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They're Trying To Stop The Count — Again!

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Channel: Greg Palast · 2018 · News & Politics

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My very first US investigative report was published by Salon in 2000 about the theft of the vote in Florida, then still in progress. Fast-forward to 2018 and the photos are nearly identical to 2000 — GOP bullies trying to stop the vote count. (In 2000, a riot by GOP operatives in the Miami-Dade elections office successfully shut down the recount.)

This week in #Florida, my camera crew (Jordan Freeman and Zach D Roberts) captured menacing crowds supporting the GOP, chanting ‘Stop the Count!’ — the exact phrase the GOP chanted in 2000. And in 2018, Democratic demonstrators are chanting, ‘Count all the votes! Count all the votes’ — the exact same (failed) chant from 2000.

In 2000, Democrats were calling for all votes to be counted — no games, no disqualifying ballots for ‘hanging chads’ or other gimmicks. The Republicans were adamant, led by Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State, Katherine Harris: don’t count all votes. In the end a whopping 178,000 ballots were disqualified — and George W. Bush won Florida and the US presidency by just 537 votes.

Eighteen years later and it’s still the same. I never could have imagined that my crews in Florida would be filming the same chants, same trickery, as in 2000.

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