by republicans to steal the election i'm joined by bad brad friedman founder and publisher of the brad blog brad welcome hey tom hardy's our great great to have you back with us why is it the republicans are the only ones who ever get caught for voter and election fraud and yet they're the ones who are screaming that there's an epidemic of other election fraud america yeah they seem to be the only ones that are actually doing it i mean in the case of this collin small this fellow who was arrested last week in virginia for for throwing away demmer for throwing away a registration forms let's be clear this he was hired by this firm strategic ally consulting this is the firm that was hired by the r. and c. for some three million dollars to do voter registration in five different states now when they were caught in florida turning in hundreds of apparently fraudulent registration forms the r n c sad that they have a zero tolerance policy for this that they acted swiftly and boldly by firing strategic allied consulting and nathan sproul the guy who created this company at their request but the t

studios is brad friedman founder and publisher of the brad blog brad why dot com brad welcome back tom good to be back thank you for joining us and good to see you my friend does this decision effectively kill this voter i.d. law in pennsylvania election yes and no and i hate to be confusing about this because it needs to be clear and this judge this republican judge i believe purposely made a ruling here that was not particularly clear so here's where we are for this november the photo id restriction will not keep anyone from voting they'll still be asking voters for their id and the state will still be putting out advertisements on television telling people to get their i.d. so you know it's likely that a lot of people will see this and go i don't have an idea i'm not going to go vote but the fact is you can vote without a photo id even though you will be asked for it this november in the election beyond that the photo id restriction law will kick in next year unless it's a challenge to if it's found to be unconstitutional this ruling today essentially speaks only to what will happen

never seen a receipt but just something to leave at the polling place well you can go back go to brad blog dot com find out what happened about two or three years ago to me when i tried to vote on one of these systems the computer mis printed four out of twelve my own votes and it took me about twenty minutes to look and make sure. it didn't really misprinted did i get it wrong was it the you know my fault was it the machines fault it turned out it was the machines fault but you know studies have shown that eighty percent of the people who use this type of system don't bother to check the paper printout and study at rice university for example showed that of those few people who do check the summary at the end of the balloting some two thirds of them don't notice when the computer has flipped their vote so even if you have a computer printout and even if anybody bothers to go and check it's a counted after the election and nobody ever does even if they did we would not know if we're looking at something that actually reflects the voter intent or not the only way we can know that is if we l

to sabotage the democratic vote around the nation i had of this year's election brad freeman and brad blogreported the florida republican party cut ties with a political firm known as strategic allied consulting after was discovered that firm changed addresses on numerous voter registration forms to block newly registered democrats in voting in november scandals now spreading as at least ten counties in florida discovered these fraudulent registration forms and law enforcement authorities are getting involved in the matter and the republican national committee has also. ties with the firm which you gave three point one million dollars to register voters in swing states like nevada colorado north carolina and virginia unclear how much damage is election fraud may have done on the elections in those states this is the latest blatant election fraud committed by the republican party which has been focused on nonexistent voter fraud over the last two years as an excuse to rig the elections with their voter suppression idea laws for more on who these ballot bandits are and how they might impact

are elections actually able to be rigged i'm joined now by investigative journalist brad friedman he's behind brown blog dot com brad four and a half weeks out what do you think voters should be most aware of regarding this matter. what they need to be aware of is that these machines count our votes inside the computer we can't see them and there we remain the same serious concerns that frankly we have had now for eight years and that almost nothing been done about that effect you know we're talking right now we try to do it by skype but the computers failed so we're using the phone here but magine if the computers fail on election day that happens all the time the system simply fail and often we have no idea if they actually worked or didn't work when the election results are announced on election night i mean i think it's a really good point brad this is nothing new that we're dealing with we've seen this going on i covered this back as a young reporter back in two thousand and four why is it you know when you're three research that very little has been done to deal with what is a really big problem.

specifics and he's pointing to blog posts op-eds, this is the definition of study, i should get a harvard degree. >> bill: i know it. one thing you have to give him credit for bradders full of women. well, if that wasn't one of the more extraordinary things. another mind-boggling episode where -- you know, he could not answer the question. he could not say what he's done for equal pay for equal work. he couldn't say that he supported the lilly ledbetter act because he doesn't. he couldn't say what legislation he would pursue to help close this gap in pay between men and women. he started talking about what he had done as governor in terms of hiring people in his cabinet. first of all just a handful of positions. but second of all, the story wasn't even true. it wasn't even true! it was a bald-faced lie. there was a project in massachusetts where -- mass pac where they went to both candidates and they said after the election they were going to bring them resumes because they were not going to allow governors to have the excuse of saying we couldn't find any qualified women. here is a pile of qualified women. that's how he got the binders. he wouldn't have gotten