'BradCast' 11/12/2018 (Guest: Ion Sancho, who oversaw FL's aborted 2000 'recount')
The Florida election official who oversaw the historic 2000 Presidential election "recount" between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida (until it was stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court), says it is likely impossible for the state to complete three statewide recounts in time to meet the state's ridiculously arbitrary statutory deadlines. ION SANCHO, the 28-year former Leon County (Tallahassee) Supervisor of Elections tells us the state, run by Republicans for decades, "puts a premium on speed" rather than accuracy, because "this is by no means a system geared toward finding the truth."\xa0 Sancho explains the perverse peculiarities of Florida state election law, and details the process now underway in Florida for a machine "recount" in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis and a supposed "manual" count in the U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and FL Gov. Rick Scott, with dramatic repercussions for both the state and the nation. Sancho also responds to the "laughable" claims of "fraud" being made by Scott and the "truth-free statement" tweeted by Trump on Monday morning that falsely claimed that "ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged" in Florida.\xa0 Also today: Desi Doyen on California's horrific, deadly wildfires that have killed at least 31. In Arizona, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema appears to have defeated Republican Martha McSally to win the the U.S. Senate being vacated by Republican Sen. Jeff Flake. In Orange County, California, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrbacher has reportedly been unseated by Democratic candidate Harley Rouda in one of the state's reddest GOP districts. That brings the net pickup for Democrats in the U.S. House to 32, with results for more than ten seats in CA and elsewhere still said to be too close to call...