Once again, voters headed to the polls and caucuses on Tuesday. This time in AZ, UT and ID. So, as you may have guessed, on today’s BradCast we cover all of the reported results, historic turnouts and, yes, all of the problems faced once again by voters — particularly in Maricopa County (Phoenix), AZ.
While Bernie Sanders won the night on the D side (not that the corporate media much mentioned that) and Trump, once again, won the R side, the biggest story was how election officials, yet again, failed the voters.
In Phoenix, longtime Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell (R), massively reduced the number of polling places from 211 in 2012 to just 60. She was able to do so after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Prior to that, she would have had to get approval from the federal government for such a change before thousands were inconvenienced and/or disenfranchised by it. The result was thousands of voters waiting in line — for up to five hours in some places — with the last votes finally cast after midnight on Wednesday.
On today’s show, we call out the folks responsible (the ones we know of, at this time), call for an official investigation, and even call out those folks (talking to you, many Bernie supporters!) shouting “VOTER FRAUD!”, when your concerns are actually election fraud or voter suppression. (Please leave the voters alone! They are doing fine and performed heroically on Tuesday! But I have much more to say about that, and about falsely charging people with fraud without evidence in support of those charges, on today’s show.)
Also today, more disturbing details about the insane, 100% unverifiable and hackable “online caucus” experiment that the UT GOP subjected its voters to. (Here’s the details on that spoof website of the UT GOP’s Internet Voting scheme that I referenced on today’s show.)
Also: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report and I (barely) fit in a call or two and much more on today’s BradCast!
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Helen Purcell merely the latest in dissembling election officials dating back to Tony Achundo
Scalia stuffed her ballot box….those lovebirds belong together, the sooner the better…
Whatever enemy nation Purcell is an agent of, American servicemen and women lost their lives fighting for our democracy against people like her….but i’m being too kind….let’s ask those thousands of HEROIC ARIZONA VOTERS! who stood in line HOURS!!!!!!!!!! into the heat of the night, to exercise their rights of citizenship….THEY get the last word…
I get the second to last word….FUCK YOU, MISS KITTY….ok, that’s four words, but just one finger…
May her well-earned downfall be spectacular…
Always remember what my great-grandmother used to say: it’s their job to get their fucking hands on ALL the money and power….it’s our job to smash their crooked fingers every chance we get!
Those poor folks, standing in the Phoenix sun for all those hours. They have to let them fill out affidavits and vote.
Here’s a petition. Be careful, you have to be signed in to vote on this site. I voted once here and a notice didn’t come up to tell me it didn’t take.
Brad, I’ll try to use better word choice today.
Massive Voter SUPPRESSION in Arizona. Truly brazen and with full complicity of media who called it with 1% (1%!) reported in:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4blzpp/arizona_is_a_massive_fraud/
Quite the democracy we have here. This is 3rd world banana republic BS.
Another petition to the White House has already reached the amount of signatures needed to look into the Arizona debacle.