Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Abby Martin. This is the audio version of each episode of the Empire Files hosted on Telesaur English. You can watch every episode at the EmpireFiles. TV.

In one of the most contentious presidential elections ever, a hidden fact is that millions of Americans lost their vote

through various methods employed in a coordinated multi-million dollar operation.

Stunning in a country that claims to be the greatest democracy on earth.

But we don't hear about it. What we do hear about is claims from Trump and Republicans

that the system is rigged because millions of people are voting illegally.

It's rigged like you've never seen before.

This issue of busing voters into New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who's worked in New Hampshire politics.

There are dead people registered, there are illegal people registered.

Dead, illegal, and two states, and some cases maybe three states.

But we're going to stop it.

We're not going to back down.

Not only are these hysterical claims provably false,

but they're in fact used by the same people committing actual vote rigging.

Nonetheless, these myths are perpetrated by right-wing politicians and media

to justify widespread

voter crackdowns.

In the latest purge, nearly half a million people have been kicked off Indiana's voter

registration list just since the 2016 presidential election.

That's a whopping 10% of total voters in the entire state.

Alongside an arsenal voter suppression tactics, a program called interstate cross-check

institutionalized vote theft nationwide. Investigative journalist Greg Palis uncovered

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