'BradCast' 8/5/2019: (Guest: Richard DeMillo of Georgia Tech)

Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 1:35 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Updates on the two deadly domestic terror incidents in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH over the weekend, carried out separately by white men with semi-automatic assault rifles and high-capacity magazines who collectively killed at least 31 people and wounded dozens more.\xa0 Democrats in Congress called for legislative action \u2013 again -- and the terrorist-enabling, NRA-captured Republican Party avoided discussion of solutions.\xa0 Donald Trump spent 48 hours following the El Paso massacre hoping to avoid acknowledging that the white nationalist shooter there explicitly targeted immigrants, and had echoed Trump's language and racism in decrying an immigrant "invasion." There have been 251 mass shootings in the US in the 216 days of 2019 so far \u2013 underscoring the GOP's hypocrisy concerning national security, and their failure to confront the real and growing national security issue of white nationalism. Republicans have also failed to act to protect our elections, the only means by which the public may actually hold their failed, hypocritical, and corrupt elected officials accountable. However, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee has released its bipartisan report (redacted) on election security, concluding that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016. Cybersecurity and voting system expert RICH DEMILLO, former director of Georgia Tech's Information Security Center, shares his takeaways from the Senate election security report, warning that our vulnerable voting systems are, indeed, an issue of "national security," and that threats also come from election insiders, local and state officials, and contractors hired to program and maintain the systems. DeMillo, a supporter of hand-marked paper ballots as the only known type of verifiable voting, shares several new, jaw-dropping revelations about the shocking lack of election and computer security in some states, and advice on actions that citizens can take to secure their local elections...