'BradCast' 1/26/2023 (Doomsday Clock; Russia gaslighting; New 2022 election system failure)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Some thoughts on the 'Doomsday Clock,' which the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved forward to just '90 Seconds until Midnight,' due to Russia's threat to use nuclear weapons in its brutal war on Ukraine, and the breakdown in international norms and institutions. Russia pretended the move was 'really alarming.' The US and many European countries agreed to send modern battle tanks to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia's war crimes. Although some on the supposed 'left' in the US echo Kremlin propaganda, supporting Ukraine's right to defend itself against Russia's brutal invasion of its sovereign borders is consistent with anti-war advocacy and anti-imperialism. In New Jersey, a county race result was flipped after an unrelated issue revealed, two months after the Nov. 2022 election, that the computerized election system had been mis-programmed. There is no evidence of malfeasance, and the voting machine manufacturer ESS downplayed the mistake as 'human error'. A state lawmaker's call for mandating Open Source software on all election systems in New Jersey would improve transparency, but election security experts say that would not address the problem, recommending that the state adopt hand-marked paper ballots and meaningful, strict post-election audits. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"