“THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY”
A Tale Of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits
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(Q&A with Greg Palast and special guests on Saturday 10/22 following the 4pm and 7pm shows!)
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Show times: Friday (10/21): 4pm, 7pm; Sat (10/22) & Sun (10/23): 1:20pm, 4pm**, 7pm**; Mon-Thurs (10/24 – 27): 4:30pm, 7pm
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“The most important investigative reporter of our time – up there with Woodward and Bernstein.” – The Guardian
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million minority votes by November–and the billionaires who finance it. A Greg Palast film with: Ed Asner, Rosario Dawson, Ice-T, Richard Belzer, Shailene Woodley, &Willie Nelson
When Donald Trump says, “This election is rigged”—he should know. His buddies are rigging it.
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November.
Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election–a felony crime. The catch? Most of these “suspects” are minorities—in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain “confidential”.
Palast and his investigative side-kick Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged “suspects” and “potential duplicate voters” whose votes are threatened this November.
They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his “lynching by laptop.” Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam. The search takes Palast from Kansas to the Arctic, the Congo, and to a swanky Hamptons dinner party held by Trump’s sugar-daddy, John Paulson, a.k.a. “JP
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Jump into a conversationMoveOn.org has a scheme for calling out of state to try to increase voter turnout in key states for control of the Senate. https://recruit.moveon.org/volunteer/UAHphones/?source=kos&link_id=0&can_id=2919558ff3292664866fa7255fe3b31c&email_referrer=three-more-days-call-democrats-in-swing-states-who-might-not-vote&email_subject=three-more-days-call-democrats-in-swing-states-who-might-not-vote
here is another site also intended for increasing voter turnout in key states: http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/COTV_2016/?source=e161103_2023-r1-v1-pccc&t=6&akid=35667.700855.hHQTf0
Here’s a recent article on voter suppression and ACLU efforts to fight it. http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/28/13423802/voter-suppression-voting-rights-presidential-election-2016-state-changes-identification
Here’s a new article 5 ways the vote is being suppressed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/five-ways-republicans-are-threatening-voting-rights.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Voter ID Laws
Early Voting Restrictions
Limiting Automatic Registration
Disenfranchising People with Convictions
Condoning Voter Intimidation
“Donald Trump has been claiming for months now that Tuesday’s election will be “rigged.” But the only ones threatening the democratic process are Mr. Trump, with his thinly veiled calls for voter suppression, and Republicans in state governments doing their utmost to keep minority voters from the polls.”