Purges Will Deprive 16.7 Million of their Right To Vote in 2020

 

Greg Palast, voter suppression expert, says the data shows that 16 million people will have their votes purged, unless they keep their registration confirmed.


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According to award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast, 16.7 million men and women have been purged from the US voter rolls in an act which may well decide the 2020 general election.

Mr. Palast sites several examples of what has happened before and is expected to happen again.

Greg Palast: “Purge” – remove, erase, disappear, vanish or otherwise screw a voter out of their registration. It’s the main, stealth means of fixing elections.

Example: in 2000, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida ordered the purge of 94,000 voters from Florida rolls, calling them “felons” barred from voting. I obtained the purge list for the BBC and The Guardian. What I found is that not one voter purged was illegally registered but most were Black. The result, Jeb’s brother George Bush was elected President by 537 votes in Florida. In other words, without the illegal purge, Bush would not have been elected.

And today, the story is worse as The Purge has spread to pandemic proportions nationwide…

In his new book, new book How Trump Stole 2020 he writes, “Between 2014 and 2016, the number of voters purged for moving their residence had soared to 16,696,470 — one in 12 registered Americans”. 

That number is from the US Elections Assistance Commission the agency which tracks votes— and non-votes. It’s hidden in plain sight. 

The dirty little secret of American elections is that we don’t count all the ballots — and we sure as hell don’t allow every citizen to vote. In total, no less than 5,872,857 ballots were cast and never counted in 2016. In addition, a minimum of 1,982,071 voters were blocked from casting their ballots.

That is a total of 7,854,928 votes and voters left uncounted in 2016. 2020 will be worse.

The main thing you can do to protect your vote, Mr. Palast says, in a recent radio interview is to go to the secretary of state's office in your state, and make sure you are registered to vote.

 





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