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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Florida voters last November overwhelmingly adopted Amendment 4 to their state Constitution, ending the state's shameful, post-Civil War era lifetime prohibition on former felons voting in the state (except for murder or felony sexual offenses). At long last, as many as 1.5 million former felons have begun registering to vote in the state. But this week, Republican state lawmakers began ramming through a new measure to add new restrictions to the amendment to limit which former felons can register to vote, and, critics charge, adding what amounts to an unconstitutional "poll tax" that many former felons would have to pay before being allowed back on the rolls. Dr. MICAH KUBIC, Executive Director of the Florida ACLU, explains how state Republicans are attempting "to create new barriers and burdens" to alter the "crystal clear" language of the referendum that also raises "serious constitutional concerns." Also today: 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke rails against discriminatory Photo ID voting restrictions and other types of voter suppression. Stacey Abrams, former GA Democratic gubernatorial nominee and potential 2020 presidential candidate, ruffles feathers in refusing to concede her race against her opponent, Governor Brian Kemp, and instead highlighting the widespread voter suppression under Kemp's supervision as GA Sec. of State last year. The ongoing controversy, and Kemp's questionable legitimacy as the state's new Governor,\xa0 underscores our many years of warning that the use of computerized voting systems does not allow the public to know who actually won or lost an election \u2013 even as many states are moving to adopt similar unverifiable computer touchscreen voting systems in time for the 2020 election. Plus: a federal judge has temporarily blocked oil and gas drilling on public lands in Wyoming, ruling the U.S. government violated federal environmental law in failing to consider climate change impacts.