I am sorely disappointed in @wsbtv & @AaronDiamantWSB for the very misleading reporting they did on the new voting system. I hate posting this video because it helps spread lies and dishonesty and gross misrepresentations, but I have to show people the evidence. So follow along..
2/ Here is the ridiculous propaganda that @wsbtv delivered to its viewers. Please read thread below to see the rebuttal and the importance of punching a hole in the the SOS lies, promoted by WSBTV. wsbtv.com/news/local/sec…
3/ WSBTV video (from the SOS website) shows a full face ballot printing out of the BMD, with full ballot content and text, and no barcode (QR code.) They even say that the voter will see a full ballot. But it is untrue. The voter get a barcoded ballot that looks like this.
4/ It is unbelievable that the SOS and @wsbtv use a video of a completely different product than what the state is buying--hiding the fact that the purchase is for barcode ballot machines. They know that voters object to barcodes, so they mislead and show a traditional ballot.
4/ WSBTV says that voters in Rockdale County have been voting on the machines for 2 years. No, they have never voted on the machines. They had ONE pilot election in 11/2017 on ES&S machines. WSBTV says that NY, IL, LA are primarily using these machines. That is totally false.
5/ Those states are primarily using hand marked paper ballots--NOT these BMDs.
Then Sarah of @CommonCauseGA states that the machine results are verifiable and auditable. The experts agree that the results CANNOT be audited--as common sense will tell you.
6/ The Fake News award for GA election issues reporting goes to @wsbtv and @AaronDiamantWSB. I am calling on them to spend as much time correcting their errors on air as they did promoting them.
@wsbtv@AaronDiamantWSB 7/ I am also calling on Sara Henderson of @CommonCauseGA to correct her comments on the record. This is the very type of system that she lobbied hard against during the legislative session.
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Thanks, @cklaus1 for focus on this! Perhaps now it will get attention it has needed. The press has repeatedly declined to cover this, and written it off as nothing new or important. There was opportunity to mitigate, and GA SOS just laughed it off and made jokes about it. 1/
2/ This extreme democracy-threatening vulnerability could have been easily mitigated by using hand marked paper ballots, counted by scanners with robust post-election audits. But states with this vulnerability are certifying the Nov election w/o even checking, ignoring the risk.
3/ Even now, the Sen. Bob Casey PA recount should heed this and demand a hand recount, not machine recount! It’s so simple, but would take 2-3 days. Officials don’t want to be bothered. 70% of PA voters voted by hand marked ballots. Just count them, independent of software!
"No concerns" about the "consistent" ballot secrecy problems that the St. Elec. Bd. Chair is finally acknowledging after refusing for years to deal with this violation of voters' constitutional rights and violating GA and federal law. 🧵1/
3/ The problem rarely can be remedied in the polling place. Turning machines to wall often allows a voter aisle way so that passing voters see vote displays of others. Sadly, SOS/ SEB pressure has "normalized" this constitutional violation.
Hey, @bluestein, @markniesse , can you explain why Dems and officials are against this rule to account for the NUMBER of ballots (not votes!) before sending the ballots and memory cards to HQ?
It is standard requirement in most states, including bluest of states. 1/
2/ Ballots are often found in scanner write-in bins, emergency bins, scanner crevices long after the election. Test ballots are found in scanners. The right time to collect and RECONCILE and account for all ballots is before workers and watchers leave the polls.
3/ If I were poll worker and told to take ballots to office from polling place and no one would inventory them to count the number of ballots they were giving me before I left ,I would refuse the job. I don't want to be responsible for bringing too few or too many!
Coffee County again! It appears that the Bd. of Commissioners is trying to block the Bd. of Elections from initiating an independent investigation of the massive voting system breaches.
2/ The theft of the voting system software that Trump's allies arranged and paid for has never been meaningfully investigated.
Sec. Raffensperger and St. Elec. Bd told the federal court in 2022 that there was "active and ongoing" investigation, but that was false!
3/ SOS investigator testified in court that he was told to "open a file, but hold off" on actually investigation. No investigation was done.
Eventually, they gave it to GBI to do criminal part of the investigation, but did nothing on the security issues or civil violations.
The debate about the Fulton Co. lawsuit on certification continues to lack context of how GA elections work. The progressive groups opposing the fundamentals of this lawsuit may be find it backfires on them. They really don't want what they seem to be asking for here. 1/
2/ Yes, while certification is SUPPOSED to be "ministerial" and required if there is an accurate canvass of votes, the opponents don't understand that GA doesn't have meaningful canvassing. An election board should NOT just blindly sign whatever pops out of the machines!
3/ The Sec. of State office has no required forms or procedures for canvassing. We often see that the number of voters is not reconciled to the number of ballots. It is not unusual to find AFTER certification, stray memory cards of ballots or ballots left in scanner not counted.
GA voters are getting alerts in top right corner of their MVP's like below. For many voters, the message is NOT TRUE. ✖️ Ineligible voters are getting this message too.
Why did SOS do this? 🤷♀️ Ask him. 1/
2/ You can vote in a runoff contest in the same party you voted in during the May primary. You cannot switch parties for the runoff. If you voted only nonpartisan ballot or did not vote, you can vote in either party's runoff. For example....
3/ If you voted a D ballot in May, but the only county runoff is the R sheriff's primary, you are not permitted to vote in the runoff. If you voted an R ballot or nonpartisan ballot, or did not vote at all, you CAN vote in the R sheriff's runoff.