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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Rates of COVID-19 infections continue to rise around the country, particularly in rural areas. But Republican governors in GA, TN and SC have announced plans to lift their stay-at-home orders.\\xa0 Rightwing front groups that fomented the so-called 'Tea Party' protests against President Obama many years ago are organizing new protests against state-mandated coronavirus shutdowns, largely in states controlled by Democratic governors.\\xa0 Medical experts say ending stay-at-home orders is a recipe for disaster in the absence of a national testing and contact tracing system, which the Trump Administration has failed to create. The first major antibody test in the US indicates that millions more Americans may have contracted the virus without realizing it. For upcoming 2020 presidential primaries and the November election, voting rights advocates are calling for vastly expanding Vote-by-Mail, but many Republicans around the country are taking extraordinary measures to make it harder, not easier, to vote safely during the pandemic.\\xa0 Lulu Friesdat, co-found of SmartElections.us, joins us to explain the open letter signed by more than 50 election integrity groups and voting rights advocates, calling on Congress to include common-sense conditions and restrictions on any federal funding that assists states to manage elections amid the pandemic. They including helping states move to expand more accessible absentee ballot-based elections, while also requiring safeguards against potential fraud, voter suppression and disenfranchisement.\\xa0 Callers weigh in on all of the above..."