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Thom Hartmann & Greg Palast in LA

Watch yesterday's event with Thom Hartmann and Greg Palast in San Pedro. Benefit for KPFK.

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Thom Hartmann, Josh Fox with Greg Palast Live in Los Angeles, SaturdaySan Pedro at 3.30pm, UCLA at 8pm

Two incredible events:

Thom Hartmann live on stage with Greg Palast at 3.30pm at the Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro. Benefit for KPFK. Tickets and info.

And Josh Fox’s one-man play, "The Truth Has Changed" - truly the most astonishing theater I’ve encountered in a decade — 8pm at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Greg Palast will join Josh on stage after to take your questions. Tix and info.

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Georgia’s Brian Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved

Last year, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state canceled the registrations of over half a million Georgians because they left the state or moved to another county. Except they didn’t. The nation’s top experts in address location reviewed Kemp’s list of purged voters — and returned the names and addresses of 340,134 who never moved at all.

How did Kemp get away with this mass flushing of the voter rolls? I call it, “Purge by Postcard.”

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Democracy Now:Palast Sues Georgia’s Brian Kemp for Purging 340,000 Voters

Our investigation has found Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has overseen the removal of more than 340,000 current Georgia residents from voting rolls.

Learn more about our lawsuit

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Our Lawsuit against Brian Kemp in 60 Seconds

We’re suing this man with the Chainsaw, Stacey Abrams’ opponent for Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp. Kemp has used his power as Secretary of State to purge 340,134 voters based on false information and likely many more.

Catch my special report from Georgia on Democracy Now! tomorrow, Wednesday, at 8am ET.

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MSNBC AM Joy: Greg Palast hasn’t seen Voter Suppression Like This in 18 Years

This morning on AM Joy, Joy Reid asked Greg Palast if the voter suppression tactics were worse this year.

"As a journalist covering this, is it more aggressive this year, is it more frantic

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MSNBC AM Joy: Greg Palast Says He hasn’t Seen Voter Suppression Like This in 18 Years

This morning on AM Joy, Joy Reid asked Greg Palast if the voter suppression tactics were worse this year.

"As a journalist covering this, is it more aggressive this year, is it more frantic, the attempts to basically engineer an electorate with as few black and brown Asian-American and Native American people in it as possible?" she said.

"I have never seen anything like it in 18 years. You're referring back to when Bush won the presidency by 300 votes," Palast said.

"His (Florida) Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, removed 58,000 black people from the voter rolls saying they were felons, their only crime, every single one was innocent, the only crime was voting while black. I thought that was bad. It's gone wild.

"Yesterday, I sued Brian Kemp in a federal court. The reason is, I looked at the data, and on threat of a federal suit, he gave me his voter files. They cancelled 550,000 voter registrations in Georgia. That's Brian Kemp, he's running for governor. He cancels half a million people off the voter rolls. and the reason is, they left the state, a few died, 19,000. But I had computer experts, the best people in the nation, who check people's addresses. You know, the guys hunting you down to make your pay your bills or send you catalogs.

"They went through name by name. Kemp didn't realize i was going to do this. They went through name by name, 340,134 Georgians did not move from their registration addresses. They got removed. They've been given no notice

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The Guardian: GOP candidate improperly purged 340,000 from Georgia voter rolls, investigation claims

New analysis is latest voting rights controversy in race pitting secretary of state Brian Kemp against Democrat Stacey Abrams.

Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state’s registration rolls, an investigation charges.

Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved – but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.

“Their registration is cancelled. Not pending, not inactive – cancelled. If they show up to vote on 6 November, they will not be allowed to vote. That’s wrong,” Palast told reporters on a call on Friday. “We can prove they’re still there. They should be allowed to vote.”

Palast and the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda filed a lawsuit against Kemp on Friday to force him to release additional records related to the state’s removal of voters.

Under Georgia procedures, registered voters who have not cast ballots for three years are sent a notice asking them to confirm they still live at their address. If they don’t return it, they are marked inactive. If they don’t vote for two more general elections after that, they are removed from the rolls.

Georgia removed more than 534,000 voters that way in 2016 and 2017. Using databases employed by commercial mailing firms, analysts commissioned by Palast’s group found that 334,134 of those citizens actually still live at the address they registered.

Of the rest, 41,797 had

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We Sued Brian Kemp This MorningExperts find Georgia wrongly purged 340,134 voters.

This morning we filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Our experts found Georgia wrongly purged 340,134 voters. Palast and rights groups filed

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Are You One of 769,436 Voters on the Colorado Purge List?

The Colorado voter purge list contains a whopping 769,436 names. Are you on it? URGENT: If you're on the list, re-register NOW!

Colorado's Online Registration Deadline is Monday, October 29.

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