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jamie's brad friedman is an investigative journalist ed bradley live
dot com brad over the last few weeks we've been covering individually all of
the different voter i_d_ voter suppression the election fraud tactics
that are being employed by the right which is kind of turned into it's own
campaign right it's separate from issues that separate from the basic separate
from swing states this is really a campaign that's out there
essentially to steal the election regardless of what the wheel
of the voters is talk a little bit about your research what's the latest thing on
this front i mean we've got the training of the poll challengers uh... we we've
got strategic allied consulting being fired did there's so many things i don't
even know what's the big thing to tell people about that
dad
there are so many big finger i don't even know what to talk to you i think
this is uh... eh and people who know me even though i work at that weblog know
that
uh... privileged year-round i'm out here trying to warn people hate
uh... you know everyone else is looking at the horse race
i'm trying to warn people too
look at pat track conditions
because
the track conditions on which the horses run
off it had to have to have as much to say about who wins who loses as anything
else and it it does track additions
that are really are starting to affect this race and and concerning a lot of
people finally this year
as well they should
uh... lockheed right you've got an unprecedented effort at least in the
modern era at least in the post jim crow hero
uh... you know to really
game every aspect
uh... that uh... of that track if you will that the horses are running on
about trying to keep people from voting from being able to cast a vote at all
uh... again frankly
uh... did try to keep people from even registering to vote
as we have found this week uh... last week in a uh... an investigation of brad
blog dot com there is a republican effort
across the entire country
of voter registration effort that is involved with this uh...
maintenance pollen has strategic allied consulting group but even larger than
that it seems to essentially lodhi to potential registrants
call them that uh...
noah the purple
the tell them that their their pollsters instead of voter registration workers in
order to
filter out old bob hope
supporters
to keep them from being able to register to vote at all
it is really appalling strategy
and we've caught them doing it now on videotape in
uh... in nevada and colorado in virginia in origin in california
it's going on dot all across the country where these
uh... folks are signing up people to vote but instead of
being straightforward about that they say
hey we're taking a poll today are you voting for obama all romney
and uh... if they pay or bomb indicate great thank you for taking a politically
well maybe it's a great are you signed up to vote
if not here's a registration form let me help you vote
their gaming the system from that front end before people even register then
yeah i don't know how to stop there just for a second mean echoes bottom-up right
number one is we've seen the videos including the video of the young girl in
colorado claim to be working for the county office but she actually wasn't
really doing exactly what you're saying trying to register only romney voters
and then we simultaneously had the efforts like in florida to uh...
question
tend to make put the imperative on voters to prove that they have are
actually eligible let's say you get past that
we're seeing these efforts of the poll challengers we're going to be there on
election day even if you don't legally need to show an idea picture i_d_ to go
through the lines and scare people by saying you're gonna need to show an i_d_
with the hopes that people will just leave and then let's say you stay and
you actually cast your ballot then it turns out that heart inter civic which
is controlled by bane
owns the voting machines in a number of different key states and it's actually
known that these voting machines have have uh... altered in the past
well grab bag failed by the way for no one pepper david that is
uh... yeah i do of being able to get to uphold records are open
to vote at all because they're limiting the uh... early election day right our
election hours and so forth so you know if you can run medicare goblin
if you're allowed to have
to register to vote if you can get to the polls if you're allowed to attach
your go without being challenged you have heard a very serious question as a
supplement
i've been trying to uh... point out of lake as well because with all of the
concerns about the front end
suppression going on
or something equally as important and that is the back and that is
will your vote because i don't think it will it be counted accurately and will
be counted accurately in a way that you can know it is counted accurately and
the quickly clear question two that is
no
you won't know because of the systems that we use you mentioned the uh...
electronic voting system but harkin or civic but
add to that every single other electronic voting system that we'd use
in all fifty states
and i'm not just talking about touchscreen system to talk about optical
scan systems as well because those are computers as well and uh...
unfortunately we do not check them to make sure they counted the ballots
correctly
they are also on the body
uh... dropper tips from the right hand from the left if you well i don't care
i'm troubled uh... you know that
that we have privatize our electoral system to run out
because it counted on these computers
that week
simply do not checked for accuracy and
even if we do
we can't know for sure that there is that they were coming without accurately
so
very troubling
friday in strategy hit the back and concern
and uh... you disclose as you pointed out david very smartly
you know well beyond the the candidates themselves well beyond the issues
uh... and
hits it's something
ideologues blame about year-round i wish i had a people would go do it not in the
week or two before the election right when it's by a large too late to do too
much about it
but you know all year round will weaken finally said look let's get red of these
electronic voting system better privatized
that are not transparent
replaced them with you know hand counting at the precinct on election day
so that the citizenry can oversee its own results
and make sure that the election is uh... if i do it accurately battles will be
months do the one thing we didn't touch on two months is that the exit polls
that have basically been canceled by the national election paul and i think it's
nineteen states
initially the reaction was well that none of these are really competitive
states anyway so we don't really need to worry about it but
there are still problems with with this right i mean this is
the exit polls at least service somewhat of a baseline to compare election
results too don't they
yet exactly
and and uh... that would probably used exit polls all around the world as a
check-and-balance against
when you take away that check-and-balance says we we seem to
take a look more and more of these but now the exit polls themselves in the
nineteen states yes you have nothing to compare it to you already got votes were
counted in secret in these computers in a way that
we have no idea if they're being captured accurately or not the
all newly
hedge against that in many places are these exit polls
and now those are gone in nineteen feet so you can flip it over
not competitive state
um...
that issue you know a couple things troubled me with that one is
that uh... if they're not competitive states but if they show up the opposite
in the presidential race
and opposite result of what people expect them to be
people if they are all well what do you know it was a
you know what a surprise
in that state and i'll have nothing to compare it to the stairwell is whether
really a surprise awarded somebody game the system
or was there just an error
secondly
and this is a great frustration for me
the presidential election is not to be only rates on the ballot this november
where state races congressional races local races
and they are all affected by all of the things that we're talking about you know
access to the polls who gets to vote
uh... the the accuracy of the voting system there all of
fected
uh... by these factors and exit polls
serve once again as a as a check and balance
uh... against all of those things so that we can tried to have some idea
whether the the results are accurate now remember
uh... four years now the exit pollsters
have i have to stop releasing the raw data
because the raw data that they're released in two thousand and four showed
that john kerry won
in almost all of the swing states that the election results
from the machine
showed that george w_ bush wants there will be entitled to the way to deal with
added at the pollster said well what i thoroughly prepared anymore
the other thing that they do is they actually our jobs
the data at the end of the night to uh... diplomat shopping with the
election results which seemingly you have defied the purpose of having exit
polls in the first place
so these are becoming
evita losing their value over time the and uh... it's getting even worse now
when they're just removing them entirely in nineteen stereotyping people should
be very very troubled about that
incredible are at with this week to speaking with brad friedman is an
investigative journalist brad blog dot com is the website you gotta make sure
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but it's fantastic stuff that you've got in their brad to keep up the good work
thank there but i really appreciate impression at all that you're doing and
thanks for praying to god to do dishes
i wish more people were doing stuff
all right let's take a break
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