Eye-opening discussion (Greg Palast) of sabotage of recount efforts

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in Michigan and Wisconsin

http://www.gregpalast.com/the-republican-sabotage-of-the-vote-recounts-in-michigan-and-wisconsin/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Greg is the most important journalist alive. We need to financially support him

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2. kick

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3. and thank you so much for this. nt

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4. Palast shouldn't be taken seriously

He's flat out lying in this article he neglects to mention that Wisconsin did have many counties that hand recounted ballots and there was no statistical difference in the votes that were changed. He's using bad parlor tricks to fool people.

Also when he talks about over-votes, that's made up as well. Michigan law makes it clear what a valid write in candidate has to do in order to have votes counted for them. If somebody wrote in Sanders, that would count as no vote for President. Kind of pokes a giant hole through Palast's "conspiracy" of 87,000 missing votes.

https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/IV_Write-In_Candidates_265989_7.pdf

Claiming the Michigan Attorney General blocked the Michigan recount is another disingenuous statement. Michigan law didn't allow for it. That should be changed, but changing the rules in the middle of the game is immoral.

Palast is a hack who should be disregarded because he intentionally leaves out pertinent information. He's not a journalist any more than Bill O'Reilly is.