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September 20, 2017
Finally, Busted!
By Greg Palast
Finally.
"Use of Crosscheck risks severe, discriminatory disenfranchisement of registered voters in violation of federal law."
Last week, the NAACP and League of Woman Voters filed a lawsuit to put an end to the state of Indiana’s use and abuse of Crosscheck.
Their evidence: the findings of the Palast Investigations team, our sleuths and our statisticians are cited throughout as the solid factual back-up for their suit to stop the wrongful removal of tens of thousands of voters of color in that state.
(Crosscheck is that secret hit list of 7 million Americans crafted by Kris Kobach, Trump's "Elections Integrity" czar. The list, targeting minority voters was discovered and uncovered by the Palast team.)
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of Palast's updated, post-election edition of
The Best Democract Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election
The NAACP cites our statistics, including our calculation that Crosscheck threatens to wipe out the voting rights of
"one in six Latinos, one in seven Asian-Americans, and one in nine African- Americans."
Forget the Pulitzer. The NAACP's legal citation is the best prize of all.
This suit is the first our work will be launching, ultimately gunning for all 28 states in Kobach’s vote suppression operation.
In Illinois, the ACLU and Indivisible have mounted a legal and legislative attack on Crosscheck and need our unique database of facts. We will get it done.
Other groups, from the NAACP to PFAW and the Civil Rights Center of Washington are counting on our team to investigate, update and propagate through our films and print reports the latest in these vote suppression tactics.
We couldn’t be happier. One of the legal teams in Virginia is asking us to help with the technical discovery process. We’ll do that.
Rev. Jesse Jackson has asked for a special update of our film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, to show in 1,000 churches. Done!
Requests for a special activist version of our film from 67 college organizations; the list of requests goes on. And we will say YES to it all.
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[image error]Our updated, post-election edition of the film is ready and about to go to print.
It’s the new "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Our new subtitle: "The Case of the Stolen Election.”
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Donate a $1,000 – and we’ll add your name to the movie credits as a Producer ($500 for Co-Producer) of the updated DVD.
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Updating the film to show exactly how Trump lost was not easy, and certainly not cheap. Your donations got us in the air to Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, and Washington—and the bills pour in.
NOTE: The updated film will NOT be available on Amazon (or any retail site) until next year—but you can get the update NEXT WEEK, with your name in the credits, as a download…and get the NEW DVD by the end of the month.
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And speaking of busted: two arrested for the Charlottesville beating.
We are thrilled to say that, based on the photos taken by our team’s brilliant and gutsy photographer, Zach D. Roberts, two of those who assaulted African-American school teacher De’Andre Harris, have been arrested. Dan Borden, who beat Harris with a four-foot hunk of lumber, and Michael Ramos, who beat Harris with brass knuckles, have both been taken into custody.
Unfortunately, despite our pleas to the FBI, little has been done to track down the neo-Nazi who threatened Zach and Harris’ friends with a Glock 9mm semi-automatic.
* * * * * *Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, out as major motion non-fiction movie: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election (the brand new, updated, post-election edition).
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September 18, 2017
Indivisible Chicago and ACLU of Illinois Team Up to End State’s Participation in Racist Crosscheck Voter Purging Program
@IndivisibleChi press conference to end #Crosscheck in IL with @ACLUofIL and Rep Greg Harris and @IndivisibleIL ! @Greg_Palast pic.twitter.com/nhjOOsQEzj
— Indivisible Illinois (@IndivisibleIL) September 18, 2017
Indivisible Chicago and the ACLU of Illinois have teamed up to call for an end the state's participation in Crosscheck, and have launched a campaign that has the support of State Rep. Will Guzzardi ( 39th District), State Rep. Greg Harris (13th District), among others.
However, Indivisible Chicago reports that the State Board of Elections has again declined to put Kris Kobach's racially-biased Crosscheck voter-purging program on the agenda for its September 18th meeting — continuing to cite that the Board "requires more information to get up-to-speed on this program."
It's absolutely WEIRD that the Illinois Board of Elections wants time to "get up to speed on Crosscheck" — when they’ve been IN THE PROGRAM for years. Shouldn’t they "get up to speed" before they send lists to Kris Kobach again?
