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b"On today's show:\\xa0 Problems for voters and access to the polls continued on Wednesday, less than three weeks before the crucial 2018 midterm elections. In Georgia, Jefferson County officials blocked a busload of African-American senior citizens from early voting. At a voting site near Atlanta, voters were forced to wait in three-hour-long lines. The reported huge turnout for early voting is good news, but the long lines indicate that state election officials, led by Republican Sec. of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, are underprepared for expected high turnout on Election Day. New lawsuits have been filed against Kemp charging racially discriminatory election practices. In North Dakota, Native American voting rights advocates will be posted outside of polling places to assign official addresses and new Tribal IDs to Native Americans who otherwise would not be allowed to vote, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week permitting a last-minute change to new photo ID restrictions by the GOP state legislature. In West Virginia, officials plan to implement Internet Voting via mobile phone for military and overseas voters in the live (and crucial!) general election, dubiously claiming it is \\u201csecure\\u201d because it "employs blockchain technology.\\u201d But, as long time voting system expert and Internet Voting critic DR. DAVID JEFFERSON of Livermore National Laboratory and Verified Voting explains on today's show, the scheme solves none of the many problems of using the Internet to cast votes in American elections. He details how malware on smartphones can change ballots, endanger voter identity authentication, and how, despite the claims of advocates of such technologies, the accuracy of tallies based on votes cast via the Internet can never be audited after an election. Jefferson prefers "hand-marked paper ballots" as the most secure voting technology. Also: some older voters who would prefer that young people do not bother to vote at all this year..."