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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com
Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!
'BradCast' 10/30/3030 (Court-ordered chaos w/ Guest: Marybeth Kuznik, County Election Director in PA)
10-30-2020 (53.58 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': Election 2020 is coming down to the wire. Thanks to federal courts unleashing several last-minute rulings just five days before Election Day, chaos reigns in several key battleground states, in the most critical election in U.S. history. In Minnesota, two Republican federal appellate court judges, in a radical ruling, declared it unconstitutional for the state to count ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive later – despite a state court settlement establishing the rule months ago – and instead ordered such ballots be segregated. The extraordinarily disruptive ruling, based on an unprecedented interpretation of the U.S. Constitution's Elections Clause, could potentially invalidate hundreds of thousands of lawfully-cast ballots. In Texas, Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), elections officials report computer optical-scan tabulators are rejecting about a third of all mail-in ballots because of a printing error – forcing election clerks, by state law, to 'remake' tens of thousands of ballots by hand that must be re-scanned by the machine, rather simply counting those hand-marked paper ballots publicly. Adding more chaos, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it will wait until AFTER Election Day to decide if postmarked but late-arriving ballots in Pennsylvania must be discarded. MARYBETH KUZNIK, founder of election integrity group, VotePA, and now Election Director of Armstrong County, PA, explains the court's new order to segregate late-arriving absentee ballots, and other last-minute changes and disruptions with which elections officials are grappling around the country. All this underscores that citizen oversight of our public elections is a necessity -- if you've already voted and are looking for a way to help between now and Election Day and beyond, there are many opportunities! Check out some of them at Scrutineers.org, ProtectOurVotes.com and SmartElections.us.
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