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'Shafted' Blacks Out Of Votes: Greg Palast EXPOSES How 'Jim Crow Trickery' Cost Kamala Harris 2024

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  1. 01
    Defends High confidence

    Democrats did not lose the 2024 election due to their own strategic failures, candidate weakness, or voter apathy, but because they failed to counteract a massive, systematic, and racially-targeted voter suppression campaign that illegally removed millions of their likely voters from the rolls and discarded their ballots.

    • "what happened was that vote suppression won this election Trump would have lost except for except for massive vote suppression and what I mean by vote suppression that's a very polite term for shating black black people out of their votes and other people of color including a lot of young people whose votes are blue now."
    • "if it wasn't for vote suppression KLA Harris would have had 3 million 565,000 more votes … which would have given her a plurality of 1.2 million in the popular vote over Trump even more important if not for Jim Crow trickery … KLA Harris would have easily won Wisconsin Michigan Pennsylvania and Georgia for a total of … she would be president of the United States right now."
    • "in 23 leading up to the 24 election States purged 4 … this purge business now who's getting purged of those five million voters?"
    • "2.1 million mailin ballots were rejected people don't realize according to NPR um 13.8% that's about one in seven mail in ballots is thrown in the garbage let me repeat that you mail in your boutot there's it's very easy for them to knock off your boutot and they know who you are they know your zip code and places like Georgia they know your race because it says bla next to your name if you're black in in many states in the South that's still on the voter roles."
    • "the US Civil Rights Commission did an analysis and found out that your chance of having your ballot rejected for some technical reason whether it's mailed in or in Precinct is 900% higher if you're black than if you're white repeat that I just told you about altogether about 3 million ballots rejected 900% higher chance you will have your ballot rejected if you're black then if you're white."
    • "if you're black Hispanic or uh Asian-American the chance you will have your you will be shunted to one of these Placebo BS back of the bus provisional ballots is 300% higher if you're a voter of color than if you're white so whose provisional ballots are in that dumpster voters of color."
    • "by August three months before the election the Trump front group true the vote proudly announced that it already challenged 37,8 186 voters that's a third of a million voters in swing States rolling a third of a million voters overwhelmingly voters of color and this is something that hasn't been done since 1946 this is the clux clan plan of 194 46 these Mass challenges of black voters."
    • "… we went Name by name by name 198,000 voters who they said had moved out of Geor Georgia and there they were at their homes now who were they we called 800 of them which is a very big statistical sample almost all of them were African-American voters in Georgia that's who gets purged"
  2. 02
    Critique High confidence

    The Democratic Party was completely 'missing in action' on combating voter suppression, forcing non-partisan journalists and civil rights groups to lead the fight alone.

    • "I'm working with Gerald Griggs president of the naac CP of Georgia Latasha brown black voters matter you notice I'm not working with the Democratic party one because I'm a journalist I'm a nonpartisan but the Democratic party is totally missing an action on vote suppression they just aren't there and but the the groups are organizing to stop this new clue Klux Clan plan."
  3. 03
    Critique High confidence

    Democratic leadership, including Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, adopted a reactive and flawed strategy, planning to address voter suppression only after the election, which the speaker argues guaranteed their defeat.

    • "… he said watch it and do something about it you know and Harris said well if I get when I get elected I'll sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act well here's the problem comell as you just found out if you don't do something before the election you ain't going to get elected"
  4. 04
    Critique High confidence

    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is deliberately 'hiding' from the issue of modern 'Jim Crow' voter suppression tactics instead of confronting them.

    • "I have been interviewing uh some of the candidates running for DNC chair so uh if you had to ask Ben wickler a question uh what would it be so when are you gonna take on Jim Crow and stop hiding on this issue"
  5. 05
    Critique Medium confidence

    The Democratic base and progressive activists are not consistently engaged, going 'to sleep in off years,' which allows opponents to work year-round implementing voter suppression schemes.

    • "Americans go you know uh progressives go to sleep in off years whereas um the the the vote purgers and the Jim Crow operatives they they're 24 …"
  6. 06
    Critique Medium confidence

    The Democratic Party's failure to counteract GOP voter suppression tactics directly cost them control of the House of Representatives and potentially key Senate races.

    • "it looks like the Democrats would have picked up three at least three or four congressional seats if not for these vote suppression tactics … basically the GOP should not have control of the House of Representatives at this moment except for their successful wielding of um of vote suppression tactics."