gregpalast.com

03/26/2025

The Brennan Center for Justice of New York University’s Law School warned, when Trump first suggested this plan, “the lie of non-citizen voting…could lead to the purging of hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls.” But Brennan wildly underestimated Trump’s and Musk’s ambitions. “Hundreds of thousands” could be purged in a single state.

Take Georgia. In a pre-dawn call today, Gerald Griggs, the President of the NAACP of Georgia, told me that the Georgia Secretary of State is about to remove 466,000 voters from the rolls, notably, four times Trump’s “victory” margin last year.

This follows Georgia’s request for access to the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration database—so Georgia can supposedly match its voter rolls to a list of non-citizens. Trump’s new Executive Order specifically authorizes Musk, state and local officials to use the Homeland Security database for this voter roll purge. Florida once used the DHS database to remove 172,000 “alien” voters. Only one (an Austrian Republican) was convicted of this crime—but thousands of “Luis Garcia’s” lost their vote.

“We tried to warn you, America,” said Griggs. “Jim Crow 2.0 has roared out of Georgia and is going national. This Executive Order is a direct violation of the Voting Rights Act.” Not that I expect Trump to lose much sleep over that.

The Brennan Center reports that 21 million Americans, otherwise legal voters, don’t have access to citizenship ID. All would lose their vote if they attempt to register or RE-register (as 31 million Americans do each year).

Most Americans can only prove citizenship with either a passport or an ORIGINAL birth certificate (no copies).

The real issue is, WHO will be excluded from voting under this new edict?

Only 34% of Black Americans have passports to prove citizenship. Indeed, only 42% of whites have a passport.

69 million women who took their husband’s last name cannot use their birth certificate as proof of citizenship.

Military ID is NOT proof of citizenship. But thank you for your service.

A driver’s license is NOT proof of citizenship (except in 5 states that permit you to add citizenship to the “Real” ID).

These facts suggest that 21 million may be the low end of the estimate of voters at risk.