'BradCast' 10/30/2017 (Guest: Garland Favorito of VoterGA)

Published: Oct. 31, 2017, 12:55 a.m.

b"Two Trump Campaign officials pleaded not guilty today and one plead guilty, to indictments unsealed on Monday stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Team Trump and charges of "collusion" between them and Russia during the 2016 Presidential election. We detail the 12-count federal indictment against former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates charging Manafort received some $75 million in income via his work for now-ousted Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych and the political party which supported him, both are allies of Russia. The charges do not detail any "collusion" between Manafort/Gates and the Trump Campaign, but detail how Manafort, aided by Gates, hid his income from federal officials, failed to register as a Foreign Agent related to his lobbying work in the U.S., and otherwise attempted to launder some $18 million from their many offshore accounts. Pleading guilty, according to documents released by the Special Counsel, was George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser to the Trump Campaign, who allegedly lied about his contacts with an unnamed "professor" said to have told him about "dirt" that Russia supposedly had regarding Hillary Clinton from "thousands of emails" that the US Intelligence Community later said were hacked by Russian agents. The White House denies that any of the charges implicate the President or his Campaign. The DNC argues otherwise. Then, picking up on the disturbing breaking news late last week that officials in Georgia "wiped clean" the Election Server used to program both last year's Presidential Election in the state and this year's U.S. House Special Election in June, we speak with GARLAND FAVORITO of VoterGA.org The server wipe came just days after a bi-partisan lawsuit had been filed regarding the results of those elections, which were carried out on the state's 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems, and after they had been programmed via the server that we learned earlier this year, had been left completely vulnerable on the Internet for at least 6 months, beginning as early as August of 2016. The vulnerable server was used to store personal data for 6.7 million GA voters, ballot programming definition files for the state's voting and tabulation systems, and administrative passwords to access those systems. It was first discovered as accessible on the Internet by a data security researcher. Favorito explains the latest developments in that case, as well as his group's statistical analysis -- published a week BEFORE the news of the wiped server (and its two backup servers) became public -- finding anomalous election results in the Special US House Election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in June. He details the report's findings concluding that the results in GA-06 can only be explained by the manipulation of results at the state level, possibly by outside hackers who accessed the now-deleted server. His conclusion, he explains, is based on an analysis of results finding that the Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican Karen Handel by a nearly 2 to 1 margin in the only verifiable results available (the mail-in paper ballots) despite a Republican-leaning mail-in electorate, while the Democrat managed to lose, somehow, as reported by the state's highly-vulnerable, easily hackable,\\xa0 unverifiable touch-screen voting and tabulation systems used for early in-person and election day voting. All of this comes just days before voters in GA head back to the polls for next Tuesday's municipal elections in Atlanta and elsewhere, which are set to be run on the very same hackable, vulnerable and unverifiable systems."