ROLLING STONE: IT'S ALREADY STOLEN

> > /Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast
> > released today/
> >
> > Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According
> > to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert
> > F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal
> > a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.
> >
> > - Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly
> > purged one in six names from their voter rolls. //
> >
> > /Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every
> > attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten
> > times the average state's rate of removal./
> >
> > - While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new
> > voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED
> > under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
> >
> > /Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim
> > Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters. /
> >
> > - A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own
> > party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal
> > voters as "fraudulent."
> >
> > - Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered
> > that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging” ultimately took away the
> > rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this
> > November 4, it will be far worse.
> >
> > There's more:
> >
> > - Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list
> > management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls." //
> >
> > /Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an
> > unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as
> > many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's
> > purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county
> > elections supervisor./
> >
> > The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably
> > purged voters recently reported by the New York Times. //
> >
> > /"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle
> > politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting
> > fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."/
> >
> > The investigators level a deadly serious charge:
> >
> > /"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat
> > McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the
> > level of GOP vote tampering."/
> >
> > Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current
> > issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein,
> > Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via [email protected].]
> >
> > *Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the
> > Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft
> > 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote
> > , which can be downloaded or obtained
> > in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org
> > *
> >
> > For updates and video reports, go to
> > RollingStone.com
> > , www.GregPalast.com
> > and StealBackYourVote.org