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b"On today's show: It is no small irony that the first peoples of this country, Native Americans, are now being forced in North Dakota to take extraordinary measures to prove their residency in order to vote in America in next Tuesday's crucial midterm elections. Longtime Native American voting rights advocate OLIVER "OJ" SEMANS, member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and co-founder of the non-partisan voting rights group Four Directions, explains the shocking steps tribal leaders are being forced to take to fight voter suppression, in the wake of a shameful move by state Republicans to disenfranchise Native Americans with a new voter ID law that requires physical street addresses rather than the PO Box addresses used by many Native Americans living on reservations. The state's tribes have banded together to assign street addresses and create new tribal IDs as quickly as they can, even vowing to create such IDs outside polling places on Election Day on November 6th. But a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday charges that election officials are rejecting addresses on absentee ballot requests because the new addresses do not exist in some state databases, and the state's Secretary of State refuses to confirm whether the newly-issued IDs will be allowed for voting on Election Day. Also today: good news from a federal court in Georgia regarding Vote-by-Mail ballots. In Oregon, the GOP and its corporate supporters are pouring millions into the effort to defeat Oregon's Democratic incumbent Gov. Kate Brown in a surprisingly close race that is now considered a \\u201ctoss-up.\\u201d Plus a bit of a rant from Brad over a misleading report on voting systems in St. Louis County, MO, in which elections officials falsely claim the county's oft-failed and easily-hackable 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting machines and optical scanners are "tamper-proof"..."