{"id":13852,"date":"2021-05-07T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T01:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2021-05-08T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T17:32:37","slug":"next-big-lie-audit-to-be-in-nh-will-be-nothing-like-the-az-clown-show-bradcast-572021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13852","title":{"rendered":"Next ‘Big Lie’ Audit to be in NH (Will be NOTHING Like the AZ Clown Show): ‘BradCast’ 5\/7\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will we ever escape the 2020 “Big Lie”? Maybe. But it’s gonna take a while. That said, we’ve got some very good news on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> about the next “Big Lie” 2020 ballot audit! [Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n

But, first up today, GOP pollster Frank Luntz appeared on a podcast<\/a> this week to offer some sage insight about the 2022 elections. We would caution you to take it much of it with some very large grains of salt! Among the points he made, which we discuss (dispute) today: Trump’s “Big Lie” is working to con his supporters, but that may cost the Republican Party<\/a> some wins in the House and\/or Senate next year, because, as Luntz claims, voters don’t turn out if they believe their vote doesn’t count. We explain, based on our own 20 years or so on this particularly beat, why Luntz is probably very wrong and why Dems would be making a huge mistake to take too much comfort from his point on that. Luntz is also dangerously wrong about what he beliefs will happen if Trump becomes the nominee<\/a> for President in 2024, as we also discuss.<\/p>\n

Then, the far-right cable outlet Newsmax has issued a statement<\/a> apologizing for its false “Big Lie” claims that the 2020 election was stolen for Joe Biden by the Dominion Voting Systems company and, specifically, by its Director of Product Strategy and Security, Dr. Eric Coomer. He sued the wingut outlet for defamation last December, naming the Trump Campaign, Team Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, and even farther rightwing outlet, One America News Network (OANN) as defendants as well.<\/p>\n

All of them had forwarded baseless claims<\/a> that Coomer was on a conference call with “Antifa”, promising to steal the election for Biden. Seriously. That’s what they claimed. It was an absurd charge that nonetheless was repeated and reported over and again in MAGA Land after they were confirmed as losers in the November election. It resulted in death threats and doxxing for Coomer, his family, his co-workers, etc. Newsmax has now admitted their reporting was false<\/a>, and that they have no evidence to support Dominion or Coomer having stolen anything.<\/p>\n

Newsmax has now been removed from Coomer’s lawsuit in exchange for the public apology and an undisclosed sum of money. Looney Toons MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, however (who is being sued by Dominion for $1.3 billion [PDF]<\/a>), can’t seem to sleep at night now. He is furious about the development, and is now reportedly<\/a> calling on the MAGA Mob to boycott Newsmax and watch OANN instead because Newsmax caved…by telling the truth.<\/p>\n

Next, taking a break (mostly) today from our recent<\/a> in-depth<\/a> coverage<\/a> of the clown show “audit” theater playing out in Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona<\/b>, we move to the next<\/i> post-election audit of 2020 ballots demanded by the MAGA Mob. This one will now be in Windham, New Hampshire<\/b> and will be very<\/i> different from the non-transparent shell-game being carried out largely in secret by the clueless, experience-free Cyber Ninjas nitwits and cretins in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

In Windham, a November recount of four local state Representatives races were found to have been off by about 300 votes<\/a> from the initial tally. That, of course, is cause for concern [PDF]<\/a>. Particularly since the town still uses really old, easily-manipulated, oft-failed Diebold AccuVote optical scanners to tally voters’ hand-marked paper ballots. (Their systems are also programmed and maintained by a disreputable company<\/a> named LHS Associates.)<\/p>\n

The reason for the discrepancy in the state Rep results is apparently still unclear. This has led the MAGA Mob to believe they’ve finally found evidence that the election was stolen from Trump (somehow) and — in his best fat, sad Jake LaMotta at the end of Raging Bull impression — led Trump during a wedding at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to declare “massive election fraud” has been discovered in NH, which he was certified to have lost by about 59,000 votes.<\/p>\n

But, here’s the fun twist!<\/b> The Windham audit will not be overseen by Cyber Ninja clowns with no experience in elections or voting systems. Longtime post-election audit expert Mark Lindeman, Ph.D., who currently serves as Acting Co-Director for the non-partisan, non-profit voting system watchdog, Verified Voting<\/a>, has been tapped to run the audit. In turn, two longtime friends of both The BradCast<\/i> and The BRAD BLOG, whose expertise for this audit is unparalleled, have also been tapped to work on it.<\/p>\n

UC-Berkley’s math professor Philip Stark<\/a>, who invented the Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) protocol<\/a>, tells me that he is now on board. BradCast<\/i> listeners may remember him as a guest on this show<\/a>. Also now on board is the legendary Finnish cybersecurity and voting systems expert, Harri Hursti<\/a>. He is the first known hacker<\/a> of a Diebold optical-scan system, as witnessed in the climactic final scene<\/a> of HBO’s Emmy-nominated 2006 documentary, Hacking Democracy<\/i><\/a> (along with our guest from this past Wednesday’s show<\/a>, veteran Florida election official, Ion Sancho), and as the central figure in HBO’s chilling 2020 follow-up to that doc, KILL CHAIN: The Cyber War on America’s Elections<\/i><\/a>. Moreover, Hursti is one of the organizers each year of the Vote Hacking Village<\/a> at DefCon in Las Vegas and was first interviewed by myself in the award-winning 2008 documentary Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

These are serious experts in the field, and hopefully will result in a serious examination of whatever went wrong in Windham in this past election — even if it’s unlikely to uncover that the election was stolen from Trump. Whether the MAGA Mob, who were elated about the Windham audit initially, will be as happy about the serious, non-hack professionals running it remains to be seen. So far, they are not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest news-packed Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with bad news about “new normal” global temperatures and the planet’s glaciers, but better news about California stopping Nestle from stealing its water and Biden canceling Trump’s wall…and using the saved tax-payer dollars to repair the environmental damage from the stupid project…<\/p>\n

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