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Today we open the phone to callers to discuss another very busy news week, though most want to talk about election integrity. That's good. Among the stories we cover today: The Trump Administration is blocking members of Congress -- both Democratic and Republican -- from taking military flights down to Puerto Rico for some reason, where the disaster for 3.5 million U.S. citizens following Hurricane Maria is said to be quickly deteriorating. Meanwhile, Trump continues to sing his own praises for his handling of the disaster, while tweeting about the NFL instead of offering help or support for the storm victims. Then, the state of Wisconsin finally decertifies its terrible, two-decade-old Optech Eagle paper ballot tabulators which will only read marks in pencil (not pen). Many WI municipalities used those same machines to both tally and then 'recount' the 2016 Presidential election, rather than count ballots by hand.\xa0 Those machines may well be replaced by 100% unverifiable touch-screen systems. Also, although the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security informed the state late last week that Russia attempted to hack their voting system last year, it turns out DHS has no such evidence. In California, where DHS told the state the same thing last week, Democrats in the state assembly recently passed a bill, AB 840, that will make stealing elections easier -- by removing nearly half of the ballots cast from the state's 1% post-election hand 'audit'.\xa0 Governor Brown is now deciding whether to sign the bill, which election integrity advocates and voting system experts are begging him to veto instead, describing AB 840 as a 'roadmap to fraud'. Callers ring in on all of that today, and challenge Brad on a point or two, before Desi Doyen joins us for the latest 'Green News Report', on the devolving humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, and even some good news about coal for the Pacific Northwest (and for all of us, in truth)...