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A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year--one that could save the election.
Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties--billionaires with nicknames like "The Ice Man," "The Vulture" and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast's no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. Although it has not been reported, Obama has shown some backbone in standing up to the financial excesses of the men behind Romney. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote.
The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast's giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
- Sales Rank: #367413 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-09-25
- Released on: 2012-09-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: The Theft of 2012"
The BBC reporter who busted Katherine Harris' fake felon purge tells weird, hilarious and sick stories of the billionaires who are bankrolling the GOP; with hot new info on the Koch Brothers as well as the filthy rich you've never heard of from his new book & film. "Bugs Bunny meets Hunter Thompson"
—Buzzflash
Palast’s prose has a zippy, breathless quality that might put you in mind of Michael Moore — “How does a ballot get spoiled? Not by leaving it out of the fridge” — but he’s also an expert in statistics who reports regularly for the BBC, Rolling Stone and other outlets.
—New York Times
"The most terrifying book a Democrat could read. Billionaires and Ballot Bandits delineates the potential theft of democracy."
—Huffington Post
“A practical primer on how to exercise your right to vote on Election Day in the face of a calculated Republican multi-pronged plan to prevent you from casting a ballot by any means necessary.”
—News Blaze
"Palast ... chronicles how many of America’s super rich — the Koch brothers, hedge fund titan Paul Singer, Texan corporate raider Harold Simmons, among many others — have been patiently and prodigiously subsidizing campaigns not to “get out the vote,” but to keep it down."
—Too Much
“If you really want to understand the forthcoming US presidential election, read this book.”
—Green Left
About the Author
Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, TED RALL is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is the illustrator of the full-length comic in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, written by Greg Palast.
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Who's stealing your vote and how to stop them
By J.B. Lyle
Urgently recommended, because it's about who's buying and stealing American elections, how they do it, and how to keep them from getting away with it.
Having read this author's other books, most recently Vultures' Picnic, I already knew he wrote with ferocious, if often appropriately hilarious, journalistic passion--plausibly claiming, however, to be non-partisan. In light of what he writes about the Clintons and Obama as well as Karl Rove and the Koch brothers, it does appear that he turns a blind eye to nothing and puts it all out there. Based on the evidence in this book, today in our country one political party is the overwhelming champ at wielding money to influence voters--and in case that alone doesn't produce the desired outcomes, disenfranchising them. One state's House Leader notoriously acknowledged--though he didn't intend a tape of this to reach a general audience--the real purpose of burdensome new voter ID laws, which he said would allow his party's presidential candidate to win his state.
Other methods of suppressing or stealing votes include purging and/or caging voter lists, as well as spoiling, ejecting, blocking, rejecting, "prestidigitizing," tossing, and stuffing ballots. If the reader isn't clear on how any of these methods work, not to worry, it's all explained, complete with photos and documents. As in his other books, Palast provides links to additional layers of information. In the middle of this one is a comic book by widely-published Ted Rall, as funny as it is full of facts.
Palast, an investigative journalist, or "gumshoe," as he calls himself, tells the reader who the Billionaires of the title are, what they've done to get so rich and what they're doing to get even richer. They want it all and they're on their way to rigging the system even more in their favor than it already is. But, we're urged, don't despair! Palast lists things we can do to ensure that: (a) we get to vote, and, (b) our vote is counted. As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., says in his Introduction, "There's still time to steal back your vote." Good news, in the runup to an election as serious as a heart attack.
39 of 41 people found the following review helpful.
Guerilla Civics
By JBG
The machinery by which American democracy operates is being hijacked by a tiny group of wealthy men. The process is far along, and American news reporting has almost entirely failed to raise the alarm.
Enter Greg Palast, investigative reporter extraordinaire, with Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. In B&BB, Palast demonstrates he has the goods on the operation.
It is tempting to try to convey here a sense for its extent, ranging from think-tanks and astroturf organizations, called into existence by huge money, to the connivance of corrupt election officials, and the sufferance, or worse, of much of law enforcement and the judiciary, including the Supreme Court.
But that is too large a task to attempt in this space; refer to the book and website. What I can do here is describe the mechanics, the "9 easy steps", by which the dirty deed is being done. Honest people of all political persuasions will find these practices contemptible.
The '9 Easy Steps'
1 Purging is the use by partisan election officials of computer databases that identify voter characteristics (race, ethnicity, residence location, etc) to remove from registration rolls names of persons likely to be sympathetic to the "wrong" political party. Plausible pretexts for the removals are sometimes offered, but often not. Purging is what Katherine Harris did to tens of thousands of Florida voters in 2000, claiming the mostly black voters were felons when they were not.
