{"id":11759,"date":"2016-07-13T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2016-07-13T17:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:32:02","slug":"clueless-gopers-hillary-poll-plummet-court-ordered-presidential-election-do-over-bradcast-7132016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=11759","title":{"rendered":"Clueless GOPers; Hillary Poll Plummet; Court-Ordered Presidential Election Do-Over: ‘BradCast’ 7\/13\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the Republican Party remains a mess, some Democrats remain in denial, Cleveland remains a tinder box in advance of next week’s RNC convention, and if only the concerns about electoral fraud and the need for citizen oversight were taken as seriously in this country as they are in other nations.<\/p>\n

While the Democratic platform becomes vastly more progressive<\/a> this, thanks to the leverage retained by Bernie Sanders and his supporters, the GOP platform stays dumb<\/a> or dumber<\/a>. Speaking of dumb, clueless rightwingers (from Bill O’Reilly to Donald Trump<\/a> to a Canadian singer<\/a> at the MLB All-Star Game) still don’t understand, or want<\/i> to understand, what ‘Black Lives Matter’ means. And speaking of jackassery, the Republican National Convention is set to take place next week amidst angst over the party’s presumptive nominee and the possibility of protests and racial tensions, even while state law will allow<\/a> the open carry of loaded guns on the street outside of the convention center. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as some Democrats laugh among themselves about who the GOP is likely to nominate for President, several major new polls find Hillary Clinton plummeting against Donald Trump both nationally<\/a> and in several of the most key swing-states<\/a> (including OH, PA and FL.)<\/p>\n

But with so much talk of electoral fraud during this year’s Presidential Primary cycle, some may be pleased to know that a court has finally ordered a new Presidential Election! In Austria! That, not due to fraud necessarily, but to the mere possibility<\/i> of it. Attorney Ernest A. Canning<\/b>, long time legal contributor at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>, joins us to explain what happened<\/a>, how the nation’s Constitutional Court ruling will benefit a far-right candidate, but is a victory for the Election Integrity movement nonetheless, and to discuss why concerns of election security and oversight aren’t taken as seriously in the U.S. as they seem to be elsewhere.<\/p>\n

“People have a tendency to be blind to this issue so long as their side wins. And that’s not what election integrity is supposed to be all about,” Canning explains. “The Austria constitution has a constitutional requirement for complete transparency of the count. If it was applied in the United States, most of our elections would have to be re-done. As far as the Austria Constitutional Court was concerned, it’s irrelevant whether or not there was actual manipulation [of vote counting]. The fact is, if you had enough ballots that could<\/i> have been manipulated because it wasn’t a completely transparent count, then they’re going to set it aside. The mere possibility<\/i> that the count could have been manipulated is enough in Austria to overturn the results.”<\/p>\n

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