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Corporate Media Ignores Real Attacks on Democracy...

That's a headline that doesn't surprise you at all and could reference any number of shameful failures by the media. It's what my book, Corporate Con Job, centers on and it's the title of my soon-to-be-released chapter 4.

Imagine my lack of shock when the news came down the other day that: "NYC's Board of Elections Will Admit It Purged More Than 200,000 Voters From City Rolls" during the 2016 primaries. Except this story wasn't (and still isn't) a focus of the majority of corporate media. After all, what would people do without the media's obsession with how many times Trump golfed last weekend? It's only our democratic process at stake. 

This story was the perfect thing to light a fire under me to release a preview of Corporate Con Job Chapter 4 to send to you. 

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Read the preview of Chapter 4 below-- write me back and let me know what you think.
Corporate Con Job:
How Mainstream Media Aids the Oligarchy
Chapter 4 SNEAK PEEK: Corporate Media Ignores Real Attacks on Democracy

It was a forty-minute drive from my parents’ house on Long Island to the Suffolk County courthouse, where, incredibly, the fate of the Democratic primary hung in the balance.

It was the day of the New York primary and I’d been tipped off that a lawsuit—or emergency injunctive action—was being filed against the New York State Board of Elections on behalf of, at the time I thought, only thousands of voters. The lawsuit was asking for “immediate restoration” of the purged voters’ rights.
Coincidentally enough, the purged voters were primarily in Brooklyn, one of the most progressive neighborhoods in the country and, wait for it…where Bernie Sanders was born and raised!

By the sheer scale of voters purged and the fact that it was the day of the primary, I expected to have trouble finding a spot in the parking lot amidst the sea of news trucks from the national and local stations. But like our supposed democracy, the parking lot was empty: a scant number of cars were parked here and there, and it was easy breezy to get into the building.

Where the fuck was the media? I wondered. It’s the day of the primary, and accounts were flying all over social media of registered voters going to vote only to be told they were not registered Democrats and turned away. 

“We have found two primary classes of plaintiffs who we are defining in this case,” Shyla Nelson, the spokesperson for Election Justice USA told me the day before in an interview. “The first is registered Democratic voters who have a history of voting in the Democratic primary in New York, in some cases many years, who suddenly find themselves affiliated as not registered with any party—in other words, they are fundamentally disqualified from voting in a closed primary tomorrow.”

Nelson went on to say: “The second class of plaintiffs that we have discovered are new voters who enrolled registered to vote before the March 25th deadline, and who find themselves also listed—they registered as Democrats—and now find that they are listed on the voter rolls as not affiliated with any party and then in parenthesis as independent which prevent them from voting in the Democratic primary tomorrow.”

A day before the primary, Nelson told me she and Election Justice had “over 300 substantiated reports” as well as a report that over 63,500 registered Brooklyn voters were purged from the voter rolls between November 2015 and April 2016. “It’s happening in New York and it’s happening elsewhere throughout the United States,” she said.

At that courthouse in 2016, the lawyers for Election Justice USA were just as incredulous as I was. Then when I approached Long Island law partners Blaire Fellows and Jonathan Clarke after they first attempted to file their lawsuit, they also seemed incredulous.
“This is a major purge and it’s just being allowed to happen,” Blaire told me.

Nearly 18 months later, in October 2017, the New York City Board of Elections admitted to purging over 200,000 voters off the rolls in the lead up to the Democratic primary. But the corporate media: crickets. They have more important things to cover: like Russian-trolls using Pokémon Go to “interfere” with the election.

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