The BradCast w/ Brad Friedman

'BradCast' 5/4/2020 (It's worse than you're being told. Guest: Attorney Doug Ecks)

05.05.2020 - By Brad FriedmanPlay

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On today's 'BradCast':  The Trump Administration's persistent lies about coronavirus and Trump's pressure to 'open' the country, against health experts' warnings, are likely to result in tens of thousands more preventable deaths.  According to internal, unreleased figures from FEMA and the CDC , the U.S. could reach as high as 3,000 deaths per day by June 1, particularly in Republican-controlled states moving quickly to lift stay-at-home restrictions, with 200,000 new cases per day by the end of May. New data from around the world show the infections and deaths are spiking again in countries that have begun opening up their economies.  Another new polls finds Joe Biden and Trump deadlocked in Texas, indicating the state may be a battleground in the 2020 presidential election. A new lawsuit filed in Tennessee seeks to lift "some of the most restrictive absentee voting rules in the nation," to ensure voters can vote safely in the pandemic.  In Los Angeles County, voters will now be automatically mailed absentee ballots.  Sen. Bernie Sanders won the CA 2020 Super Tuesday primary, by a wide margin -- so, no, California did not 'steal' the election from Bernie.  A new report finds Los Angeles County's costly new boondoogle, a $300 million unverifiable touchscreen voting system, caused far more problems than previously thought during the primary election. Attorney Doug Ecks joins us to explain his findings showing an unacceptably high numbers of new touchscreen voting systems and new electronic pollbooks failed, causing hours-long lines during the election, and much more -- including 11 of 30 voting machines failing at a single location, an extraordinary failure rate for a brand-new system developed at extraordinary expense to taxpayers...

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