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In reply to the discussion: Hillary has the right and almost an obligation to say Trump didn't win. [View all]Akamai
(1,779 posts)cross-check (knocking many, many thousands of voters off the polls -- giving them provisional ballots which where never counted) and voter ID laws which prevented many voters from even coming to the ballot boxes.
Take a look at Greg Palast at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/8/1593581/-The-Crosscheck-Scheme-GOP-removing-Blacks-and-Hispanics-from-Voter-Rolls-in-Battleground-States
"In an on-the-ground report from the battleground state of Ohio, investigative reporter Greg Palast has uncovered the latest in vote suppression tactics led by Republicans that could threaten the integrity of the vote in Ohio and North Carolina. On some polling machines, audit protection functions have been shut off, and African Americans and Hispanics are being scrubbed from the voter rolls through a system called Crosscheck. "Its a brand-new Jim Crow," Palast says. "Today, on Election Day, theyre not going to use white sheets to keep way black voters. Today, theyre using spreadsheets." . . .
"[Greg Palast explains how, after questions about vote-rigging in Ohio in 2004, they got brand new state of the art voting machines, which take pictures and timestamps of every virtual ballot cast. But the Republicans have turned off all the machines security features and a Republican judge just ruled that it would be too hard for the election workers to point and click to turn them back on again.
"Then Palast covers the Republican war against early voting, and the effects on GOTV efforts in minority communities in Ohio.
"But the biggest fraud in the story is the spreadsheet being shared across 30 Republican run state governments, listing 1/6 of the minority voters in the US, and claiming that 1 million of them are trying to vote twice in different districts. The Republicans did something like this in Florida in 2000 they found people who had names similar to felons, then struck them from the voter rolls without telling them. State governments appear to have done the same to these million (mostly) minority voters today, for having names similar to voters in other states. Looking at the spreadsheets, you can see that Republicans were hunting for names that sound African American or Hispanic.]"
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Greg has warned about these issues repeatedly over the years, since the 2000 Bush Gore election with the theft of the election in Florida by the illegal removal of the votes 10s of thousands of Democratic Voters in that election.