Shocking Proof that Trump Stole the 2024 Election via voter suppression techniques

Thom: If not for vote suppression tactics, Kamala Harris would have won. Our buddy Greg Palast is with us. Who actually won or lost the 2024 presidential election?

Greg, welcome back. I should mention you are a Guardian and New York Times reporter and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Your latest film is Vigilantes, Inc., and gregpalast.com is your website. Hey, Greg.

Greg: Hey, glad to be with you, Thom.

Thom: Thank you. So, who won or lost the election?

Greg: It's real simple. If not for vote suppression tactics—that’s a fancy way of saying shafting people of color and young people out of their votes—Kamala Harris would have won by 3,565,000 votes.

That’s the number of voters that were denied their right to vote because they were purged, challenged, or had their provisional ballots thrown out.

Let me give you some numbers.

The reason I’ve waited to make this report is that I had to get the data from government agencies, particularly the Elections Assistance Commission.

People don’t realize that I used to be a professor of statistics and a forensic economist.

This is my specialty—numbers.

I’ve done this work for attorneys general, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other agencies; these are calculations I've done for federal courts.

According to the Elections Assistance Commission’s official numbers, 4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from the rolls.

I’m not making this up.

We had experts from Microsoft and Amazon go through every purge name in two states—Georgia and Wisconsin.

For example, in Georgia, we found 198,000 voters who were wrongly removed from the rolls.

We even have their names and addresses.

Overwhelmingly, these were voters of color.

In Wisconsin, nearly every voter removed by the purge was either a Black voter in Milwaukee or a student in Madison.

And this year, we saw a new phenomenon: vigilante voter challenges.

For the first time, individual voters could challenge others.

For example, I could say, “Thom Hartmann doesn’t live in Portland; he shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is new. By August, there were 317,000 challenges.

The NAACP reported over 200,000 challenges in Georgia alone by Election Day.

We also had 2.12 million mail-in ballots rejected.

This wouldn’t matter if it were random, but it’s not random.

According to a Washington state study, Black voters are 400% more likely to have their mail-in ballots rejected compared to white voters.

Washington state has the least voter suppression of any state in the Union.

The U.S. Civil Rights Commission found that mail-in or in-precinct ballot rejection rates are 900% higher for Black voters than for white voters.

Over half a million votes were spoiled because machines couldn’t read them—again, disproportionately affecting voters of color.

We had 1.2 million provisional ballots rejected.

People go in to vote and they're told they can't find their name on the voter rolls, so here's a provisional ballot you can fill out right now and your vote will count. The voter thinks, “Oh, okay, I’ll fill out a provisional ballot.”

But 43% of those were thrown out, according to the U.S. government.

Provisional ballots are disproportionately given to Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Asian-American voters, who are 300% more likely to receive one than white voters.

Factoring in some double counting, the vote suppression rate was about 2.3%.

Kamala Harris would have gained 3.565 million more votes, winning Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, with 286 electoral votes.

These calculations are precise and exact.

Without voter suppression tactics, she would have won if we didn't have a Jim Crow voter suppression system

I’ve worked on elections globally, from Britain to Venezuela to Liberia.

There's no other nation in the world where you have a Jim Crow apartheid voting system with massive numbers of voters of color who lose their vote.

I found a massive number of young people, especially young women that were targeted for purges, sent to provisional ballots, had their registrations canceled or their votes disqualified.

NPR found that one in seven mail-in ballots were thrown in the garbage.

400% more likely if you were black than if you're white.

This is how Trump won - by racial and other forms of voter suppression.

That gave him the election.

And unless we restart this voting rights movement in America, 2028 is already decided.

It will be decided by Jim Crow - not by the voters." - Greg Palast

Thom Hartmann: Trump didn't win the 2024 Election. Investigative journalist Greg Palast proves the 2024 election was handed to Trump through underhanded voter suppression tactics.

The only question now is... what do we do now that we know Trump's second term is illegitimate?

DailyBeastie.Com: Now that we know that Republicans stole the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election using voter suppression techniques, voters and voter advocacy groups can file federal lawsuits in U.S. District Courts alleging that Republicans unlawfully and unconstitutionally denied voters their vote, by unlawfully manipulating the election results using specific voter suppression techniques Republicans have been using in past elections, but managed to perfect their voter suppression techniques in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.

The enraged reader needs to know that Democrats and the DNC have been aware of Republican voter suppression techniques for many elections, but failed to take sufficient, corrective legal action for political purposes, resulting in Republicans utilizing perfected voter suppression techniques to steal the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.

The enraged reader needs to be aware that Republicans will continue to use GOP voter suppression techniques to steal the 2026 midterms and the 2028 U.S. Presidential Election, Senate and House races - UNLESS the victims of 2024 U.S. election GOP voter suppression fraud sue to recover their vote and obtain federal court orders BLOCKING ALL FUTURE REPUBLICAN VOTER SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUES.

