Hundreds of Thousands of Wrongfully Purged Votes Could Have Cost Dems Midterm Elections

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Hundreds of Thousands of Wrongfully Purged Votes Could Have Cost Dems Midterm Elections

Investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses his award winning series "Jim Crow Returns" for Aljazeera America on how hundreds of thousands of mostly low income and people of color were purged from voting rolls in the midterm election - December 16, 14

Hundreds of Thousands of Wrongfully Purged Votes Could Have Cost Dems Midterm ElectionsSHARMINI PERIES, EXEC. PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore.

Greg Palast won the December Sidney Hillman award for "Jim Crow Returns" and "Challenging Crosscheck", a two-part Al Jazeera America exposé that shows how millions of innocent people who wanted to vote were left out as suspected fraudsters.

On the eave of the 2014 elections, officials began to purge the voters based upon Interstate Crosscheck, a voter fraud prevention software. More than 40,000 voters were dropped from the rolls in Virginia alone.

Now joining us from New York, New York, to discuss all of this is Greg Palast. Greg is investigative reporter for the BBC and The Guardian. He's also a bestselling author.

Thank you so much for joining us, Greg.

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