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1/Just listened to my colleague Wenke Lee school Georgia's SAFE Commission on election system cyber security. Advanced Persistent Threats, stealthy exploits,redundancy, resilience & the ability to reconcile to a paper ballot. It's now part of public record. All the high points.
2/I hope they were all listening.
Unfortunately no. More on this later.
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/1 Thanks to Brad for informed discussion. We’ve heard about other virtues of ballot verification that are not impacted by these results but lets focus: it is likely that most humans are unable to verify the correctness of ballots cast moments before.
bradblog.com/?p=12829
2/It’s not a matter of ballot design, verification logistics or other practical considerations. The most likely explanation is fundamental limit on human cognition. Limitation presents special problems for secure voting, including post election audits.
3/If confirmed by other experiments, it’s the limited nature of working (short term) memory that is at fault. That would present not only problems for verifiability but also for usability and accessibility for disabled voters.
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1/Thirty Ways to Exploit GA's election system vulnerabilities not requiring an internet connection. @BrianKempGA and election officals endlessly repeat system is not connected to the Internet therefore secure.
politics.myajc.com/news/state--re…
It doesn't matter. Here's 30 reasons why.
2/Before we begin be aware that SOS is remarkably ambiguous about what "no Internet" means. No DIRECT connection, no connection during ELECTIONS, never even DURING TESTS, NEVER EVER NOT EVEN A CHANCE, voting machines ONLY, ALL system parts...These are distractions. Don't matter.
3/First of all, none are true. Simplest counter example: We know that KSU servers holding critical programming were not only connected to Internet, they were misconfigured to allow open access, had been indexed by Google and therefore seen/accessed by millions. But let's go on..
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1/I've been asked how malware capable of undetectable manipulation can find its way onto computers used in GA elections. 2 Windows systems are used. Windows CE for Diebold touchscreen voting machines and desktop versions of Windows for tabulation. Here are the vulnerabilities.
2/ Windows CE is the mobile version of Windows used in hand held devices around the year 2000 (remember?) Windows CE basically has no security features at all. These are the vulnerabilities. Windows CE is an obsolete Microsoft product. It has not been strengthened.
3/Hackers cracking familiar desktop Windows OS try to take over when the computer is first turned on when various tests are run and necessary software is loaded. If something bad happens here, abandon all hope. You'll never find the malware bc its hiding deep b4 even the OS loads
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Members of #BryanKemp's voting system commission, SAFE meet Wednesday, December 12 to decide on HACKABLE VOTING MACHINES for #Georgia.
Only permitting public comment AFTER decision.
Ask your state reps to attend.
10 to 4 at 237 Coliseum Dr, Macon GA
#PaperBallots #GApol
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Find your #GA State Rep here: house.ga.gov/Documents/Info…
Senators: senate.ga.gov/senators/en-US…
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Let Georgia's SAFE Commission know that paper ballots WITHOUT BARCODES are the only reasonable choice for elections.
Emails below.
#PaperBallots #GApol
Call to Action thread from @IndivisibleGAco
Commission will meet to choose how to spend as much as $100 MILLION on new equipment for Georgia elections. That equipment may be no better than what they are replacing!
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Georgia! The SAFE Commission violated GA Sunshine laws by wheeling & dealing over new voting equipment behind closed doors! Pls email them my sourced article (below) re: the unrzbl dangers of touchscreens generally & touchscreen barcode ballot markers specifically. @markniesse 1/
2/ Kemp is hell bent on buying @ESSVote’s ExpressVote, the new machine of choice for jurisdictions with a history of suspect election outcomes. Don’t let it happen in Georgia - you have been through election hell already! medium.com/@jennycohn1/st…
3/ As explained in the heavily sourced article above, the ExpressVote causes long lines, has a screen described by unhappy purchasers as a “design defect,” and summary cards that have NOT been subjected to human usability testing, which per the inventor of Risk Limiting Audits...
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Huge ruling in litigation challenging #Georgia’s vulnerable, paperless election system. bit.ly/2OyWzi3 1/
Court declined to require paper ballots for this November, but found “with a measure of true caution” that Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits. 2/
“Plaintiffs have shown that their Fourteenth Amendment rights to Due Process and Equal Protection have been burdened” by GA’s vulnerable system. 3/
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Hey #GEORGIA!
Ready for #Midterms2018?
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1/ Good luck with that.

From Friday the 13th's grand jury indictment:
"For example, on or about Friday, Oct 28, 2016 KOVALEV and his co-conspirators visited the websites of certain counties in
Georgia
Iowa
Florida
to identify vulnerabilities."
@metaquest 2/ This also happened on Friday, Oct 28 2016:
"Comey sent a letter to members of Congress advising them that the FBI was reviewing more emails. Members of Congress leaked the information to the public within minutes.[106]."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Com…
@metaquest 3/ So Russia GRU was noodling around with voter registration/election websites for Georgia, Iowa and Florida *on the same day* that Comey's letter re: HRC emails was leaked to press by @jasoninthehouse, who then resigned from Congress less than a year later (on Jun 30, 2017)🤔.
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During yesterday's House hearing on cybersecurity for voting machines, @RepJohnDuncan, a GOP Representative from Tennessee, called for HAND counted ELECTIONS! I transcribed his testimony. Here it is.THREAD.
1. "I want to go back into this Defcon conference from this past July… This article I have says that participants tested over 25 pieces of equipment and every piece was effectively breached in some manner. …"
2. "By the end of the conference, every piece of equipment in the Voting Village was effectively breached in some manner. Participants with ... only limited tools & resources were quite capable of undermining the confidentiality, integrity & availability of these systems.”
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