{"id":12506,"date":"2018-03-12T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12506"},"modified":"2018-03-12T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T01:07:53","slug":"the-battle-against-barcoded-paper-ballots-in-ga-la-and-everywhere-else-bradcast-3122018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12506","title":{"rendered":"The Battle Against Barcoded ‘Paper Ballots’ in GA, L.A. and Everywhere Else: ‘BradCast’ 3\/12\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: The fight for Election Integrity is often one step forward and two steps back. Don’t be fooled by what many are deceptively describing as a move to “paper ballots”, when those “paper ballots” aren’t really what they are being sold as. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

First up today: A quick preview<\/a> of the U.S. House Special Election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District on Tuesday, where voters will, shamefully, once again cast their votes in the crucial race on 100% unverifiable touch-screen Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems.<\/p>\n

At the same time, lawmakers in the state of Georgia, which has disastrously used similarly unverifiable DREs for the past 15 years, are moving a deceptively described<\/a> “paper ballot” bill forward in the legislature. However, what those lawmakers are not<\/i> making clear (and some may not even understand) is that the bill would fund new computer-marked<\/i> paper ballot systems, known as Ballot Marking Devices (BMD)s, across the state. Such systems also<\/i> require voters to use a touch-screen device to vote and, like DREs, also<\/i> cannot be verified after an election as reflecting the intent of any<\/i> voter.<\/b><\/p>\n

Worse still, rather than use the human-readable information printed out by the computers onto the “paper ballot” at the end of the process, BMDs use optical scanners which tally results read from barcodes or QR codes printed on the ballot that are NOT human readable!<\/p>\n

And, it’s not only Republican-leaning Georgia that is quickly hoping to move to such unverifiable systems. So is<\/a> the largest voting jurisdiction in the nation, Los Angeles County<\/a>! Also, counties in Texas and Tennessee are already using them and other states are looking to purchase them as well. Indeed, many supposedly progressive<\/i> organizations and Democrats are actually recommending them, without understanding the very real dangers of BMDs!<\/p>\n

We’re joined today by attorney-turned-journalist JENNIFER COHN<\/b><\/a> to discuss her well-researched and documented concerns, as detailed by voting system and computer security experts, regarding the nation’s dangerous and disturbing lurch towards what she describes as expensive “electric pencils”, otherwise known as BMDs. Cohn explained those concerns in simple, layman’s language in a recent post at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we discuss on the show: No, “paper ballots” are not enough! We need HAND-MARKED<\/i> paper ballots that are known<\/i> to have been verified by the voters, if we are going to even have a chance<\/i> of restoring publicly verifiable democratic elections in the U.S. <\/p>\n

Cohn details both in her article and on today’s show, a number of academic studies finding that most voters do not check computer printouts and summaries at the end of the voting process, and of the minority who do, some 60% or more don’t even notice when the computer has flipped their vote!<\/p>\n

PLEASE tune in for this important conversation, because Americans must<\/i> begin to understand the dangers presenting by these deceptively described “paper ballots”, which are coming to a voting jurisdiction near you!<\/p>\n

Then, we open up the phone lines today to callers on that issue, as well as some of my thoughts from last Friday’s show<\/a> regarding the supposed face-to-face meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and even crazier U.S. leader Donald Trump, regarding the North’s nuclear weapons program…<\/p>\n

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