'BradCast' 8/22/2019 (Ransomware Attacks Cripple 22 TX Municipalities. But Why Worry About 2020?)

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 12:56 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Denmark's Prime Minister trolls Trump by offering to buy the United States.\\xa0 'Climate change' candidate, WA Gov. Jay Inslee, accomplished much before dropping out of 2020 presidential race. Former CO Gov. John Hickenlooper will run for US Senate after dropping out of presidential race, increasing pressure on other Dem presidential candidates to do the same. In scathing NYT op-ed, "reformed" Tea Party Republican and former Rep. Joe Walsh (IL) criticizes Trump and Republicans, and may enter 2020 race to primary Trump. In Texas, 22 municipalities hit with coordinated ransomware attacks that shut down all computer-based city services, with hackers demanding $2.5 million. The attack-via-private contractor using an email phishing attack is reminiscent of the 2016 spearphishing attack on voter registration services vendor VR Systems, as described in Robert Mueller's Special Counsel Report. It's another grave security warning for states and counties around the country swiftly moving to fully computerized voting and tabulation systems \\u2013 an attack on any of those jurisdictions now relying on automated systems, on or before Election Day, would result in unimaginable chaos next year. Voter petition in GA has successfully triggered a reexamination of the state's new, unverifiable ballot-marking device system. Los Angeles County, the nation's largest voting jurisdiction, is also planning to move to new, 100% unverifiable computer touchscreen ballot marking device system for 2020, but the county's registrar Dean Logan hasn't answered questions from voters on whether they will be allowed to vote on hand-marked paper ballots at the polling place this year, and hasn't responded to famous computer/voting system expert offering to examine the county's new BMD systems for security concerns. Plus, Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report' on record wildfires from the Amazon to the Arctic, Inslee's exit, and teen climate activist Greta Thunberg's imminent U.S. arrival..."