Book excerpt Greg Palast
The US Presidential Election will be decided in just four months. But the fix is already in, and millions of young, poor, and minorities will be robbed of their votes
Art: Ted Rall
The Great Purge
An excerpt from Greg Palast’s new book, How Trump Stole 2020
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’ve spent 20 years cracking the code on ballot burglary. Schemes with names like “Crosscheck” and “Caging” and “Spoiling”. Expose one, another pops up like electoral Whack-a-Mole. Every four years, some new cheat. I just couldn’t figure this one out – how are they going to take 2020? – until I started tracking a character with a shotgun, a chainsaw, a pick-up truck, a dynamite detonator and a lot of love from Koch Industries. On November 7, 2018, it all snapped into place when Chainsaw was elected the 83rd white Governor of Georgia. ——————— It was raining that day in Atlanta. But I could see the large tears tracking down the face of Christine Jor-
dan’s niece. “It’s horrible,” she said. Ms. Jordan, 92-years-old, had dressed elegantly for the occasion, her 50th year at the same polling station, “voting right here since 1968”, Ms Jordan said, the year her cousin Martin Luther King Jr was gunned down. But she would not vote this time. They threw her out of the polling station. “It’s horrible”, repeated her niece, Jessica. “It’s horrible to come out and not be able to vote and no one can give you an explanation. She held civil rights meetings in her home and they had no record of her. “She was here in the West End community when we couldn’t. . . .” She choked on the word “vote”.
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