Find out how YOU can help in the fight against Kobach’s racist Crosscheck voter-purging op, by signing up to our newsletter here: bit.ly/StopCrossCheck
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Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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September 15, 2017
Why is Virginia Using BOTH Crosscheck AND ERIC To Purge Voters?
Palast speaking on September 9, 2017 at the launch of the Voting Rights Project in Virginia.
There is no reason for Crosscheck in Virginia. There’s not been a single case of someone voting in Virginia and another state. Not one case. It’s a massive disenfranchisement to stop a crime which does not exist. That's why we don’t really want to improve the way Crosscheck operates, we want to put an end to the whole dishonest, Jim Crow operation.
That said, one of the problems with Crosscheck is that there’s no oversight with regards to how it’s implemented. In 2013, the year Virginia joined Crosscheck, the state removed 41,677 people from the voter rolls. When I interviewed him for my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Kris Kobach himself said the state had violated the federal law — criminally — by removing those voters.
Voters cancelled in Virginia in 2013. Source: Virginia State Board of Elections.
But Virginia also had another purge, using ERIC, which is a non-partisan system for maintaining voters rolls created by a group of founding states in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts. Under the ERIC system, states are supposed to use every match, including the last four digits of your Social Security number, which Kobach collects for Crosscheck, but never uses.
ERIC is a much tighter system. It also uses change of address forms, and has a registration side, which states are also supposed to implement. So if someone gets a card because it looks like they’ve moved, they’ll also get a form to help them register in their new state. The ERIC system is supposed to create a net-positive registration because of measures such as this. (I haven’t actually seen it used that way, but it’s supposed to be net-positive.)
Virginia's in ERIC, and what scares me about Virginia is that tens of thousands of people were removed because of the ERIC review, which was basically, probably, legit people who had moved, etc. Then you had tens of thousands more removed by Crosscheck. Well, if they weren’t caught by ERIC, then it’s suspect that you’re then pulling voters from the rolls because of the Crosscheck list. Those are the people that likely have mismatched middle names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers — meaning they’re false-positives and clearly not the same people.
So, if states — like Virginia — use both ERIC and Crosscheck, that’s really evil. Now you really know that you’re getting false matches — and purging people from the voter rolls because of them.
The ACLU has objected to using even ERIC, because it gets some false-positives. But compared to Crosscheck, it’s not even on the same planet. Crosscheck is absolutely meant — no question — to wipe out the minority vote. It is designed that way, it works that way, they know it, they continue it, and therefore Crosscheck is on its face a tool of Jim Crow. (In a lawsuit brought by the NAACP and League of Women Voters in Indiana, the legal arguments came down to the fact that Crosscheck is a racist program — see story.)
This is why we’re working with Dee Hunter of DC's Civili Rights Center to demand that Virginia’s Secretary of State, Terry McAuliffe — one of the last Democratic governors to insist on staying in Kobach's racist voter purging program — pull out of Crosscheck.
Find out how YOU can help in the fight against Kobach’s racist Crosscheck voter-purging op, by signing up to our newsletter here: bit.ly/StopCrossCheck
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Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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September 14, 2017
Kobach “Election Integrity” Commission Discuss Obviously Bogus Claims Of Voter Fraud in NHRepublicans Aren’t Fools, Misdirection is Intentional
By Nicole Powers
Kris Kobach's so-called "Election Integrity" Commission had their first public meeting in New Hampshire on Tuesday. One of the topics they discussed was claims made by a bogus Koch-funded Heritage Foundation report that 1,100 people in New Hampshire voted illegally (which Kobach repeated in his similarly bogus September 7 Breitbart column). The "evidence" that they used to back this claim up was that some people used out of state DMV ID to vote. On yesterday's edition of the Thom Hartmann Program, Greg and Thom quickly debunk the Heritage Foundation and Kobach's assertion that illegal out of state voters changed the outcome of the 2016 New Hampshire Senate race.
Thom Hartmann: New Hampshire has got a bunch of good colleges... And to the best of my knowledge, if you go to college in New Hampshire...and you're there 9 months out of the year, you establish domicile. In other words, you can legally be part of New Hampshire and vote in New Hampshire, even though you're not legally a resident. That's the law in New Hampshire. You don't have to get a New Hampshire driver's license to vote. Why has that simple reality not sunk into these fools?
