Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the Georgia Election Board's new rule requiring a hand count of ballots,

which is likely to slow down the results.

However, that is the least of the problems for the Democrats in trying to win the important swing state,

since the Republicans have already stolen the software for the voting machines in Georgia

and can manipulate the November results at will.

Joining us to discuss this little discussed fact is Marilyn Marks,

the Executive Director of the Coalition for Good Governance,

a non-partisan nonprofit organization dedicated to transparent government and evidence-based elections.

She is the driving force behind the much-watched curling versus Kemp lawsuit against Georgia's election officials

to rid the state of unverifiable touchscreen electronic equipment.

Then, with Trump at his rally in North Carolina on Saturday, not sharing the stage with the

self-described black Nazi Republican candidate for governor, who Trump recently praised as

Martin Luther King on steroids, we'll assess whether Harris can win the state and speak with

Jonathan Weiler, a professor in global studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He's the authoritativeism and polarization in American politics and pre-a-sore pickup,

how the answers to force simple questions explain America's Great Divide.

He writes regularly at jonathanweiler.subweiler.com, where his latest article is

seven weeks out, the state of the race. Then finally we examine whether Trump advances racist

campaign that is not just a torrent of racist dog whistles, but a how can win in America.

Joining us to assess whether in targeting angry white voters with lurid lies about black people eating household pets,

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