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"Purge, Surge, Whatever it takes."


Greg Palast sent out an urgent email this morning with some disturbing revelations about wholesale voter purging.  He is looking for money to get a documentary produced. He wants this story out there.  If people on the ground in Colorado and New Mexico can verify these allegations please do so. 

If these are true, November 2008 will be much uglier than the "Butterfly Ballot Debacle of the Palm Beach Blue Hairs"  or the "Hi, I'm Katherine Harris and Your Votes Won't Count Shituation."

Obama is recruiting attorneys for Election day work. The fox is in the henhouse now and the chickens will be long gone by November.

Here is the text:
Obama Doesn't Sweat. He should.   by Greg Palast   In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color. In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives - overwhelming Black voters.   In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.   In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.   My investigations partner spoke directly to Barack Obama about it. (When your partner is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidates take your phone call.) The cool, cool Senator Obama told Kennedy he was "concerned" about the integrity of the vote in the Southwest in particular.   He's concerned. I'm sweating.   It's time SOMEBODY raised the alarm about these missing voters; not to save Obama's candidacy – journalists should stay the heck away from partisan endorsements - but raise the alarm to save our sick democracy.

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Thank you, Scientific. This beautifully summarizes the reasons we yearn for Obama to win this election...in fact, why so many of us feel he must win it.
When I read this, and then read Scarlet Fever, on another post, summarizing the voter registration shenanigans going on in swing states that might jeopardize Obama's election, I felt real dismay.

What can we do about the voter registration problem? It is serious enough that RFK, Jr. did a two year study about voter fraud issues in the 2000 and 2004 issues, and his partner is calling Obama personally to warn him about what's already happening this year in purged registrations. How can TPM help?

Sorry, Scarlett Fever. I think this is such an important that I wanted to crossreference your post to Scientific's, but it's late, and I posted my responses in reverse.
Keep up the focus on this, please.

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