Hundreds of thousands of voters
have been struck from the voter rolls,
and they have no idea.
There's no question
that this attack
on the voter rolls
is affecting
voters of color
and young people.
Asian Americans,
African Americans,
Hispanic voters
are being removed
by the hundreds of thousands
from the voter rolls of America.
And this could absolutely
change the outcome of the election.
My name is Greg Palast.
I've been investigating
the illegal purge of voters.
Voter purge means
removing voters from the voter rolls,
canceling their right to vote.
In the U.S.,
you have to register to vote.
They cancel your registration?
You're not voting.
There's a good reason
to remove voters
from the voter rolls.
You're dead.
You've left your state or your city.
You've been imprisoned for a felony crime.
OK.
Our problem
is that our investigation found
in just Georgia alone
that nearly 200,000 voters were wrongly
tagged as having moved from their home,
dying or being imprisoned.
Their only crime,
frankly,
is voting while Black.
I was at a polling station in Atlanta
where one Black person after another said:
"I went in to vote
and they said I couldn't vote anymore."
Including Martin Luther King's 92-year-old cousin.
What Georgia has done is say,
these people have moved.
They said that they got
this information from our post office,
which keeps track
of who moves.
But, the Palast investigative fund,
we talked to the post office.
We hired their official licensees who said,
we don't know where Georgia got this list.
These people have not moved.
So what they say is if
Lydia González registered
with a middle name,
and she has a piece of ID
that only has her middle initial,
Lydia González
is going to lose her vote in Georgia.
Not every state has this.
Only states that are afraid,
frankly,
of voters of color
who have fewer pieces of ID,
official ID in America.
Now,
there's another game that they use.
The state of Georgia and other states
have used a system called
Interstate Crosscheck.
They'll find thousands of people
with your name.
They'll say,
well you've already registered
in another state.
There's a new gimmick being used
by the Republican Party
to remove voters of color.
It's called "use it
or lose it."
That is,
you don't vote for one
or two federal elections,
and they send you a postcard saying,
have you moved?
Now, look,
you can't lose your vote in America
'cause you decide not to vote.
We have the right to vote
or not to vote.
Well, if you're a student
and you've moved your dorm room,
you're a renter
and you've moved to a new apartment,
you don't get your card.
You lose your vote.
That's un-American.
It began with a June 2018 decision.
The Supreme Court
and this purge method,
removing voters you don't like,
was taken for a test drive in Georgia.
In November 2018
when Brian Kemp, the Republican,
beat Stacey Abrams,
the Democrat,
the first African American woman
to ever run for governor
of any United States state.
The excuse for all this removal of voters
is to stop fraudulent voters.
You're removing literally
hundreds of thousands of voters
in a single state to prevent voter fraud.
I'm not for voter fraud,
people voting twice
or dead people voting,
but that doesn't happen.
I actually calculated
from the official U.S. statistics
that the chance of your getting hit
and killed by a lightning strike
is 500% more likely
than that you will commit voter fraud.
Americans don't cast fraudulent ballots
'cause you go to jail for five years.
The purge of the voter rolls
has been conducted mostly by
voting officials who are Republicans.
Because, if you remove voters of color
and young people,
you're going to remove Democratic votes.
Now Democrats play these games too,
but in general elections, it's the Republicans
who are removing and blocking the votes
of hundreds of thousands of voters of color
and young people
in several states:
Georgia,
Michigan,
North Carolina,
Arizona and other states.
What we mean by vote suppression
is that someone's taken away
your constitutional right to vote in America.
It means that they've removed you
from the voter rolls
or otherwise blocked you from voting.
Voter purging ain't just the only method
that's used.
You know, using voter ID
laws,
which block people from voting
who are
American citizens
who otherwise
have the right to vote.
If you're an American voter,
please check your registration right now.
But there's also a policy prescription.
My God,
why don't we
just agree that
every American
citizen
has the right to vote
and step out of the way.
No more purges of voter rolls.
Let Martin Luther King's cousin vote.
Let Jasmine Baktiar,
who's an American citizen immigrant,
let her vote.
Let Ashley Jones, a Latina
who was turned away from the polls in Georgia
Let her vote.
These are American citizens.
I don't care who you vote for,
but I do want every American to have
the right to vote.
That's our right.
That's our democracy.