'BradCast' 10/27/2016 (Election officials blame voters for machine failures; Voters fight to vote)
The GOP may be facing another 8 years of court-ordered restrictions against targeting minority voters, as the DNC files to have a federal Consent Decree from the early 1980s extended, charging that the RNC and Trump campaign have colluded to unlawfully suppress the voter through so-called 'ballot integrity' schemes. In the meantime, confidence in accurate election results is plummeting nationally, while voter suppression seems to be working against voters in North Carolina, where early voting has been shortened in many counties and some voters are finding themselves purged from the rolls after being challenged with Republican 'caging lists'. In Wisconsin, Democratic lawmakers are begging the DoJ to send poll monitors after the state's GOP Photo ID voting restrictions are resulting in havoc, confusion and disenfranchisement. In Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois (so far) touch-screen voting systems are flipping from R to D and from D to R and, once again, election officials are blaming voters. Also today: Militarized troops in North Dakota clear out pipeline protesters near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, and Desi Doyen joins us to 'blame the cows' in our the latest 'Green News Report'...