{"id":11243,"date":"2015-06-25T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T00:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2015-06-25T21:56:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T04:56:51","slug":"obamacare-upheld-again-scalia-embarrasses-himself-again-and-2014s-last-remaining-election-challenge-bradcast-6252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11243","title":{"rendered":"‘ObamaCare’ Upheld (Again); Scalia Embarrasses Himself (Again); And 2014’s Last Remaining Election Challenge: ‘BradCast’ 6\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>…The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision [PDF]<\/a> in King v. Burwell<\/i>, a case that would have gutted the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”). As usual, Justice Scalia, on the losing side once again, displayed his extraordinary hypocrisy<\/a> in his dissent to a case that was stupid to begin with. I explain on today’s show.<\/p>\n

Then, the last election challenge of 2014 (as far as we know): Dr. Laura Pressley<\/a> joins me explains why it’s impossible to know whether the results of her runoff election for Austin City Council were accurately tabulated on the 100% unverifiable electronic voting systems used in Travis County, across much of the state of Texas and across much of our country.<\/p>\n

“We’re not just fighting this for our single city council district race. This is a bigger issue,” Pressley explains. “Elections have to be verifiable. Candidates need to have the right to question and ask for validation. This is a tenet of our democracy.”<\/p>\n

Pressley charges that the unverifiable Hart-Intercivic eSlate voting systems actually violate the Lone Star state’s own elections laws, even as they clearly undermine overseeable democracy. Remarkably, she says she is now facing a potential court fine of $100,000 for simply bringing her challenge, following some rather disturbing irregularities on the voting systems during her runoff and a complete inability to recount thousands of in-person electronic ballots despite an exact tie<\/i> on the Vote-by-Mail paper ballots.<\/p>\n

Her case was dismissed in state court, but she is appealing the decision and tells me: “One of the comments [in court] was, we needed to be punished as a candidate for challenging these electronic voting systems and that the sanctions should reflect a punishment to deter other candidates from bringing this forward.”<\/p>\n

Plus: Fox ‘News’ discovers that electronic voting systems can be hacked; Texas continues preparation to survive its impending take-over by the U.S. government. All on today’s BradCast<\/i>!…<\/p>\n

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