- Mar 11, 2015
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Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers...
- by Greg Palast
- for the Hartmann Report
- January 24, 2025
And, if not for the mass purge of voters of color, if not for the mass disqualification of provisional and mail-in ballots, if not for the new mass “vigilante” challenges in swing states, Harris would have gained at least another 3,565,000 votes, topping Trump’s official popular vote tally by 1.2 million.
Here are key numbers:
- 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
- By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
- No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
- At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
- 1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
- 3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.
1 white Re[publican in Georgia changed 4,000 black voters' right to vote. His name is Alton Russell.
This was made possible by so-called voter integrity laws passed in red states. In Georgia, the governor deputized people to challenge votes and you know they were not going to challenge whites. So Democrats don't have to do anything. There are no suggestions to be made but that voter suppression laws must be eradicated and legislators who continue to push such legislation should be tried and convicted for violations of the Constitution.
Now watch the usual suspects do everything but notice the real numbers that have been presented. This is what they do when they cannot offer a rebuttal.