Sunday, January 26, 2025

Vote Suppression Won

Journalist Greg Palast writes about all the different ways the 2024 election was impacted, including by voter registration purges, "vigilante" voter fraud challenges, ballot disqualifications, and bomb threats on election day.

Posted by Corky at 10:31 AM | 23 COMMENTS | permalink

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Vote suppression cost Kamala Harris no less than 3,565,000 votes. If all legal voters were allowed to vote, and if all legal ballots were counted, Harris would have topped Trump's official total by 1.2 million. youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo

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-- Greg Palast (@gregpalast.bsky.social) January 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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"Stay with me and I'll give you the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations.

But if you're expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won't get that here.

As in Bush v. Gore in 2000 and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old "vote suppression," the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.

Here are key numbers:"

Much more on the Republican "Klan Plan" for the election at the thread link.

Also a great little interview with Greg Palast, NY Times is here:

www.youtube.com

The bottom line:

"According to the Brennan Center for Justice, since the 2020 election,

"At least 30 states enacted 78 restrictive laws" to blockade voting. The race-targeted laws ran the gamut from shuttering drop boxes in Black-majority cities to, for the first time, allowing non-government self-appointed "vote fraud vigilantes" to challenge voters by the hundreds of thousands."

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-24 04:24 PM

CorkyTheBigot is an election denier?

This place is hilarious.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-24 06:28 PM

1Nut is a reactionary who obviously has NO CLUE (his real name in Chinese!)...

...NO CLUE as to any argument at all with the Voting Forensics Court Expert's Findings.

If he did he would have made it, rather beg me for yet another humiliating public beating about the head and face.

But he might be too busy watching his favorite Republicans confirm a woman abuser who pays $50K in hush money, when he isn't too drunk to do so, and give him the nuclear codes.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-24 06:45 PM

rather than

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-24 06:47 PM

I thought denying the election results was un-American

#5 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-01-25 11:31 AM

No, sorry.

Among Trumpers, denying election results and then trying to illegally and violently overturn the election is patriotic.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-25 11:35 AM

"The big lie!"

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-25 01:13 PM

The orange pedo admitted Leon rigged the vote in Pennsylvania.

www.newsweek.com

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-25 01:18 PM

The Hartmann Report Bias and Reliability
chart

Bias: Hyper-Partisan Left

Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic

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#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-26 10:08 AM

The sheep have moved from X to bsky.social following the same people who never have posts that age well. They never learn.

#10 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-26 10:44 AM

Says the 350 lb Bonaduce lookalike who's locked onto Leon taint.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-26 10:52 AM

#9

Nothing about the voting expert's expert voting analysis, lol.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-26 11:07 AM

Blah Blah Blah....

"1,216,000 "provisional" ballots were rejected, not counted"

Two problems here:

1. provisional ballots get rejected for several reasons but the majority of the time is voter not being able to prove who they are. I had to vote on a provisional ballot last mid terms because something awry while registering at the DMV when I changed my DL over. I voted on the day of the election, in person. And not only did my vote get counted the clerk automatically registered me to vote.

2. you (and the author) desperately want everyone to believe that all 1,216,000 provisional ballots were all democrats.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-26 11:15 AM

I'm glad I'm not there with the rest of you right now. Sore losers and sore winners all around.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-26 04:25 PM

Those rascal Republicans, always trying to suppress illegal votes.

#15 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-26 07:35 PM

I'm glad I'm not there with the rest of you right now.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-26 04:25 PM | Reply | Flag

Where do you want to be? serious question, Dr. Who.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-01-26 08:00 PM

Leave Corky alone. He/she/we don't know is going through some real soul searching right now, not to mention crying towels.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:07 AM

"Democrats never deny elections."

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-27 11:08 AM

#17
Says the -------- who wears a diaper in subservience to a demented rapist.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-27 11:09 AM

I voted on the day of the election, in person. And not only did my vote get counted the clerk automatically registered me to vote.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

That's not allowed in most Red States now.

You better be properly registered well before the election.

Good job proving (a) you don't know anything and (b) Republicans are literally suppressing votes.

#20 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-01-27 12:40 PM

Red states like NY, NJ, MA, RI don't allow same day registration.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-27 02:52 PM

" 20 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-01-27 12:40 PM | FLAG: "

You thrive on saying dumb things. It's as if it's your main goal in life.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-01-27 04:47 PM

VOTER SUPPRESSION WON.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"you people" are whacked...

you denied 'suppression even with the times et al admitted to lying....TO YOU and the country.

becausethe mentally handicaped ------ won.

dems lose and it's VOTER SUPPRESSION !!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

- how precious....and boring............and projection.....and just plain stupid...

#23 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-01-27 06:41 PM

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