The projections that are putting battleground states towards Obama shouldn’t be trusted for one important reasons: A huge percentage of people who are telling pollsters that they’re going to vote for Obama don’t realize that they will be turned down at the polls? Why? Because they’ve been purged. Greg Palast and Robert Kennedy have a report coming up in the Rolling Stone about the widespread nature of voter purges, and let me just say, they’re saying it’s worse than your worst nightmares.
According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of “GOP vote tampering” on a massive scale.
- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.
Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state’s rate of removal.
- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of ‘Jim Crow’ tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.