On today’s BradCast, Desi and I are back! But you should tune in anyway! [Audio link to show follows below.]
My great thanks to Angie Coiro of In Deep Radio for filling in for us last week!
Among the stories covered on today’s program, as we try to get back up to speed…
- More than 2,000 were reportedly wounded and over 50 killed as Israel opened fire on protesters in Gaza today during the “festive” opening ceremony for the controversial U.S. embassy Donald Trump moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Much of the Muslim and Arab world condemned the attacks on the unarmed Palestinian protesters, but so so did the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and many others.
- Back in the U.S., a new analysis from Washington Post finds that an administrative error led to at least 26 Democratic leaning voters being assigned to the wrong legislative district during last November’s House of Delegates election in Virginia. The race in Newport News between Democrat Shelly Simonds and Republican David Yancey in HD-94, was judged to be a tie after a “recount”, which was subsequently broken by a random drawing giving the seat to Yancey and allowing the GOP to retain control of the House. That failure, and similarly mis-assigned voters in yet another highly gerrymandered district in Fredericksburg, prevented what should, in retrospect, have been a Democratic takeover of the state’s House in 2017 amidst a “Blue Wave” that otherwise managed to flip 15 seats from R to D.
- Also today, a new report on what was reportedly a foreign-sourced cyberattack on Election Night two weeks ago in Knox County, Tennessee is troubling on a number of levels, though not necessary the one being reported by some media outlets citing a Ukrainian IP address used in the denial of service attack which was also sourced to countries on every continent except for Antarctica. We discuss what is known and still isn’t, following the attack which took down the web-based election night results page for an hour after the close of polls two weeks ago, including one race said to have been decided by just 17 votes on the county’s 100% unverifiable Direct Recording Electronic voting systems…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
5/14/2018
Israel Opens Fire in Gaza During U.S. Embassy Ceremony; Election Fail in VA, Cyberattack in TN: ‘BradCast’ 5/14/2018 · · · · · Israel Opens Fire in Gaza During U.S. Embassy Ceremony; Election Fail in VA, Cyberattack in TN: ‘BradCast’ 5/14/2018
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