{"id":12112,"date":"2017-04-19T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12112"},"modified":"2017-04-19T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T01:23:01","slug":"100-unverifiable-diebold-touchscreens-save-the-day-for-gop-in-ga06-bradcast-4192017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12112","title":{"rendered":"100% Unverifiable Diebold Touchscreens Save the Day for GOP in GA06!: ‘BradCast’ 4\/19\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, not that we enjoy saying “we told ya so,” but, yeah, another election result goes south on 100% unverifiable Diebold touch-screen systems in a key election for Democrats, as we’ve been warning for weeks (years, really). And, yes, the disgraced Bill O’Reilly has finally been fired by Fox ‘News’. [Audio link to full show follows below.<\/i>]\n

In Tuesday’s U.S. House special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff appears to have soundly defeated<\/a> a split Republican field in a very Republican district, in the “jungle primary” race for a House seat held by the GOP since 1978 and recently vacated by Trump’s appointment of Rep. Tom Price as Director of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

However, the final results of Tuesday’s contest, as taken from the state’s 100% unverifiable Diebold touch-screen voting systems, report that Ossoff just failed to go over the 50% threshold by which he would have won the seat outright. Instead, he’ll compete<\/a> in a run-off in June<\/a> against the second place finisher on Tuesday, Republican Karen Handel, former GA Sec. of State.<\/p>\n

So, are the reported results accurate? It is impossible, in fact, to know, as I’ve long<\/em> been warning. That fact is made even more maddening by the fact that a reported central tabulator “error”<\/a>, said to have been caused by a faulty<\/a> memory card from one of the voting machines, stopped all results<\/a> from being reported for hours<\/a> in Fulton County, as Ossoff results were stuck at 50.3%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, all counties in the district but Fulton (Handel’s home county) had reported 100% percent of their results. Hours later, after the computer tabulator problem was said to have been corrected, and results started coming in again from Fulton, Ossoff’s numbers dropped to 48.6%, below the threshold that would have prevented a run-off.<\/p>\n

So, was the election stolen? Or was the all-too familiar problem during the tally just a routine error on the state’s unverifiable, easily-manipulated<\/a>, oft-failed<\/a> voting system? The state’s Diebold voting systems and tabulators were first installed in 2002. They are, shamefully, still used today, despite multiple massive vulnerabilities<\/a>, including one that allows results to be flipped without detection, as first reported by The BRAD BLOG as early as 2006<\/a>. At the very least, as I noted last night on Twitter<\/a> during the hours long freak-out over the reported faulty memory card(s): “If I’m Ossoff, I get to court and have ALL of those memory cards in Fulton locked down and sequestered for forensic inspection.” <\/p>\n

Adding to the concerns in that GA-06 election: The reported “massive data breach”<\/a> last month at the facility which programs both the voting machines and the state’s electronic pollbook systems and, over the weekend, the theft<\/a> of a number of those e-pollbooks from a poll workers car. (Widely mis<\/i>-reported<\/a> as a theft of “voting machines”.)<\/p>\n

I discuss all of the above, in much<\/i> more detail (including the political fallout from the race, which is still very bad for Trump and the GOP), on today’s show — and take a number of calls about it all of it as well.<\/p>\n

Also today: Bill O’Reilly, the biggest star on Fox “News” since it’s inception, has finally been fired<\/a>, following the latest round of multiple sexual harassment allegations against him, millions of dollars in settlements<\/a> paid by both him and Fox to his accusers, and dozens of advertisers who pulled out of the show following the latest round of allegations. (Here’s the recent BradCast<\/i><\/a> where I discussed the latest allegations with Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert late last week, and where he pretty much predicted what has finally happened today.)<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>‘, with toxic oil and chemical spills, new heat records, and some otherwise encouraging news about London’s iconic black cabs…<\/p>\n

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