'BradCast' 5/4/2022 (Midterm primary season kicks off with vote system failures in OH)

Published: May 5, 2022, 1:48 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Primaries in Ohio and Indiana on Tuesday were the first of about a dozen primaries around the country this month. Naturally, voting systems failed, again. In Ohio, at least three large counties reported programming errors in the counties' computerized voting systems that loaded incorrect ballots or failed to work at all, delaying or preventing voting. Such failures do not increase public confidence in our computerized election systems - - a growing concern in the US (to put it mildly). Ohio voters were forced to vote using heavily gerrymandered maps, because of a federal court ruling allowing them through 2022, despite a state supreme court finding that the Republican-drawn maps violate the state's constitution.\\xa0 In a closely watched race in Ohio, incumbent Democratic Rep. Shontel Brown won the party's nomination over progressive Bernie Sanders ally Nina Turner. In GOP primaries in Ohio and Indiana, all of Donald Trump's endorsed candidates - - several accused of domestic violence or sexual harassment - - won their races. Former Never-Trumper J.D. Vance, who pledged fealty to Trump to gain his endorsement, won the GOP nomination for an open US Senate seat. In North Carolina, a voter challenge to the eligibility of insurrectionist Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) to run for reelection, under the 'Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause' of the 14th Amendment, resulted in a bizarre, mind-blowing exchange between Cawthorn's defense attorney and one of the appeals court judges. A new memoir by Trump's final Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, claims that Trump asked why the US military couldn't just shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the streets. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"