Greg Palast: Well, I hate to say it Thom, it's because they're not really fools. They're wise fools. They know exactly what they're doing, which is to create a hysteria that we need all kinds of rules...
It's worth noting that one of these suggested rules to combat the virtually nonexistent crime of voter fraud, put forth by panelist John Lott (the author of More Guns, Less Crime), was that voters be forced to undergo background checks similar to those that potential gun-owners are subjected to in some states. This, of course, is all really about creating yet more obstacles to prevent the poor, the elderly, students, and people of color — who all tend to lean blue — from exercising their right to vote.
*****Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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September 12, 2017
Civil Rights Center Calls On Governor McAuliffe (D) To Withdraw Virginia From Racist GOP Voter Purging Program
By Nicole Powers
After spearheading the launch of The Voting Rights Project in Virginia at an event on Saturday, September 9, DC's Civil Rights Center has called for the state to withdraw from Interstate Crosscheck.
In an open letter, submitted on September 12, 2016, the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Center, Dee Hunter, asked Virginia's Democratic Governor, Terry McAuliffe, to terminate the state's participation in the GOP's racially-biased-by-design voter purging program.
"Terry McAuliffe has called the Trump-Kobach vote fraud commission a machine of 'vote suppression'. Yet McAuliffe is one of the last Democratic governors to insist on staying in Kobach's racist Crosscheck program," says investigative reporter Greg Palast, who co-presented the September 9 Voting Rights Project event.
With campaigns launched in both Georgia and Virginia, the Voting Rights Project aims to restore real election integrity by getting rid of Interstate Crosscheck, which is currently being used in 28 mostly Republican-controlled states.
"Crosscheck is an unreliable and discriminatory," notes Hunter. "Virginia’s participation in Crosscheck is potentially resulting in hundreds of thousands of voters being illegally purged from Virginia and other state voter rolls."
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Watch the Voting Rights Project Virginia panel featuring Palast and representatives from the NAACP, VoteRiders, People Demanding Action, and more here.
*****Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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September 11, 2017
Watch The Voting Rights Project Virginia Panel Feat. Palast — Plus Representatives From NAACP, VoteRiders, People Demanding Action & More
On Saturday, September 9, 2017 we took the Voting Rights Project to the First African Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. A screening of a brand new activist cut of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy was followed by a panel discussion. Moderated by Dee Hunter of the Civil Rights Center, it featured Palast, Kathleen Unger (VoteRiders), Andrea Miller (People Demanding Action), Brian Cannon (OneVirginia2021), Gus Semba (The Semba Foundation), and Greg Moore (NAACP).
The event had one main goal: To put pressure on the Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe — a Democrat — to remove the state from Kris Kobach's stealth voter-purging system. Over a million voters have quietly been removed from voter rolls by Interstate Crosscheck, and most don’t even know.
We believe with enough pressure and education, that in Virginia we can win. We can stop Crosscheck. We put pressure on New York, they pulled out. Washington state pulled out. Oregon pulled out. And believe it or not, Florida pulled out. (Richard Scott was on the Crosscheck list, so Republican Governor Rick Scott got the education the right way!)
We can do it in Virginia. It might take litigation, it might take protest, it might take legislation — it’ll probably take all three. It’ll also take your heart and your time, but it must be done. We have to shine a light on Crosscheck.
Find out how YOU can help in the fight against Kobach’s racist Crosscheck voter-purging op, by signing up to our newsletter here: bit.ly/StopCrossCheck
*****Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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September 5, 2017
The Voting Rights Project: Richmond, VA Saturday, September 9
The Civil Rights Center & The Palast Investigative Fund Present...
The Voting Rights Project: Virginia
Saturday, September 9, 2017 — 12PM-3PM
First African Baptist Church
2700 Hanes Ave, Richmond, VA 23222
Tickets are FREE!
Register at: StopCrossCheck.info
Facebook event page: Facebook.com/events/986587564776886/
Cosponsored by: People Demanding Action, Generation Progress, Indivisible Virginia, Forward Ever Virginia, Andrew Goodman Foundation, Richmond Crusade For Voters, Viginia Beach Branch NAACP, NAACP - Political Action Committee Virginia State Conference, Baptist General Convention of Virginia, and Kemba Smith Foundation.
