been purged from voting rolls in the last two years, mostly people of color and young
people. In Milwaukee, 150,000 were reported to have moved away, including the
county supervisor Sequanna Taylor. A million provisional ballots were tossed.
But we can steal it back, said Palast, referring readers to the end of his book, his and Ted Rall's "New and
Improved Ballot Condom," which spells out how. In addition to registering online, take
a screen shot of the form you fill out, was one of many pointers to follow to fight for
your vote.
In 2016, 10 percent of absentee ballots never reached voters. 100,000 were returned
with postage due a poll tax if there ever was one. Other poll taxes are the notarization of absentee ballots required in some statesa principle SCOTUS just corroborated two weeks ago. 1.9 million voters were disqualified
that year, 900 percent more blacks than whites and 500 percent more Hispanics, and
don't even ask about Native Americans. Some of their precincts reported an impossibility;
zero votes.
An apartheid election, in short.
As to liberals trying to improve things, Palast cited the ineffectual HAVA (Help America Vote Act
of 2002) and ERIC Crow, the Electronic Registration Information Center operated by the
Pew Charitable Trust, sponsors of NPR (National "Petroleum" Radio). ERIC distributes
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