'BradCast' 6/9/2020 (Voting disaster in GA; Chuck Collins on inequality and 'Billionaire Bonanza 2020')

On today's 'BradCast':  Who could have predicted another Election Day disaster in Georgia?  As we've been warning for years now, the rollout of GA's GOP Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger's costly new unverifiable computerized voting system was a debacle for Georgia voters on Tuesday, especially those in the most heavily minority, heavily Democratic counties in the state.  Many voters reported never receiving their requested absentee ballots in the mail. Voters waited in hours-long lines as new computerized electronic poll-books failed, new computerized touchscreen Ballot Marking Devices (BMDs) failed, and new optical-scan computers to scan the unverifiable ballots printed out by the $4,000 BMDs failed. What didn't fail was Raffensperger's propensity to blame poll workers, who risked their lives to help voters during a deadly pandemic, for his own failure to implement a simple, verifiable and much less expensive hand-marked paper ballot system. Also today: Coronavirus infection rates are spiking in many states despite the White House, Wall Street and Republicans pretending the nightmare is over. It isn't. The economy went into recession as of February, before the COVID-19 shutdowns. Millions of Americans have been tossed into unemployment, but stock markets are booming. Billionaires are drunk with irrational exuberance and flush with decades of sweet, sweet GOP tax cut cash. What explains the obscene inequality between the billionaire oligarch class and the rest of us?  The Institute of Policy Study's CHUCK COLLINS, co-author of the new report, 'Billionaire Bonanza 2020,' explains what happened and how we can -- and must -- begin to fix the absurd, decades-long imbalances in our economy. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report'...