Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps [NOOK Book]

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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 ...
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Overview

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. 

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.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781609804794
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • Publication date: 9/25/2012
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 268,636
  • File size: 26 MB
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Meet the Author

Bestselling author GREG PALAST's most recent book is Vultures' Picnic. Author of a number of previous bestsellers, including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and Armed Madhouse, Greg Palast is currently a Nation Institute Fellow and BBC correspondent. He lives in New York City and Long Island. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the Dean of the Pace University School of Environmental Law, Chairman of the Riverkeeper Alliance, an attorney representing victims of voting rights violations, and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine.

Ted Rall's political and social commentary cartoons have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Rolling Stone, Time, Fortune, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Village Voice and New York Times. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, he has twice won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Prize. Visit him at Rall.com.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 18, 2012

    It's like a follow up to Greg's first big book The Best Democrac

    It's like a follow up to Greg's first big book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Must read for those who want to know the inside info on the money in politics - the book may be cute and small and have a comic book inside - but has real dirt on the billionaires that are actively trying to make sure that they're money counts more than your vote.

    10 out of 12 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 1, 2012

    Purple, Passionate, Prose by Palast

    And a must read!! I can't remember the last time I read a book that made me so sick to my stomach, and I've read some pretty horrible crime thrillers. But the real threat to our democracy that Palast has documented in Billionaires and Bandits SHOULD make us feel sick. His work is meticulously documented, but written in a very accessible way. The included comic book by Ted Rall is a good visual counterpart to Palast's passionate, purple, prose. Again, this is a must read for anyone who is concerned about saving our most basic right as citizens--the right to vote and to have our votes counted. Get this book!! And register to vote. And vote in person!!!

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted October 12, 2012

    A Dark and scary night

    This is so scary and so factual that I will not let my wife read it! Palasr may be our last great muck raker. Unlike the rich and powerful and slimy that he investigates, I say to him and his staff: "Keep it up. God bless you."

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2013

    Addition to my last post

    NM I see the JR on the coven nowz

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    Posted January 14, 2013

    William

    He sits bored.

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  • Posted November 27, 2012

    Everyone in Washington must read

    He really knows his stuff. This is a must-read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 5, 2012

    3 batu 4 leah 1 julie 3 chris 1 zakk 1saph 1shadow

    Totalls so far...leah is prea so far...lwts announce winner tomorrow

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    Posted November 9, 2012

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