{"id":4866,"date":"2021-01-05T01:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=146162"},"modified":"2021-01-05T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:17:48","slug":"stealing-georgia-raffensperger-is-no-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/05\/stealing-georgia-raffensperger-is-no-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Georgia: Raffensperger is No Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">by Greg Palast \/ January 4th, 2021<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>Despite the hype, an investigative report released today reveals Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is no hero defending democracy from Trump. Rather, in this investigative film (produced by George and Peggy DiCaprio, and Rosario Dawson, and narrated by Debra Messing), Raffensperger is exposed for using vote suppression Jim Crow tactics \u2014 even misleading a federal court to keep 198,000 Georgians from voting in Tuesday\u2019s Senate runoff race.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Stealing Georgia: Raffensperger is No Hero\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYmTescqpyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">Greg Palast studied healthcare economics at the Center for Hospital Administration Studies at the University of Chicago. His investigative reports can be seen on BBC Television&#8217;s <em>Newsnight<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/gregpalast\/\">Read other articles by Greg<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/\">visit Greg&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Monday, January 4th, 2021 at 5:17pm and is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/elections\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Elections<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/video\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/category\/elections\/voter-suppression\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Voter Suppression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/05\/stealing-georgia-raffensperger-is-no-hero\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Greg Palast \/ January 4th, 2021 Despite the hype, an investigative report released today reveals Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is no hero defending democracy from\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,4,162,1231],"tags":[62,171,1232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}