On Tuesday's edition of "Corporations and Democracy," Steve and Annie welcomed Kathryn Donahue, retired board member of the California Nurses Association (CNA), and Martha Kuhl, secretary/treasurer for National Nurses United (NNU) for an election year update on single payer health care in California, and where the candidates stand on this issue.  You can listen or download the show here, and catch up with past broadcasts on the show's archive page.

​"Corporations and Democracy" airs at 1 p.m. Pacific time on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, on KZYX&Y, Mendocino Public Radio. You can stream it from the website live, and podcasts are posted here a few days after the show airs. 

VoterGA reports that the Georgia Senate has taken its first major step toward voter-marked paper ballots, with its Ethics Committee voting to abandon both unverifiable electronic voting and “new wave” technology that counts votes in computer-generated barcodes rather than human-readable marks. The committee's vote, which came during a hearing on Senate Bill SB403, was unanimous. 

"Some ballot marking devices employ a touchscreen to create bar coded selections of voter choices that are interpreted internally by a scanner and accumulated when the votes are cast. The unverifiable bar code technology, promoted by certain vendors and the office of the Secretary of State, enables a 'new wave' of hacking possibilities and significant potential for undetectable errors," writes VoterGA in this press release.