this is greg palast in ohio at early voting for "democracy now!" >> that is greg palast.g us live tonight for a special election broadcast from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. eastern standard time. you can tune in on television, radio and watch a live video stream online democracynow.org. we will be looking at claims of harassment. we will be following on twitter as well. check democracynow.org for details. we turn now to our last segment, new investigation that tracks some of the $1 billion spent by outside organizations in this presidential election. one of every $4 spent on the campaign ads, direct mail, and robocalls the target voters now comes from so-called dark many organizations. the irs lets these groups keep their donors secret because they're considered social welfare nonprofits. that changed this past friday when a montana judge ordered the release of one such group's bank roberts -- records. one group may have misled the irs about the extent of its political@ivities, and as citizens have a right to know where its campaign cash was coming from. the group is known for

counted in minnesota for gay marriage so joining us now to talk more about these ballot measures is greg palast that's to get a journalist from ohio and attorney alexis bad marriage for the maiden marriage my apologies a political director for indiana consumers association license good to see you again. greg welcome to the program. glad to be here from toledo and the center of the heist oh you're in the center of the action here . gregg talk a little bit about some of these ballot measures what do you think a is going to be most significant here. well what i'm concerned about right now the reason i ended up here in ohio is tips i got that once again we're back to what happened in two thousand and four with ohio being the center of the heist of the presidency we've had you know let's not forget it comes down to ohio and what i saw on sunday and reported go to greg palast dot com you'll see it would be my film report is that the early voting souls to the polls which is when most black people don't hire a vote it's most segregated voting in the united states black people vote early white people vo

at an auto workers' union hall in toledo, ohio, king and investigative journalist greg palast describedd mitt romney's involvement in a hedge fund that purchased delphi automotive, a key supplier of parts to general motors, and how delphi's new owners got rid of 25,000 workers, dumped pensions and leveraged more than $12 billion in rescue funds by threatening to withold key auto parts from reaching gm's assembly line. "the hedge fund held up steering columns and other things that had gm not gotten them, they would've gone under. chrysler as well." "they were literally willing to risk the survival of gm to make as much money as they could." steven rattner, former counselor to the treasury during the bailout period, called it "extortion demands by barbary pirates." palast says delphi relocated parts plants in china and emerged from bankruptcy, going public last year. the company, purchased by the romneys' hedge fund at 67 cents per share in 2009, sold for $22 a share at the ipo - a 3,000% profit for investors like the romneys. a return largely the result of the auto bailout that romney so

mistakes happening in pennsylvania same thing in ohio we had we had african-americans calling up after greg palast came on and reported that they were given absentee ballots which don't even get counted until later and and i just had this avalanche of phone calls from largely african-american people in ohio saying yup that happened to me this this is nuts i mean path and that's what i was going to ask you why aren't we hearing about this on the mainstream media this is clearly happening well because it doesn't sell you see the way the mainstream media looks like is if there's a whiny story people are whining because they have to wait people are whining because the republicans have simply tried to disenfranchise and people are whining the serious reporters if you if you cover what brad friedman has done on there's another handful of great reporters that have been following this for years take a look at what history shows us and then understand the. those aren't stories that traditional media care about because it takes some digging it takes it takes a little bit of effort to show him you can graph

in fact for those of you who do not know greg palast, most people here do know that i broke a story back in 2000 about how kathryn harris and jeb bush knocked off tens of thousands of black folk off the voter rolls, calling them balance. if you have a felony conviction in florida you cannot vote. fine, so they caught all these felons and they removed him from the voter rolls. how do i know they were black? in florida every african-american has black next to their name. that is by law. so it's very easy to target black voters. now, as it turns out i started going through these names. i will give you one name, okay? from in the book here where i show you the actual purge list in "billionaires & ballot bandits." there is a mr. robert moore convicted of a felony crime and so all the black robert moore's in florida lost their. there are a few in florida but not only robert moore's from florida but brought moore, bobby more's they said these were covers for for the spell in trying to, including mrs. bobby moore. mr. moore gets convicted of a crime and mrs. bobby moore loses her vote but they g