Rate this book

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How To Steal An Election In 9 Easy Steps (2012)

by Greg Palast(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1609804783 (ISBN13: 9781609804787)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Seven Stories Press

review 1: Greg Palast is a wonderful writer, speaker and investigative reporter. I have seen him on Link-TV and he has so much information to dispense that I needed to read this book to digest all of his facts and figures. He explains how election thieves rely on nine classic methods to steal elections: Purging, Caging, Spoiling, Ejecting, Blocking, Rejecting, Prestidigitizing, Tossing, and Stuffing. And he shows you many of these strategies at work in our wonderful democracy.
review 2: Election day special! Palast was giving this away for free on his website (in PDF form) for the last few days leading up to the election, either because he figured literally no one would buy it once the election is over, or because he's genuinely concerned with whether or not people w... moreill be able to vote, and have their vote counted. Probably a little bit of both. If you haven't already, and you don't mind reading PDF files (which works reasonably well with a Kindle and probably even better with a tablet), you might want to get up on this. I "copped" mine the other day and plowed through it this weekend. Man, did I enjoy it. It's like The Best Democracy Money Can Buy all over again. I read that book when I was 23-ish, and it was a huge influence. It was the kind of book I wanted to write when I became an author. Now that I am an author, it's still the kind of book I want to write. LOL. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits brings you up to date on the fuckery that's taken place in the 10 years or so since Best Democracy, of which there is so much. It's not just a book about how to avoid being given one of those BS provisional ballots. (Don't take one of those BS provisional ballots - they don't count them.) It's a sort of crash course on not just voter disenfranchisement (if that's a word), but also the Koch brothers, the teabaggers, the Keystone XL pipeline, tort reform, campaign finance, Citizens United, so on and so forth. A lot of this shit I was somewhat familiar with, from keeping up with the collection of Blame America First blogs and websites in my Google Reader, but it really took reading this book to realize the extent to which it's all interrelated. less

Download links for: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps

Advertising