#1272 The disaster of election capitalism (Election Security)
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
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Air Date: 5/14/2019
Today we take a look at the disastrous system of hackable, unverifiable and expensive electronic voting machines that were our solution to the hanging-chad fiasco of the Florida 2000 presidential election.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: New poll shows public concern for voting machine hackability - BradCast - Air Date 12-25-18
Public concerns about the integrity of voting systems.
The first wave of computer voting. Bush v Gore, hanging chad issues. 2000, 2004, problems for at least 20 years now. Machines have been improved, but still too many problems. Tech companies jumping into making them.
Simons has been working on voting security for a long time, there’s a little more light lately but also lots of pushback.
Ch. 4: National Media Finally Talking About Voting Machines - BradCast - Air Date 3-4-19
National media finally questioning the voting machines. Computer ballot marking devices BMD systems. There is agreement that this is a problem finally, but too late?
Elections expert Jennifer Cohn weighs in on our election security.
Find out from legislators and congresspeople what they're doing to fix voting.
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Ch. 7: A conservative's thoughts on the upcoming election - John from Northeast Maryland
Ch. 8: Ralph Nader on credit unions and technology - Erin from Philadelphia
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on conservative callers and Ralph Nader’s relationship with technology
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so a huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.0 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:09.8 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:14.5 | learn about the unholy mess that is our hackable, unverifiable election system. |
| 0:21.1 | Clips today come from the broadcast, function, gaslit nation, and strange days. |
| 0:30.0 | A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans have concerns that the nation's |
| 0:39.2 | voting systems might be vulnerable to hackers. |
| 0:43.6 | Might be? |
| 0:44.7 | That part of the survey is roughly unchanged, however, from concerns over election security |
| 0:51.4 | just before the 2016 presidential election. |
| 0:54.6 | But there is a twist this year, as AP notes, two years ago, it was Republicans who were |
| 1:01.5 | more concerned about the integrity of the election. |
| 1:04.9 | This year, it's Democrats, which of course underscores the point that I've been trying to |
| 1:09.4 | make for so many years here on the broadcast and at BradBlog.com that concerns about the |
| 1:14.5 | security and ability to oversee election results by the public are not a partisan issue. |
| 1:23.0 | It also underscores what I've similarly argued over the years that it won't be until |
| 1:27.6 | a Republican really gets screwed by our corporate-owned non-overseable voting and tabulation systems |
| 1:35.0 | that there will be any real change to the system. |
| 1:38.4 | For example, do you think that if Republicans felt that a foreign country like Russia or |
| 1:43.6 | any other might have manipulated our voting systems and our election results in 2016 to |
| 1:49.8 | install Hillary Clinton as president, that there might have actually been some real changes |
| 1:55.9 | to our electoral system? |
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