Investigative journalist Greg Palast claims that Kamala Harris would have won the 2024 US presidential election without massive vote suppression by Republicans in many different States. He was interviewed by Spencer Graves. Greg Palast Palast is known for his investigative reports for The Guardian and his books including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2002);1 Democracy and Regulation (2003); Armed Madhouse (2006, 2007), Vultures Picnic (2011); Billionaires and Ballot Bandits (2012); and How Trump Stole 2020 (2020). He has also provided evidence for numerous lawsuits.2 Some of this is discussed in a recent movie Vigilantes, Inc., America's new vote suppression hitmen, Claim that "Trump lost, vote suppression won" A 2025-02-07 article by Thom Hartmann on gregpalast.com4 claims, "Greg Palast proved that Jim Crow tactics cost Vice President Harris 3.56 million votes, four states—and the presidency.":5 "If all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes." His claims include the following numbers: number cum % of total what 4,776,706 4,776,706 40.01% voters wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission 2,121,000 6,897,706 17.77% mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due) 585,000 7,482,706 4.90% ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified. 1,216,000 8,698,706 10.19% “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted. 3,240,000 11,938,706 27.14% new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote. Unfortunately, it's not obvious how Palast got from these and other claims to his final conclusions. We get close to his numbers by assuming that Harris got 65% of the 12 million suppressed votes and Trump got the rest: Trump Harris Trump margin of victory 77,302,580 75,017,613 2,284,967 new vote totals additional votes if all disfranchised votes had been cast and counted Trump Harris Trump margin of victory Trump Harris % for Harris 83,271,933 80,986,966 2,284,967 5,969,353 5,969,353 50% 82,078,062 82,180,837 -102,774 4,775,482 7,163,224 60% 81,481,127 82,777,772 -1,296,645 4,178,547 7,760,159 65% 80,884,192 83,374,707 -2,490,515 3,581,612 8,357,094 70% Sadly, it is not obvious where Palast got his numbers. David Pakman notes that Palast does not adequately document how he got his numbers, saying that Palast's conclusions do not hold if some sources are replaced by others that Pakman claims are more credible.[13]Unfortunately, it's not obvious where Pakman got his numbers, either. Join a discussion of these issues at the Wikiversity article on, "Palast says Trump lost, vote suppression won the 2024 elections". See also On 2020-08-13, KKFI's Thursday Night Special featured a related discussion of "Election integrity: Voter fraud, voter suppression, gerrymandering". Bibliography