'BradCast' 10/3/2018 (Guests: Emily Levy and Chris Sautter of AUDIT-USA)
On today's show: Senate Republicans intensify their push for a vote as soon as possible to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as new reports suggest the FBI is failing to interview dozens of witnesses in the supplemental background probe of sexual assault allegations against him. Three key Republican Senators (Flake, Collins and Murkowski) gently rebuked Donald Trump for mocking Kavanaugh's first accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, at a campaign rally on Tuesday night.\xa0 On National Voter Registration Day, more than 800,000 signed up to vote, smashing the previous record set in 2016. But even with all of the enthusiasm, will voters be allowed to vote this year, and will their votes be tallied accurately and in a way that the public can KNOW they have been counted accurately?\xa0 As they do every election year, the corporate media is suddenly churning out articles detailing the many security vulnerabilities in our election systems now that it's largely too late to do anything about them a month before the election. The corporate election vendors who have been allowed to privatize our public elections with easily hackable systems continue to sell their flawed equipment to officials and offer false claims of security to the public. ES+S, one of the nation's largest voting system vendors, has threatened a lawsuit against small, non-profit election transparency organization AUDIT-USA, which has been working\xa0 to encourage state and county election officials to use security settings on newer models of ES+S paper ballot scanners that allow them to retain ballot images that can be reviewed by the public after an election. AUDIT-USA's EMILY LEVY and long-time election attorney CHRIS SAUTTER discuss the ES+S threat charging copyright infringement for making their\xa0 manuals available to the public. Voting system vendors have been threatening\xa0 voting system experts and computer scientists for years, even as taxpayers continue doling out billions of dollars to these shameless and irresponsible private companies...