{"id":9230,"date":"2012-04-04T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2014-01-18T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T23:38:30","slug":"the-bradcast-on-kpfk-e-vote-fail-in-palm-beach-and-beyond-pepper-spray-in-santa-monica-and-beyond-green-news-and-44-years-since-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9230","title":{"rendered":"‘The BradCast’ on KPFK: E-Vote Fail in Palm Beach (and Beyond); Pepper Spray in Santa Monica (and Beyond); Green News; and 44 Years Since MLK…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio’s The BradCast<\/i> I spoke to Pamela Smith, President of Verified Voting Foundation<\/a> and Dan McCrea, President of the Florida Voters Foundation<\/a> about the recent mess in Palm Beach County, FL where the electronic Dominion\/Sequoia optical-scanners declared several losing candidates as the “winners”<\/a> in a March 13th election. It took approval of a court to carry out a hand-count last weekend to determine the real<\/i> winners<\/a> of the elections.<\/p>\n

So do either Smith or McCrea have confidence that the same problem hasn’t already occurred or won’t occur again in the 14 states (including many swing states and even Wisconsin) which use identical computer systems to tabulate votes? Do they think enough is enough and it’s time to simply hand-count paper ballots, as per “Democracy’s Gold Standard”<\/a>? You’ll have to listen to find out.<\/p>\n

We were also joined by Margo Paez, just back from Santa Monica College, with her report on the outrageous pepper spraying of students (and one toddler) there last night<\/a>; Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> and a remembrance of MLK who was assassinated in Memphis 44 years ago today as we find ourselves still<\/i> in much the same fight for civil and human rights all of these decades later (hat-tip Tony Sorrentino and Desi Doyen for the really cool, and touching, montage!<\/i>)…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below [appx 58 mins]…<\/i>
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P.S. <\/i> Reminder: We don’t post all of The BradCasts<\/i> here, but you can subscribe to the RSS feed<\/a> to get all of our weekly shows as soon as they’re archived, or you can visit the KPFK archives page for the show<\/a> anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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