'BradCast' 9/13/2022 (Really Bad Voting Systems; Really Bad Politics)

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 1:32 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 The final primaries of the 2022 midterm elections were held in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware.\\xa0 New Hampshire and Rhode Island use fully verifiable hand-marked paper ballot systems, and some counties even hand count the ballots. But Delaware's voting system is one of the worst in the country - - not only is the system 100% unverifiable, but it allows the computer to secretly change a voter's ballot after they've cast their vote. In Georgia, recently revealed security camera footage shows Republican elections officials allowing Team Trump MAGA Republicans into Coffee County election offices, where they unlawfully breached, copied, stole and shared the state's critical election system software with others. In a Georgia lawsuit to force the state to ban the 100% unverifiable touchscreen BMD voting systems and go to hand-marked paper ballots, the plaintiff's attorney illustrated the massive risks of the Coffee Co. security breach with a brilliant metaphor:\\xa0 if you saw bad actors take apart your parachute and repack it, then the pilot told you to jump anyway, saying 'your parachute is probably fine, we'll find out in the air,' no one would or should jump out of that plane. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) surprised his GOP colleagues by introducing a bill to enact a national abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy, largely affecting only 'blue' states. Chief Justice John Roberts complained about the US Supreme Court's record low approval from the public in the wake of overturning women's long-established constitutional reproductive rights. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"