On this edition of Your Call's media roundtable, we’ll discuss the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines. In Texas, some voters say machines switching votes for the US Senate. In Georgia, the NAACP has filed a complaint over voting machine issues.We know these machines are problematic. Why are they still being used.?
In Brazil, voters have chosen the far-right, pro-torture, anti-gay, former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro to be the country’s next president. What explains this radical shift to the right?
Guests:
Kim Zetter, award-winning investigative journalist covering privacy, computer security and national security
Will Carless, correspondent for Reveal covering extremism and former foreign correspondent in Asia and South America
Web Resources:
The NY Times: The Crisis of Election Security
The Washington Post: Brazil’s version of Trump makes Trump look like Mr. Rogers
New Yorker: How Voting-Machine Errors Reflect a Wider Crisis for American Democracy
The Guardian: 'We will resist': anti-Bolsonaro protesters vow to defend Brazil's freedoms
NACLA: A Dark Hour in Brazil