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We’re back on today’s BradCast after a brief New Year holiday break! But it wasn’t entirely a break, as Alabama’s Secretary of State John Merrill decided to launch a bizarre Twitter exchange with me over the holiday weekend. [Audio link to show follows below.]
The conversation included the state’s chief election official repeatedly (and inaccurately) insisting that Alabama’s paper ballot computer scanners do not “capture” scanned ballot images that can be retained by the system for review by the public after an election. He is wrong, as I politely noted during the conversation.
A picture of democracy by looking at ballot images
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Roy Moore tried and failed to challenge the outcome of the U.S. Senate special election where he was bested by Democrat Doug Jones.
We are grateful that Alabamians rejected Republican Moore, with his bigoted views and documented history of attempts to seduce teen girls, won’t be in the Senate. But count us disappointed that Moore’s ex-colleagues on the Alabama Supreme Court denied him fair opportunity to prove his cockamamie claim that rampant voter fraud denied him so many votes that he should have beaten Jones instead of losing by around 22,000 votes.
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