2 Caging is the mailing of do-not-forward, first-class letters to selected groups and using letters returned as 'evidence' that voters' listed addresses are fraudulent. Partisan election officials can then strike the voters' names from registration rolls and/or throw out their mail-in ballots. This can happen en masse to military people serving overseas and voting absentee from their home addresses. Likewise to students away at school, and even to voters whose addresses on registration rolls contain fatal typos made, accidentally of course, by election data entry workers.
3 Spoiling is accomplished in a variety of ways. A famous one is to put punched-card voting setups in districts tending to the "wrong" party. Then disqualify all votes where the voter did not manage to punch the hole all the way through, as in the infamous "hanging chads" in Florida in 2000.
4 Prestidigitizing is accomplished using computerized "black box" voting machines. These machines are notoriously subject to sophisticated, vote-changing "hacking", but a great deal of damage is effected just by "glitches", where the machines simply fail to record votes. This is taken advantage of, in the simplest case, by placing the oldest, least reliable machines in "wrong party" precincts.
5 Tossing is the fate of many/most provisional ballots. A wrongfully-purged voter, challenged at the polls, is given a provisional ballot. When the registration is checked later, the original, bogus, reason for purging is found, and the ballot is tossed. There is no arrangement for seeking out and correcting invalid purgings.
6 Rejecting happens to mail-in ballots when partisan election officials can find pretexts, often trivial, for not recording them. An 'X' in a box instead of a filled-in box box, for example, or a stray mark in some inconsequential place. Or simply "losing" the ballot outright. Best part is, the voter never learns what happened.
7 Blocking registration, in its simplest form, is exactly that -- partisan election officials turn down registration applications, selectively, sometimes without telling the voter. To save officials the trouble of doing even that, walls are being put in place to keep registration forms from being submitted at all. Florida, for example, instituted registration rules so picky, with penalties so severe, that groups carrying out registration drives, like the League of Women Voters, were pushed to the sidelines in that state.
8 Ejecting voters when they show up to vote is done most prominently by requiring state-approved photo ID. Some IDs, like gun-owners' licenses, may be approved, while others, such as food stamp photo IDs, are not. In the June 2012 Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, state-issued student IDs were rejected, a fact that, by itself, may have altered the outcome.
9 Stuffing boxes with phony ballots, or diddling with the count behind the scenes, is the old-fashioned way to steal elections. It is still deployed, and the computerized "black box" voting machines open new vistas, often with no means whatever for doing a definitive recount.
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Palast offers some advice for individuals striving to swim against this flooding tide of infamy. They're good, and I recount them here (with some editing), but I judge it to be a very uneven contest.
For yourself:
1 MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED. Find out how to check on line with your state's Secretary of State's office or your county's Board of Elections. If you need help, ask at a public library. Then actually go and check!
2 DON'T VOTE BY MAIL if you can possibly avoid it. A mail-in ballot puts another human being, with his own interests, between your vote and the ballot box.
3 NEVER ACCEPT A PROVISIONAL BALLOT. Demand adjudication on the spot of your right to a real ballot.
4 VOTE EARLY -- AS EARLY AS YOU CAN. Opportunity varies by state; find out the earliest date ahead of regular Election Day that you can vote and where you have to go to do it. By voting early, if some roadblock is thrown up, you have some time to try to deal with it.
For your friends and neighbors and fellow citizens generally:
5 Recruit others to register. Help them overcome whatever obstacles your state may have put up. This may be as simple as driving them to a possibly-distant location, or as complex as getting proof of citizenship for someone who merits it but does not have it.
6 At voting time, follow up (as early as possible, remember!) with folks you know and/or you helped register to make sure they vote. Help them get to wherever they need to get to in order to vote, and help them cope with whatever roadblocks may be put up against them.
7 On Election Day itself, be a poll watcher and come to the aid of people who appear to be targets of bogus challenges.
8 IF YOU BELIEVE AN ELECTION HAS BEEN STOLEN, STAND UP AND DEMAND A RECOUNT (OR A RE-RUN)!
Palast describes how the "9 Easy Steps" stole the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections and numerous lesser contests. This matter is not an abstract matter or a prospective one. American democracy is already well along in transformation to oligarchy. Can we save it? We damned well better try.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Deep Look into How Our Elections are RIGGED
By Chase
Easy reading as Greg Palast get's right to the point. Within this book you'll find how Carl Rove started the fine tradition of rigging elections and selling the results to the Billionaires. Crooked voting machines, absentee ballots that are never counted and suppressing minority voters, are all in Carl's playbook and a host of others. It was so good I read it Twice.
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