Even as they drown in the anger of platoons of pissed-off voters, Republican operatives are swiping ballots with both hands.

Let's start in Georgia. It's here where the sick little vulture named Saxby Chambliss won the US Senate seat six years ago by calling his Democratic opponent, a guy who'd lost three limbs in Vietnam, a friend of Osama bin Laden.

There's no way in hell that Chambliss can slime his way back into the Senate in the face of over half a million newly registered voters (Black and young 69% for Obama) without jacking them out of their votes. That's what the Republicans are up to. Right now. As we speak.

Over 50,000 the new voters in Georgia have been blocked from voting by using a nasty little new law, the Help America Vote Act signed by George Bush. (Bush is helping us vote - look out!)

I just got this from Christina Rush in the Peach Pit state:

"They really have stolen my vote and I don't know what to do about it at this late stage. I just found out 2 days ago that I do not exist on the voters rolls in Georgia. I have disappeared. After calling 866-OUR VOTE and the Secretary of State (for GA), it has been determined that the last vote I was accounted for was the 1996 General Election. That's awfully strange to me, considering that I voted in the recent Primaries and that last two General Elections (2000 and 2004).

"Everyone is 'very sorry' this is happening, but no one can tell what I can do to make my vote count for THIS election. The only advice I've been given is to fill out a new voters registration form and I'll be eligible for any future elections, just not THIS one.

"So, what can I do except tell anyone and everyone who will listen?"

And no one is going to listen to you or the other 50,000 dumped voters in Georgia.

I've been studying this all year with my co-investigator, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Here's what we know is going to happen: While Obama is brushing his tux for his Inaugural, six million votes are getting disappeared.

The good news: it won't save them. The GOP is toast. Paint the White House black and blue.

But the steal may save the GOP's ability to savage, obstruct, sabotage and fuck with President Obama's ability to repair the damage of eight years of looting by the unelected junta of the Bush regime. They begin with the theft of the Georgia Senate seat. Will there be others?

Watch this space tonight. We've got a network out there from Florida to Alaska reporting in on the states they're shoplifting as the electorate sweeps them out the door.

Greg Palast
9:45pm EST

Mocha

New Orleans, LA

April 2006

NOV 04, 2008 07:35 PM

mmmmmm interesting...

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA

April 2006

NOV 04, 2008 07:43 PM

Greg, you're awesome, thank you for your hard work on informing America.

The HAmVA was just another trophy name for Bush to mount on his wall next to No Child Left Behind, Healthy Forests Initiative, Clean Water Act, Clear Skies Initiative, etc. Pretty much anything that Bush Inc. has put their stamp on is guaranteed to be a foul-up, despite the rosily named Acts and Initiatives.

There were numbers of people calling into the major cable news stations to report having to vote by provisional ballot because there names were purged from the rolls. I'm sure the people calling in are only the tip of the iceberg. I hope they get counted, especially in the close races. Regardless, every vote should count and everyone should not be denied their right to do so. Thanks again.

Counsel

Stamford, CT

March 2008

NOV 04, 2008 07:49 PM

Maybe the focus should be a little bit more on those who are actually fighting for said right to vote...
http://hamptonroads.com/print/486648

Or with groups like ACORN registering people for packs of smokes on the street maybe someone should be monitoring what was happening.. (Thats fine, as long as they aren't Republicans)
http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc

And nothing like guys standing in front of a polling places with a nightstick in hand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

Anyways.. Congrats to you lefties on tonights win, but it looks like we will still have 41+ in the senate.. It is amazing how the left is still so angry with '00.. What a fantasy world to live in..

Toku666

Columbus, OH

May 2004

NOV 04, 2008 07:55 PM

Counsel said:
Maybe the focus should be a little bit more on those who are actually fighting for said right to vote...
http://hamptonroads.com/print/486648

Or with groups like ACORN registering people for packs of smokes on the street maybe someone should be monitoring what was happening.. (Thats fine, as long as they aren't Republicans)
http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc

And nothing like guys standing in front of a polling places with a nightstick in hand...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

Anyways.. Congrats to you lefties on tonights win, but it looks like we will still have 41+ in the senate.. It is amazing how the left is still so angry with '00.. What a fantasy world to live in..

You need to re-research ACORN, holmes. It was monitored, and the supposedly criminal registries were flagged, right?

2000 was bullshit, and you can't logically deny it. Whether it was "better" or worse than '04 is arguable, friend, but only on how they relate to each other, not whether they were examples of vote-fixing or not.

Purges prevent many people from having their vote counted. By the widest stretch, ACORN activity presented a circumstance where a poor, possibly homeless man got a dime because he wrote "Mickey Mouse" on a piece of paper that was immediately flagged as a problem once it was turned in.

Why do "righties" have such problems with scale and context? "What a fantasy world to live in."

flayhugh

I'm lost

January 2008

NOV 04, 2008 07:59 PM

...a solid chunk of the republicans in arizona were removed from the registers for no apparent reason as well.

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

assholes in florida had an auto-dialer calling democrats up to inform them not to vote until the 5th of november.

morons and assholes are all over the place. the least useful of which we wind up voting into political office.

xfinitex

East Lansing, MI

August 2005

NOV 04, 2008 08:04 PM

WIN! (?)

nicole_powers

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

NOV 04, 2008 08:17 PM

Yes. It's about the seats now.....

