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Heads Up: "GOP-led Purge Threat to 3.5 Million Voters"/Greg Palast Documentary Airs on Al Jazeera

GOP-led Purge Threat to 3.5 Million Voters/Greg Palast Documentary Airs on Al Jazeera Tonight but the Report Available for READ at:

http://www.gregpalast.com/

For 15 years, Greg Palast has been uncovering voter suppression tactics in investigative reports for BBC Television, The Guardian, Harper’s and Rolling Stone.

Greg Palast is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits.

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Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voter rolls, especially targeting minority voters.

Al Jazeera America has obtained 2.1 million names from the target lists, kept confidential until now. Experts reviewing the lists conclude it is suspiciously over-weighted with Black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.

The targeted voters have been tagged as “potential duplicate voters,” suspected of voting twice in the same election, in two different states, a felony crime punishable by 2-10 years in prison.

Until now, state officials conducting the purge have refused to turn over their lists on grounds that these voters are all subjects of a criminal investigation.
Read the full exposé:

http://www.gregpalast.com/


Watch the Trailer for the 2-part TV report
on Al Jazeera America Tonight,
tonight & Thursday night at 9pm ET
(check your local channel guide)