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In reply to the discussion: Remember the millions Jill Stein raised to pay for RECOUNTS? Here's where it REALLY went. [View all]diva77
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How the Republicans Helped Trump Steal the Election by Greg Palast jan. 25, 2018
https://truthout.org/articles/how-the-republicans-helped-trump-steal-the-election/
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Trump lost not just the popular vote, but also the vote in key swing states that is, if you counted all the ballots cast and allowed the blocked and purged voters to vote.
How?
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Take Michigan. Trump officially won the state by 10,700 voters. But dig this: 75,355 ballots were never counted.
Like, huh? Not counted? Yes. Michiganders vote on these ridiculous paper ballots that old machines have a hard time reading. And critically, 87 machines simply broke down and didnt count the votes at all.
And where were these uncounted ballots and broken machines? I found them in Detroit and Flint, Michigan two majority-Black cities. Do you think those 75,355 ballots in Detroit and Flint were Trump ballots?
So, why broken machines? As I explain in the update, Detroit and Flint went bankrupt and so the budgets of those cities were taken over by managers appointed by the violently Republican governor. Detroits manager was told the machines would break in advance of the election. That the machines were old and couldnt read all the ballots if marked with red pens or if folks put an X instead of filling in a bubble.
But theres a marvelous machine that can read those uncounted ballots: the human eye. And that is why Jill Stein called for a recount which was actually a count of the ballots previously spoiled and uncounted. Trumps lawyers stopped the recount because he was losing.
And as I illustrate in the film, almost 3 million ballots were disqualified for cockamamie reasons, like not filling in the bubble.
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Whose votes get thrown in the ballot dumpster? According to the US Civil Rights Commission, the chance your vote will be disqualified is 900 percent higher if youre Black than if youre white.
Do the math. Trump would have lost Ohio, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
the list goes on
if not for the spoilage game and blocking legit voters from the polls.
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