The following video is courtesy of Greg Palast, the journalist who previously tipped Salon off to the widespread voter disenfranchisement in Georgia last month. In the video above, watch Palast meet with one of the 340,134 Georgians who was purged fr...
The following video is courtesy of Greg Palast, the journalist who previously tipped Salon off to the widespread voter disenfranchisement in Georgia last month. In the video above, watch Palast meet with one of the 340,134 Georgians who was purged from the voter rolls and cannot vote in the midterms.
Palast details how Brian Kemp, Georgia's current Secretary of State who is running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams, allegedly pulled off a mass voter purge, including identifying voters who were thought to have moved out of state or moved out of their congressional district.
Some tactics, detailed by Palast in the video, include how the "postcard trick," which asks voters who missed previous elections to reply to a mailer and looks a lot like junk mail), played out for one voter and led to his removal from the rolls.
After much resistance from Palast, Kemp turned over the names and addresses of each one of the purged voters in response to a threat of a federal lawsuit, which he filed in federal court in Atlanta. Of these, Palast tells Salon, at least 340,134 were wrongly removed-with no notice that they were purged.
Earlier this month, Palast's foundation listed all the names of the purged voters at GregPalast.com.
Watch the video above to see Palast's reporting in action. The journalist, who has been investigating Kemp for five years, reveals the deeper reasons why Kemp targeted certain districts in Georgia.