1/ At the risk of losing all my friends in the election security community, I think that it may be time for us to STOP🛑 calling for money federal or state money 💰 for voting machine replacement. The considerable money being spent for new machines is doing more harm than good.
2/ Officials are spending hundreds of millions on BMDs that cannot produce auditable results. (Think DE, GA, SC) Some are moving from auditable to unauditable systems because "modernization." Politicians want credit for approving spending for new machines---no matter the quality.
3/ Advocacy groups are spending millions advocating for urgent passage of election "security" bills for even more such spending. It's like calling for "More beer for drunken sailors!" 🍻🍺
4/ Those who don't carefully study the nuanced specifics of reports like this @BrennanCenter report, can easily adopt the idea paper=good, paperless=bad. It is simply not true.
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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.
Coffee County has uploaded no results as of 10:45.
And Bibb County has not uploaded Mail ballots or early voting.
Is this is any way related to the recent cyberattacks?
2/ Also both Coffee and Bibb have had highly restricted voting system software put in the hands of unauthorized actors. But no one has really investigated to figure out if there was damage to the system.
Maybe it is just coincidence, but they shouldn't have to guess!
3/ It is REALLY hard to get good information on what exactly is happening, so it is hard to guess from afar why these two recently attacked counties are not able to report results.
Many damning documents re: Coffee voting system software theft have still not been extracted from Coffee Bd. and their attorneys, Hall Booth Smith. We've made massive efforts to get the Court to force production and sanction them.
2/ Everyone has seen the infamous videos of the intruders starting the first breach: 11alive.com/article/news/p…
3/ But it took months of chipping away at the Hall Booth Smith "inaccurate" representations that the videos did not exist to finally secure and publish them.
Their reckless and sketchy claims of disappeared videos and emails caused massive delays.
2/ It’s very likely that Biden still wins handily if the Fulton votes were accurately counted. However, SOS and SEB are too embarrassed and timid to find out and prove it. It only serves to undermine confidence.
SEB should have insisted on independent review of this complaint.
3/ It’s a flat out lie that they cannot determine whether the ballots were included in the official tally. We @CoalitionGoodGv have done it many times.
Why did SEB accept this inaccurate “finding?”
This sets up 2024 for more controversy and bitterness.