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RFK, Jr./Palast/Rollingtone: [The Election Is] Already Stolen
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by Erik Larson | October 19, 2008 at 09:05 pm
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Investigative report by RFK, Jr. and Greg Palast just published in Rolling Stone magazine describes various GOP dirty tricks that have been setting the stage for massive 08 Dem disenfranchisement; caging, purging, blocking, challenging; this doesn't even get into the fact that evoting machines are still secret, proprietary, easily hackable and unnacountable. See this article for continued reports of vote-switching in West Virginia.
More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes: In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP
Link to Rollingtone article Block the Vote (Palast summarizes it below)
Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today
Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.
- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.
Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.
- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."
- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.
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at 21:19 on October 19th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 22:31 on October 19th, 2008
If this is accurate, and it's probably close to the truth, it's just plain nuts. Thanks for posting this.
at 04:34 on October 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 06:08 on October 20th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff. Bill Moyers had a story on the same subject on his last Friday night show on PBS. The Republicans purging of the voter registraton rolls and the rigging of the new machines. I hope this report and Obama's announcement to have the best legal team monitoring the election helps to keep the election from fraud and unsavory practices.