Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps

By Greg Palast and Ted Rall

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Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Illustrations by Ted Rall

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 B&BB is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between, for instance, the old money banking sector that supported Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only supported Romney but were also among his key economic advisors. B&BB exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money that pour in each election cycle.

The story of these billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine different ways they can steal the election.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609804783
• ISBN13: 9781609804787
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.4"