'BradCast' 11/6/2019 (2019 Off-Year Election Vote System Failures and Electoral Triumphs)

On today's 'BradCast':  A lot of good news for Democrats in Tuesday's off-year elections around the country, but also plenty for them to be very concerned about, including the failure of brand new voting systems in several key battleground states. We cover a number of disturbing voting disasters: nearly two-decade old touchscreen voting systems failed in Indiana.  Brand new 100% unverifiable touchscreen computer Ballot Marking Device voting systems failed disastrously in several counties in Pennsylvania and Georgia, with reports of flipped votes, machines recording zero votes, long lines, voters unable to check in, and some voters unable to vote at all. The low-turnout municipal elections were intended as a test run of the costly new systems before being deployed for use in the critical 2020 Presidential election, when turnout is expected to be very high. As to actual reported results: disappointing returns for Democrats in Mississippi. In Kentucky, a big apparent win for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andy Beshear, but the state's unpopular Gov. Matt Bevin is expected to challenge the results. Unequivocal success for Dems in Virginia, where a blue wave resulted in new Democratic majorities in both the House of Delegates and state Senate. These long-awaited victories, along with the current Democratic Governor in office, means that Dems will enjoy a "trifecta" for the first time in nearly 25 years.  DELEGATE MARK LEVINE, who won a third term representing VA's 45th District, discusses the impact that Donald Trump and impeachment may have had on voter turnout, the effects the state's recent switch from unverifiable touchscreen voting systems to hand-marked paper ballots, and the role that recently court-ordered fair district maps had on flipping the legislature. He also covers the long list of overdue progressive policy goals that VA Democrats now plan to undertake with their newly-won majorities.