"Apartheid Ballot Counting System in America"

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Investigative Reporter Greg Palast on the "Apartheid Ballot Counting System in America"


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/08/1520204

"Because Ohio is the last state in America to use the old punch card system for 75% of the vote. You’ve heard a lot about the dangers of blackbox voting. I want to talk to you about good old-fashioned punch card voting. 93,000 votes tossed in the garbage out of Black precincts. How? Okay? Because when – just like in – Black voters, Black neighborhoods get the bad schools, they get the bad hospitals, they get the bum voting machines, see?"

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1. I saw him on the show, Democracy Now

It was the BEST show. Not only did he speak, also Richard Clarke spoke. Palast claims you are 800% more likely to have your vote discarded if you are an African American.

They were both at an event for the Center for Ethics or something in NY. Great show today. (Yesterday now actually.)

Clarke was talking about another terrorist attack, when there is one Congress will be expected to pass the Patriot Act II. If you read the notes here about that thing, it practically sets the entire administration up in a dictatorship. No kidding.

Very good show. It's the only news show I watch besides the Daily Show.

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2. yes link provided to audio above.