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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Fri Nov 14, 2014, 06:12 PM Nov 2014

GOP "Crosscheck" program could erase millions of voters from the rolls, - Greg Palast

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/jim_crow_returns_interstate_crosscheck_program

(see video at Democracy Now.org)

On the eve of the midterm elections, we air a report by investigative journalist Greg Palast on how new voter ID laws risk disenfranchising millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters. Twenty-seven states are now participating in the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program. Backers say it is needed to prevent voter fraud, but critics say it is being used to stop Democratic-leaning voters from going to the polls. Tens of thousands of names have already been removed, and millions more are threatened. Based on a six-month investigation, Palast’s report originally aired on Al Jazeera America. A Puffin Foundation fellow, Palast is the author of the New York Times best-seller, "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps."

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GOP "Crosscheck" program could erase millions of voters from the rolls, - Greg Palast (Original Post) Bill USA Nov 2014 OP
Kick yurbud Nov 2014 #1
, blkmusclmachine Nov 2014 #2
this sounds so much like the felon voter purge of 2000 that helped put Bush into office yurbud Nov 2014 #3

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
3. this sounds so much like the felon voter purge of 2000 that helped put Bush into office
Sun Nov 16, 2014, 05:14 PM
Nov 2014

and now 14 years later, Democrats seem to have done nothing to stop the GOP from deciding who they don't want to have the right to vote.

Are Democratic politicians incompetent or complicit?

Either way, it's looking more and more like the party needs a top to bottom make over, or it simply needs to be replaced by a true progressive party.

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