaukee County judge Paul Malloy ordered the state elections board to remove 234,000 voters from the rolls on the petition of a right-wing group, despite the board determining that the purge would remove legal voters. jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
The precedent is astonishing. It's the first time a state's been ordered to remove citizens en masse. In 2018, SCOTUS allowed states to remove voters on evidence they’d moved. But no state has been forced to remove voters—especially in light of evidence that the lists are faulty.
Two new court decisions have blessed mass voter purges in two swing states, #Georgia and #Wisconsin. This could be the launch of a new system for purging voters of color and young people that's expected to spread before the 2020 Presidential election. gregpalast.com/hunting-season…
In Atlanta on Friday, Federal Judge Steve Jones ruled against @StaceyAbrams’ #VotingRights organization @FairFightAction in its suit to immediately restore nearly 100,000 Georgians to the voter rolls. #VanishingVoters gregpalast.com/federal-court-…
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction #Georgia’s Secretary of State was using a method we call #PurgeByPostcard. Under the guise of “voter list maintenance,” Georgia sent out postcards that look like cheap junk mail. When a voter fails to return the card, they lose their vote. gregpalast.com/federal-court-… #VanishingVoters
Great news ➡️ It took us six years of investigating... but, finally, #Kansas, which generates the #Crosscheck scrub lists for other states, has agreed to kill the program. This effectively ends the entire national #VoterPurge operation. gregpalast.com/we-have-mortal… #VanishingVoters
But dangers still lurk:
1. At least a dozen states continue to use the old Crosscheck scrub lists. Astonishingly, this includes #Virginia, which the Democrats just won. gregpalast.com/virginia-using… #VanishingVoters
1. At least a dozen states continue to use the old Crosscheck scrub lists. Astonishingly, this includes #Virginia, which the Democrats just won. gregpalast.com/virginia-using… #VanishingVoters
2. The settlement, signed by #KrisKobach’s successor in #Kansas with the @ACLU, only stops #Crosscheck temporarily. The agreement permits it to return if the state installs cyber security protections. truthout.org/articles/kansa… #VanishingVoters
We have databases with absolute proof that this purge is racist and illegal. @StaceyAbrams is covering the cost of our experts in #Georgia, where her organization, @FairFightAction is taking legal action using our evidence. news.yahoo.com/georgia-moving… #VanishingVoters
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction However, in #Wisconsin, a court decision is forcing a similar mass racist purge of 234,000 voters. It can be reversed. We are prepared to team up with WI Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. courthousenews.com/wisconsin-elec… #VanishingVoters
@staceyabrams @fairfightaction But bluntly, we simply don’t have one penny to do this work. If you give a damn, here’s the link to make a tax-deductible donation: palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2…
#VanishingVoters #Wisconsin #BrianKemp #Georgia #PurgeByPostcard #Election2016 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal
#VanishingVoters #Wisconsin #BrianKemp #Georgia #PurgeByPostcard #Election2016 #TrumpStoleIt #Election2020 #StopTheSteal
#StaceyAbrams’ non-profit @FairFightAction has retained our team of experts to provide court testimony, based on our six years of investigation, in Fair Fight’s federal law suit to overturn #Georgia’s massive, racially biased purge of voters. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
@fairfightaction Our experts will testify that this new #JimCrow system not only fixed #Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial race between #StaceyAbrams and then GOP Secretary of Sate #BrianKemp — but has since gone all over the nation. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #VanishingVoters
@fairfightaction There are 20 states — mostly GOP-controlled — who are using the same #PurgeByPostcard system to remove voters from the rolls illegally. Please donate so we can expose it: palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2… #VanishingVoters
In 2018, we uncovered 340,134 voters illegally removed from #Georgia’s voter rolls by Secretary of State #BrianKemp while he was running for Governor against Stacey Abrams. gregpalast.com/georgias-brian… #VanishingVoters
This was #BrianKemp’s secretive “cleansing” operation that won him the election over #StaceyAbrams, the first black woman in American history to run for governor. gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kem… #VanishingVoters
In 2018, #StaceyAbrams lost by around 40,000 votes to #BrianKemp in the election for governor of #Georgia. Kemp was Secretary of State at the time and he quietly removed over half a million voters from the voter rolls. lawandcrime.com/civil-rights/s…
I sued #BrianKemp to get the names of the voters he'd #purged from the rolls. Turns out they were removed because they supposedly moved. But we found out that at least 340,134 had never, ever moved from their registration address, yet they lost their vote. gregpalast.com/georgias-brian…
We hired the top specialist in Address List Hygiene—a fancy term for people who track where every American lives. We looked at people who paid property tax in Atlanta, paid income tax in Georgia, people who were getting pizza deliveries on the morning of the election—in Georgia.
Stacey Abrams Hires Palast Investigations Team for Massive Federal Suit to Restore Voting Rights gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #VanishingVotes #StopTheSteal
While we're thrilled with this new alliance, it only covers #Georgia. We need to expose new, massive, illegal #VoterPurges in #Ohio, #Michigan, #NorthCarolina, #Florida, #Kentucky, #Wisconsin, #Nevada and other states. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-…
We’ve already filed preliminary legal actions in 20 states. Now we move to the expensive process of detailed computer analysis of each purge, voter by voter, more than a quarter million in each of these states. gregpalast.com/stacey-abrams-… #Crosscheck #PurgeByPostcard #VanishingVotes
