'BradCast' 10/7/2016: (Fight to vote in full swing in WI, OH and storm-ravaged FL)

Published: Oct. 7, 2016, 11:47 p.m.

b"As Hurricane Matthew sweeps up the Florida coast, knocking out power and forcing evacuations, Florida Gov. Rick Scott refuses to extend the state's voter registration deadline, despite major drives now canceled due to the storm on the last weekend before the deadline. In Wisconsin, voter suppression continues as the state's lie to the federal court about the availability of Photo IDs at DMVs continues to disenfranchise and, thanks to a new law by state Republicans, thousands of absentee ballots are now at risk of being tossed altogether. In Ohio, absentee ballots and provisionals are being tossed out for technical reasons in urban areas but not rural areas, and a federal appeals court has declined to take action. All of that while Trump and Republicans continue to lie about non-citizens voting and the U.S. Dept. of Justice, for the first time in 50 years, will be unable to deploy thousands of polling place monitors thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Finally, in 2008, young Jewish voters worked to turn out their elderly Jewish grandparents for Barack Obama in Florida. In 2016, the tables have turned..."