UNDERNEWS: How the Republicans stole 1.1 mllion votes

November 12, 2016

How the Republicans stole 1.1 mllion votes

Greg Palast - Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states.

The system, called Crosscheck, is detailed in my Rolling Stone report, “The GOP’s Stealth War on Voters,” 8/24/2016.

Crosscheck in action:
Trump victory margin in Michigan:                       13,107
Michigan Crosscheck purge list:                           449,922

Trump victory margin in Arizona:                         85,257
Arizona Crosscheck purge list:                            270,824

Trump victory margin in North Carolina:               177,008
North Carolina Crosscheck purge list:                   589,393

On Tuesday, we saw Crosscheck elect a Republican Senate and as President, Donald Trump. The electoral putsch was aided by nine other methods of attacking the right to vote of Black, Latino and Asian-American voters, methods detailed in my book and film, including “Caging,” “purging,” blocking legitimate registrations, and wrongly shunting millions to “provisional” ballots that will never be counted.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: If one reads the whole article, he goes into how the exit polls didn't match the election results.; November 13, 2016 at 2:56 PM
Mark said...: And will the Democrats dare challenge the theft, since they didn't do anything substantial in 2004?; November 15, 2016 at 4:59 AM

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