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  • TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4 2008 7:30 PM

The Steal You Won't See

Submitted by Greg_Palast

Edited by nicole_powers

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

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hk85

hk85

Guerneville, CA
October 2007

NOV 06, 2008 10:43 AM

We might need to add Alaska to the list.

FearTheReaper

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

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.

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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.



whatever

ArtificialJoy

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

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.



*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.



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

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.



*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.



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?


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

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

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

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.

leopold

leopold

Oakland, CA
January 2005

NOV 17, 2008 06:58 PM

TheFuckOffKid said:

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.




or you could just go to you tube and find it yourself.....

Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

NOV 17, 2008 07:03 PM

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



Stop drinking the Kool-Aid. There was no voter intimidation. The non-event happened at a polling place inside a large housing project on Fairmount Ave. in North Philadelphia, down the street three blocks from where I had my shop for seven years. There is no place in the city less likely to house a Republican voter and no place in the city where a Black Panther being a registered poll watcher would be less out of the ordinary. There are 84 registered republican voters in that district out of nearly 1,800 total, FYI.


One of the guys was a indeed a 14th Ward Dem poll watcher, the other was his friend, they intimidated no one and there was no conflict with anyone except the McCain staffers and the Fox News reporter who were stirring the pot.

The Philadelphia Police, the city District Attorney's office and the city election watchdog group the Committee of Seventy all reported no complaints.


Philadelphia Daily News



It seems that some time Tuesday morning, a couple of knuckleheads in boots, black berets and shoulder patches that said "New Black Panther Party" began standing in front of a polling place at 12th and Fairmount, one of them holding a nightstick. When approached by a Penn student filming on a camera phone, one said they were "security."

Before long, the polling place was visited by Republican poll watchers, the police, assistant district attorneys, volunteers from the watchdog group Committee of Seventy and many, many reporters.

There were no arrests. Committee of Seventy president Zack Stalberg said that his organization hadn't gotten a single complaint from a voter, and in an online video a man can be seen nonchalantly entering the building behind the Panthers.

But the story was quickly featured by Fox News and radio host Rush Limbaugh, and breathlessly repeated in a news release by the Republican National Committee. Limbaugh said Democrats were trying to "steal the election."

By the end of the day, "Black Panther" was the second-most- frequently-used search term on Google, and Stalberg was fielding a call from a London reporter asking about Black Panthers' intimidating white Republican voters at a polling place.

"Basically, it was all horsebleep," Stalberg said yesterday. "I assured him there weren't a lot of Republican voters there, and it wasn't much of a problem."

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

NOV 17, 2008 07:03 PM

leopold, stop being slimy. you're the one making the goddamn statement, which means the onus is on you to provide a source. jesus.

leopold

leopold

Oakland, CA
January 2005

NOV 17, 2008 07:10 PM

motorfirebox said:
leopold, stop being slimy. you're the one making the goddamn statement, which means the onus is on you to provide a source. jesus.










lol i am so sorry im not playing by the rules, and your are so upset about that, .....its easy to find just google it

leopold

leopold

Oakland, CA
January 2005

NOV 17, 2008 07:12 PM

Stiles I am aware of the facts you gave, but the police did come and ask the person to leave and said person was carrying a nightstick, and IMO, you may disagree, that would possibly be a little intimidating, for any voter.

Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

NOV 17, 2008 07:12 PM

leopold said:

lol i am so sorry im not playing by the rules, and your are so upset about that, .....its easy to find just google it



Why don't you try and figure out if the crap you're pushing is bullshit before you post it? This was disproved on election day.

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