'BradCast' 6/15/2020 (Guest: Election integrity advocate Jeanne DuFort on GA's Primary Vote Tally Problem)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0\xa0 Georgia's disastrous primary election last week resulted in hours-long lines, disproportionately in heavily-minority areas of the state, because new computer voting systems failed and absentee ballots failed to arrive, forcing voters to vote in person during a pandemic.\xa0 JEANNE DUFORT, a plaintiff in a number of election security cases brought by the Coalition for Good Governance and member of a bi-partisan review of ballots in several GA counties, joins us to explain stunning new data showing that GA's costly new computerized voting system appears to have failed to tally potentially thousands of votes across the state.\xa0 They found the state's new absentee ballot computer scanners failed to count votes on a significant 5-10 percent of ballots, by either over- or under-counting them.\xa0 Local county Boards of Elections and GA's Republican Secretary of State's office are downplaying or denying that the massive computer counting flaw warrants further inquiry, which could affect untold thousands of votes across the state. The Coalition seeks a "thorough transparent investigation and correction of the vote count...completed prior to certification of the election results" and for the state to repair the problem before the crucial November 2020 presidential election.\xa0 Also today:\xa0 The FDA revoked emergency-use authorization of the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 due to serious and potentially deadly dangers of the drugs -- directly contradicting claims made by non-health expert Donald Trump and Fox "News" pressuring Americans to take them.\xa0 Coronavirus infection rates and hospitalizations spiking in many places across the U.S., especially in areas where businesses have reopened quickly, like Texas. Great news from the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 that employers may not discriminate against LGBTQ people...