On today’s BradCast…The U.S. Supreme Court announces its decision [PDF] in King v. Burwell, a case that would have gutted the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”). As usual, Justice Scalia, on the losing side once again, displayed his extraordinary hypocrisy in his dissent to a case that was stupid to begin with. I explain on today’s show.
Then, the last election challenge of 2014 (as far as we know): Dr. Laura Pressley joins me explains why it’s impossible to know whether the results of her runoff election for Austin City Council were accurately tabulated on the 100% unverifiable electronic voting systems used in Travis County, across much of the state of Texas and across much of our country.
“We’re not just fighting this for our single city council district race. This is a bigger issue,” Pressley explains. “Elections have to be verifiable. Candidates need to have the right to question and ask for validation. This is a tenet of our democracy.”
Pressley charges that the unverifiable Hart-Intercivic eSlate voting systems actually violate the Lone Star state’s own elections laws, even as they clearly undermine overseeable democracy. Remarkably, she says she is now facing a potential court fine of $100,000 for simply bringing her challenge, following some rather disturbing irregularities on the voting systems during her runoff and a complete inability to recount thousands of in-person electronic ballots despite an exact tie on the Vote-by-Mail paper ballots.
Her case was dismissed in state court, but she is appealing the decision and tells me: “One of the comments [in court] was, we needed to be punished as a candidate for challenging these electronic voting systems and that the sanctions should reflect a punishment to deter other candidates from bringing this forward.”
Plus: Fox ‘News’ discovers that electronic voting systems can be hacked; Texas continues preparation to survive its impending take-over by the U.S. government. All on today’s BradCast!…
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“One of the comments [in court] was, we needed to be punished as a candidate for challenging these electronic voting systems and that the sanctions should reflect a punishment to deter other candidates from bringing this forward.”
This attitude, and almost every election since 2000, should tell you democracy is on life support.
Maybe, now that they’re taking down Confederate flags, they’ll repeal all those Voter ID laws. You know, to be consistent.
Yo, Tony!
You there, wit da robes!
Been a while since you and Cheney went huntin together, capish??….ya got nuttin to worry about, he’s a good shot….
This apparently is the first case in Texas election history since the takeover of elections by electronic voting machines (Direct Recording Electronic, or DREs) –where a candidate actually requesting a recount of the ballot images – and not just having the computer re-run through its trade secret protected software calculations. Thank you Dr. Pressley!
Unlike Arizona, ballots are a public record, so if you’re going to steal election in Texas its best not to leave a public record behind like the ballots. In Arizona a recount can only happen if the results are within 1/10 of 1 percent. Worst in USA! Election fraud is easier to commit in Arizona because ballots are NOT a Public Record. Ballots are stored for 22 months by federal law and then the evidence is destroyed.
Folks, Dr. Pressley is fighting for every voter who ever voted without paper, or had a computer count his or her vote! The implications could be huge for voters in Texas.
I’ve learned from my 12 years of work in Election Integrity that elections without public accountability are nothing more than vote-counting in the dark, controlled by a government in the act of choosing itself and its cronies while picking our pockets. “We the People†must have elections that are 100% transparent, with a documented ‘chain-of-custody’ followed by robust election verification! Government can never be the sole verifier of its own secret elections. http://www.RiggedNoMore.com
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