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Lynn Bernstein
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Ah... this is starting to make sense... why Dems and Reps and @NCSBE are ignoring expert advice to use #HandMarkedPaperBallots. Even @NC_Governor received donations from ES&S/Printelect
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nccivitas.org/2015/lewis/
abc11.com/archive/759487…
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Three Raleigh News & Observer articles & an editorial published from Aug. 6 -Aug. 12 (2010) outline allegations implying political favors & monopoly in Owen G. Dunn & Printelect's dealings with @NCSBE staff and the staffs of county election boards across the state.
These are some of the same people still making decisions on what equipment to use and where to get their ballots printed.
Andrew Owens/Printelect/ES&S "I've given to Democrats including Bev Perdue, William Wainwright, Alice Underhill and Republicans including Richard Burr, Scott Dacey, Jean Preston, and Walter Jones..."
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LB
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Being a curious test engineer, I decided to see if the ink printed on the ES&S barcode ballot summary cards could be erased. The eraser from #2 pencil does not work, but a white eraser does! @DHSgov @CISAKrebs @MarilynRMarks1 @ronwyden @VotingVillageDC @maddow @MaddowBlog
The ES&S ballot summary cards can easily be erased and will most likely fade over time. I directly asked an ES&S representative if this was thermal paper and if the ink could fade and was told no. @jennycohn1 @philipbstark @mikefarb1 @jpanzer @amyklobuchar @VotingVillageDC
Rubbing alcohol also removes text from ES&S barcode ballots.
What else don't we know about ES&S ballot summary cards? This is part of our "critical infrastructure" @CISAHarrell @VerifiedVoting @umbernhard @MITelectionlab @CISAManfra#HandMarkedPaperBallots #RiskLimitingAudits
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Jennifer Cohn
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ES&S implies that, although MACHINE-marked “paper ballots” can be hacked, we shouldn’t worry bc voters will be able to detect any such hacking while “verifying” the paper ballots. But voters could NOT do this during PA’s own testing of the ExpressVote XL chosen by @PhillyVotes!
@kskoglund @RebeccaRhynhart @PAAuditorGen @Citizen_Sharon @POVPhilly
See pages 68 and 74: dos.pa.gov/VotingElection…
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Jennifer Cohn
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Dear Media, It is irresponsible to continue pretending we have a system that allows us to know whether or not our “official” election results are legitimate. 1/
2/ The terrible truth is that neither you, nor I, nor any other voter knows what happened inside the electronic voting machines, election management systems, ballot marking devices, and tabulators used to count our votes.
3/ All electronic vote tallies can be hacked through the internet, even if the voting machine itself isn’t connected to it. freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/09/20/whi…
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Jennifer Cohn
@jennycohn1
I have emailed the show multiple times with no response. I’ve tagged @maddow and @maddow blog many, many times with no response. Before today’s post, I had been tagging you and the other producers on all the news in Georgia in Philly. No response. 1/
Here is one of my pieces on Georgia, where Kemp’s surrogates are fast tracking a bill through the state legislature this week to allow barcode voting, which all independent cybersecurity experts to provide an opinion have advised against. whowhatwhy.org/2019/01/11/geo… 2/
Here is a letter from 24 experts to GA’s SAFE Commission recommending #HandMarkedPaperBallots as a primary system & advising against ballot marking devices (BMDs) as a primary system. The barcode voting system that GOP lawmakers want for GA is a BMD. 3/ scribd.com/document/39704…
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Jennifer Cohn
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#HandMarkedPaperBallots are likely easier for most voters than figuring out a touchscreen. And with HMPB's, voters don't have to try to proof read a machine printout to make sure the machine didn't cheat. But @MarkNiesse's propaganda piece tries to flip these facts inside out. 1/
Here's his latest piece of drivel. He claims that touchscreen ballot marking devices (BMDs) are easier to use than #HandMarkedPaperBallots based on a pilot study of BMDs only. Voters did not compare BMDs to HMPBs & were not asked which they preferred. ajc.com/news/state--re… 2/
@MarkNiesse's article also claims--with precisely zero factual basis--that touchscreen ballot marking devices are more accurate than hand marked paper ballots. These claims exemplify propaganda techniques:"distortion of data" & "card stacking." 3/ uvm.edu/~jleonard/AGRI… …
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Jennifer Cohn
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Israel’s cybersecurity chief recently told @PAAuditorGen & a delegation “point blank that the Russians are attempting 2 screw around w/ their election right now. The idea that they’re not going to try to do anything in PA or the US in 2020 is a fantasy.” 1/whowhatwhy.org/2019/02/12/phi…
@PAAuditorGen has concerns about Philly’s voting system procurement process and “wants to know...whether anyone ‘receive[d] a donation or a trip from any lobbyists or election vendor company because this RFP does appear that it was written in favor of one vendor [ES&S].” 2/
Philly’s commission appears poised to pick “the ExpressVote XL ballot-marking device, which...wld fly in the face of the consensus opinion among independent cybersecurity election experts. who recommend hand-marked paper ballots...for most voters, not ballot-marking devices.” 3/
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Marlon Solomon
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@lucianaberger @msjenniferjames She's obviously got a thing about you Luciana, I mean, how could anyone be this angry with you for wanting the expulsion of a Holocaust deniers carried by uncompromised Head of Disputes?

Surely her problem is with Jews, not you?
@lucianaberger @msjenniferjames I mean, she isn't hassling, abusing and lying about any other Labour MP who abstained on this vote, Saudi Arabia also persecute gay people and women but she only seems to be interested in you, I mean what other explanation could it be apart from that you are Jewish?
@lucianaberger @msjenniferjames And what's really weird is that she doesn't mind other people who say antisemitic things, she even puts them on her profile page.

I mean, it's just soooooooo strange.
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