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Another 'Disgraceful' Day for Democracy, Heroic Day for Voters

Another 'Disgraceful' Day for Democracy, Heroic Day for Voters
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Once again, voters headed to the polls and caucuses on Tuesday. This time in Arizona, Utah and Idaho. 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), Arizona.

While Bernie Sanders won the night on the Democratic side (not that the corporate media much mentioned that) and Trump, once again, won the Republican 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 UTAG 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!

You can find Brad’s previous editions here.

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