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The Truth Buried Alive

Of the thousands of bless you and f— you messages that arrived at The Guardian papers after we broke the Florida vote swindle story in November 2000, none ruffled my editors’ English reserve but one: a letter demanding we

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Young Voters Screwed UsSo what are we going to do about it?

If a handful of young people who got so excited about Stacey Abrams had voted on Tuesday in the runoff for Secretary of State of Georgia, Stacey would be unstoppable in the next election. But

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How Brian Kemp STOLE The Georgia ElectionCenk Uygur talks to Palast on The Young Turks' Rebel HQ

Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went

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How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia ElectionCenk Uygur talks to Palast on The Young Turks' Rebel HQ

Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went through the list name by name and found at least 340,134 voters had never moved. You’re talking a third of a million voters who were canned — with no notice. They showed up in mass and they were either handed provisional ballots, which were thrown in the garbage — and about 50,000 people were simply denied a provisional ballot in violation of federal law.

It's as evil as it is brilliant, because Abrams was prepared to fight over the provisional ballots. She even got a judge to say count them — but you can’t count provisional ballots which were never handed out. It was a pure steal. And the trick that Kemp used

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Abrams’ New Voting Rights Org, Fair Fight Georgia, Files Suit

Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted. Charging Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally

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Abrams’ New Voting Rights Org, Fair Fight Georgia, Files SuitCharges Kemp "grossly mismanaged" election and "unconstitutionally purged" Georgia's voter rolls.

Stacey Abrams, who refused to officially concede defeat in her bid for Governor, filed suit today in federal court in Atlanta charging the entire election process was hopelessly tainted.

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Mississippi: Ugly Old Trick Targets Espy Voters

Mike Espy, US Senate candidate, reveals the return of an outlawed vote suppression tactic aimed at elderly voters.

[Jackson, Mississippi] In the vote-stealing biz it’s called "push polling" in which a fake pollster cons a voter out of their vote.

Espy said they would not have known about this game except,

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Mississippi: Mike Espy Makes Stunning Charge of New Vote Suppression Tactic

Mississippi: Mike Espy makes a stunning charge of a new vote suppression tactic. In the vote-stealing biz it’s called "push polling." And it’s a crime.

The Democratic candidate for Senate spoke with Palast Investigations team reporter Zach D. Roberts:

"We has a lot to deal with. There were

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Georgia Senator Nikema Williams: Black, Female and Under Arrest

Georgia state Senator Nikema Williams didn't plan on being arrested last week. She certainly didn't think she'd be zip-tied by cops and asked to submit to a strip search. But that's what happened when she was in the Georgia State Capitol witnessing a 'Count Every Vote' protest on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.

"It was horrific experience," Williams told our reporter, Zach D. Roberts, the day after her arrest. "They patted me down, like worse than you would get at a TSA pre-check, but then she told me to lift up my dress so they could make sure that I was not carrying something in my vaginal cavity. I am a sitting state senator, that you brought off the rotunda of the capital, and you’re searching me and wanting me to take my dress off to strip search me. And then they wanted me to

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Here’s how Republicans Hijacked a Bill Designed to ‘Help America Vote’

There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression” — and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from

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