Thread by @heartfulmom

🗳OPPOSE #HB316 Update!
Per @PeachResist - Bill for Unsecured Barcoded Ballots headed to the GA House Rules Committee.

☎️ TOP PRIORITY: CALL + EMAIL Speaker Ralston and the Leaders of the Rules Committee TODAY and thru the weekend.

🔥They need to feel the heat!

TY 🍑!

2. @sheaforgeorgia comments after the GA’s State House Election Committee Mtg on Wed. 2/20.

🍑🗳Highlights:

Cybersecurity experts @rad_atl and Wenke Lee - both highly respected, experienced PhDs - were dismissed and treated with disdain by GA Legislators - This is unacceptable!

3. @sheaforgeorgia: Both cybersecurity experts “STRONGLY RECOMMENDED HANDMARKED PAPER BALLOTS read by an Optical Scanners” - but GA GOP Legislators minimized their data and went down the “Make the Lie Big” route - widely used by MAGA hats when the truth blocks their corruption.

4. “Why would we perpetuate this lack of integrity? Georgia citizens deserve to have confidence that their accurate vote is counted.”

- @sheaforgeorgia

Barcoded Ballots are NOT SAFE.
They cost $100 MILLION, are inefficient leading to long lines.

❌ Barcodes can’t be audited!

5. 🗳 Prof. Wenke Lee is the ONLY CYBERSECURITY EXPERT on GA’s SAFE COMMISSION. Why??

🚨Clearly @GovKemp is continuing his duck and cover-up; “nothing to see here” election methods - he and his incompetent, corrupt @GaRepublicans conspirators have been using since 2002.

6. “Basic Security Requirements for Voting Systems” - Prof. Wenke Lee

🚨*The most critical cybersecurity risk in a voting system is that votes are not counted correctly due to cyberattacks.

✅ *Therefore, a ‘Strong Software Independent’ Voting System is required.

7. ✅ A Voting System must “maintain a trail of voter evidence that can’t be tampered or deleted by ANY software component.”

2018 Federal Hearing: Kemp’s Team exhibited their willful ignorance and faux expertise by claiming GA’s election data is “air-gapped” and safe. It’s NOT.

8. Prof. Lee, Cybersecurity Expert:

🗳‼️ PAPER BALLOTS MUST:

*Be easily and clearly readable and manually countable.

*Show each and every vote EXACTLY AS CAST BY THE VOTER

*A HUMAN must be able to see the evidence of the voter’s original act.

HUMANS CAN’T READ BARCODES

9. Handmarked Paper Ballots (HPB)
🗳v.
ES&S Barcoded Ballots (EBB)

Accurately + Verifiably + Reliably Captures Voter’s Intent?

✅ HPB
❌ EBB

Can be Audited + Recounted?

✅ HPB
❌ EBB

Rx by ALL Cybersecurity Experts?

✅ HPB
❌ EBB

Sidebar: So far I’ve received two responses to my emails to GA Reps re: Handmarked Paper Ballots.

two.

A lovely letter from @MaryFrancesGa37 and a note from @LikeMike4Cobb.

It’s a start... #gapol

Speaker Ralston allegedly “abused his power to delay cases against criminal defendants he represents...57 times over a 2yr period.”

So far, 10 GA State House Reps have called for his resignation.

🤔 How will this affect Rules Committee Vote for/against ES&S Barcoded Ballots?

🍑 Note for GA State Senators + Reps:

Those who respond to voters’ communications personally are more likely to be re-elected.

You may not agree with voters’ statements, but responding with a thoughtful, fact-based letter - will leave voters with a positive impression.