{"id":3883,"date":"2017-01-14T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2017-01-14T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T22:44:42","slug":"gop-stole-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/14\/gop-stole-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Palast: Cross Check- Motherlode of Vote Purge Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5Uey_jekNY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>October 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>When Donald Trump says, &#8220;This election is rigged&#8221;\u2014he should know. His buddies are rigging it.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida\u2019s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans\u2019 dark operation, Crosscheck, designed to steal a million votes by November.<\/p>\n<p>Crosscheck is controlled by a Trump henchman, Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State who claims his computer program has identified 7.2 million people in 29 states who may have voted twice in the same election&#8211;a felony crime. The catch? Most of these \u201csuspects\u201d are minorities\u2014in other words, mainly Democratic voters. Yet the lists and the evidence remain \u201cconfidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palast and his investigative side-kick Badpenny do what it takes to get their hands on the data, analyze it and go find some of these 7.2 million Americans tagged \u201csuspects\u201d and \u201cpotential duplicate voters\u201d whose votes are threatened this November.<\/p>\n<p>They hunt down and confront Kobach with the evidence of his &#8220;lynching by laptop.&#8221; Then they are off to find the billionaires behind this voting scam.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Greg talks about his new film, &#8220;The Best Democracy Money Can Buy&#8221;. Called &#8220;The most important investigative journalist of our time&#8221;, Palast has been working for the BBC for 20 years and writes for the Guardian and the Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n<p>See also: GregPalast.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 27, 2016 When Donald Trump says, &#8220;This election is rigged&#8221;\u2014he should know. His buddies are rigging it. Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida\u2019s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/14\/gop-stole-election\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3888,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}