'BradCast' 7/14/2021 (Guest: Election security expert Susan Greenhalgh on EAC's weakening of voting system security guidelines)

On today's 'BradCast':  Senate Democrats announced they have reached a new budget agreement that they called 'transformative' for American families. The proposal would invest $3.5 trillion in the expansion of Medicare, healthcare, child care and a host of other 'human infrastructure' priorities, while addressing climate change with broad array of clean energy incentives. The package would be paid for by increased taxes on corporations and those with annual incomes above $400,000. If all Democrats in the US Senate agree to the final legislative language, the measure could be adopted on Senate budget reconciliation rules, without the need for any Republican votes.  Along with adoption of a smaller bipartisan agreement on physical infrastructure spending - - presuming Republicans don't renege on it - - the two packages would be the largest such spending package since the New Deal, and a massive victory for Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. SUSAN GREENHALGH, Senior Advisor on Election Security at the non-partisan government watchdog group Free Speech for People (FSFP), discusses shocking revelations that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the federal agency responsible for overseeing the nation's election systems, held secret and unlawful meetings with voting system vendors, and then made alarming changes to weaken newly-drafted voting systems guidelines, including removing a ban against wireless modems and internet connectivity in voting machines. FSFP is suing the EAC to reverse those changes, alleging the agency violated federal laws governing transparency. Greenhalgh explains all of the madness and what it could mean for election security.  Also today:  Senate Democrats introduced a long-overdue, landmark proposal to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level...