On today’s BradCast: Don’t say we didn’t warn you. We’ll keep trying. [Audio link to show follows below.]
Among the many stories covered on today’s program…
- Montana’s Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock, who won reelection on the same statewide 2016 ballot that Trump reportedly won by 20 points that year, announced he is dropping out of the Dem Presidential nominating contest on Monday. His campaign also claims he will — sadly (shamefully?) — not be running for U.S. Senate next year, despite his proven ability to flip a statewide seat from “red” to “blue” at a time his country needs him to do exactly that. Also, former Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Sestak dropped out of the 2020 race over the weekend as well, though odds are you’re even less aware of his candidacy than you were of Bullock’s;
- Wildly corrupt conspiracist and Trump supporter Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) agrees to plead guilty — rather than face trial in January — in his criminal campaign finance fraud case in which he and his wife lavishly spent some $250,000 of campaign funds on personal expenses, while claiming, in some cases, that their spending was for veterans’ charities;
- The impeachment inquiry of Donald J. Trump moves forward, as the center of action will move from Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee to Rep. Jerry Nadler’s House Judiciary Committee this week. The Trump White House continues to pretend they are not being allowed due process, as they informed Nadler on Sunday night that they refuse to participate in Judiciary’s first hearing on the matter scheduled for Wednesday;
- We then step through the process for Congressional proceedings on the matter as they are currently scheduled to occur over the next month, with Articles of Impeachment likely approved by the full House before year’s end, followed by a trial on the removal of Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate beginning in January and leading right up to (or even beyond) the first votes being cast in the 2020 elections. The Iowa Caucuses will be on February 3, followed by the New Hampshire primary just one week later.
By March 3, more than a dozen states will be voting on Super Tuesday, including California. For the first time that day, here in Los Angeles County — which, by itself, is larger than 41 states — voters at the polls will be forced to vote on brand new 100% unverifiable touchscreen computer systems.
The new computers in L.A. are similar to the new, similarly unverifiable touchscreen systems that failed disastrously on November 5 this year during sparsely attended municipal elections in battleground states such as Georgia and Pennsylvania. In both states, failures of the new systems forced some voters to wait for nearly an hour to cast their unverifiable vote. (Imagine how things will go in a large turnout election…say in 2020.)
Over the holiday weekend, The New York Times finally noticed the disasters for voters in Philadelphia and Northampton County, PA nearly a month ago, where the new touchscreens registered an impossible zero votes for some candidates in certain precincts. The failures left voters and party officials alike wondering what went wrong, and if the numbers ultimately reported by the system actually reflected the intent of the voters. As we’ve been arguing for some time, it is impossible to know whether results accurately reflect any voter’s intent on these systems, even as they are currently (insanely) proliferating in the U.S. ahead of the critical 2020 elections.
- Are you ready for the potential disasters? We offer a few helpful tips on how to try and avoid them. But, otherwise, we hope you’ll have at least heard our warnings — if few from anyone else — if things go as catastrophically as they well could next year in jurisdictions where voters are not able to vote on hand-marked paper ballots at the polling place.
(And, once again today, we are forced to detail some of the very simple questions that L.A. County’s Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan refuses to answer about the new systems, either on the show in person or even via email.)
- Finally, we open up the phones to some great (and chilling) calls on all of the above…
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