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Here’s how Republicans hijacked a bill designed to ‘Help America Vote’ — and used it to block people from voting

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 voting in largely Democratic areas. It started with the 2000 election “debacle” in Florida...

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What We Must Do Now: Abrams, Georgia & Something Extraordinary

Days ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams’ lead attorneys.  Our investigative team had “gold,” as they put it, for litigating the election:  Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged.  Plus, we had, on camera, victims of the purge, including the 92-year-old cousin of Martin Luther King.

Stacey Abrams, Greg Palast review Georgia Purge list 2014

But I’m a journalist, not a campaign operative.  I could only offer my reports and my affidavit filed in federal court in Common Cause v. Brian Kemp.

With Stacey Abrams no longer in the race for Governor, we are now free to

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What We Must Do Now:Abrams, Georgia & Something Extraordinary

Days ago, I received a call from Stacey Abrams’ lead attorneys.  Our investigative team had “gold,” as they put it, for litigating the election:  Expert analysis proving 340,134 voters were wrongly purged.  Plus, we had, on camera, victims of the purge, including the 92-year-old cousin of Martin Luther King.

Stacey Abrams, Greg Palast review Georgia Purge list 2014

But I’m a journalist, not a campaign operative.  I could only offer my reports and my affidavit filed in federal court in Common Cause v. Brian Kemp.

With Stacey Abrams no longer in the race for Governor, we are now free to

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Shocking Level of Hate on Display on Election Frontlines in Florida

In 18 years of covering elections I’ve never seen such hate, as captured on camera this week by my team on the frontlines in Broward County, Florida.

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Palast Files Affidavit in Common Cause v. Kemp

Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia’s case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his

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Palast files affidavit in Common Cause v. Kemp

Today, I filed an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta in support of Common Cause Georgia’s case filed against Brian Kemp, Secretary of State. (When Kemp resigned, the case continued against his

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Affidavit: 340,134 Voters Wrongly Purged at Heart of Georgia Count Disaster

In an affidavit filed today in Federal District Court in Atlanta, I provided information that our team of experts uncovered in support of Common Cause Georgia's case against Robyn Crittenden in her official capacity as Acting Secretary of State of Georgia. The evidence supplied by our team includes

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Salon: They’re Trying To Stop The Count — Again!Eighteen years on and it’s still the same.

My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to stop the vote count. (In 2000, a riot by GOP operatives in the Miami-Dade elections office successfully shut down the recount.)

This week in Florida, my camera crew (Jordan Freeman and Zach D. Roberts) captured menacing crowds supporting the GOP, chanting 'Stop the count!' — the exact phrase the GOP chanted in 2000. And in 2018, Democratic demonstrators are chanting, 'Count all the votes! Count all the votes' — the exact same (failed) chant from 2000.

In 2000, Democrats were calling for all votes to be counted — no games, no disqualifying ballots for 'hanging chads' or other gimmicks. The Republicans were adamant, led by Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris: don’t count all votes. In the end a whopping 178,000 ballots were disqualified — and George W. Bush won Florida and the US presidency by just 537 votes.

Eighteen years later and it’s

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They’re Trying To Stop The Count — Again!Eighteen years on and it’s still the same.

My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to stop the vote count. (In 2000, a riot by GOP operatives in the Miami-Dade elections office successfully shut down the recount.)

This week in Florida, my camera crew (Jordan Freeman and Zach D. Roberts) captured menacing crowds supporting the GOP, chanting 'Stop the count!' — the exact phrase the GOP chanted in 2000. And in 2018, Democratic demonstrators are chanting, 'Count all the votes! Count all the votes' — the exact same (failed) chant from 2000.

In 2000, Democrats were calling for all votes to be counted — no games, no disqualifying ballots for 'hanging chads' or other gimmicks. The Republicans were adamant, led by Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris: don’t count all votes. In the end a whopping 178,000 ballots were disqualified — and George W. Bush won Florida and the US presidency by just 537 votes.

Eighteen years later and it’s

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Voting in Georgia in 21 Easy Steps

Watch this one-minute video of Ashlee Jones on the 21 “easy” steps required of a voter of color to cast a ballot in Georgia.

Spoiler alert: Step 21 is “Sue Brian Kemp in federal court.”

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