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Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia and her new organization, Fair Fight Georgia, have filed suit against the State of Georgia to end the state's voter suppression tactics and require paper ballots for all voters in future elections. While Abrams' complaint does not seek to overturn the governor's race, the Coalition of Good Governance has filed a separate lawsuit seeking to toss out the results of the Lieutenant Governor's contest in the state on the basis of, among other things, a virtually inexplicable residual vote count (ballots where no vote was recorded in the race) in that particular race. Plaintiff MARILYN MARKS, Coalition Executive Director, explains how the undervote rate for Lieutenant Governor is far higher -- almost twice the rate -- than races much lower down on the ballot, and the anomaly occurs only on the state's 100 percent unverifiable touch-screen voting systems, not on hand-marked paper absentee or provisional ballots. The suit may lead to an unprecedented forensic examination of Georgia's easily-hacked, oft-failed, unverifiable touchscreen voting machines, but evidence of programming failure or manipulation may have been destroyed -- in apparent violation of Georgia's own election rules -- when they were recently reprogrammed in advance of the state's December 4th runoff elections next week. All of these matters underscore the necessity of challenging insecure, non-overseeable voting systems before elections rather than afterwards. Also today:\xa0 AP has \u2018uncalled' a U.S. House race in CA, which could increase the Democratic midterm "blue wave" with Democrats picking up a full 40 seats in 2018 midterms. Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', with special coverage of the federal government's landmark National Climate Assessment, with devastating warnings about the climate change threat to both the environment and the nation's economy...