Greg Palast's Blog, page 35

Georgia Hit With Another Voter Lawsuit, and It’s Not From Trump

Headlines about Georgia's election are focused on President Donald Trump's legal battle to turn the state in his favor but plaintiffs in a new lawsuit say the real focus should be on the people who were removed from voter rolls ahead of Election Day. "We haven't seen... READ MORE

Georgia Lawsuit to Restore Voters to Rolls Ahead of Runoff

Black Voters Matter Sues the State of Georgia for Violating the National Voter Registration Act and Purging 198,000 Citizens from the Voter Rolls Rosario Dawson and Zoe Saldana Join Fight with new PSA to Find the Vanished Voters of Georgia and Encourage Re-Registration by December 7 ... READ MORE

Race to get 23,000 Young Georgia Voters Registered for RunoffHampered by COVID and Lack of Awareness

There are around 23,000 young people in Georgia who turn 18 in the weeks between the General Election and the January 5 runoff. With only a week left before the December 7 registration deadline for the runoff, these high school seniors, left out of... READ MORE

No Car, No Vote"Emergency" Georgia Registration Roadblock

On Monday, Georgia’s Board of Elections issued a directive that allows county election supervisors to block new registrations of voters who do not have a car registered in Georgia. I kid you not. The Board acted after Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger quietly sent out a... READ MORE

GOP Trail of TearsGiving Thanks to Indigenous Voters

For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving
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GOP Trail of TearsGiving Thanks to Indigenous Voters

For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving... READ MORE

Georgia tries to Block New Voters ahead of RunoffProposed new registration rule would require car registered in state.

Georgia’s Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don’t have a car registered in the state. This knocks out students, lower income urban voters (i.e. Black Atlantans) without ... READ MORE

Georgia tries to block new voters ahead of runoffProposed new registration rule would require car registered in state.

Georgia’s Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don’t have a car registered in the state. This knocks out students and lower income urban voters (i.e. Black Atlantans) without cars. Of course, you can’t ... READ MORE

White Power and the RecountThe Far Right Fights for Trump

[November 19th, 2020, Atlanta, GA] The fight over what's left of the soul of the Republican Party has moved from Washington DC to Georgia with the far right continuing to rally for Trump.
When I first drove by the rally, a Christian white nationalist and anti-immigrant named... READ MORE

How to Stop The Purge from Stealing the Georgia Runoff— and Swiping the U.S.Senate!

The Republicans are panicked. Despite wrongly purging nearly 200,000 young, low-income, and voters of color in an attempt to fix the election (as exposed by us), Georgia Republicans lost the state for Trump, and now they could lose control of the US Senate.