31,000 Illegal Votes in Georgia? Digging Into the Numbers
Thursday, October 22, 2026
You’re listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 21, 2026.
We open with a polling firm called Wedgewood Polls, which admitted to fabricating most of its published numbers and called it a social experiment. Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin has permanently banned the firm from its averages and forecasts. We talk about which way the made-up numbers leaned, which outlets ran them, and what happened in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. We also cover FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s warning to broadcasters, how push polls work, and whether this is one bad actor or a sign of a bigger problem with polling.
In the Top 3 Things You Need to Know, a Michigan man has been arrested for allegedly flying drones over Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana. Russia has released Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired teacher held for four years, after President Trump’s direct talks with Putin. Forty people have been charged in a $42 million SNAP fraud crackdown announced by Vice President J.D. Vance and the Attorney General. Then we turn to late night, where Jimmy Fallon has taken up the anti-Trump mantle, and we debate whether the blame lies with Fallon or with his writers and producers.
Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson, join us to settle a grammar question: “she and I” versus “her and me.” We get into grandmothers who corrected our letters, a love of commas, and what it feels like to be corrected by a loved one versus a stranger online.
Next we look at oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz at near pre-war volumes. We cover why gas prices haven’t come down yet, how Saudi pipeline projects are changing the picture, and what’s happening to British maritime insurance.
In Digging Deep, we look at Georgia citizen Mark Davis and his analysis of voter registration and change-of-address records. We cover the federal court ruling in his favor after the Fair Fight lawsuit, his projection of potentially improper ballots in this fall’s elections, and our back-of-the-envelope extrapolations to other swing states. We also talk about what Arkansas has done differently.
We also cover Montana, where a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel running as the Democratic Senate nominee says she was pressured to drop out and endorse an independent, and was even offered a job to do it.
For our Bright Spot, the WNBA has declared that Enos Cantor-Freedom and Royce White are not eligible for its draft because only women can play in the league. We dig into the question the league still hasn’t answered.
We close with a Moment of Whoa. GM is dropping the traditional oil dipstick from its 2027 Silverado and Sierra V8s, and a Texas man found a bag with more than $128,000 on top of an ATM and made sure it got back to its owner.
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