.@NCSBE chair disingenuously prioritized expediency over getting POLICY RIGHT even as NC voters universally & forcefully rejected barcode ballots. The Board, led by the chair, voted against a provision to prevent barcode BMDs because of expediency.
This is really horrible for NC's elections. The voters spoke out loud & clear how they want their elections & @GovRoyCooper 's new appointment ignored them. NC's Board of Elections has been riven by controversy & poor management. Voters in NC are reasonably...
@GovRoyCooper skeptical of the Board. Today's action will not engender trust. Moreover, NC's elections will be under a microscope next year. The Board has voted against transparency and auditability, inviting questions, doubts and lack of confidence in the system. This is a very, very...
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Powell has gotten a sweetheart deal in the GA RICO case. But the voting system breach in Coffee County was one part of a multistate plot to take voting software from multiple states. The voting software was unlawfully taken, then distributed among Trump allies & election... 1/
...deniers. The distribution of voting software among domestic extremists poses threats to elections going forward. 2/ See this article: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Powell was involved in other voting system breaches, specifically in MI. Stephanie Lambert, Powell's Kraken co-counsel,is indicted in MI for similar voting system breaches that implicate Powell, but Powell wasn't charged in MI, nor is there evidence the feds are investigating.
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🧵According to @guardian, Willis is likely to charge "computer trespass" which is almost certainly the effort by the Trump campaign to unlawfully access, copy & covertly distribute copies of the software that runs all of GA's voting system, uncovered by @MarilynRMarks1 1/
This stunning crime was not just ignored, but denied for months by the @GaSecofState. It was only discovered by private citizens in civil litigation. Here's @GabrielSterling saying it didn't happen, even after he'd been told the culprits admitted it. 2/
It is only thanks to the hard work & fortitude of @CoalitionGoodGv, co-plaintiffs, their attorneys,experts, & reporters, @emmersbrown, @jonswaine, @ZcohenCNN, @katebrumback, @Jose_Pagliery @byaaroncdavis, @markniesse, @richardsdoug & more this consequential plot was uncovered.3/
Uber admits covering up 2016 hacking, avoids prosecution in U.S. settlement. This is galling and despicable, and it also relates importantly to election security and democracy. I'll tell you how. 1/ valleynewslive.com/2022/07/23/ube…
According to this story, "Uber Technologies Inc on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with U.S. prosecutors to avoid criminal charges...Uber admitted that its personnel...2/
...failed to report the November 2016 hacking to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, even though the agency had been investigating the ride-sharing company’s data security...[Uber] arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin and have them sign nondisclosure agreements...4/
This is stunning - another instance of radicalized insiders allowing Trump extremists to access voting systems. There are several important points of context to add to this remarkable reporting 1/🧵
This report indicates that the plague of election officials that have permitted potentially criminal access to voting machines extends beyond MI, CO, OH, PA and NC to GA. 2/ reuters.com/investigates/s…
This @washingtonpost
report is especially troubling because the alleged election system breach occurred in deep-red Coffee County, GA. Most notably, Coffee County was cited in the draft executive order as a reason for the DOD to seize voting machines. 3/ politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
Yesterday the @ABAesq held a webinar on accessible voting which provided important information and insights regarding the challenges that voters w/disabilities face. But @ABAesq did a disservice to its viewers by not providing the facts regarding the severe security risks... 1/
...associated with the electronic or online return of voted ballots. Instead of including the @ABANatSec & @ABAcyber, or other cybersecurity & voting experts, the webinar relied on @evelhill, who misrepresented key points regarding the security of internet voting & the... 2/
...research & recommendations against online voting that have been published by @DHSgov 's @CISAgov & @FBI, & @theNASEM -claiming falsely that those studies and their warnings are only applicable to proposals for ALL voters to vote online. This is plainly false on its face. 3/
Internet voting has been snarkily called the "#Theranos of voting." #ElizabethHolmes trial watchers may be surprised to know HOW similar, as internet voting vendors pulled one of the exact same tricks that #Holmes did, which led to her fraud conviction. Thread 1/
One of the most damning pieces of evidence that compelled a guilty verdict in the #Holmestrial was the fact that Elizabeth put logos from pharmaceutical companies, like @pfizer, on reports that Theranos itself had authored, so that it looked like Pfizer endorsed the findings. 2/
Well, funny story. Voatz, a blockchain internet voting system vendor, wrote a report that purported to be findings of a @DHSgov assessment of their system. And they went ahead and slapped the DHS seal and logo right on top, so that it looked like the report was written by DHS.3/