1/ Election officials & the media can stop saying that there is "No evidence that Russians changed vote tallies" usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
2/ Because now there IS evidence that vote totals may have been affected. "A Georgia election server contains evidence that it was possibly hacked before the 2016 presidential election ... according to an election security expert." politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
3/ "The incident, which occurred in late 2014...not only calls into question the integrity of Georgia’s voting machines during critical elections, but raises new questions about whether attackers were able to manipulate election data & voter info through the compromised server."
4/ Have there been questionable election results in Georgia? YES. As I reported in detail in June 2017. alternet.org/2017/06/unansw…
5/ In the 6th Cong District race betw @ossoff & @karenhandel - Ossof won the absentee voting (cast on paper ballots & scanned on optical scanners)
64% to 36%. On Election Day (run on the touchscreen machines) he LOST BY 16% - (58% to 42%.) alternet.org/2017/06/unansw…
64% to 36%. On Election Day (run on the touchscreen machines) he LOST BY 16% - (58% to 42%.) alternet.org/2017/06/unansw…
6/ Polls had @ossoff "ahead by 1-3 points. In the highest of those polls, one by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, he was ahead by 7% with 5% undecided and a 4% margin of error..."
7/ For the Election Day results from the touchscreen machines to be correct "all 5% of the undecided voters in the AJC poll broke for Handel, the poll was off by its farthest estimate and another 3.5% of Ossoff’s voters switched sides" into @karenhandel's camp.
8/ Meanwhile reporting by @nytimes has a lot of fancy graphs, but does not even report on the percentages from Early Voting . nytimes.com/elections/resu…
9/ Our election equipment is vulnerable to errors & hacking. We must meticulously examine results & subject them to robust post-election audits. To do this security experts recommend #HandMarkedPaperBallots for voters able to use them & non-tabulating ballot-marking devices.
10/ Security experts also say that voting systems w/ machines that produce summaries that voters do not mark themselves, count votes w/ #barcodes & #QR codes & run ballots under a printer head after being cast won't help us find inaccurate results. #VSAP #ExpressVote #DominionICE
@threadreaderapp unroll please.
