ROLLING STONE: IT'S ALREADY STOLEN
Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today
Don't worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the
election. According to an investigative report out today in
Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg
Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic
program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.
- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado
have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.
Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado
stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer
to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of
removal.
- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave
of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their
registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law
by George Bush.
Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a
resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and
Hispanic voters.
- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing
leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in
an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."
- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast
team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging"
ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The
Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be
far worse.
There's more:
- Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious
'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters
from their rolls."
Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a
victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in
that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats
without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his
registration was particularly shocking - he's the county
elections supervisor.
The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of
questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York
Times.
"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of
bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the
cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically
disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."
The investigators level a deadly serious charge:
"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not
simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a
margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."
Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the
current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media inquiries -
Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via
interviews@gregpalast.com.]
Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with
the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the
vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book,
Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in
print from their non-partisan website,
http://StealBackYourVote.org For updates and video reports, go to
http://RollingStone.comhttp://www.GregPalast.com http://www.StealBackYourVote.org
http://www.apfn.net/videos.asp
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