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Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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August 31, 2017
Second Man Arrested In Connection With Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Attack
Above: Alex Michael Ramos, Dan Borden, and three more unidentified males brutally assault school teacher De'Andre Harris in a parking garage in Charlottesville on August 12. Photo: Zach D Roberts.
On Monday, August 27, police finally arrested the second of two assailants identified from Palast Investigative Fund photographer Zach D. Roberts' Charlottesville photos. Alex Michael Ramos, who surrendered himself to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia on Monday evening, has been charged with one count of malicious wounding. Fellow attacker, Dan Borden, faces a similar charge for the brutal assault of Black school teacher De'Andre Harris, which nearly cost him his life.
Still missing, the FBI moving on the others whom the attackers must know, including the man with the gun pictured below. (Thanks to Titter user @extapdancer for digitally enhancing the shot with a program called "Unshake" — see inset.)
Above: Can you identify this man? (Click on image to view high resolution file.) Photo: Zach D Roberts.
"While we’re happy that arrests are going forward... these two men were identified immediately by journalists who covered the rally. There have been no additional identifications of any of the other participants by law enforcement," said Harris' attorney, Lee Merritt, in an interview for Democracy Now!. "We just hope that people don’t settle with these two arrests and that law enforcement doesn’t think that the job is done with these arrests."
Note that the Justice Department has brought no charges for crossing state lines with intent to commit violence. (Maybe Jeff sessions thinks that the other attackers were "very fine people".)
"I’m also concerned in these arrests that they have been undercharged. Each were charged with one felony account of a malicious assaulting," said Merritt. "We’re talking about a group of white supremacists who attacked a young black male at a white supremacist rally while shouting racial slurs… if this doesn’t set the table for hate-based criminal charges, I don’t know what will.”
Photojournalist Zach D. Roberts is Associate Producer and stake-out videographer for Greg Palast’s film, “ The Best Democracy Money Can Buy .” We are now making the post-election update. You can add your name as a producer for a minimum tax deductible contribution of $1,000 ($500 for Co-Producer) or get a screen credit as a supporter for $100 minimum donation. And you’ll get a signed copy of your film on DVD. Or help us fund our continued investigation of 'their' vote-swiping schemes for any amount no matter how large or small.
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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Democracy Now!: Neo-Nazi Attack in Charlottesville Caught on Camera by Palast Photographer Zach D. Roberts
“Suddenly, a fight breaks out behind me. De'Andre Harris comes running out and is followed by about a dozen white supremacists, who are chasing him with clubs, helmets and shields and every sort of weapon they could find. And they shove him into a parking arm. He falls down. They keep beating him, kicking him, using whatever they can find.”
Palast Investigative Fund photographer Zach D. Roberts is interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh for Democracy Now! about the brutal beating of De’Andre Harris he witnessed and caught on camera in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
You can see more of Zach D. Roberts's images from Charlottesville here. Zach also got an exclusive interview with De'Andre Harris, which you can find here.
Photojournalist Zach D. Roberts is Associate Producer and stake-out videographer for Greg Palast’s film, “ The Best Democracy Money Can Buy .” We are now making the post-election update. You can add your name as a producer for a minimum tax deductible contribution of $1,000 ($500 for Co-Producer) or get a screen credit as a supporter for $100 minimum donation. And you’ll get a signed copy of your film on DVD. Or help us fund our continued investigation of 'their' vote-swiping schemes for any amount no matter how large or small.
Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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August 28, 2017
FREE Download: The Deadly Decisions Behind Katrina
Ignoring science can be deadly — and withholding critical information is nothing short of murder!
Trump killed off flood and hurricane calcs for new building (and oil drilling!) just in time for Hurricane Harvey — and this week’s Hurricane Katrina anniversary. Over 2,000 Black folk were killed by Katrina. It was murder. Download my investigation for FREE to get the full story!
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Before turning to journalism as an investigative reporter for The Guardian and BBC Television, Greg Palast was an investigator of fraud and racketeering for governments and labor unions worldwide. His investigations have appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's and New Statesman. Known as the reporter who exposed how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black voters from Florida rolls to steal the 2000 election for George Bush. Palast has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Armed Madhouse, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, now a non-fiction movie about how Donald Trump, racist vote suppression tactics and the billionaires behind it all.
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