[CitizensTruth] Palast and RFK Jr: Blocking the '08 Vote

[Hal Snyder]

Election fraud past and present are summarized by Palast and Kennedy  
in the Rolling Stone article below. For up-to-the-minute  
developments, sign up for Mark Crispin Miller's email newsfeed at

http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground

Beverly Walter posted leads to Palast's BBC-TV video on citizenstruth  
recently. Particularly striking is the Trott & Trott linkage to  
subprime lending, foreclosure evictions, and McCain-Palin campaign  
headquarters for the state of Michigan.

http://www.gregpalast.com/bbc-newsnight-the-theft-of-2008/

Hal

Begin forwarded message:


> From: "Greg Palast" <palast at gregpalast.net>

> Date: October 20, 2008 12:40:49 AM CDT

> To: "hal at drxyzzy.org" <hal at drxyzzy.org>

> Subject: Block the Vote

Reply-To: palast at gregpalast.net


Block the Vote

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST

"I don't think the Democrats get it. All these new rules and games …  
could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states."

Rolling Stone Magazine is making this important investigative story  
available on the net in its entirety, free of charge.

Read this excerpt, then read it all on-line at RollingStone.com Or  
download it all, with the Kennedy-Palast voter guide, Steal Back Your  
Vote, at StealBackYourVote.org.

“The new registrations thrown out, the existing registrations  
scrubbed, the spoiled ballots, the provisional ballots that were  
never counted - and what you have is millions of voters, more than  
enough to swing the presidential election, quietly being detached  
from the electorate by subterfuge.

"Jim Crow was laid to rest, but his cousins were not," says Donna  
Brazile. "We got rid of poll taxes and literacy tests but now have a  
second generation of schemes to deny our citizens their franchise."  
Come November, the most crucial demographic may prove to be Americans  
who have been denied the right to vote. If Democrats are to win the  
2008 election, they must not simply beat John McCain at the polls -  
they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote  
tampering.

- From the current Rolling Stone

These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little  
more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas.  
In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More  
than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives  
below the poverty line. On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday  
caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local  
polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that  
his name had vanished from the list of registered voters, thanks to a  
statewide effort to deter fraudulent voting. For Maez, the shock was  
especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas.

Maez was not alone in being denied his right to vote. On Super  
Tuesday, one in nine Democrats who tried to cast ballots in New  
Mexico found their names missing from the registration lists. The  
numbers were even higher in precincts like Las Vegas, where nearly 20  
percent of the county's voters were absent from the rolls. With their  
status in limbo, the voters were forced to cast "provisional"  
ballots, which can be reviewed and discarded by election officials  
without explanation. On Super Tuesday, more than half of all  
provisional ballots cast were thrown out statewide.

This November, what happened to Maez will happen to hundreds of  
thousands of voters across the country. In state after state,  
Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle  
politics - are wielding new federal legislation to systematically  
disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past  
two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to  
determine the presidency in November. "I don't think the Democrats  
get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who  
has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot.  
"All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle  
course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states."

Download the rest – and get the Kennedy-Palast comic book/voter guide  
– at StealBackYourVote.org.

Or, read it on-line, and watch the video, at Rollingstone.com/issue1064

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