- Guest: Marilyn Marks, election integrity expert
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- Georgia's former Republican lieutenant governor endorses Biden…
Today's blood cast:A new A cybersecurity incident occurred in Coffee County, Georgia. It's a now-infamous rural enclave in the southeastern presidential battleground state, where in January 2021 Donald Trump's allies and operatives installed the state's unique touchscreen voting system after the 2020 presidential election. illegally infiltrated, copied, or distributed software; Five people who took part in the violation were charged with felonies as part of a broader racketeering conspiracy case filed against Trump in Fulton County, Georgia. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
But before we get there today, some quick news about President Trump. new york In criminal court, he is charged with 34 felonies related to hush money payments made to a porn star shortly before his election in 2016. stormy daniels. She took the stand today. We'll cover some quick details, but we'll cover that and other related news in more detail tomorrow on our midweek Trump trial “Ketchup” program.
Also, we will make another announcement today. very rarely given BRAD BLOG Intellectually Honest Conservative Award.this is georgiaRepublican former lieutenant governor jeff duncan. This prestigious honor is in response to his courageous editorial work. atlanta journal constitution This week he supported joe biden “Unlike Trump, I've been a Republican all my life. This November, I'm going to vote for a sane person who I disagree with on policies toward unethical criminal defendants,” he said. He encouraged Republicans to do the same. compass needle. “
Joining me today is a longtime advocate for election integrity and transparency. Marilyn Marks Coalition for Good Governance (CGG). Marks was the first to discuss Team Trump's illegal breach of voting system hardware and software across Georgia in Coffee County, which first occurred on January 7, 2021 (the day after Trump's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol). It was someone I knew. Her revelations sparked accusations.Submitted by Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis against Trump attorney Sidney Powell (who pleaded guilty) and others involved in the Coffee County break-in.
As director of CGG, Marks is also a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court in 2017 seeking to ban the GA section.state's brad raffenspergermandates the use of the state's touchscreen voting system, which is easily hacked and unverifiable, in favor of verifiable hand-written paper ballots.long-running case trial known as Carling v. Raffenspergerwas finally held in January of this year. As Marks explained today, the plaintiffs are still awaiting a verdict from a U.S. District Court judge. amy totenberg The case included demonstrations by the plaintiffs' experts showing that Raffensperger's systems could be hacked by any voter at a polling place with just a ballpoint pen.
Today, Marks charged that Coffee County appears to have “hidden and suppressed” information about the case. new Cybersecurity Incident He held a State Department job for “a few days.” Although little is known publicly yet about this new hack, she is troubled by the news. “This can't be just a coincidence. two This year, there was one such cyber attack each in Fulton County and Coffee County. that's it. The two counties that have the most information to challenge President Trump and his allies are: [the earlier breach in Coffee] and the theft [voting] Software in the first place. ”
You will also receive status updates from Marks. curling In that case, a judge ruled that Georgia would require voters to provide hand-marked ballots to vote this November, well into the election year. But Marks remains hopeful, noting that the transition to hand-written voting will not require any new equipment beyond what is already available in each Georgia precinct.
Marks also discusses Georgia's new law (signed by Georgia's governor). brian kemp This would ultimately ban the use of QR code tabulation on computer-marked ballots and computer scanner tallies from human-readable text on the ballot, which would be verified by voters after printing and before being mailed. request that Unfortunately, as she explains, this bill leaves the state's touchscreen ballot entry devices in no way vulnerable to tampering, even if it goes into effect in 2026, as required by law. This does not mean that the numbers will decrease or that it will become easier for the public to verify after the election.
Marks' group had not found any evidence that Biden's victory in the Peach State in 2020 was incorrectly determined, but it provided testimony to the Georgia Board of Elections this week. They argue that recounts in the state should be done manually, not by Congress. It's the same computerized scanner that counted the ballots in the first place.
“State law is very clear that recounts are to be done by hand for obvious reasons, including by machine.” [used to tally ballots] Otherwise, she added, “if you run the ballot again on a machine with the wrong code,” you will get the same false results.
She believes the reason Trump supporters in the state are still debating the 2020 tally is because there was no public hand-counting after the close election. Mr. Raffensperger instead advocated a machine count. “Everything could have been resolved if they had done a manual recount as required by law. President Trump would have appointed counters at every table and processed every ballot. And they would have had a hard time discussing at the time the “fake ballots, the incorrect counting, the lack of transparency,'' Marks told me. “Many of the problems we've had over the last three years could have been resolved by a manual recount in accordance with the law.”
Finally, today I will conclude with the latest information. green news reportDigi Doyen reported on the relentless rains and deadly floods in both countries. Brazil and houston; hottest April ever recorded earth; and president bidenannounced that it would spend billions of dollars to boost clean energy production in rural areas and the removal and replacement of toxic lead water pipes nationwide…
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