Badlands Daily: 8/12/26 - Wisconsin's USB Mystery, Clay Parikh Breaks It Down & DSA vs Tea Party
CannCon and Ashe bring on voting systems expert Clay Parikh for an urgent breakdown of a wild overnight development in Wisconsin, where five out of nine election USB drives reportedly downloaded audit logs instead of actual vote totals, delaying results and prompting officials to call it simple human error. Clay walks through the technical documentation and explains why that explanation does not hold up nearly as cleanly as election officials are claiming. From there the show shifts into a look at a wave of primary challenges against long tenured incumbents, playing viral clips of two very…
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