Stealing Georgia: Raffensperger is No Hero
The Real Story of Jim Crow Tactics in Senate Runoff Race
by Greg Palast in Atlanta
Despite the hype, an investigative report we just released reveals Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is no hero defending democracy from Trump.
Rather, in this investigative film (produced by George DiCaprio, Thom Hartmann and Rosario Dawson, and narrated by Debra Messing), Raffensperger is exposed for using vote suppression Jim Crow tactics — even misleading a federal court to keep 198,000 Georgians from voting in today's Senate run-off.
The report centers on the lawsuit by Black Voters Matter, Rainbow PUSH and other voting rights groups to return these voters to the rolls in time for the election. It is based on our investigation released by the ACLU of Georgia.
In the film, we see that the Secretary of State literally shut and locked his office in the State Capitol to avoid complying with a federal judge's directive to meet with me, Black Voters Matter and their legal team to return voters before the runoff election.
We hunt down and confront Raffenperger's Director of Elections with evidence of Black and Hispanic voters illegally blocked from voting — and hand him a list of 198,000 Georgians wrongfully purged from the voter rolls (including, infamously, Martin Luther King's 94-year-old cousin, Christine Jordan).
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