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portlander23

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Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:57 PM Jan 2017

Is Keeping People of Color From Voting the Key to GOP Electoral Dominance? [View all]

Is Keeping People of Color From Voting the Key to GOP Electoral Dominance?
Greg Palast
Truthout

Fact: there aren't enough white guys to elect Donald Trump.

Unless.

Unless Trump's crew quietly builds a secret blacklist of millions of voters, especially voters of color, and systematically and quietly wipes out their voter registrations.

In fact, in 2016, the voter-erasing system has been built, and GOP operatives have already begun to put it into action. Its name: Interstate Crosscheck. Crosscheck, not the voters, may well choose our next President and determine who controls Congress.

But I've got the list -- or at least three million of the names of those who are about to get the royal screwing. I've got their names and I've got their colors.

How I got them -- well that's my job. I'm an investigative reporter. Stay with me, and you'll get the full story.

But this is what you need to know: Crosscheck is the GOP's Great White Hope Machine, the approaching Death Star of voter suppression.

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If making America great again means taking voting rights back to the stone ages... Initech Jan 2017 #1
presumes there will actually BE elections after jan 20, 2017 nt msongs Jan 2017 #2
Sham elections will still take place Generic Brad Jan 2017 #7
Yes, I think Silver calculated a 1.2% net increase VSM states uponit7771 Jan 2017 #3
Kris Kobach's Interstate Cross Check voter suppression system is in use in 30 states think Jan 2017 #4
Remember the Rove Brothers doing the Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #6
Right. The excuse then was removing supposed Texas felons from Florida voting rolls. hedda_foil Jan 2017 #12
I don't understand why felons can't vote anyway. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #16
I couldn't agree more. The purpose of disenfranchising people convicted of a felony is obvious. hedda_foil Jan 2017 #17
Agreed Pacifist Patriot Jan 2017 #21
Too corrupt for Florida? WOW jg10003 Jan 2017 #15
Stopping POCs from voting is always a part of the repug game plan. brush Jan 2017 #5
OK, so where is the ACLU (or other) lawsuit? Snarkoleptic Jan 2017 #8
On edit...it's us! Snarkoleptic Jan 2017 #9
US federalism give the GOP an edge... eniwetok Jan 2017 #10
Is Pope Francis Catholic? KamaAina Jan 2017 #11
They've actually said so radical noodle Jan 2017 #13
Gee, what was the first clue? What we've got here is computerized Jim Crow. Hekate Jan 2017 #14
Republicans already doing it as far back as 2000. RealityChik Jan 2017 #18
The story of 2016 was not the turn out of rural white people but that of stopping blacks from voting Botany Jan 2017 #19
Part of it. moondust Jan 2017 #20
Yes... Pacifist Patriot Jan 2017 #22
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