{"id":13664,"date":"2020-12-10T20:22:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T03:53:04","slug":"fact-v-fiction-regarding-dominion-voting-systems-in-georgia-bradcast-12102020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=13664","title":{"rendered":"Fact v. Fiction Regarding Dominion Voting Systems in Georgia: ‘BradCast’ 12\/10\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, some real facts on the real concerns about Dominion Voting Systems’ unverifiable computerized voting machines in Georgia — what we know (and don’t) about what happened with them during the 2020 Presidential election in November; what concerns that voters of all parties should have about them before the two critical U.S. Senate runoffs in the Peach State in January which will determine partisan control of the U.S. Senate; and what all Americans can do about it. [Audio link to full show is posted beneath summary.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

But, first up today, a few quick — and somewhat related — news items today. On Wednesday, the U.S. tallied a heartbreaking record 3,124 COVID deaths<\/a>, making it the fourth most deadly day in U.S. history<\/a> after the Galveston Storm of 1900, and the Civil War battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. Wednesday saw more Americans die from COVID than those killed on September 11, 2001, which had previously been the nation’s fourth most deadly day. The next most deadly single days in the U.S. thereafter are now, in order, last Thursday, last Wednesday, last Friday, last Tuesday and Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

At the same time this week, Donald Trump has been throwing crowded, indoor, holiday parties at the White House<\/a>, lying to guests, without a mask, that his election was stolen, and the Texas lawsuit filed this week would prove it to his stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court, somehow. It’s as if the worst pandemic in more than a hundred years doesn’t even exist because, after all, there’s an election to be stolen and several centuries of American democracy to be undermined during the holidays.<\/p>\n

As to that absurd Texas<\/b> case filed by the criminally indicted Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, (which we explained in great detail on yesterday’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>), 18 GOP controlled states have now joined<\/a> the Lone Star State in support of tossing out the election results in Wisconsin<\/b>, Michigan<\/b>, Pennsylvania <\/b>and Georgia<\/b>, despite any evidence of fraud in those states that could possible overturn Joe Biden’s certified win in each of them. But, much less reported today, is the fact that more than 20 U.S. states<\/a> and the District of Columbia have joined those four targeted states in opposing<\/a> the corrupt Paxton’s transparent effort to win a pardon from the corrupt Trump, before the FBI drops new federal charges for bribery and abuse of power<\/a> on the Texas AG. <\/p>\n

Yes, the Texas case is absurd and offers an unprecedented, radical interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in hopes of stealing the election for Trump. As Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, has correctly argued<\/a>, “The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process.” But we also now have an unprecedented, radical bunch of Justices sitting on the bench at SCOTUS. Anyone who tells you they know how those Justices will rule on this case is simply making things up.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, there remain very real concerns about Georgia’s voting system, just not the phony ones that Team Trump and the MAGA Mob have decided to focus on (read: lie about.)<\/p>\n

Today, for the first time since before the November 3rd election, we’re joined by voting systems expert MARILYN MARKS<\/b>, Executive Director of the nonpartisan, good government watchdog group, Coalition for Good Governance<\/a>. As a plaintiff in the long-running federal lawsuit<\/a> seeking to bar Dominion Voting Systems’ new, unverifiable touchscreen systems from use in the state, Marks has been one of the longest and loudest critics of both the private Canadian-based voting system vendor and the state’s Republican Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger who contracted them. (Her same federal suit already resulted in a federal judge, last year, banning the use<\/a> of the state’s 20-year old, unverifiable Diebold touchscreen systems.) Raffensperger defied both election integrity and cybersecurity experts by purchasing Dominion’s unverifiable $100+ million systems instead of a hand-marked paper ballot system as recommended by the experts. And now, Team Trump is exploiting Raffensperger’s ill-considered decision to make all sorts of unfounded claims about them.<\/p>\n

That said, because these systems are unverifiable, it’s next to impossible to know that they accurately recorded the intent of any<\/i> of the voters who are forced to use them at polling places across the state — something that Marks (and us) warned about long<\/i> before Republicans decided to pretend they were concerned about “election integrity” and invented a ridiculous worldwide conspiracy led by Dominion to steal the election from Trump.<\/p>\n

In addition to cribbing from and bastardizing<\/a> some of The BRAD BLOG’s decade-old, independently verifiable investigative reporting<\/a> about Dominion to create their ridiculous conspiracy regarding Venezuela’s dead President Hugo Chavez helping to steal the election from Trump, the same MAGA Mob has been stealing from and lying about Marks’ long-running federal law suit to try and make their case in court. <\/p>\n

“We have seen, in Sidney Powell’s lawsuits, fabrication after fabrication,” Marks tells me. “I sit there and read these documents, cringing at the lack of facts. They even take things from our documents, like experts’ reports, then add craziness to them, literally change facts that were attested to by our experts and make them completely false.”<\/p>\n

In light of all of that, among the question Marks speaks to today: Is there any evidence that Dominion Voting Systems touchscreens or tabulators were, in fact, used to flip votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in Georgia? Her answer may surprise you! If you’ve listened to The BradCast<\/i> while we’ve covered this issue with Marks and others for years, it may not surprise you.<\/p>\n

We have covered Georgia on this program and at BradBlog.com<\/a> so long and in so much detail for a reason. The state, she notes “has been the poster-child for all that is wrong with US elections. It’s all concentrated here. And now it’s the center of the universe.”<\/p>\n

Marks also speaks to whether Americans and residents of Georgia should have confidence in the reported results from the November election, and what if anything, can be done to ensure confidence in the results of the critical January 5th U.S. Senate runoffs in the state. <\/p>\n

For those with actual<\/i> concerns about those runoff elections — which doesn’t actually seem to include many of the Republican sore losers complaining about the November results and an evidence-free “Dominion Conspiracy” — Marks asks listeners to urgently, and politely, email both the Speaker of the GA House, David Ralston<\/a>, and GA’s Sec. of State Raffensperger<\/a> to urge them to allow HAND-MARKED paper ballots for all<\/i> voters at the polls in the upcoming runoffs. She argues that there is still time for that to happen in every county, even as Early Voting begins on Monday. “They can make a quick switch to hand-marked paper ballots. All they need are a few thousand black ballpoint pens. They just need to hear from the nation that this time we want a non-controversial election.”<\/p>\n

We also ask Marks (a now former<\/i> Republican herself), whether or not there are at least a few Republicans who might end up finding legitimate interest in joining the fight for real<\/i> Election Integrity after their current partisan interests in Trump’s election eventually fade away. While a private company like Dominion should never have the type of control they now have over our public elections, neither should the much larger ES&S firm or the smaller Hart-Intercivic, just to mention the three largest corporations who have arguably been allowed to usurp our public elections with unsecure, poorly designed, easily manipulated, non-transparent, computerized voting and tabulation systems. <\/p>\n

“I hope that maybe one piece of good is that the Republicans are now suddenly<\/i> concerned about software, and they are concerned about transparency of other processes,” she observers. “They’re suddenly interested in election administration that before, they seemed to have assumed was just going to work for them. So, hopefully we will get better transparency out of this. But we’re going to have to go through the crazy period first, I’m afraid.”<\/p>\n

Finally, we’re joined by Desi Doyen for our latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with mostly disturbing news, as usual, on the state of our climate and environment, but some really really<\/i> encouraging news at the end, that we’ll use to make ourselves feel much better on another insane day like today…<\/p>\n

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