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B.See

(4,444 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:33 PM Jan 25

TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won. (by Greg Palast) via Thom Hartmann

Wow, a QUITE revealing piece that confirms what I said several times over shortly after the election: that it was 'stolen' (as in RIGGED) via VOTER SUPPRESSION.

Only this guy brings the NUMBERS:

TRUMP-LOST-Vote-Suppression-Won-by-Greg-Palast thomhartmann - Daily Kos

If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.

There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.





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TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won. (by Greg Palast) via Thom Hartmann (Original Post) B.See Jan 25 OP
That's disturbing. If confirmed it could help explain why spooky3 Jan 25 #1
Or why they were so certain B.See Jan 25 #3
In every election post the overturnig of Roe no Botany Jan 25 #5
Of course Trump cheated and that is how he won. Botany Jan 25 #2
Voter suppression has been the playbook since at least 2000 RandomNumbers Jan 25 #4
Were were robed! Bonx Jan 25 #6
Palast has been warning about this for years JCMach1 Jan 25 #7
K&R 2naSalit Jan 25 #8
Stay on top of this folks. If true maybe a few Senators should not be in Congress and a handful of reps too. GreenWave Jan 25 #9
Yep. But then again B.See Jan 25 #12
k and r BoRaGard Jan 25 #10
What if he is correct? malaise Jan 25 #11
I take it you're asking "what if" not B.See Jan 25 #14
Something better be done malaise Jan 26 #15
Thx for this -- bookmarking & saving the article to my files Hekate Jan 25 #13

spooky3

(36,948 posts)
1. That's disturbing. If confirmed it could help explain why
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:41 PM
Jan 25

So many 2020 Biden voters “stayed home” in 2024.

Botany

(73,219 posts)
5. In every election post the overturnig of Roe no
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:50 PM
Jan 25

matter where the vote supported a woman's
right to choose but not in the 2024 Presidential
Elections. There is a reason McConnell has
blocked all efforts to clean up and modernize our voting systems Republicans cheat.

Shades of bush v Gore 2000 in Florida. Removing 90,000 90,000 voters from voting
makes a difference although the Republicans still had to get the SCOTUS stop the counting
of the vote in Florida because they knew that
Gore would have won.

Botany

(73,219 posts)
2. Of course Trump cheated and that is how he won.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jan 25

End of story. BTW Musk's being into the vote
counting computers aka central tabulators was a factor too.

RandomNumbers

(18,397 posts)
4. Voter suppression has been the playbook since at least 2000
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 01:50 PM
Jan 25

Palast was on top of it then, and I am not surprised he is on top of it now.

But honestly, we desperately need campaign finance reform. Probably before we can correct the voter suppression that is going on.

(Have not read the article yet ... but I will.)

GreenWave

(10,206 posts)
9. Stay on top of this folks. If true maybe a few Senators should not be in Congress and a handful of reps too.
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jan 25

B.See

(4,444 posts)
14. I take it you're asking "what if" not
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 09:03 PM
Jan 25

to question the validity of the quite detailed documentation of voter suppression tactics that, I myself, had been posting about long before coming here,

but rather to ask what, if anything, can be done. Which is a damn good question, Malaise, all considering.

Hekate

(96,144 posts)
13. Thx for this -- bookmarking & saving the article to my files
Sat Jan 25, 2025, 08:54 PM
Jan 25
TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won. (by Greg Palast) via Thom Hartmann

Wow, a QUITE revealing piece that confirms what I said several times over shortly after the election: that it was 'stolen' (as in RIGGED) via VOTER SUPPRESSION.

Only this guy brings the NUMBERS:

TRUMP-LOST-Vote-Suppression-Won-by-Greg-Palast thomhartmann - Daily Kos

If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.

There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.


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