{"id":11867,"date":"2016-10-03T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T00:47:36","slug":"election-integrity-and-pants-on-fire-bradcast-1032016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11867","title":{"rendered":"Election Integrity and Pants on Fire: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/3\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_VoteHere_100316.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, Trump&#8217;s &#8220;charitable&#8221; foundation gets shut down by law enforcement, two major (unusual) hurricanes threaten millions, and actual fact-checks from one side of this nightmarish election to the other. [<em>Audio link posted below.<\/em>]\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&bull; &#8220;The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any other fundraising activities in New York,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/trump-foundation-ordered-new-york-ag-stop-fundraising-n658651\">according to<\/a> the letter from New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman&#8217;s office, warning that the GOP nominee&#8217;s charity &#8220;shall be deemed a continuing fraud upon the people of New York&#8221; unless it provides required paperwork regarding fundraising activities within the next 15 days.<br \/>\n&bull; Two major hurricanes threatening island nations in both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/weather\/hurricane-matthew-could-deliver-devastating-blow-caribbean-n658311\">Atlantic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/typhoon\/news\/super-typhoon-chaba-okinawa-japan-forecast\">Pacific<\/a>.<br \/>\n&bull; Much-needed fact-checking on the misreporting and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/10\/02\/while-hrc-knocks-bernie-kids-as-basement-dwellers-chelsea-lives-in-10m-apartment.html\">purposeful<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/sanders-agree-with-clinton-leaked-audio-young-voters\">mischaracterization<\/a> of comments made at a February fundraiser by Hillary Clinton.<br \/>\n&bull; More much-needed fact-checking on the misleading (and potentially illegal) comments made by Trump regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9757\">long ago debunked<\/a> 2012 &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; in Pennsylvania (which even Philadelphia <i>Republicans<\/i> are getting <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.philly.com\/2016-09-13\/news\/75366955_1_west-philadelphia-divisions-mitt-romney\">sick to death<\/a> of) and details on why Trump is now being so careful about the words he is using to urge supporters to go to &#8220;certain areas&#8221; and &#8220;watch&#8221; the polls.<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2016\/10\/03\/dmv-workers-6-more-stations-give-wrong-voter-id-info\/91461338\/\">Updates<\/a> on the state of Wisconsin&#8217;s failure to follow federal court orders concerning their discriminatory Photo ID voting restrictions. (More on this in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11864\">last Friday&#8217;s show<\/a>.)<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/red-alert-election-systems-20-states-targeted-hackers-n657036\">More<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-10-01\/wary-of-election-hacks-u-s-urges-states-to-get-security-help?bpolanews=true\">concerns<\/a> about the possibility of hacked voting, voter registration and tabulation systems resulting in potential chaos this November 8th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So many pants on fire, so little time before Election Day to try and help put them all out&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ElectionIntegrityFactCheck_100316.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ElectionIntegrityFactCheck_100316.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, Trump&#8217;s &#8220;charitable&#8221; foundation gets shut down by law enforcement, two major (unusual) hurricanes threaten millions, and actual fact-checks from one side of this nightmarish election to the other. [Audio link posted below.] Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230; &bull; &#8220;The Trump Foundation must immediately cease soliciting contributions or engaging in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,494,89,675,543,479,8,400,594,106,6,28,548,226,613,477,188,111,48,172,126,166,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2004","category-election-2012","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-extreme-weather","category-hillary-clinton","category-irs","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-new-york","category-pennsylvania","category-photo-id-laws","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}