Thread by @LuluFriesdat

#ElectionSecurity funding will NOT actually have to be used for Election Security.
$425M allocated in bill to be announced later today.
"the funding deal used the language in the Senate version" which has NO #security requirements.
thehill.com/policy/cyberse… via @jennycohn1

@jennycohn1 2/ Why is this bad? Because states will be pressured by vendors to buy risky & expensive #votingmachines that do not protect voters or #taxpayers. Plz call members of the appropriations committee & ask them to include the language from #HR3351.

https://twitter.com/LuluFriesdat/status/1206618434768785409

@jennycohn1 3/ What is #HR3351? It's the 2020 govt. funding bill that passed the House. It's a massive bill that includes $ & #security requirements to help protect #Election2020.

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…

Here is the language that relates to #ElectionSecurity.
#SMARTelections @jennycohn1

@jennycohn1 4/ Why is the #security language from #HR3351 better than the language from the #Senate appropriations bill #S2524?
*HR3351 REQUIRES that direct-record electronic (DRE) voting machines that we know are dangerously insecure must be replaced.
#SMARTelections #ElectionSecurity

@jennycohn1 5/ What we replace DRE machines w/ matters
HR3351 REQUIRES "a voting system/w/ an individual durable voter-verified paper ballot/marked by the voter by hand or /w/a non-tabulating ballot-marking device/so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her ballot by hand."

@jennycohn1 6/ What is a "non-tabulating" ballot-marking device [BMD] & why is it better? We need BMDs for voters who cannot mark a ballot by hand. But some BMDs print a ballot & also count the ballot. When a machine prints & counts a ballot it can cheat. So we want "non-tabulating" BMDs.

@jennycohn1 7/ So the language from #HR3351 BANS risky "all-in-one" or "hybrid" machines because they are BMDs that "tabulate" or count the vote. But it would also BAN the use of BMDs for "ALL" voters because it REQUIRES that voters have the option to mark a ballot "by hand." #SMARTelections

@jennycohn1 8/ This doesn't address voting sytems already purchased. The bill only covers new systems purchased w/these $. It also would not solve the problem of #VoteByMail which does have risks. But new systems purchased w/ these funds would provide #HandMarkedPaperBallots. #SMARTelections

@jennycohn1 9/The PROBLEM is that the #security language from #HR3351 is NOT being adopted in the funding bills agreed to over the w/e. SO INSTEAD WE WILL HAVE NO SECURITY REQUIREMENTS & states will be pressured by vendors to buy the same RISKY systems they have been purchasing for 15 years.

@jennycohn1 10/ CALL congress members who are on the appropriations committee & DEMAND that they put the #security language from #HR3351 back into the #funding bill

HAVE THEM WATCH THE CLIPS FROM OUR #SENATE BRIEFING. They are short & informative
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List below:

@jennycohn1 11/ House appropriations committee
•Mike Quigley, Chairman
•José Serrano
•Matt Cartwright
•Sanford Bishop Jr.
•Norma Torres
•Charlie Crist
•Ann Kirkpatrick
•Tom Graves, Ranking Member
•Mark Amodei
•Chris Stewart
•David Joyce
CALL & Demand #ElectionSecurity

@jennycohn1 12
CALL & Demand #ElectionSecurity
Senate appropriations committee
•John Kennedy, Chairman
•Christopher Coons
•Jerry Moran
•John Boozman
•Steve Daines
•James Lankford
•Richard Durbin
•Joe Manchin
•Chris Van Hollen

#SMARTelections

@jennycohn1 12/ Ask members of the appropriations committee to watch this quick playlist of clips from our #Senate Briefing. They briefly explain, why giving states funding w/NO #SECURITY REQUIREMENTS is dangerous.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

#SMARTelections

@jennycohn1 @threadreaderapp unroll.

@jennycohn1 HERE is the most important thing to do for #ElectionSecurity right now. Contact these congress members:

https://twitter.com/LuluFriesdat/status/1206662978122084352

& these Senators

https://twitter.com/LuluFriesdat/status/1206664540479348737

Ask them to put #security language into the #funding bill.
#SMARTelections.