First hour: Jonathan Simon of the Election Defense Alliance discusses his book Code Red: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy. I cannot recommend this book too highly; it makes a persuasive case that wholesale voting-machine rigging has massively distorted US politics and government since around 2002, when black-box voting machines owned by right-wing Republicans started “counting” the votes…and exit polls, which used to be extremely accurate, suddenly started under-predicting Republican “surprise victories.” Those on the brink of exposing this high-stakes fraud have a habit of dying suddenly. Karl…