{"id":12314,"date":"2017-09-28T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12314"},"modified":"2017-10-01T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:22:47","slug":"wi-decertifies-terrible-paper-ballot-system-ca-threatens-to-undermine-election-integrity-bradcast-9282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12314","title":{"rendered":"WI Decertifies Terrible Paper Ballot System, CA Threatens to Undermine Election Integrity: ‘BradCast’ 9\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we open the phone to callers to discuss another very busy news week, though most want to talk about election integrity. That’s good. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

Among the stories we cover before we get to listener calls: The Trump Administration is blocking<\/a> members of Congress — both Democratic and Republican — from taking military flights down to Puerto Rico, for some reason, where the disaster for 3.5 million U.S. citizens following Hurricane Maria is said to be quickly deteriorating. Meanwhile, Trump continues to sing his own praises for his handling of the disaster, while using his Twitter account to tweet about the NFL instead of<\/a> offering help or support for the storm victims.<\/p>\n

Then, the state of Wisconsin finally decertifies<\/a> its terrible, two-decade old Optech Eagle paper ballot tabulators which will only read marks in pencil (not pen). That, despite many WI municipalities which used those same machines to both tally and then ‘recount’ the 2016 Presidential election, rather than ever count ballots by hand. Those machines may well be replaced by 100% unverifiable touch-screen systems. Also, though the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security informed the state late last week that Russia attempted to hack their voting system last year, it turns out DHS now admits<\/a> has no such evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here in California, where DHS told the state<\/a> the same thing last week (and apparently got it wrong<\/a> there as well), Democrats in the state assembly recently passed a bill, AB-840<\/a>, that will make stealing elections easier, by removing nearly half of the ballots cast from the state’s 1% post-election hand ‘audit’. Governor Jerry Brown (D) is now deciding whether to sign the bill, which election integrity advocates and voting system experts are begging him to veto<\/a> instead, describing<\/a> AB-840 as a “roadmap to fraud”. You can contact the Governor with your opinion on whether he should sign or veto right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Callers ring in on all of that today, and challenge me on a point or two regarding voting and election fraud, before Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, on the rapidly devolving humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, and even some good news about coal for the Pacific Northwest (and for all of us, in truth)…<\/p>\n

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