Investigative reporter Greg Palast speaking on voter suppression and his new book: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps September 24, 2012

Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast is on tour to start a movement and save the 2012 election from being stolen by power-hungry billionaires. He is coming to Berkeley on Monday, September 24th to speak about who is behind some of the most powerful super PACs, how they are planning on stealing up to 5.9 millions votes in the coming election, and what you can do to make sure your vote is counted.

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 (Seven Stories Press, September 18, 2012) might be the most important book published this year—one that could save the election. Featuring an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a fifty-page comic by award-winning political cartoonist Ted Rall, 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 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. B&BB 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. For more information see www.ballotbandits.org.

Bestselling author Greg Palast’s most recent book is Vulture’s 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.

Please contact anne@sevenstories.com if you would like to see a review copy of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits or set up an interview with Greg Palast or Ted Rall.