Greg Palast: How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election

[marmar]

from YES! Magazine:



How Voter Suppression Could Swing the Election
It won’t be easy to protect our votes from being sidelined and stolen this year, but here are a few simple things we can do.

by Greg Palast
posted Aug 24, 2012


In more than 100 years, there has not been a single case of voter identity fraud in the state of Indiana. Yet, in 2008, 145,000 legitimate voters there were turned away from the polls because they could not produce the photo IDs acceptable to state officials on a crusade against “voter fraud.”

Approximately two out of three of those voters were black. Ten of them were black and white (nuns from the Sisters of the Holy Cross). One nun, aged 98, had given up her driver’s license as had her “younger” sisters.

Now, 16 states have passed voter ID laws similar to Indiana’s. The story is that legislators are trying to stop an epidemic of people voting under false names or casting the ballots of dead people. But nobody’s come up with more than a tiny handful of cases where that’s happened. Taking away the votes of hundreds of thousands of people to stop one or two fake votes is like killing a flea with a shotgun.

Moreover, no fewer than 68,029 Indiana citizens, and 488,136 voters nationwide, had their absentee ballots thrown out on nutty technicalities like using the wrong size envelope or crossing out a bubble instead of filling it in. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/its-your-body/how-voter-suppression-could-swing-the-election

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1. K&R Palast is one of the most important journalists of our time.

[Coyotl]

2. Before: 5.9 million voters wrongly barred from voting or having their ballots counted in 2008

That number is going to rise significantly in 2012

[kitt6]

3. Palast is a Investigative

Journalist. Love him.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. That's exactly (and admittedly) what it's intended to do.

It hasn't a damn thing to do with "voter fraud".

[KeepItReal]

5. K&R

eom

[Bill USA]

6. great article. Palast is a real journalist who is not interested in being a sycophant, even though

pays very well. Just ask the M$M talking heads.