Greg Palast :Georgia state police have arrested 12 Black Lives Matter protesters for hoisting balloons in front of the capital that spell out “340,134” — the number of voters the Palast team uncovered as wrongly purged from voter rolls by Brian Kemp. Kemp was the Georgia Secretary of State and currently remains the Republican candidate for Governor.

Black Lives Matter activists were told not to protest in front of the capital, so they thought balloons would not be a threat to the state. Obviously, they were wrong. Support their bail fund. Those arrested include Mary Hooks, who took the picture below.

 

BLack-Lives-Matter-Protest2Photo: Mary Hooks, Black Lives Matter Atlanta

In Atlanta, Federal Judge Amy Totenberg ordered the State of Georgia to count additional “provisional” ballots – and extended the time period for counting until Friday. The ruling followed a suit by Common Cause, represented by the Brennan Center, describing our publication of the massive voter purge list showing a tsunami of registration problems which led to a surge in provisional ballots.

Congratulations to Georgia’s Stacey Abrams incredible strength of character. . In election night’s most defiant moment, she became the first major Democrat to refuse to concede an obviously stolen election. She could become America’s first black female governor.

But like Florida, Georgia was defined by dirty tricks and the usual Jim Crow chaos in black and Hispanic precincts. Stacey’s white supremacist opponent, the since-resigned Secretary of State Brian Kemp, may have trashed more than 50,000 registration forms.

Abrams has refused to follow Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, who won presidential elections in 2000, 2004 and 2016 but continue to ignore the stripped registration rolls and flipped vote counts that enthroned Shrub and Trump. We now have a chance, as the battle unfolds, to thoroughly unmask – and hopefully remake – a system of balloting that’s made an utter mockery of American democracy.