Stealbackyourvote.org

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 interviews@gregpalast.com.]

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.