'BradCast' 11/30/2022 (Guest: GA Election Expert Jeanne Dufort on Upcoming U.S. Senate Runoff)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Despite being forced to wait in hours-long lines, voters in Georgia are smashing early voting records in the runoff election between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed former football player and unapologetic liar Herschel Walker. The long lines are thanks to Republican state lawmakers, who slashed early voting days for runoff elections and restricted vote-by-mail options, in a slew of voter suppression measures enacted last year. Election integrity expert and Georgia election observer JEANNE DUFORT of the Coalition for Good Governance offers insight on how voting unfolded for voters in the general election on Nov. 8, why it is now more difficult to vote in the runoff election, how the state's computerized election systems cause the long lines, and what voters should understand about the insecure and unverifiable touchscreen ballot-marking systems that the state forces all in-person voters to use, rather than faster, cheaper hand-marked paper ballots. Also today:\xa0 House Democrats unanimously voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)\xa0 to be the first black American to lead a major political party in Congress, taking the reins from longtime House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the party's elder leadership steps aside to allow a new, younger generation to take over. The U.S. House passed two bills to help avert a railroad workers' strike that could cripple the nation's economy. The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury probe investigating the Donald Trump-led conspiracy to strong-arm Georgia elections officials into illegally changing the 2020 election results in his favor.