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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We filed formal request with St. Elec. Bd. today to require manual recounts as GA Law requires.
See our press release explaining the proposal. 1/
⬇️ conta.cc/3Wa9c8y
2/ GA law requires hand counts for recounts, and the law should be followed, particularly as some 2024 contests could be close and need scrutiny.
Touchscreen-generated ballots will still NOT BE TRUSTWORTHY, but at least the "official" vote--the printed text-- will be counted.
3/ In 2020, when Sec. Raffensperger ran the St. Elec. Bd., they adopted a Recount Rule that defied the law, by causing recounts to be machine (QR code) counted, when law requires manual recounts.
It's time to stop ignoring the law enacted by the 2019 General Assembly.
Today, @CoalitionGoodGv and @FSFP filed a complaint urging the GA St. Elec. Bd. to immediately investigate a potential voting system breach in Bibb County, GA.
We don't have many details, but with the equipment being prepared now for the upcoming primary, this merits attention!
2/ We asked SEB to immediately investigate computer scientist's claims that he had forensically examined "voting system components" in Bibb County. (He provably did so in Coffee County.)
3/ We asked SEB to fulfill its duty to investigate independently, and not send the complaint to the SOS, where such election security issues go to die.
As noted in the letter, a SOS investigator admitted at trial that he was told to "hold off" investigating Coffee.
2/ The link above is our news update and links to plaintiffs' response to Raffensperger's appeal of the court order to testify.
It is a good read. (Not a dry legal brief.) Here is the brief itself-- …altionforgoodgovernance.sharefile.com/d-sc6e01a18549…
3/ Raffensperger seems to have a hard time "walking the talk." In his book he writes that the truth comes out under oath in courts, where the "ultimate fact check" occurs.
( A fact-check he wants to avoid about Coffee County and voting system security.)
2/ The breaches occurred in Jan 2021. Raffensperger says that they were alerted shortly afterward and his investigators were "digging and digging." But he says they were lied to.
Is that why SOS has no files showing any investigation?
3/ No one has been able to explain why the SOS told the court that he opened the investigation in February 2022 (a year after the breaches) but still no meaningful investigation files were created.
SOS and St. Elec. Bd. never interviewed one person or requested one document.
This "letter of invitation" from Coffee will be interesting. I hope it surfaces soon.
🧵here on what we @CoalitionGoodGv know and don't know about that.
(Learned through discovery in our Curling case.) 1/
2/ We first l learned that "written invitation" existed when we obtained text messages from SullivanStrickler, the forensics folks that Powell paid $26K to go copy the state's software in Coffee.
3/ We know that Eric Chaney (Coffee Bd. Member) told Misty to get out the letter (Dec. 31, 2020)
In stories today by @CNN and @11AliveNews , (linked below) and many stories they spawned, text messages among the Sidney Powell/Trump team are featured.
If you want to see those messages and how we @CoalitionGoodGv unearthed them, see 🧵below. 1/