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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and I have yet to see any. There is a lot of circumstantial evidence, and a lot of things that look odd, but I've seen nothing concrete yet.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't call your podcast Make It Plain with a cover photo like that.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Initially I thought it was an obscure game boy color screen title.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

This reminds me of the voter suppression the duopoly does to keep third parties out and policy popular to the working class.

Sabby Sabs talks about this in her podcast.

Quick search:

Atlanta Dems Use Same Voter Suppression Measure They Sued Georgia for in 2019: Sabrina Salvati [14:10 | AUG 22 2023 | The Hill | https://youtu.be/w6rydcMCwDc]


Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here Are The Numbers… [01:04:00 | JAN 21 2025 | Make It Plain | https://youtu.be/bEOB6CbJDc0]


Video Description:

• 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data. • By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone. • No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due). • At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified. • 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted. • 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.

Greg Palast (http://gregpalast.com/) is a forensic economist and data journalist Palast covered vote suppression for The Guardian, BBC Television and Rolling Stone. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers on the topic including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.


Generated Summary:

This video features Greg Palast, an investigative reporter and forensic economist, discussing the significant impact of voter suppression on the 2024 election. He argues that without vote suppression, Kamala Harris would have won the election with 386 electoral votes and a popular plurality of almost two million votes. Palast presents data and examples to support his claim that voter suppression disproportionately affects people of color and young voters.

Key points include:

  • Purging of Voter Rolls:
    • 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls before the 2024 election.
    • Palast notes that these purges have a "racial stench" when analyzed.
    • In Georgia, 198,000 voters were illegally removed, with experts confirming none had moved from their legal voting address.
  • Voter Challenges:
    • A third of a million voters were challenged by a Trump-affiliated organization called "True the Vote."
    • The NAACP of Georgia estimated over 200,000 challenges before the 2024 election.
    • These challenges disproportionately targeted voters of color.
  • Disqualification of Ballots:
    • 2.1 million mail-in ballots were disqualified.
    • The chance of a ballot being disqualified is 900% higher for Black voters than for white voters.
    • 585,000 in-precinct ballots were also disqualified.
  • Provisional Ballots:
    • 1.2 million provisional ballots were rejected.
    • Black, Hispanic, or Latino voters are 300% more likely to be handed a provisional ballot that won't be counted.
  • New Voter Suppression Laws:
    • Between 2020 and 2024, 30 states passed laws making it more difficult to vote.
    • These laws disproportionately affect people of color.
  • Vigilante Vote Challenges:
    • A new system of vigilante vote challenges emerged, reminiscent of a 1946 Ku Klux Klan plan.
    • In Georgia, 88 Republican operatives challenged 180,000 voters in 2020.
    • One Republican operative challenged 32,000 voters in Cobb County, Georgia.
  • Media Neglect:
    • Palast criticizes mainstream media for not highlighting the racial disparities in ballot disqualifications and purges.
    • He argues that the media fails to calculate and report the impact of vote suppression on election outcomes.
  • Examples of Impact:
    • Palast recounts the story of a 92-year-old Black woman in Atlanta who was denied her right to vote after voting at the same station for 50 years.
    • He shares the experience of Major Galel Turner, a Pentagon expert on warfare, whose mail-in ballot was rejected despite being sent in on time.

Palast emphasizes that the elimination of Black votes and voters from voter rolls is a significant issue, and he urges greater attention to these disparities. He concludes that Jim Crow tactics effectively "won" the election by suppressing the votes of people of color.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

None of these facts explain the major election anomolies from the midwest: a huge amount of ballots had the presidential race blank while having votes for downballot candidates.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

That's very simple to explain.

Fucking racists.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean you're right but which racists?

Latinos had record low turnout for democrats. Likely because "ICE bill" was a backpedal from DACA. Muslims have a strong presence in the midwest, I can't imagine gaza was not the driver for low dem turnout there.

There's a good argument to be made that letting in bigots into the dems big tent led to low turnouts in targeted demographics while making republican lies seem more credulous to the bigots dems were trying to recruit, leading to israel defenders and immigration racists not voting or voting trump.

We simply might be in the information landscape where there's more to gain from opposing republican policies people agree with as it would help discredit republicans.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Tell it to a judge.

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