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To the Point

Superstorm Sandy, Voting Machines and Stealing the Election

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's been only a day since Superstorm Sandy made landfall. We look at the damage and what the future might bring. Also, challenges to the integrity of electronic voting.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:08.2

Superstorm Sandy is not over yet.

0:14.0

Hello again, I'm Orrin Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

0:18.1

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

0:20.7

Sandy is making its way across Pennsylvania toward Canada after leaving a trail of destruction

0:25.1

and death along the East Coast. We'll survey the damage, especially in lower Manhattan,

0:30.0

where high winds and flooding have taken a serious toll. How long will power be out for millions of people?

0:36.2

As Sandy demonstrated, the vulnerability of the grid.

0:39.3

What about transportation from flooded subways to international air travel? On the second half of our

0:44.7

program, since the debacle of Florida's hanging chads, electronic voting has become widespread,

0:50.4

dispute is raging over what it could mean for the integrity of next week's election.

0:54.9

First, here's the news.

0:57.8

Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund.

1:04.7

Hello again, Warman. I'll name back with To The Point. It's been less than a day since Superstorm Sandy made landfall.

1:10.0

We'll look at the current damage and what the future might bring.

1:13.0

Later on, there are challenges to the integrity of electronic voting in next week's election,

1:18.7

and some computer experts say they are more than conspiracy theories.

1:21.9

We'll hear about that.

1:23.1

First is update.

1:24.2

Millions of Americans are feeling the brunt of one of the worst storms ever to strike the

1:28.1

East Coast. Henry Goldman reports for Bloomberg News. Good to have you on our program. Good to be here.

1:33.2

I know you've been coordinating the news coverage. Can you just give us a quick narrative,

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