Greg Palast, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and artists Lukas Ketner, Lloyd Dangle and Ted Rall have teamed up to create Steal Back Your Vote!, a graphic novel about voting rights and vote suppression.
Per their website, it’s “a project of the Palast Investigative Fund (a 501c3 non-partisan non-profit educational foundation), Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. With the generous support of voting rights and other organizations and concerned individuals, we are aggressively investigating the hanky-panky Republicans have already road-tested in the primaries, and are prepared to use this November to steal YOUR vote. The good news is, you CAN steal back your vote. Kennedy and Palast are publishing a major expose in a mass-circulation national magazine. The Palast Investigative Team is heading to the Democratic convention to finish a documentary film. And three major cartoonists have teamed up to illustrate the “Steal Back Your Vote” graphic guide that you can download, print and distribute now.”
You can see excerpts at Palast’s Flickr stream and for a small donation, the guide is available for download.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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October 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
So are they also be looking at Democrat election fraud, too?
October 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Oh, so the current Ohio practice of registering ineligible voters and allowing them to vote absentee ON THE SAME DAY will be investigated? Or the fact that there will be a 100% turnout for dead Democrats in Chicago (as always?)
The fix is in; Chicago style politics will reign this year.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
“So are they also be looking at Democrat election fraud, too?”
Don’t hold your breath. These people aren’t interested in anything but spreading their propaganda. The actual, recorded instances of Democrat election fraud doesn’t fit in with their false “Repiblicans are evil” narrative.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Republicans, I mean. Faulty keyboard.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This time around, probably not. The cartoonists who ended up working on the comic are pretty illustrative of what’s being talked about inside (and the involvement of RFK, Jr.), although Palast has a pretty good history of being critical of both sides; during the Democratic Primaries he was looking into election fraud allegations against the Clinton campaign.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
So…you’re saying, what? Voter suppression hasn’t happened and isn’t being tried now?
“Forget about us robbing the bank…look, someone’s trying to break into the bakery!” That’s your theory?
If either is happening, it’s a crime. But you think one should be ignored because it’s coming from your side of the fence?
October 6th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
“non-partisan non-profit educational foundation”
“we are aggressively investigating the hanky-panky Republicans have already road-tested in the primaries”
a- this made me LOL
b- just how stupid do these people think we are? They sound just about as non-partisan as Ann Coulter.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I’m not sure exactly who you’re responding to, if it’s me or someone else, but I think your position is patently ridiculous. My point was that the Palast people have a history of examining corruption on both sides of the fence, even if the involvement of leftist cartoonists is probably indicative that this one’s going to be looking more at the Republicans.
Beyond that, the “steal back your vote” thing is likely to examine the kinds of things that have already been exposed, as a guide to helping people avoid them happening again this year. The Republicans have been pretty brazen and open with some of their schemes, so those are more likely to get attention and pagecount. Of course, this is all academic since I suspect that nobody in this thread has actually READ the Palast book and that it’s typical message board, knee-jerk politics.
The fact that Palast has operated for more eight of the most politically-polarized years in recent history and managed to retain his non-profit status should tell you, if you’re being reasonable, that he’s not a political operative.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Not counting institutional theft like the graveyards of Chicago voting every year (and that’s become tradition; it wouldn’t be an election without it) can I have a few examples of this voter theft?
I mean, I know about a lot of ACCUSED voter theft, things like the Republicans wanting to require that people actually present state-issued ID (like a driver’s license or non-drivers’ ID) when they vote, and the Democrats claiming that was discrimination since poor people “wouldn’t be able” to obtain these difficult to get documents.
Bush WON. TWICE. Get OVER it and move on.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
“Bush WON. TWICE. ”
You say that like it’s something to be proud of.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am
The Democratic party has spent the last eight years acting like the guy in Ace Ventura who missed the kick in the Super Bowl. They have to stop campaigning against Bush and start showing why they’d be better at running the country. “He was a so bad, you HAVE to give us a try!” is not a good reason.
“You cheated!” sounds childish. “That’s not fair!” is code for “I didn’t win, do over!”
Bush cannot win anymore. But they can’t stop fighting against him. Oliver Stone is putting out a film about Bush mere days before the election. Rehearsed or not, Palin had a great line in the debate - for a party that talks so much about moving (Excuse me, “movin’”) forward, they spend a lot of time pointing backward.
“Admit I’m right, ADMIT IT!!!”
–The Democrats
October 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
It’s good to see so many people openly complaining about the recent surge in pro-Democrat propaganda on Newsarama. It really has become annoying.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
“Palin had a great line in the debate - for a party that talks so much about moving (Excuse me, “movin’”) forward, they spend a lot of time pointing backward.”
On the other hand, for a party (Republicans) that stress that individuals should take responsibility for their actions, they sure are quick to dodge it when things go bad.
October 7th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Those with lots of fingers pointing at them say, “let’s not point fingers.”
Those who say, “Let’s not dwell on the past,” have just fucked up royally.
Those with no ideas say, “hey, weren’t you the guy with the terrorist friend?”
October 7th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Bush didn’t win either election.
The Republicans cheated.
That’s not how it’s supposed to be in this country—we are not a third world dictatorship.
Some guy from New Jersey denying this doesn’t make it less of the truth.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I’m not saying ignore one side’s actions, I say if there is voter fraud it should be prosecuted. The problem has been the DEMOCRATS crying election fraud, while doing there best to hide their own actions. You have counties with more people registered than actually live there, etc.
The article (and the fact of what this the third left leaning article in so many days) doesn’t make Palast an objective person. Hell its own website, which is quoted above states that is republicans that are involved in voter fraud. No mention is made in the article of Democrat shenigans. Russell Burlingame, you pretty much state that is going to a biased effort despite Palast involvement, so why keep bring up his objectivity? BTW, the fact that he went after Hillary in the primaries doesn’t show he goes after both sides, he may not of supported her. If he goes after a Democrat in a general election, THEN you can claim he is objective.
The point is going after one side and one side only is disingenous, and keeps up a myth that Republicans are cheats. Which is exactly what is wanted. Both sides do it, both sides should be punished when they do it.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Alan Coil,
Please show us the proof
October 7th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
We just need to do what they did in Iraq. Dip your cleaned off finger in semi-permenant ink which will wash off in a few days. Do double voting. One person, one vote.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Alan can’t show proof; there is none.
The 2000 vote in Florida has been re-counted by at least three (perhaps more)different organizations, and in all three cases, Bush won.
The Florida Supreme Court grossly misinterpreted the intent of the pertinent legislation in allowing selective recounts (in other words,”stacking the deck”)- and in addition violated the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.
So, as a matter of historical fact, Gore attempted to steal the election in Florida and got his hand caught in the cookie jar.
For this election, I’m anticipating a good turnout from the living-impaired in Chicago, and the documentation impaired in Ohio.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
There should’ve been an attribution URL with the recount paragraph above: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html
October 8th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
On a further note, isn’t it HILARIOUS to be lectured about ‘pointing backward’ by the people trying to blame Jimmy fucking Carter and Franklin fucking Delano fucking Roosevelt for the economic meltdown currently occuring after eight years of them running the county?
October 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
This is what pisses me off about the Dem fanatics most of the time… “Look, I really want to help out the poor… but they need to pay me to do it.” Here we have a good resource, that is targeted to people who truly don’t have any money, and have the potential to have their vote taken away (just like their homes), and yet Palast expects them to ‘donate’ (ie PAY) for the voter guide. I don’t care if it’s non-profit or not. Its hypocritical BS to the max…
October 11th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Isn’t it amazing how the majority always wants to feel persecuted?
Stop complaining, right-wingers.