DailyBeastie.Com urges you to watch Greg Palast's incredible documentary, "Vigilantes Inc. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen" showing how Republicans used voter suppression techniques - some old, some new - to deny over 4 million Americans their right to vote. You have to see this to believe it. Amazing work, amazing revelations.

Martin Sheen narrates this documentary movie and Leonardo Dicaprio was so impressed with Greg's investigative work on this issue that DiCaprio financed this movie.

"This is the Klan Plan. Trump used "The Klan Plan" to steal the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.

Trump's group "True The Vote" used this old racist trope of black men sneaking in to vote more than once to justify challenging votes.

We show a clip from the 1920 film, "Birth of a Nation" that shows a white actor in blackface putting two ballots into a ballot box.

Trump's group "True The Vote" used this old racist 1920 movie to gain support for eliminating drop boxes in many states.

The accusation that black voters vote multiple times to steal elections is an old trope, but this time it came back a hundred years later with the Trump group, "True The Vote" to justify these new vigilante individual challenges.

Trump's "True The Vote" group proudly proclaimed 317,386 challenges by the beginning of August.

This has not been done since the Ku Klux Klan used this personal mass challenge business in 1946.

This is The Klan Plan. Trump used this to massive effect - especially in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

This was a massive attack on voters of color.

NBC NEWS: States removed 17 million voters from rolls in two years, government agency says

Legal challenges over voter registration practices have broken out across the country, often splitting along partisan lines.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/states-removed-17-million-voters-rolls-two-years-government-agency-n1023416

States removed the registration records of more than 17 million voters between the 2016 and the 2018 elections in accordance with federal law, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

That number represents almost 17 percent more voters than were removed from 2012 to 2014 under the National Voting Rights Act, which mandates that states allow increased voting and registration opportunities as well as maintain accurate and current voting rolls.

Under the act, states removed voters for not voting, moving between voting districts, death, committing a disqualifying crime, or being judged mentally incapacitated.

The biennial survey follows calls in recent years by Republican-led state governments for more aggressive implementation of list-maintenance techniques they say are meant to protect the integrity of elections.

Voting rights advocates have argued the methods disproportionately affect Democratic voters and minorities without enough consideration for the possibility of inaccurate removals, leading to claims of voter suppression.

Legal challenges over voter registration practices have broken out across the country, often splitting along partisan lines.

In 2018, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court ruled that Ohio did not violate federal laws in its voter list maintenance process.

In the state, if a voter doesn’t vote in two years, they are sent a confirmation notice.

If the mail is returned as undeliverable, the voter may be removed from the rolls in a process known as “voter caging.”

Following the decision, at least a dozen other Republican-leaning states said they would adopt similar measures.

According to the 2018 Election Administration and Voting Survey submitted by the Election Assistance Commission to Congress, an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports state and local election officials, states reported more than half of the removals occurred because a voter didn’t return a confirmation notice or because they moved out of the voting district.

“The greatest problems we see are that postcards in today's digital world are increasingly inefficient.

In a world of junk mail those artifacts are often easily misplaced or inadvertently junked,” said Gregory Miller, co-founder of the Open Source Election Technology Institute (OSET), a nonprofit that researches election technology. NBC News has collaborated with the OSET Institute since 2016 to monitor technology and voting issues around U.S. elections.

“In some cases, the postcards, even if discovered in a pile of mail, may have been sent with very little time to respond,” Miller said.

A report last year by the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy and law institute, found four states had engaged in illegal purges, and another four had implemented purge rules it called “unlawful.”

“When done correctly, purges ensure the voter rolls are accurate and up-to-date,” the study’s authors wrote.

“When done incorrectly, purges disenfranchise legitimate voters … causing confusion and delay at the polls.”

Multiple investigations have been opened into allegations of voter fraud, and none has found any evidence of widespread issues.

The same day as the voting survey, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s auditing arm, released a report on how the Department of Justice has investigated allegations of violations of voting rights act laws.

From 2001-2017, the department investigated 99 alleged violations related to voter registration opportunities and list maintenance and filed 14 cases, according to the report.

Ben Popken is a senior business reporter for NBC News.

Pultizer Prize-winning journalist Greg Palast: In Wisconsin, nearly every voter removed by the purge was either a Black voter in Milwaukee or a student in Madison.

And this year, we saw a new phenomenon: vigilante voter challenges.

For the first time, individual voters could challenge others.

For example, I could say, “Thom Hartmann doesn’t live in Portland; he shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is new. By August, there were 317,000 challenges.

The NAACP reported over 200,000 challenges in Georgia alone by Election Day.

We also had 2.12 million mail-in ballots rejected.

This wouldn’t matter if it were random, but it’s not random.