Greg Palast's Blog, page 33

Secretary of State Raffensperger Speaks With a Forked TongueThe Georgia Fraud Story You Haven’t Heard

In recent weeks, the news filling American living rooms is that Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, bravely stood up to Trump’s claim of voter fraud in the November elections and continues to do so now that Georgians are heading to the polls to decide a crucial runoff election that will decide who controls the Senate. Investigative journalist Greg Palast exposes what’s really been going on in Georgia since the GOP stole the election from ... READ MORE

Civil Rights Groups Fight Back Against Georgia’s Voter Purges

The importance of the January 5 Senate runoff elections in Georgia cannot be overestimated. They will determine which party controls the Senate, with vast ramifications for economic policy, climate change, workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, judicial nominees, and much more. The purging of nearly 200,000 registered voters from the voting rolls in Georgia could spell the difference between a Republican or a Democratic majority in the ... READ MORE

Georgia Closes Black Polling StationsWhite Polls Open for Early Voting

[Cobb County, Georgia] “They didn’t cut one White polling site!”

Barbara Arnwine was livid about this fluorescent violation of both Georgia and Federal voting rights law, a subject she teaches at Columbia University. “All the polling sites they cut were in Black and Brown neighborhoods,” said Arnwine, Founder of ... READ MORE

Georgia’s Cobb County Slashes Early Voting in Black Neighborhoods

A state is required by law to provide the same number of polling locations during a run-off election — like the one in Georgia happening right now — as it does in the General Election. Several counties in Georgia haven't been following those rules. Cobb County which is just outside of Atlanta closed six out of the eleven polling locations. GOP commissioners claimed it was because ... READ MORE

Black Voters Matter, Palast Hit Georgia with New Lawsuit NoticeReturn of 198,000 illegally Purged Voters to Rolls

Friday Dec. 18 [Atlanta] — Representatives for Black Voters Matter were joined by a victim of Georgia’s voter purge and a group of leading voting rights attorneys to confront Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, with a demand to return wrongly purged voters to rolls — or face a new ... READ MORE

Black Voters Matter, Palast Hit Georgia with New Lawsuit NoticeDemand return of 198,000 illegally purged voters to rolls

Friday Dec. 18 [Atlanta] — Representatives for Black Voters Matter were joined by a victim of Georgia’s voter purge and a group of leading voting rights attorneys to confront Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, with a demand to return wrongly purged voters to rolls — or face a new ... READ MORE

Palast, Black Voters Matter and Voting Rights Lawyers File New Lawsuit in Georgia

Friday Dec. 18 [Atlanta] — Representatives for Black Voters Matter were joined by a victim of Georgia’s voter purge and a group of leading voting rights attorneys to confront Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, with a demand to return wrongly purged voters to rolls — or face a new ... READ MORE

Judge Urges Parties to Meet in Georgia Voter Purge Case

ATLANTA – Dec. 16. In his ruling in Black Voters Matter et al. v Raffensperger, Federal District Court Judge Steve Jones denied the Plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction in the case, but strongly encouraged the Parties to meet to address what the Court acknowledged were discrepancies between Plaintiffs’ expert lists and the Secretary of State’s list. At issue are the close to 200,000 Georgians that Plaintiffs maintain have been improperly... READ MORE

Georgia and its Long History of Voter Suppression

Now that Donald Trump’s baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: systemic and massive voter suppression. Voter suppression, not voter fraud, could have critically important effects in Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the... READ MORE

America’s Got Suppression feat. Christine Jordan & LaTosha Brown

This segment from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah features Christine Jordan, whom we first encountered when she was blocked from voting in Georgia in 2018, and LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter and plaintiff in our lawsuit to compel the state of Georgia to restore 198,000 wrongly purged Georgia voters to the rolls before ... READ MORE