Yesterday @NCSBE met to review new voting systems. I drove to Raleigh to speak after submitting the letter linked below for @CoalitionGoodGv. But I thought I'd made a wrong turn ↩️ and ended up in Atlanta. You'll see why. 1. Room was packed with thoughtful citizens to comment.
2/ Many had taken leave from work to come. Some drove many hours from coasts and mountains to speak because they care about democratic values and fair elections. 3. The Chairman was arrogant, hostile, rude, disrespectful of the citizens.😡 4. Gave these citizens TWO min to speak,
3/ when there was much that needed to be said. But he might as well have given us 2 seconds each. 5. He and R's didn't listen or read any facts. Minds made up to favor vendors over voters. 6. Every single citizen was well prepared and opposed barcodes. 7. The 2 R's and the Chair
4/ had no interest in hearing them. 8. The claims made by the chair and the R's at the end were embarrassingly ignorant. Claiming that RLAs will solve the problem with inability to audit the barcode ballots!!
5/ I checked my GPS.🧭 It said I was in Raleigh, not GA. I visited family in Raleigh, ---so it must have been NC---but deja vu GA in the extreme.
Where do public officials learn to behave this way??⁉️
We citizens must take back our elections!
Dems, this was a Dem Chair!
@CoalitionGoodGv 7/ I am not a Democrat, so my voice will hold no sway with @NCDemParty, but Dem voters should demand that Cooper fire Circosta as Chair immediately. No 2nd chance! The job is too important for an ignorant jerk.
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How did votes for MICKEY MOUSE magically 🪄 get converted to official votes for candidate J. Clements in Sumter County, GA?
@CoalitionGoodGv letter to lawmakers here--
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🧵1/ conta.cc/4hggZtz
2/ Over 1,600 bogus votes were altered and officially counted for the only candidate in a local election. Why??
3/ But Sec. Raffensperger and his election audit contractor claimed that all local races had been audited and achieved close to 100% accuracy.
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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.