{"id":88135,"date":"2013-10-01T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2013-10-01T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:02:59","slug":"karl-roves-carolina-scheme-faces-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/karl-roves-carolina-scheme-faces-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove\u2019s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Greg Palast.
\nUpdated from the original article published on<\/em> TheMudflats.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Note from TheMudflats.net<\/a>:<\/em> In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column called\u00a0\u201cWhy Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012\u201d – Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans… Romney took the state but to Rove’s surprise he failed at stealing Ohio for the third time. Just Google “Karl Rove Meltdown<\/a>,”\u00a0and you’ll see a video from\u00a0Fox News election night, he did not take it well.<\/p>\n

After the knock-down of the Voting Rights Act by the US Supreme Court earlier this year North Carolina jumped at the chance to<\/span> change their voting laws \u2014 claiming, as these states always do \u2014 that the changes would actually protect the vote. Never mind that over 300,000<\/a> people were instantly disenfranchised due to the lack of the an ‘acceptable’ ID. BBC Investigative Journalist (and Mudflats Contributor) Greg Palast has long gone after this premise – calling voter fraud itself a fraud. \u00a0In an interview with Buzzflash<\/a>\u00a0he said:<\/p>\n

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“However, the Republican cry of ‘Vote Fraud!’ has become the cover for purges and challenges to legal voters by the millions. I even tracked down and filmed some of these so-called fraudulent voters handed me from a GOP list. Every one was a legal voter.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch<\/a> Palast try to track down these supposed illegal voters in his 2008 BBC election report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the Voting Rights Act no longer protecting voters in key states as it has for decades the DOJ is acting on the voter suppression laws that North Carolina has imposed on their voters.<\/p>\n

Whatever Democrat hopes to run for President in 2016 better hope that the Justice Department prevails in the Tar Heel state as this excerpt from \u00a0Billionaires & Ballot Bandits<\/a>: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps<\/em> shows it’s importance will only be growing.<\/p>\n

[Greg Palast is currently editing a film detailing the effect of these laws and big money in American elections – you can watch the trailer below – and donate<\/a> to support the project \u2014 TheMudflats will be getting exclusive excerpts as the project continues]<\/p>\n