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brad friedman is joining these investigative journalist brad blog dot
com is his website brad we talked yesterday on the on our show about the
think progress peace that criticized both you and bite bite bite shiver
children betting my video talking about tag romney's connections to the ohio
voting machines also my show what's your reaction to the criticism and and what
where do you stand on this now
are giving progress wide
in its report
it was appalling report by aviva with with with the name of the dish and on it
at the wider but
an internship job let them
i had a big hand in this particular piece and they've lied they lied about
me they lied about truth out they lied about you by extension
uh... and by forbes magazine calling all of us conspiracy theorists
uh... that interestingly enough they ended up removing them
of forums from the list of people that they were smearing
uh... but where i have a uh... a serious problem with them they can call me
whatever they like of course
uh... but uh... you know that they're opinion
but the problem that they did not back it up with
fax in fact there fax
were wrong
and uh... as you can see a brad blog dot com word publish the entire conversation
the email conversation between myself
uh... and editor job leg um
who is
simply standing by the factually inaccurate reporting which day today
that i'd forward a conspiracy theory that no romney is gaming is currently
actively gaming the voting machines in ohio
uh... i reported no such thing that is absolutely untrue it is completely uh...
without uh... a basis
uh... what i did report
uh... and cover what that uh... folks like you and others have been made from
connections between
uh... from business partners of the romney and his son and some of the
rehired anders to his campaign
uh... with a business trip that has now taken over
uh... the heart intersted voting machine company there the third largest voting
machine company in the world
well
yet you know many people are accusing the accusers in other words you whoever
else of saying that you know effectively mit romney is standing behind the voting
machines with a screwdriver right and and and that's i've not heard anyone say
that but it's funny because if the situation were reversed and we can draw
a connection between i don't know a relative of president obama's to voting
machines you know that the entire corporate media and right wing would be
up in arms by the mir uh... uh... allusion to the connection
well that's right
but but the important part of the story that seems to be made cheers
certainly by in progress
and uh... and really the the bulk of my life reporting on this issue
uh... when i started it your all your coverage a couple of weeks ago that went
for that went by role
uh... you'd think that the main point here
that i pointed out is that yet
of mit romney handsome can u socio to have now taken over boating machine
company
back is disturbing
but frankly
if you've no more disturbing than any george w_ bush associate who took over
road who was the c_e_o_ of being pulled back into sultan and or writing or
stage you go shoppin
related venezuelan firm
that actually owns the intellectual property of the voting machines used in
about uh... uh... two-thirds of the country accompaniment
so quayle voting systems which has now been bought by a canadian firm
dominion voting the idea here is that
there should be no private corporations in our ones
public elections controlling the voting machines making it impossible
for the citizenry to oversee their own elections
their own democracy i'm not sure what is so controversial about that and i'm not
sure what so conspiratorial about that the fact of the matter is
uh... concerns
about private ownership of these voting machines have been around for a long
time have been confirmed by uh...
uh... democratic secretary of state uh... former democratic secretary of
state of ohio jennifer brunner just the other day once again
on msnbc
she did a landmark study
pointing out the problems of these voting systems and that uh... up pretty
much anyone can get access to these machines and put the result of an
election in about thirty seconds
the california secretary of state debra bowen has showed the same thing in
another landmark study out here a couple of years ago this is not controversy all
this is not club scenery forevermore
it doesn't take a conspiracy
duplicate election it takes one person with the right access and about thirty
seconds of keystrokes
that's what i was pointing out back when i was pointing out when i said that
uh... yes it's a concern about the mit romney's associate as much as it is
about
anybody else any other private corporation in all
fifty states i'd been reporting this for nearly a decade it apac
it's a serious concern there's nothing conspiratorial about it and the fact
that thing progress
fuses
to uh... shakespeare inaccurate reporting again it's not an opinion of
theirs they have misreported what i said
i plan to be absolutely appalling from uh... from an outfit which is not such
an extension of the democratic party but above the key one because they have been
very valuable in
uh... debunking the lies an acceptance of the right and for them to turn on
folks like you and me
and proof out and forbes magazine
uh... for reporting on these very serious concerns is incredibly problem
real quick because if you have limited time to think i want to touch on one we
recently saw that while many polls in arizona sock mit romney doing quite well
when the polls allowed
voters to respond in spanish all the sudden president obama did far better
suggesting that the latino vote will be a factor there you've got on your
website the story about maricopa county arizona giving the wrong election date
in spanish to voter citing
november eight instead of november six is going to be a factor
uh... but we're going to be a factor all along with many other similar stories
are were already finding now that we're going to your between now and election
day duralee correct
uh...
uh... frankly that that seemed to just proportionally up that uh... a
democratic women voters
we're seeing that now all over the country a given item today uh... just
sort of rounding up the latest
uh... dirty tricks and concerns
fake voter purges whether as a being sent to people down in florida
uh... with worse we saw uh... some thirteen fouled and alleged and voters
purged from the role in one indiana county alone whatever only supposed to
be purging uh... eight hundred out of date voters
they purged thirteen thousand instead an election officials are now scrambling to
restore that
so yeah
all of these issues are going to come into play on november six minutes
something that the
the corporate mainstream media does not seem to be looking closely at the uh...
did not seem to take into account certainly in their in their polls when
people say one candidate or another is leading
uh... in this great or that they do not take into account
the dirty tricks
and the voter suppression that is going on now that will be going on on the
vendor sex
and the fact that want these results come out on november sixth
almost none of them will actually be verified
by any human beings so there is a whole bunch of concerns that we have
that people really need to educate themselves about right now
all right and we didn't even get to the g_o_p_ voter registration fraud arrest
in virginia but it'll have to wait for next time you can check it out on brad
blog dot com though we've been speaking with brad friedman
an investigative journalist brad blog dot com is the website thanks as always
brad
thank david always good to speak with a fellow conspiracy theory a great day
alright take care