Rin

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

NOV 04, 2008 09:50 PM

Wow, didn't know you were a member, Greg_Palast! I read your book Armed Madhouse earlier this year and loved it. It had me so freaked out, I honestly didn't see how Obama could win. I'm glad my paranoia didn't pan out.

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN

July 2003

NOV 04, 2008 09:53 PM

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

*A* Black Panther was a registered poll watcher, and had a friend hanging out with him until said friend was politely asked to leave, and the friend did so.

Not exactly a concerted intimidation effort.

psycho_david

Salt Lake City, UT

April 2008

NOV 05, 2008 05:49 AM

This happened to me, I had to vote by provisional balllot here in utah because they lost my registration status.

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ

June 2003

NOV 05, 2008 09:10 AM

malkav11 said:

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

Thank you... I was getting ready to post this.

IDGAS

Boston, MA

March 2004

NOV 05, 2008 09:24 AM

mydogfarted said:

malkav11 said:

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

Thank you... I was getting ready to post this.

Hey, it was two black guys that is like a gang or something.

meatpieboy

Korea, D.P.R.

June 2004

NOV 05, 2008 10:05 AM

IDGAS said:

mydogfarted said:

malkav11 said:

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

Thank you... I was getting ready to post this.

Hey, it was two black guys that is like a gang or something.

That's ALL the Black Panthers, right?

goatinamoat

New York, NY

March 2006

NOV 05, 2008 06:22 PM

Looks like ACORN has over 400,000 suspected fraudulent registrations and the lefties still give it a pass? Amazing.

WSJ article

Why not be against all voter fraud and intimidation? Why turn a blind eye when the lefties do it?

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 05, 2008 06:31 PM

goatinamoat said:
Looks like ACORN has over 400,000 suspected fraudulent registrations and the lefties still give it a pass? Amazing.

WSJ article

Why not be against all voter fraud and intimidation? Why turn a blind eye when the lefties do it?

Once more, with feeling: REGISTRATIONS DO NOT VOTE

Show me that half of those "fraudulent registrations" (nevermind the fact that ACORN flagged them as questionable or outright false but were required by law to submit them anyhow) resulted in fraudulent votes and you might have a point. Until then, it's completely and totally unrelated to vote theft.

hk85

Guerneville, CA

October 2007

NOV 06, 2008 10:43 AM

We might need to add Alaska to the list.

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

NOV 06, 2008 05:30 PM

This is interesting.

Although Ted Stevens holds a small lead in Alaska and is the favorite to retain his seat, the outcome is not as inevitable as it might appear to be. Stevens currently holds a lead of 3,353 votes, or about 1.5 percent of the votes tallied so far. But, there are quite a large number of ballots yet to count. According to Roll Call, these include "at least 40,000 absentee ballot, 9,000 early voting ballots, and an undetermined number of questionable ballots".

Indeed, it seems possible that the number of "questionable" ballots could be quite high. So far, about 220 thousand votes have been processed in Alaska. This compares with 313 thousand votes cast in 2004. After adding back in the roughly 50,000 absentee and early ballots that Roll Call accounts for, that would get us to 270 thousand ballots, or about a 14 percent drop from 2004. It seems unlikely that turnout would drop by 14 percent in Alaska given the presence of both a high-profile senate race and Sarah Palin at the top of the ticket.

538.com

X_Racer_X

Philadelphia, PA

July 2008

NOV 06, 2008 05:37 PM

flayhugh said:l.

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

.

Prove this. I LIVE IN NORTH PHILLY AND VOTED AT A MOSQUE.

And Black Panthers intimidating blacks, not to vote makes absolutely NO sense..especially in North Philly or West Philly...cause um, they wouldn't be so welcome in South Philly or the Northeast...so until you prove me this..I'm calling BULLSHIT.

ArtificialJoy

Edmonton, AB

September 2003

NOV 17, 2008 10:50 AM

Wow, Palast is on SG. I've been a fan ever since I first caught "Bush Family Fortunes"

leopold

Oakland, CA

January 2005

NOV 17, 2008 05:34 PM

mydogfarted said:

malkav11 said:

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

Thank you... I was getting ready to post this.

actually the police had to be called and one of the panthers was holding a club....so im thinking yea this could have been intimidating to some, FYI also from what i read and saw this was the "new" black panther party and not The Black Panther Party...

how many people would have been ok with 2 nationalist skinheads standing in front of a polling place one carrying a club?

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 17, 2008 05:39 PM

leopold said:

mydogfarted said:

malkav11 said:

flayhugh said:

Black Panthers were set up outside voting areas to try and intimidate folks from voting in Philly.

Thank you... I was getting ready to post this.

This is completely contradictory to every description of the events I've heard thus far, and I'm suspicious of unsourced information that comes this far after the fact. Do you have a source for this?

leopold

Oakland, CA

January 2005

NOV 17, 2008 05:42 PM

Yea bean its was on fox news nationally its also on you tube, sorry the daily kos didnt cover this

BatAttaK

Tacoma, WA

OLD SKOOL

NOV 17, 2008 06:29 PM

Fox News and random YouTube clips posted anonymously...America's #1 source for reliable journalism.

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

NOV 17, 2008 06:53 PM

leopold said:
Yea bean its was on fox news nationally its also on you tube, sorry the daily kos didnt cover this

Are we talking:
- footage?
- eyewitness testimony with corroboration?
- any statement by police?
- rumour, innuendo and scuttlebutt?

Because "yeahmanitwastotallyonFoxNewsandYoutubeandshit" ain't quite gonna cut it.

What was on Fox News and Youtube? Find a link. Find something.

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