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BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, Judge Eleanor Ross has declared #BrianKemp the loser in a lawsuit brought by our team to compel the State of #Georgia to open up its complete files on the mass purge of over half a million voters from the rolls. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/
#BrianKemp and the new Secretary of State of #Georgia want to keep the lid on their methods for removing literally hundreds of thousands of low-income, young and minority voters on the basis of false information. They cannot hide any more. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/
This is a huge win and precedent for reporters trying to pry information from the hands of guilty officials. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/ #BrianKemp #Georgia #VoterPurge #VanishingVoters
A key issue at stake are the #InterstateCrosscheck purge lists secretly provided to #Georgia by the Kansas Secretary of State in 2015 and 2017. http://rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-247905/
#BrianKemp had turned over #Georgia’s voter rolls to Kansas official #KrisKobach, who worked closely with Donald Trump, and is known for his racially biased #VoterSuppression techniques. http://gregpalast.com/gops-brian-kemp-purged-1-in-10-georgia-voters-ive-got-the-names/
#BrianKemp tried to hide the #Crosscheck lists which he got from his crony #KrisKobach. The lists are at least 99.9% wrong. Kemp’s office claimed he did not use the lists to purge voters, an assertion contradicted by his GOP predecessor. https://www.gregpalast.com/salon-watch-journalist-greg-palast/
Moreover, @ZDRoberts of the Palast investigative team obtained the #Georgia 2013 purge list provided by #KrisKobach through (legal) investigative techniques — so we know, and the judge knows, he has more squirreled away. http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/interactive.html
#BrianKemp finally turned over evidence that he purged 106,000 voters, overwhelmingly voters of color, that were on the #Crosscheck list. But that’s just the tip of the purge-berg. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/
Oddly, one of #BrianKemp’s defenses was that he turned over #Georgia’s confidential voter information to #KrisKobach so it could be used to purge voters in 29 other states, but not Georgia. http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html
Kobach’s #Crosscheck list showed thousands of #Michigan voters who’d supposedly also registered or voted in #Georgia. Michigan removed tens of thousands of voters with names like James Brown and Mohammed Mohammed — almost all with mismatched middle names. https://twitter.com/Greg_Palast/status/809804305163255808
The #Michigan Interstate Crosscheck purge of #Georgia voters was key to Trump’s official victory margin of 10,700 in Michigan, putting Trump over the top in the electoral college. https://www.gregpalast.com/election-stolen-heres/
The #Crosscheck list identifies over half a million Georgians — including 1 in 7 African-Americans in the state — as having moved out of Georgia. http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html
Surprising all parties, Judge Eleanor Ross ruled that #BrianKemp’s defense was so weak that no trial is needed. The judge acted “sua sponte” — on her own initiative, unrequested by our attorneys. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/
I'd like to thank my lawyers Brian Spears of Atlanta and Jeanne Mirer of New York for taking this case pro bono to rip the cover off #BrianKemp’s and the state of #Georgia’s racially poisonous undermining of democracy. https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-loses-vote-purge-suit-brought-by-reporter-palast/ #VanishingVoters
Our team is completing work on our short film of how exactly #BrianKemp illegally eliminated 340,134 voters from the rolls, stealing the election from @StaceyAbrams. https://www.gregpalast.com/georgias-brian-kemp-purged-340134-voters-falsely-asserting-they-had-moved/ #VanishingVoters
Our film then takes us to #Wisconsin where Kemp's techniques are key to a push to block 247,000 mostly Dem voters and thereby keep WI, the swing state of swing states, in the Trump column.
Help us complete our investigation, donate to support our work: http://www.palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2020
Help us complete our investigation, donate to support our work: http://www.palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopThePurge2020
View Judge Eleanor Ross’ "Greg Palast and Helen Butler v. Brian Kemp" court order here: http://gregpalast.com/wp-content/uploads/Georgia-Court-ruling-Palast-v-Kemp.pdf
