Voter Caging

Greg Palast, a BBC journalist, says "If you're an African American in the United States the chance that your vote will be rejected, lost, mangled, uncounted, spoiled is 900% higher than if you're a white person. If you're hispanic, 500% higher than if you're a white person. And if you're a native american, 2000% percent higher. (...) In Ohio, disappeared 153,237 uncounted votes. Compare that to George Bush's victory. (...)"

Greg Palast's speech:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6757612420128645563

PBS's NOW report:
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/330/

Robert Vitale of the Columbus Dispatch:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/07/06/vacant.ART...

Eartha Jane Melzer of the Michigan Messenger:
http://michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote


(c) Jonathan McNeill 2008. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

NOTE: My video camera sucks, but my sound equipment is relatively awesome. If you really want to see my ugliness for yourself, watch my "Logical Fallacies and YOU" video (warning: it's boring).

EDIT: Daily Kos isn't a source I would normally cite, but they've put together a good bit of information on how to make sure that you will not be turned away at the polls. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/172558/32/882/634737

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News & Politics

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• GregPalast
• RobertVitale
• EarthaJaneMelzer
• PBS
• NOW
• VoterSuppression