Does No One Care That up to 7 Million Votes Were Not Counted?
Does No One Care That up to 7 Million Votes Were Not Counted? By Thom Hartmann – Crosscheck kicked millions of people – overwhelmingly people of color, according to Palast – off the voting rolls before election day. In many key states, the number of people purged by Crosscheck was much, much larger than Trump’s margin of victory. MI, WI, PA – As of 1-9-2016 Thoms story has almost 40,000 FB shares, 800+ Twitter Shares, and 40,000+ shares in other ways. at 100,000+- shares, sharing is running 100 times that of many recent stories posted to his site.
Does No One Care That Up To 7 Million Votes Were Not Counted?
As of 1-9-2016 Thoms story linked above has almost 40,000 FB shares, 800+ Twitter Shares, and 40,000+ shares in other ways. at 100,000+- shares, sharing is running 100 times that of many recent stories posted to his site.
Jan. 6, 2017 1:06 pm
By Thom Hartmann
Speaking in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he was highly confident that Russia had interfered in the presidential election.
With testimony like that from the country’s highest ranking intelligence officer, and a declassified report on alleged Russian interference expected out next week, Democrats now have plenty of new fodder for their endless quest to delegitimize Donald Trump by tying him to Russia.
Which is too bad, because it means they’re going to continue to ignore the real scandal of the 2016 presidential election: Interstate Crosscheck, a program started by Trump advisor Kris Kobach, a fellow you may remember from the “your papers please” “walking while brown” law in Arizona, or the Muslim registry that he designed for George W. Bush in the hysteria right after 9/11.
And he’s also the Secretary of State for Kansas, the epicenter of the Koch network.
According to investigative reporter Greg Palast, Crosscheck is a glorified national voter purge disguised as a tool to prevent people from double voting. Crosscheck kicked millions of people – overwhelmingly people of color, according to Palast – off the voting rolls before election day.
In many key states, the number of people purged by Crosscheck was much, much larger than Trump’s margin of victory.
In Michigan, for example, the number of people purged from the voting rolls — 449,000 — was about 40 times larger than Trump’s margin of victory — around 10,700 votes.
In other words, Crosscheck probably won Michigan for Trump.
It also probably won him Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
This is a HUGE story — the presidential election was probably stolen!
But for some inexplicable reason, Democrats aren’t talking about it. There’s no push for an investigation, no calls for hearings, no nothing.
Why is that?
What are Democrats waiting for?
Well said Thom – and for the record – I care. I am pissed, angry, motivated, informed, knowledgeable and ready to act.
It does seem that certain voters had more of a right to vote – certainly more rights than minority surnamed voters – in certain Republican Controlled States.
Nationally voter rights to vote vary even more dramatically when you factor in the 5M felons not allowed to vote, voter ID requirements, birth certificate requirements, etc, only in certain mostly Republican Controlled States, the differences in voter having a right to vote are even more dramatically different depending on a person’s place of residence, ethnicity, religion (maybe), race, ethnicity, age, and wealth.
So many issues, no time to fix voting
The short run emergency is to sidetrack the destruction of country and environment
This is one of many, many issues that need to be worked and well known solutions, like paper ballots have been known for years
But this critical issue has been buried for a few decades
As a country we have lost sight of the importance of trusted institutions. Including trusted citizen participation through voting.
As money has become the fuel of politics, the rest of the constitution has fallen by the road side and it is not clear that it can ever be recovered.
Election integrity is an important issue and could be used as a vehicle to restore trust in one of our institutions, but now that almost all institutions are not trusted, it might be a long time to get around to this.
On the other hand, this is one well known, straight forward institution that can be improved but as long as money and power is what is important, and the media is part of the propaganda system, ……
Don – keep the faith – all the puzzle pieces fit into a single puzzle – worked all night last night on a plan that will dramatically move the election issue forward – – i will likely pitch it soon to people who could make it work –
Let me know if I can help your effort. This Sat evening going to the monthly Salon put on by Bob Fitrakis. Jill Stein’s positions are informed by Bob. Bob is Jill Stein’s atty, not the atty for the recounts. I am sure you know Bob and Harvey Wasserman who have written something like 6 books on US elections.
Greg Palast was here just before the election showing his film. He is constantly in touch with the Bob.
Thank you so much for your continuing efforts, CA Dem. Imagine if all people freely voted in a way that guaranteed to count their vote correctly! Imagine how improved our lives would be!
And totally agree with Don–the Constitution doesn’t seem to count much anymore….
I wonder if the primary election shenanigans left many feeling more cynical about the process. So many points of failure.
Thank you for your work in this area!