Greg Palast sees stolen votes almost everywhere. Usually he’s right, so naturally he’s ignored. He has an interesting perspective on the Arizona Let’s Start a Police State law:
What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote – and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one. Unless this demographic locomotive is halted, Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast. Or, if you like, tortillas.
In 2008, working for “Rolling Stone” with civil rights attorney Bobby Kennedy, our team flew to Arizona to investigate what smelled like an electoral pogrom against Chicano voters . . . directed by one Jan Brewer.
Brewer, then secretary of state, had organized a racially loaded purge of the voter rolls that would have made Katherine Harris blush. Beginning after the 2004 election, under Brewer’s command, no fewer than 100,000 voters, overwhelmingly Hispanic, were blocked from registering to vote. In 2005, the first year of the Great Brown-Out, one in three Phoenix residents found their registration applications rejected.
The Arizona Democrats are in on it too, as Palast explains in the article, though they are apparently mostly targeting Native Americans.
It’s hard to say what’s worse: the fact that Republicans engage in massive efforts to prevent Democrats from voting, or the fact that Democrats do nothing about it.
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