'BradCast' 11/6/2018 (MIDTERM ELECTION DAY! Guest: Journalist Lulu Friesdat)

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 12:44 a.m.

b"On today's show: American voters finally had their chance on Tuesday to respond to the ongoing, two-year national emergency precipitated by the 2016 election of Donald Trump and full Republican control of Congress. Control of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and dozens of governorships are up for grabs today. But Election Day 2018 was -- yet again -- marred by completely predictable disasters for voters, including hours-long lines and failing computers used for both voting and registration. Today we cover just some of the worst reported messes across the country, from New York to Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, and more. Who could have foreseen it? Oh, yeah, we did. For years, actually.\\xa0 Then journalist and documentarian Lulu Friesdat explains her troubling, new exclusive report for us out of Dallas County, Texas, amid the reportedly close contest for U.S. Senate between Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and popular upstart Democrat challenger Beto O'Rourke, where numbers reported by the County's ES+S tabulators from the state's March primary are still not adding up correctly (yes, months later, questions remain), and from the counting room of Dallas County, where a Texas election integrity group reports that the computer in the tabulation facility appears to be hooked up to wi-fi. Friesdat reports that is highly unlawful and very troubling for a number of reasons.\\xa0 Finally, Desi Doyen joins us today for our latest 'Green News Report', with some bad news about plastic pollution and the air we breathe, but some good news from the U.S. Supreme Court and the World Bank, which will no longer finance coal-fired power plants because renewable energy sources are now cheaper than coal..."