'BradCast' 3/3/2020: (Super Tuesday Voting Disasters Natural and Man-Made)

Published: March 4, 2020, 1:46 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Special coverage of the critical Super Tuesday primary elections in 14 states, the\\xa0 biggest day yet in the 2020 Democratic Presidential primary season, with new reporting on difficulties that voters are experiencing around the country in attempting to cast their ballot, with many facing long lines or prevented altogether from voting.\\xa0 Two states had good reason for delays -- Tennessee and Alabama were hit with deadly overnight tornadoes that also knocked out many polling places. But many other Super Tuesday jurisdictions had no excuses for forcing voters to wait in line for hours, in places like Austin and Houston, Texas and in Los Angeles, California.\\xa0 As we report on today's 'BradCast', computer touchscreen voting systems and electronic pollbook check-in computers were again the primary cause of long lines and voter difficulties. All of these problems with electronic voting systems were completely predictable -- we should know, because we've been warning about them for months and years. We cover the tsunami of such problems across the country today, and open the phones to callers sharing their nightmarish experiences trying to vote on L.A. County's costly new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems. Plus, Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report', on billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer quitting the Democratic Primary race, the deadly coronavirus disrupting global energy markets while clearing up China's air, and a sad sign of climate change at Yosemite National Park..."