The BBC looks into voter suppression in Michigan

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http://michiganmessenger.com/6194/the-bbc-looks-into-voter-suppression-in-michigan

The BBC looks into voter suppression in Michigan
By MARK MAYNARD 10/16/08 3:09 PM


It, of course, isn’t something that our mainstream press would talk about here in the United States, but the BBC TV program Newsnight recently ran an investigative report by Greg Palast on the likelihood that our upcoming election is going to be stolen. The report includes the following quote from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again!” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.

In the report, first broadcast in Britain and later in the U.S., Palast travels from swing state to swing state, looking into claims of citizens being illegally purged from voter rolls, voter intimidation, voter suppression, and voter registration fraud. And, as you might expect, his tour brought him to Michigan, where he looks into the Michigan Messenger report that Republicans are planning to challenge voters in likely Democratic districts who had lost their homes though foreclosure. The Michigan Republican Party, in their defense, denies the claim that they will be challenging based on foreclosure lists, and they have filed a defamation lawsuit against the Michigan Messenger. Palast doesn’t seem to say one way or the other what he believes to be the case, but he does point out the curious fact that a mortgage firm handling many Michigan foreclosures, called Trott and Trott, happens to share an address with a GOP office. The principal of the company, it seems, is an influential Republican donor by the name of David Trott….

Here’s a clip from the BBC report:

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1. Where are our lawyers? nt

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2. I am so glad that RFK Jr agrees with me, and does not think I am crazy, like a lot of my friends

think I am...

“A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004,and they’re all set up to steal it again!” - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.