VOTER PURGE CAMPAIGN - GREG PALAST ON THE THEFT OF THE PRESIDENCY
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BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW - THE THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM
Buzzflash
Thursday Jun 6, 2002
Palast reveals the letter he received from Katherine Harris, Cruella herself
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DISPATCHES FROM EXILE
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Wednesday Jun 5, 2002
American investigative reporter Greg Palast says he had to move to England to blow the lid off U.S. corporate power brokers and political corruption.
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BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS GREG PALAST
Buzzflash.com
Monday Mar 11, 2002
We are honored to post our second interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer (sister paper of the Guardian).
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DEMOCRATS.COM CHAT WITH GREG PALAST
Democrats.com
Friday Mar 8, 2002
Hosted by Bob Fertik with David Lytel
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THE GREAT FLORIDA EX-CON GAME
HOW THE “FELON” VOTER-PURGE WAS ITSELF FELONIOUS
HARPER'S MAGAZINE
Friday Mar 1, 2002
In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed up the Florida recount as a victory for President Bush. But however one reads the ballots, Bush's win would certainly have been jeopardized had not some Floridians been barred from casting ballots at all. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A portion of the list, which was compiled for Florida by DBT Online, can be seen for the first time here; DBT, a company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service. If the hope was that DBT would enable Florida to exclude more voters, then the state appears to have spent its money wisely.
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THE WRONG WAY TO FIX THE VOTE
The Washington Post
Sunday Jun 10, 2001
If you liked the way Florida handled the presidential vote in November, you'll just love the election reform laws that have passed since then...
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SILENCE OF THE MEDIA LAMBS: THE ELECTION STORY NEVER TOLD
www.tompaine.com
Thursday May 24, 2001
Investigative reporting about voting rights violations in the US have been page one news---in Britain.
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INQUIRY INTO NEW CLAIMS OF POLL ABUSES IN FLORIDA (BY JULIAN BORGER AND GREGORY PALAST)
The Guardian (London)
Saturday Feb 17, 2001
The US civil rights commission was yesterday investigating allegations by the BBC's Newsnight that thousands of mainly black voters in Florida were disenfranchised in the November election because of wholesale errors by a private data services company.
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"THEFT OF THE PRESIDENCY"
BBC-TV Newsnight
Thursday Feb 15, 2001
This is the transcript of Gregory Palast's appearance on BBC News' Newsnight on February 16, 2001. View the full video here.
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SCRUB HELPS SHRUB
The Nation
Monday Feb 5, 2001
The company that the Florida secretary of state contracted with in 1998 to help purge the state rolls of ineligible voters is well connected to GOP circles.
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FLORIDA'S 'DISAPPEARED VOTERS': DISFRANCHISED BY THE GOP
The Nation
Monday Feb 5, 2001
On November 7 tens of thousands of eligible Florida voters were wrongly prevented from casting their ballots. Nearly all were Democrats, nearly half of them African-American.
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A BLACKLIST BURNING FOR BUSH
The London Observer
Sunday Dec 10, 2000
The more you look the more disbarred and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was deliberate.
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FLORIDA'S FLAWED "VOTER-CLEANSING" PROGRAM - SALON.COM'S POLITICS STORY OF THE YEAR
www.Salon.com
Monday Dec 4, 2000
Salon.com's Politics Story of the Year. Florida Republican leaders hired a private firm to vet the rolls for felons which wrongly kept thousands, particularly blacks, from casting ballots
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BUSH FAMILY FINANCES: BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY
The London Observer
Sunday Nov 26, 2000
Gregory Palast examines the sources of the $500m that boosted Bush's bid for the White House.
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