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

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Seven Stories Press, Sep 18, 2012 - Political Science - 304 pages
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A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year--one that could save the election. Last week Billionaires & Ballot Bandits debuted on the NYT Bestseller list at #10 in paperback nonfiction.

Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties--billionaires with nicknames like "The Ice Man," "The Vulture" and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast's no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. Although it has not been reported, Obama has shown some backbone in standing up to the financial excesses of the men behind Romney. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote.

The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast's giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
 

Contents

A Hostile Takeover of Our Country by Robert F Kennedy Jr
9
In the Beginning
15
Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses
17
Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012
21
Lynching by Laptop
25
Ballots Inc
35
The XXXL Pipeline
41
The Ice Man Radioactive
47
Tears of a Clone
121
A Few Good Men Very Few
123
The Purgen General
133
The ExCon ConJob
189
Indians Spoiled Rotten
199
Apple Pie Apartheid
205
Its Magic
211
The Placebo Ballot
221

The Vulture
53
Pennys from Heaven?
61
One Thousand 100 Bills
65
Target 67C
71
Christians Cannibals and Diamonds
81
The Hunt for Triad
89
Manchurian Candidates
95
Wyly Coyotes
103
Karl Rove Confidential
107
The Hysteria Factory
113
Going Postal
229
Block the Vote
235
Aliens Attack
241
Im DePressed
245
So These Ten Nuns Walk Into a
253
Stuffed
259
Restoring the Billionaires Future
273
Notes on Calculations
287
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Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, TED RALL is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is the illustrator of the full-length comic in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, written by Greg Palast.

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