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'BradCast' 7/20/2020 (Guest: Ray Lutz of Citizen's Oversight; Also: RIP John Lewis)
07-20-2020 (53.19 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': A tribute to civil rights icon, Congressman John Lewis, who died on Friday, and his decades-long fight for voting rights and his call to cause 'good trouble, necessary trouble'. We continue Rep. Lewis' fight for voting rights and election integrity today. In California, two new reports on Los Angeles County's new, failed 300 million unverifiable touchscreen voting and electronic pollbook systems found widespread failures that resulted in long lines on March 3rd, yet state and county elections officials still plan to force voters to use the system in the crucial November election. A third report finds that more than 100,000 absentee ballots were rejected by election officials in after California's March 3rd Super Tuesday primary, many due to voter error. Expanded mail-in voting will be essential during the COVID crisis, so voters must not only navigate complex absentee voting rules in every state, but also exercise citizen oversight of the tabulation. Election integrity advocate RAY LUTZ, Executive Director of CitizensOversight.org, joins us to explain a new push to change California election procedures to require election officials to include late-arriving mail-in ballots in their state-mandated post-election audits that check the accuracy of the tally. Lutz warns that omitting absentee ballots out from the audit is a virtual roadmap for election theft on central tabulation systems, with the potential to move tens of thousands of ballots from one candidate to another, which would only be discoverable via a human audit check. Lutz says both major political parties are failing to ensure proper public oversight of absentee ballot handling, and offers actions that voters in every state can take to ensure the integrity and security of the November election and beyond...
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Duration: 58:06 m - Filetype: mp3 (128 kbps 44100 Hz)