With the pro bono help of the firm of Mirer Mazzocchi & Julien, we are filing under the National Voter Registration Act to get the names of every one of the million voters purged from voter rolls using #KrisKobach’s infamous #Crosscheck program. gregpalast.com/im-in-wichita-…
Next. it’s on to Atlanta, #Georgia—where I will personally serve #BrianKemp with the suit. Kemp, like #Kobach, has refused our demand for the names of those he’s purged. And when Brian purges, he doesn’t mess around: blacking out 591,000 voters in 2017. gregpalast.com/im-in-wichita-…
This is the most ambitious journalistic and legal operation in the history of the Palast Investigative Fund. The nation, democracy itself, is at stake.
In addition to our records request under the #NVRA we have also put #KrisKobach on notice that he is ALREADY in violation of the Kansas Open Records Act for failing to respond to a prior request. gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl…
"The 1993 National Voter Registration Act was passed with an explicit mandate to all levels of government to expand and protect the voting rights of American citizens." gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl…#NVRA
"#Crosscheck has repeatedly come under criticism for the inaccuracy of the data it provides to participating states... Crosscheck's methods also disproportionately target voters of color." gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl…#StopTheSteal
"Due to the potential for legitimate voters to be erroneously removed from the registered voter lists as a result of #Crosscheck data — and the egregious impact such error could have on voters of color — it is of paramount importance that this data be released to the public..."
This June 12, 2018 letter marked the beginning of a 90-day window to remedy #KrisKobach and #Kansas' lack of compliance with the National Voter Registration Act "after which an aggrieved individual may bring a civil suit." gregpalast.com/wp-content/upl…
My lawyer had to threaten #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp with a lawsuit to force him to turn over the names of over half a million voters whose citizenship rights he quietly extinguished. gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kem…
My database expert went through #BrianKemp's #Georgia Purge List name by name and found:
1 Thousands who supposedly left the state but remain in Georgia
2 Thousands who moved from one end of town to another
3 Someone who moved from one apartment to another in the same building
Don’t assume you’re OK because you’ve not moved and have voted in the same place for years. States have been conducting deep purges, and many perfectly valid voter registrations have disappeared — often without notice. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
For example, in #Georgia in 2017, GOP Secretary of State #BrianKemp removed 591,000 voters from the rolls—that’s 1 in 10 registrations in a single year!
Rather than face me in court, #Georgia Secretary of State #BrianKemp coughed up the first and last names and addresses of every one of the 591,000 voters he purged from the rolls in 2017. Notably, however, he left out the voter’s middle names. How curious. gregpalast.com/why-i-am-suing…
#BrianKemp also refused — despite the requirements of transparency in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 — to state in detail WHY he’s purged each of the monstrously large number of #Georgia voters. gregpalast.com/why-i-am-suing…#StopTheSteal
#Florida study finds "mail ballots were 10 times more likely to be rejected than votes cast at early #voting sites or on #election day" and "ballots cast by youngest voters, blacks and Hispanics were much more likely to be rejected."
STUDY: "Younger and racial and ethnic minority voters casting Vote By Mail ballots were at least twice as likely as older and white voters to have their VBM ballot rejected in the presidential elections of 2012 and 2016." aclufl.org/en/publication…
We have a massive non-count of votes in America. Over one million ballots nationwide — in any election — are never counted. They are disqualified for cockamamie technical reasons. gregpalast.com/have-you-check…
People worry about getting their vote stolen by a machine, so they mail it in. But you just went double or nothing with your vote, because that makes it easier for them. The number one way #KrisKobach won the #KansasPrimary was by disqualifying ballots that were mailed in.