PALAST REPORT: GRAND THEFT MEXICO--Are Republicans Exporting Election Fraud?

Twice (so far) Action Point has interviewed Greg Palast. Twice we've been stunned--STUNNED--by this guy's investigative prowess, on-air story focus and entertaining delivery. He's the journalist that I wish we had more of by the dozens, and in the newsrooms of cable and mainstream media throughout the country. If folks like Greg Palast were at work in this country, I might actually get some sleep again!

GRAND THEFT MEXICO Greg Palast: "This past Friday, we reported that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation had obtained Mexico’s voter files under a secret “counter-terrorism” contract with the database company ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Georgia (See BUSH TEAM HELPS RULING PARTY “FLORIDIZE” MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.)The FBI’s contractor states that following the arrest of ChoicePoint agents by the Mexican government, the company returned or destroyed its files. The firm claims not to have known that collecting this information violated Mexican law. Such files can be useful in challenging a voter’s right to cast a ballot or in preventing that vote from counting."

It is, of course, impossible to know whether the FBI destroyed its own copy of the files of Mexico’s voter rolls obtained by ChoicePoint or whether these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy. But we can see the results: as in the US, first in Florida, then in Ohio, the exit polls are at odds with “official” polls.