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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:48 PM Jan 2017

The massive election-rigging scandal mainstream media ignored

Greg Palast, an award-winning investigative journalist, writes a stinging piece in the highly respected Rolling Stone magazine (August 2016 edition), predicting that the November 8, 2016 presidential election had already been decided: "The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters." He also wrote and produced a brilliant documentary on this exact subject that was released well before the election, titled The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.

He said a program called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck had been quietly put together in Kansas and was being used by Republican secretaries of state in 27 states to suppress and purge African American, Asian and Hispanic votes in what would almost certainly be the swing states of the 2016 election.

Crosscheck was started by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach back in 2007 under the guise of combating so-called voter fraud. In the ultimate thumb in the eye to the American voter, the state where Crosscheck started was the only state to refuse to participate in a New York Times review of voter fraud in the 2016 election, which found that, basically, there wasn't any fraud at the level of individual voters. Turns out, according to Palast, that a total of 7 million voters-including up to 344,000 in Pennsylvania, 589,000 in North Carolina and up to 449,000 in Michigan (based on available Crosscheck data from 2014)-may have been denied the right to have their votes counted under this little known but enormously potent Crosscheck program.

Yes, that's way more than enough votes to swing the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. But no one seems to care.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/the-massive-election-rigging-scandal-mainstream-media-ignored/

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The massive election-rigging scandal mainstream media ignored (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jan 2017 OP
Kobach is slime in a suit. Cracklin Charlie Jan 2017 #1
K&R 2naSalit Jan 2017 #2
I figure the Russians had a hand triron Jan 2017 #3
MSM is more interested in maintaining triron Jan 2017 #4
not for nothing. This is a big win for corporate interests, and hell, the media delivered it. nt JCanete Jan 2017 #5

triron

(21,988 posts)
4. MSM is more interested in maintaining
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 06:50 PM
Jan 2017

the narrative that the election was fair to normalize Trump.
Better to continue pretense of fair election than not as far as they are concerned.
I might add that probably most politicians fall into the same boat.

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
5. not for nothing. This is a big win for corporate interests, and hell, the media delivered it. nt
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 10:29 PM
Jan 2017
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