'BradCast' 7/31/2018 (Guest: Election integrity advocate Marilyn Marks of Coalition for Good Governance)

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 1:21 a.m.

Donald Trump's lousy personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has spent the last few days seemingly making things worse for his client. Both Giuliani and Trump have now shifted their ubiquitous claims of "no collusion" to "even if there was collusion, it's not illegal." They are both wrong, however, as we explain today. Then, with less than 100 days before the crucial 2018 midterm general election, U.S. voting and tabulation systems remains wildly unsecured and virtually impossible for the public to oversee. Better late than never, the Dept. of Homeland Security announced a new cybersecurity task force on Tuesday, but once again misled the American people by suggesting that no votes were manipulated in the 2016 election, when, as DHS admitted last year, they never actually conducted forensic analyses of voting and tabulation systems. Moreover, the ballots in question from 2016 may soon be destroyed as early as September, when the 22-month federal requirement for retention of all election materials expires. We call on citizens and legal organizations today to file public records requests to examine those ballots and/or retain them beyond the September expiration date.\xa0 Longtime Republican election integrity advocate Marilyn Marks, Executive Director of the Coalition for Good Governance, discusses her lawsuit demanding Georgia dump their unverifiable, paperless vote-casting system before the November midterm election, and instead use the state's existing hand-marked paper ballot system used for absentee voting. Marks explains how this can easily be done in time for the election, how GA Sec. of State and GOP nominee for governor Brian Kemp has been lying about state law in order to avoid switching to paper ballots, and much more. Finally today, the Koch Brothers' Republican political network -- which spends hundreds of millions supporting Republican candidates and attacking Democrats each election year for over a decade -- say they're now having second thoughts about Donald Trump and his Republicans in Congress. We explain why you shouldn't believe them for a second...