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Monday, October 29th, 2018

Election expert Greg Palast: Thanks to GOP voter suppression, “Democrats may have effectively lost”

Author:     Election expert Greg Palast: Thanks to GOP voter suppression, “Democrats may have effectively lost”
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     OCTOBER 28, 2018 10:00AM (UTC)
 Link: Election expert Greg Palast: Thanks to GOP voter suppression, “Democrats may have effectively lost”
Stephan:   Every day now I see stories about how the Republican Party is trying, and it is a blatant effort, to rig the election. Why this is not a major story, with Congressional hearings, major media coverage, and all the other activities that show a society is taking an issue seriously? Perhaps because 40 percent of the country doesn't really care. Will November be a clean election; I don't think so. Will that matter? We won't know until all the votes are counted, if all the votes are counted. The substance of American democracy hangs by a thread.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp
Credit: AP/John Amis

There are elements of about the current Georgia governor’s race that may fundamentally undermine faith in democracy. If Republican candidate Brian Kemp, the current secretary of state, wins the election, his victory is likely to appear illegitimate. Impartial observers will never be able to tell whether he would have won had every eligible voter in the state been able to cast a ballot. If he loses, there is little question that the victory of Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams will be viewed as an existential threat to the same forces that tried to rig things against her in the first place.

Salon spoke by email with Greg Palast, the journalist who previously tipped Salon off to widespread voter disenfranchisement in Georgia earlier this month. Palast has created a website that can help you learn if you were purged from the rolls.

How many Georgians do you believe have been disenfranchised and what is your evidence?

Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, purged 550,702 Georgians from the […]

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