'BradCast' 8/29/2018: (FL, AZ, OK primary results and what went terribly wrong in Maricopa County)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 We have notable results, as reported by computer tabulators, from Tuesday's primary elections in Florida and Arizona, and primary runoff elections in Oklahoma. More details on what went so terribly wrong in Maricopa County, AZ, in which massive problems with electronic poll-books prevented at least 62 polling places from opening for hours, effectively preventing voters from being able to cast a vote at all. Yet the County's Republican-majority Board of Supervisors rejected the requests from both Sec. of State Michelle Reagan (R) and Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes (D) to seek a court order to keep polling places open for an extra two hours. In Nevada, failures reported during that state's primary elections in June were much worse than officials and the private voting system vendor admitted to the public when the state's new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems failed across the state. What's clear for the moment is that voters are still being prevented from voting entirely because a voting jurisdiction has relied on failure-prone mission-critical computer systems, supported by private vendors, to run our public elections without backup plans. Finally, a voting rights group allied with the Democratic Party has requested copies of all 2016 general election ballots from the state of Michigan, just days before the federal requirement preventing destruction of ballot materials from the 2016 Presidential ends on September 8th.\\xa0 The massive, expensive public records request should prevent the ballots in Michigan from being destroyed, for now, after an attempt to hand-count them by Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein was ended by a Republican court challenge in 2016, despite President's Trump's stunning, unverified, upset win in the state by just over 10,000 votes. No similar actions have been filed yet in Wisconsin or Pennsylvania. Had just three votes in each precinct in WI, PA, and MI been recorded for Hillary Clinton instead of Trump, she would now be President of the United States..."