Founder of Black Box Voting, Bev Harris, is known for her work researching the truth behind electronic voting machines. In the first half, she revealed how hackers are able to access voting machines, as well as how the voter lists were possibly hacked in 2016. A database of voters who rarely vote can be electronically harvested and subject to manipulation, she explained. Regarding the claims that the Russians meddled with the US election, she found that the data was less than convincing-- there was no evidence that they hacked into the US voting system, and the revealed Clinton campaign emails may have been leaks rather than hacks.

At a recent hackers event in Las Vegas called DefCon, there was a voting machine demo set up at the "Hacker's Village," and every machine succumbed to being hacked, she reported. There's been a push for people to cast their electoral votes via computers or cell phones, but that would be a very opaque process that would be hard to investigate for fraud, she commented. Harris favors the "Brakey" voting method, a simple 3-step process: Preserve and make public "ballot images," connect the ballot image to the actual ballot using a unique ID number, and make sure the the ballots are public record, open for inspection.

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Author and photographer Will Hart has been searching for how life originated on Earth and what the truth is regarding our human heritage and identity. In the latter half, he discussed evidence for the theory that ETs engineered humans, and terraformed our planet. He believes there was alien intervention for the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, noting how the ancient Egyptians lacked the tools to construct a 48-story precision-engineered building. We have similar historical accounts from Sumeria, to the Bible to the Dogon tribe, he said: "Beings from other planets visited here and imparted knowledge to our ancestors and then left."

The beings, he suggested, might hail from a planet in our solar system on a long elliptical orbit (the Sumerian concept). Another type of evidence for ET visitation are the elongated skulls, which could represent human-alien hybrids, he indicated. It's possible that the ET missions sent robotic beings, and Hart cited ancient depictions of robots in Mexico. The aliens may have also built structures on the islands that were once Atlantis, and the native population in the Canary Islands, who had a number of unusual traits, could have been direct descendants of the Atlanteans, he theorized. For more, including images, check out Hart's Facebook page.

News guests: Capt. Kelly Sweeney, Lauren Weinstein, Mish Shedlock

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