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b"Early last month, someone reportedly hacked into the voting records database at Kennesaw State University's Center for Election Systems, which is contracted to program all of state of Georgia's 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems and electronic poll books. The hack lead to an FBI investigation, and comes as special elections get under way in a number of states to fill U.S. House seats vacated by Republican members of Congress tapped to serve in the Trump Administration. One of those special elections will be in Georgia, where the contest to fill GOP Rep. Tom Price's seat (he's now Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services) is drawing national attention and a lot of money from both Democrats and Republicans. With a popular Democrat poised to potentially win the seat in two weeks, the race is being regarded as a potential bellwether for the 2018 elections. Computer science and voting systems expert Barbara Simons of VerifiedVoting.org joins us to discuss the ongoing concerns about the still-mysterious Georgia hack, the group's effort to ask the state's Republican Sec. of State to offer paper ballots to voters in the wake of the 'massive data breach'; the years-long effort to institute legislative safeguards against electronic voting and computerized tabulation system; and why even paper ballots tallied by computers leave the public uncertain about the accurate results of elections.\\xa0 Also today: Republican Senators lament the idea of killing the filibuster for U.S. Supreme Court justices...as they prepare to vote to kill it anyway; the NCAA falls for North Carolina's 'repeal' scam of its anti-LGBT law; and Trump repeals an Obama-era rule seeking to keep bears from being hunted and killed during hibernation in Alaska..."