always great to be with you guys thanks for having and check out brad blog dot com for brad's work and we will be back with more our to election coverage in just a moment but we want to have an give you an update on the electoral college count as we move closer but really really quick i want to tell you i claire mccaskill has been declared the winner of the senate race in missouri where mccaskill of course running to hold on to her seat running against todd akin todd akin of course made the phrase legitimate rape a phrase. again claire mccaskill will hold on to her seat in the missouri and. here's mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing that americans. are. dying to hear what. they want to feature a little. girl the others. are going to distract us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells a sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're going to break this that. welcome to the capital and i'm lauren lyster. it is what drives the world the fear of great use by politicians who makes decisions t

voting machines for the latest on this story brad friedman joins me he's the founder and editor brad blog and one of our nation's finest investigative reporters brad welcome back to the program thanks tom good to be here great to have you so where do we stand today on florida's eighteenth and what how do you how do you recount an electronic voting machine. this is a remarkable story and you know this is the this is exactly what you and i have been warning about for almost a decade now here's where things stand at this hour allen west has filed for a recount of the early votes of all of the early votes in just one of the three counties that now make up the eighteenth congressional district in florida he wants that all the early ballots in st lucie county to be retaliate so now paper ballots these are paper ballots for the most part there's some touch screen voting systems there for it disabled voters but for the most part their paper ballots and you got it right they did a partial recount on sunday of the last three days of early voting only and only in st lucie. county and eight hundred v

never seen the 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 you know 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 to 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

united states is but can we trust those counted votes for more on this we welcome brad freeman founder and editor of the broad blog brad welcome ok thanks sam going to be here we just want to kick things off quick there's this video that's going around on the internet it's a voter in pennsylvania confronting one of these touchscreen electronic voting machines and he's attempting to vote for president obama yet this is what keeps happening which play the video. so as it as you see is trying to press barack obama and it keeps highlighting mitt romney you've been on this beat about electronic voting machines and how flawed they are is this the smoking gun or at least one of them that we need. there are so many smoking guns i don't even know where to begin but let's we've seen this election after election after election now going back almost a decade in every single election we have these touch screen voting systems that slip exactly like to see in that video you know back in two thousand and four this happened all over the country and mostly democrats and republicans used to say that oh it was these are sore losers c

brad, i'm going to give you the unceremony use duty of having to talk about project orca. i want to read you a little bit of an excerpt of john, a romney volunteer, on asa conservative blog, ace of spades. he talked about he was ready to take project orca and ready to volunteer and talk about the experiences of it basically not working. he writes this at the end. so the end result was 30,000 plus of the most active and fired up volunteers were wandering and confused and frustrated. maybe if this had worked you -- if this had worked out it could have closed a gap. i sure hope not, for my sanity's sake. look, i think there's always a lot of criticism in a losing campaign. everybody has to share it, the candidate, the campaign, the party's brand. where do you fall on this? >> i think we have to go ahead and wave the white flag on tacticals surrender here. tactics didn't work this time. i would rather spend a lot more time on what tactics to win in 2014 and 2016 than what went wrong in 2012. clearly tech logically behind on where the democrats are on turn o turnout. we have to fix it. it's not optional. >> do you think a debate about sort of different messaging when it comes

blogs, and the traffic just floods. so you get peaks within minutes. >> reporter: and shop till you drop continues. bradhe crowd to get evan everyone back from the video games. i hope it doesn't happen. i am waiting for some of the chaos. i mean they're not even barreling over each other in those lines. >> yet. yet. that's the appetizer. today is the entree, the one guy getting testy. his kids got pushed. he was like -- "i'll stab you." let's just stay cool, calm, collected. that's all i'm going to say. that dude was getting really heated. i guess someone messed with his kids. you want to think before you have your kids in the black friday mess. you know what i mean. just some thoughts. >> even mall of america won't allow kids, you are with a parent. as parent will you protect them from the madness. >> in the crush of all the people, "i'll stab you. that's my waffle maker." >> not worth it. okay. >>> americans hitting the stores today, you also have competition from who? canadians. a recent increase in duty-free allowances has neighbors from the north crossing the border in droves looking for bargains a